40 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 10, 1907

EVELYN NESBIT THAW --T- HE WOMAN IN THE CASE father, Scott Nesbit, a lawyer in its high-price- d pews and its high-price- d K.vrlyn Nenblt Thw la the woman Pittsburg, with a penchant for choir. However, the move In the nw. Here l m little bunch of femininity tipping .the aralea at gambling, had died some years ment toward society was never omrthlnn lw than 110 pounds a before, and her mother went to of hair, a very successiui fiiM of feathern, a hank City, frivolity of frtnue, a pair of hit Allegheny and kept a lodg Along in 1905 a coldness seemed and a ing-hous- ryen. uch a artlt like, e. Later, when she mile that mean everything or noth- to spring up between Mrs. Wil ing. For thla woman the life of one earned that Evelyn was in de man woe eacrlnred. For thin woman liam and Mrs. Harry Thaw. Mrs. jeop- mand as an artists' model, she the life of another roan Is In Harry Thaw was not at the wed ardy. I the icame worth the elec- moved to New York with herson tric volte? ' nd daughter. And during these ding of Mrs. William Thaw s of W. R. days, wliiie posing as a model, grandchild, the daughter STEVENSON. BT FREDERICK BOYD Evelyn was trying to obtain. a po- Thompson, and there was talk of (Conyrlfcht. 11X17. by Frederick Boyd Steven- son.) sition on the stage. She finally a separation of the Harry Thaws. at the came all sorts of stones, and T THE first glance secured an engagement in "Flor-adora- ." Then Thaw murder trial in New these stories were followed by thf York one is impressed with the 'It was not an important en murder of Stanford White on the thought of sacrilege. Ten feet gagement, said she. "but I was evening of .Tune 2b 1!K)6. back of Harry K. Thaw, sitting not in the chorus. With the pos Now the Thaws may blame Eve plain wooden lyn Nesbit Thaw as much as they in the second row of ing ana tne floradora engage-- L same, time ehairs. is his mother. Her white ment, 1 made enough, money to please, but at the it mem- hair is accentuated by the red support our little-- family." mmm must be observed that other family have not flush on her face The lines on her At that time Evelyn Nesbit flind bers of the Thaw brow are painfully deep. On her her mother were living in two HP always been out of the sensational Mrs. There, for instance, right sits her daughter, rooms in an apartment-hous- e op- public priiits. George Lauder Carnegie, or some- posite the Casino Theater. Her is Mrs. George Lauder Carnegie, times her other daughter, the earnings were small and all her mimm. whose husband's name was con- Countess of Yarmouth. In. the stage and street gowns were made nected with the Esther Bartlett Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, divorce case. There also nest seat is by her mother, who exercised the t:::?.:W&-:r'::l''i- : :;.r:. ? Clarke and next to her is May McKenzie, greatest ingenuity in turning and ,vS5lf;x M:. is the Countess of Yarmouth. the show girl. These two exchange altering the materials she had to Just after her wedding the news- -j numerous confidences. They smile do with. Both mother find daugh papers were filled with sensa- lightly at each other. Their inter- ter were fond of going out to din- tional stories to the effect that the ests are common interests. They ner, but the mother was careful Earl of Yarmouth had held up the are in perfect sympathy with each that no detrimentals, as she mm? wedding party on the way to the other. But the mother looks termed them, should be the es church, demanding at the last mo- neither to the left, nor to the right. corts of her' daughter. To the ment a double allowance, of the She hears only the low, sonorous mother a "detrimental" meant a marriage settlements agreed upon tones of Jerome, the relentless man without money. Along about by him previously. Although a prosecutor, seeking to send her this period Stanford White was settlement was already drawn up son to the chair, and the pleading the "guardian angel" of the Ca- wherein he agreed to take as his voices of her son's counsel, seek- sino girls, and Evelyn Nesbit personal allowance $5000 a year,' ing to save hira from the chair. came under his guardianship. The Sill it was said he demanded .$10,000 Her life has been the life of the Nesbits then moved into more mmm and that, the Countess' fortune, good wife and the good mother. pretentious .apartments, .Evelyn upon her death, should go to the association with this estates instead of her Her enforced wore better clothes, soon had a if Hertford potpourri of a criminal courtroom 'thinking part" in "The Wild family in the event of there being lias cut her pride to the quick. Rose," and later was in the cho IT no heirs. Harry Thaw, it was re- lint how about Evelyn Nesbit rus of a play at the Madison ported, jumped into a cab and Thaw, the wife? Square Theater. She was only 15 sought the family lawyer, and If, by some psychological phe years old when she entered the 4 while he was gone bis mother is nomenon, one's soul might follow 'Floradora" company, but even A P Li said to have come to the terms of the ritual of the