The evening world. Newspaper, November 10, 1902, Page 5

BEAUTY MAY WED NAN SHE HILTED Young Mrs. Cornelia Baxter Tevis, a Widow, Reported En- gaged to Gerald Hughes, Whom She Threw Over. WAS BRIDE BUT TEN WEEKS. ! resent Flancee Turned Her Father and Family Out of Thelr Home After She Broke Engagement on the Eve of Their Wedding. Romance isn't dead, if the stories which come over the wire from Denver and San Francisco are true. They report Cornelia Baxter Tevis, widow Frisco mililonaire, Hugh Tevis, and Gerald Hughes, the Denver mill- fonaire whom she jilted to marry the Californian, are engaged to be married. 6o finely have the gossips followed the @ffaire of the two that they have fixed the place of the wedding at the Holland House, in this city, and the date this week. Both Mrs. Tevis and Hughes Mave engaged apartments at the hotel from Wednesday, Mrs. Tevis is now in the East with her mother and her baby yoy, while Hughes !s coming from Den- Ser as fast as steam can bring him. May Wed Man Sho Jilted, If they are married, the story of their frat love, their sudden estrangement through the Intervention of Tevt 6 iting of Hughes and the death of his Fival in Japan after a honeymoon of but ten weeks, the birth of a postnu- mous child, the feud between the Tevis and Hughes families all combine to| make fiction seem tame. Cornelia Bax- ter was accounted the most beautiful @irl in Colorado two years ago, Her father. ex-Gov. Baxter, of Wyoming, qwas a rich cattleman who had made his “pile” and gone to Der ive, His @aughter had been educated in Paris nd had created a furor there by her Great beauty. When she came back to Denver all the eligible men in the city laid themselves at her feet. Gerald Hughes was the favorite, He was rich, young, handsome, and of one of the best families in the State, heir en- @agement was duly announced and s0- elety decided that Miss Baxter nad ehosen well. ‘The date was fixed for the wedding fn the Spring of 1901. A magnificent rousseau had been prepared. ‘The in- vitations were out. The bridesmaids had prepared thelr gowns. Nothing was lett to be dofie but to perform the ceremony. ‘Then Miss Baxter was taken with pneu. monia. When she became convalescent the physicians ordered her to Southern California and the wedding was boned. Married a Millfonatre, This was the turning point which ehanged Miss Baxter's life from a con- ventional one to one strangely dramatic and even tragic. While basking In the Sunshine of the Pacific slope she met Hugh Tevis, son of Lloyd Tevis, one of the Pacific's great millionaires, “His father had been dead but a short ume nd this son was the possessor of $6,000,- 000, si Umes ay mu Gerald Hughes, He was about forty years od and widower with one child Back in Denver Gerald Hughes was Wondering how soon his flancee woul! be well enough to come to him and counting the days with an eager heart when a reporter called to seo him. He jowed him a despatch announcing the engagement of T, to his own ins tended ‘pride. Hughes almost fuinted. The neXt day came a brief note fiom Miss Baxter breaking off the enga, ment and apnotncing (that she ar ‘Tevis were to,be nmriled at once. They were, April 10, and at once saliet for Japan. enver Was furious at they id | mil- wh called the pertidy of the girl she had sold el lions of the Californian and it boded il rn for the bride when she should there, if ever. But fate had blow ‘in store for her, ‘len weeks late when the newly-martied pair were re elling in the land of cher the “heart of stopped. He he at Harvard paying the pe: Soclety Ostracized Her, puns vabled nts, es to his Cali he ‘went. to live with Tevis In San F ser Denver was enough for | Society had taken up the cudgels and the strained tt In athletl befor, widow his to and then her. for Gerald Hughes, widow found lttle sympathy there. whole family was ostracized, and when | through @ secret agent Hughes bought | young Her the home of the Baxters from over th@ir heads his Denver adherents con- sidered that he had taken a just re- ‘yenay, February a baby boy was born to Mrs, Tevis in the home of her mother- in-law. Three months later the elder| Mrs, Tevis died, leaving her grand- | child one-fifth of her fortune, which | was very large. Tho child thus became Immensely rich, for its father's will, made Immediately after the wedding. had provided amply for tt, ‘Through all this Gerald Hughes was still bitter. But not jong ago he went to San Francisco on business, He shanced to meet the young widow who as a maiden had so charmed and crushed hie heart. She seemed more beautiful than ever and his old love, never dead but just smothered in Jealousy and offended pride, sprang up again. What happoned to them the public does, not and probably never wil now, Dut Hughes went back to Denver | @ different man. | May Be Wedded Here. | He had been something of a recluee after the blow fell, but now he blos: gomed out again and became as gay as before his humiliaticn. A week ago Mrs. Bax and her widowed daughter came Eust. Hughes was still in Denver, He had invitations out for a bachelor dinner. Suddenly they were led without reason und Hughes | “ied for Now York. He tolegraphed anead for rooms at the Holland House. | This became known, and then it was learned that Mrs, Tevis had also er gaged rooms there. Denver Immediately put two and two together and ‘made {ft four, And {¢] there isn't a wedding In thls clty during | the week. or very soon, all the ro-| mancers In Denver will weep. ——— PHILOSOPHER ADE RETURNS. Famoun Fable Writer Has Deen | Seeing Things Abroad, © | LONDON, Nov. 10.—The White Star} Mne steamer Majestic, which sails from) Liverpool for New York Wednesday, | 5 among her passengers Lord lawkes ani BY hire} of / Cricketers, | A Jcage, aid Ja—rosial Bs, 2G" viouhlat. (mese with him’ MRS. CORNELIA ‘FAIR WIDOW WHO MAY WED MILLIONAIRE SHE JILTED. BAXTER TEVIS. NINE MONTHS IN A PLASTER CAST. Rev. Horace Porter Rejoices at Release, and Is Slowly Re- covering from Accident Which Nearly Cost His Life. HE !S ABLE 70 STAND NOW. Overjoyed at being at last released from the plaster cast which has held him prisoner for nine months, the Rev. Horace Porter, assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, {s now at the home of his father, Samuel 8. Por- ter, No. 13° Meadow street, slowly re- covering his former buoyant health and strength. His recovery from the accti- dent with which he met while riding across the Brooklyn Bridge two years ago is considered almost miraculous by his friends, who realize how precarious his condition has‘ been. “Tell all those who ask about me that I am a pretty well sick man,” said he to an Evening World reporter to-day. “I am still compelled to use my crutches Jn walking, but this morn- ing I found I was able to stand with- out using any support for forty min- utes. I didn’t fecl any bad effects from the exertion, efther. “T attribute my almost complete re- covery almost entireiy to the wonderful treatment I received while at Dr. An- drews's private hospital in Thirty-third street, but a good deal is due to my constant exercise at my Uttle farm in Southington, Conn., to which place I re- red tmmediately after my accident. Case Called Hopeless, “The doctors all told me that my case was hopciess. 1 was knocked off my wheel by a team of truck horses and injured the base of my skull in the fall, All the nerve centres were affected and they all declared that even though I might Tecover from the attack of ‘neu~ vitie’ 1 could never regain the T ure of 1 which W errivly crip= pled. be: of the atrophied condition the motor cells, After a year and @ igony, 1 became m wut my malni y misshapen and I was | unable inbout. AS a lust resort, urged by my 1 decided to undergo an opera- tion whereby the ligaments which con- | nect the legs with the torso, which had | Decome shortened by the accident, were | broken, my entire body put in a plaster | cast, with my legs held apart forty | inches, to allow tho muscles to assume thelr normal positions, After six months | of this {imprisonment I was again taken to my country place at, Southington and when the cast was removed it was found that my legs had been kept a Uttle too far apart and that 1 would have to undergo the operation again. Gospel of Hard Work. “At the end of the ensuing three | months, during which time T was again a prisoner in the plaster cast, T was declared cured, but of course I was not able to manipulate my legs as well as I would have Iked to. I engaged in the hardest Kind of farm work, plantini potatoes, hoeing corn, harnessing horses and doing all sorts of odd chores about the house, using my crutches ail the me, pa- feel now as if I could soon put one of the sticks and substitute acane, for my left side 1s entirely cured, and from one cane as support I will goon be able to get along with two canes and then with one. After that T expect to be in t ndition that I enjo: bef ful urred catastrophe ¢ will again return to my Plymouth Chureh, rene re- freshed after my long enforced absence. I only came to Brooklyn this week to show my parishioners how much better lam and how soon th may expect me to be among them once more." ——-_—- COL. DAVIDSON DEAD. Commandant of Stute Soldicrs Home Dies After Operation, BATH, N. ¥., Nov. 10—Colonel An- Davidson, a commandant of the ew York State Soldiers and Sailors Home here, !s dead. D: owed an operation performed yester after- a noon, The remains will be taken to Cooperstown on Wednosday for Inter- mente ig, survived by a fon, Clar- shice WW, Davidson, vditor of the Republican, and two daumbters, Mis, Ni tel Willi Mite Linda W. baviduos. ail oF wissin en the end came, THIRD FIGHT FOR BUCHANAN RICHES Widow of Eccentric Doctor Makes Another Attempt to Wrest $200,000 Fortune from Mrs. Foster-Belsey. DAUGHTERS GOT $5 EACH. ‘Mrs, Margaret Buchanan and her three daughters are about to make a third attempt to wrest from Mrs, Kate M. Foster-Relsey the fortune of $150,000 to $200,000 willed to her oy Mrs, Buchanan’ husband, Dr, Alexander Buchanan. He lett $ to his widow and $5 cach to his three daughters, “Because of thetr in- gratitude ehown to him for many years.” The doctor diet in 189, having se- parated from his family some time prior to that, and Mrs. Buchanan was suc- cessful in sult for $0,000 damages against Mrs. Foster, with whom he had lived, This verdict was afterward set aside by the Appellate Division, end | new trial ordered. But the case never came to trial again, On the old physician's death, his widow jcontested his will on the ground that he was unduly Influenced, had !n- sang iusions concerning his wifg and children. Had Many Patients. The testimony in the trial before the late Surrogate Arnold showed that the octor had one favorite daughter who was his cashier and bookkeeper. She testified that the doctor was so busy at his office in their home, No. 355 West ‘Thirtieth street, that he took in from $0 to $200 every day, his fee usually being all the way from nothing to $10, patients who were very poor, or anxious to cheat, getting off free. The old phy- siclan was too busy to keep track of his business ond stuffed the money paid to him into his pocket, to be count- ed and accounted for by this datighter at night She sald that his pockets would bul with wads on the table, for him: money, which he would turn out reserving very lt- the large and comely Mrs. was elicited that Mrs. chanan Was a strict church woman of the good old Ssottlsh Kind, and forced the good doctor to attend his religious duties by inexorable rule, 8h. would not allow him to smoke 1 house and he had to do penance for every sin. Distinctively # Scottish Ca Duncan A. MacIntyre has stuck faith- fully to the prim little Sco! cause, and thougl married. her Francis Fitnt sey, of Glasgow, is third trial of the issues will go on be- fore tice Gildersiecve ind a jury tn Part VIUL, of the Supreme Court with as much vigor as elther of the preced.ay contests in this distinctively Scottisn case. Bt Stern Brothers | Oriental Rugs & Carpets FOR TO-MORROW, TUESDAY | A number of fine Kirmanshah, Goerovan and Khorassan Carpets, colorings and sizes adapted for Drawing Room, Library, | Dining and Sleeping Rooms, Halls, Etc., a $185,, $225., $250., $275. » 50,50. | Also ANTIQUE FEREGHAN, IRAN, KHORASSAN & HERATI RUGS, sizes from 6 ft. 5 by 15 ft. 10 to 10 ft. 3 by 23 ft. 3 at prices VERY MUCH BELOW REGULAR VALUES. PERSIAN & TURKISH SILK RUGS, in light delicate colorings INDIA & TURKISH CARPETS, 100 Oriental Rugs Ghendjie, Kazak, Carabagh, etc., ¢ ‘To show why ho left his happy home | $2 live with oe Uy TRED TO BUY WISSGOELE. European Nobles’ Marriage Syn- | dicate, It Is Said, Sought to Make Richest American Heir- ess the Bride of a Prince. MOTHER RULES AGAINST IT. According to Report, Mra, Goelet Said Her Daughter Would Marry Only) for Love and that Suitor Was Too; Old Anyway. In view of the recent startling reve lations, backed by documentary proof, of the bargain enterad Into between Prince Hugo Von Hohenlohe, of Ger- many, nephew of the late Chancellor, with @ marriage broker to obtain an tn- troduction to Mise May Goejet, there ts Ittle tf any reason to doubt that there ts a widely-operated syndicate in Bu- rope engaged in obtaining hands and tmmense fortunes of our helresses for | Anancially decrepit noblemen, It might! even be ventured further that the untons of some of the daughters of our multi-mfllonalres to t{tle@ Continentals in recent years were brought about by thf same great marriage syndicate, to whom the belted Knights and Barls, Princes, Dukes and Lorde may even now be paying their pro rata ¢or the vast benofits they derived from the mar riages, Lawyer Exposed the Scheme. In the case of Misa Goelet this German Prinoé, who has passed twoscore and ten, agreed to pey a certain London agent of this syndicate for securing consideration of his proposal of mare riage which would bring to him some of the Goolet millions. ‘Tho agent was Capt. Ladestas de Porkony, former Mil- itary Attache to the German Embassy in London. Porkony 41d not act directly in the matter, but secured the services of Lu- otus O'Brien, a London solicitor, through whose sult against the Prince to collect MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER. 10, 1903. NOBLES’ SYNDICATE FAILED TO TRAP RIC Gained for the hand of. a So Delle with a marriage portion of 000, and had his courting been suc ful the syndicate'’s commis have been $375.00, Could It be presumed, and fees for his services from the Prince the remarkable transactions have come to light. It Is patent from the statements made by O'Brien that women moving in the highest circles of eociety in the Euro- pean capitals lend their ald to the Machinations of this great syndicate Organized in the interest of Cupla of the dollar-mark. One of these women, whose al@ was enlisted in behalf of the German Prince, with world-wide reputation as @ charitable worker, who was induced to help along the Prince's sult by generous donations to her pet charities. Her son {# as well known itn the fashionable spheres. That she took ap active interest in this apparently sordid courtship !s revealed in the fol- lowing letter written by her to one of the syndicate’s agents: Society Woman in the Deal. Belgrade Square, 8. W., Jan. 17, 1899. Dear Str: I saw Mrs. Goelet yester- day and sho begged me to say how flattered she felt at the proposal with regard to Prince Hohenlohe, but that her daughter was etill very young, and as she had never seen him she must de- cline the proposal. Should they meet hereafter it would be @ different mat- ter, but without any personal know!l- edge on either side the thing would be impossible. Miss Goelet {s @ charming girf in every way, but {8 very English in her feelings and views and disiik the ‘marriage de convenance” system abroad extremely. I don't think she will ever marry unless she falls in love with a man. Yours, very faithfully. It was not until after writing this let- ter that the writer learned the true age of the Prince, and when she did she notified the syndicate that she feared Miss Goelet would not consider the pro. posal under any olroumstances, ae tie royad eultor was old enough to be her Thought Prince Too Old. The Prince persisted, however, in hl ain an interview with th But when je learned refused to meet yndid e its fee, Whereupon the sult resuit- in the present revelations was brought, Hardly a week before the present scanda! Baron lunchausen, a Berlin nobieman, descendant of the famous | romancer, ht sult ainst this | fame syndicate for blackmail. Because of the extra: statements made nary regard to workings of marriage brokers many eard believed that he had in- herited some ancestral traits, But the noble Munchausen {s borne out to the letter ‘by the evidence which was ad- f in the sult against Prince Von Hoheniohe. e bargains usually entered into be- tween the Impecunious noblemen and the syndicate provide for the furnishing of the sultor with sufficient capital to do his courting with truly roya: grace. ‘Then {f he succeeds {n his quest for an helress wife he must pay over a certain in light and dark colorings Value $22.50 at 915.75 '$5 per Month, ITALIAN KILLED BY STREET CAR, Unidentified Man, Run Over in Elm Street, Dies in St. Vin- cent’s Hospital. ‘The unidentified man who was run over by a Prince strect car at Fim street last night, died in St, Vinceht's Hospital this morning, He 414 pot re, cover consciousness. Dennls Chrystie, Twenty-fifth street, was driving & Horas. car in which were two passengers, both of whom stood on the front platform. At Marion street there ts a temporary: wooden bridge thrown up over the sub- way. Suddenly the car struck some- thing and was thrown from the tracks. On examination Chrystie found a man's body with the arm and chest crushed Several men in the neighborhood think the man had been assaulted and left on the car tracks. Sgme profess to have een two men carrying a body through Elm street shortly before the accident. Chrystle was arraigned before Magis- trate Cornell and remanded to the Cor- ‘The man's body ts at St. Vin- t1on. WATERS oner. PIANOS are sold at lower prices and on more liberal terms than were ever before offered on standard high- Prices from grade pianos, $225 1 $400. Payments from $7 to $10 monthly without interest, If you want a lower-priced piano we have a thoroughly good one that we can recommend and warrant. Style, 85-Chester Piano, $170 | cash, or $190 on instalments, No Extra Charge for Interest, Don’t fail to examine our pianos or send postal for catalogue with re- duced prices and terms. Both stores will evenings until Jan. |. remain open} West Twenty-third Street. HORACE WATERS & CO., of No, 25° Bast |"| 134 Filth Ave., near [8th st, HARLEM BRANCH, 254 West 125th St., FAR. oer revive t terr ahr wamenersee Tee rrsen to) SECT HEST HEIRESS. MISS MAY GOELET. roentage of the marriage dot. As an ample ground for the presumptio anca,-the Haron (Munchiused) bar-| the nobleme ed the hands of me of our Invoked the ser- the nh to pay in the mil must hey up ae RS Eee “LA VIE INTENSE” FOR PARIS. 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