believing Mahat before this she began to get press the Earl to avoid a scandal. ma and become merged with the notices that were the envy of girls No attempt is made, however, to entity of another soul, one might who had beenten and more years gloss over the shortcomings of see that other life from an nnsus in the theatrical business. And Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. We have pected viewpoint. it is easy these press notices began soon af- seen that her environments were enough to say: "A weak, vain, ter the guardianship of Stanford not the best. We have seen that foolish woman " It is easy enough White. Ask any theatrical man- her education was not the educa- to say, "She sees it as a player ager or the friend of a theatrical tion that makes toward the build- - sees it." manager, and, if he be so dis mg up oi cnaracier ior a nigu-minde- d It is easy enough to say all that posed, he will tell you how it is young woman. We have and' more, but until one passes done. Thus we read back in 1901, seen the attributes and the sur- through the horrors of that night in a New York evening paper, be- roundings that have produced this on the Madison Square Roof Gar neath a flattering photograph: woman who is stared at in tke den. until one looks on the solemn Miss Evelyn Florence Nesbit Is. Der-- criminal courtroom today. jurors in box, un haps. the prettiest girl of 15 that ever is only 22 faces of the the delighted the eyes and Inspired the art Here a woman years til one gases on the morbid ists of this city, for whom she has posed as old, who should be in the full a model. She is a dainty little classic, crowds in the courtroom, and un bright of conversation and with a talent X flush of womanly beauty, but who smile for music. Such artists as Carroll. Beck-wit- b. 40. til one receives the sunken Levy. Carl Blenner. Irvinir Wildes. is as faded as a woman of Yet of the prisoner, who should be the Church and Randall Phillips declare her even now with all the worry, with a well-nia-- li perfect type of maidenlv nearest of all on earth to one, one beauty. They have made portraits of all the strain upon her nervous judge. ner. which will be exhibited at the cannot forthcoming exhibition. Miss Nesbit energies, there are still to be,seen Rather than to condemn too comes from one of the most prominent traces of that great beauty which ramuies in Pennsylvania. Her father hastily, let us. then, follow out was the late Winfield Scott Nesbit. one FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH OF EVELYN NESBIT THAW she possessed when a child. Per- of the leading- lawyers of Pittsburg. Her this idea of the Mahatma and mother was Evelyn Florence McKenzie, haps there is no beauty fading a noted beauty of Richmond. Miss Nes- look into the inner life of this - model became sub- Thaw met Evelyn Nesbit, ever had in his life. When though may be as difficult to bit hopes some day to be a sreat actress. "Mr, Harry- , Thaw, ma'am," tists' and the Harry it woman. Do not judge her by the was the answer. ject of Chas. Dana Gibson's "The Harry Thaw was no angel. Harry Thaw's family cut him define as that of Harry Thaw's t Then, when she left the studios ' woman you see in the courtroom "Well, you take it right back Eternal Question," which is said As far back as 1897 we began off with an income of $2500 a wiie. for the stage, to take part in the one day cast down and gloomy, to Mr. Harry Thaw, with my com- to be one of his great triumpsh. to hear of Harry Thaw and Harry year to check, his desire to be a What does she look like? You Spanish dances in "Floradora," the next day, perhaps, smiling; pliments, and tell him that Miss She made little progress in a the- Thaw's escapades. In February of "good fellow." be appealed to his may ask a dozen critics. They will few months later, J. Wells one day the broken woman, the Nesbit does not care for re atrical way, after her "Wild that year Christian Farley, a bar- mother, and she induced the other give a dozen answers to you. Yqu, Champney, the painter,, was quot it," next day the same chic little joined .Mrs. Holman. - Rose" engagement, and, as there tender for a resort known as "The children to allow him $80,000 a perhaps, have seen many of her ed as saying : chatterbox that, delighted the Miss Nesbit took a was scant promise'of advancement Garrick," in West Forty-secon- d year. After that ti.e escapades photographs. They are ail differ- "She has the most perfectly After that hearts of ambitious artists by her minor part in lommy not, in that line, she with her street. New York, caused the ar- were numerous. Among other ent. There are those who say her modeled foot I have ever seen. ' sangfroid and grace. The artists' which 'was put on at Mrs. Os- mother to Europe Thaw followed rest of a man, and had him haled things it was reported that he had face looks young and innocent. She will dance herself into fame model, the chorus girl, the ac- borne 's playhouse, and Thaw paid there mother and daugh- to the Yorkville Court. This man been jilted by Isidora Duncan, the There are others who aver that it in a few weeks." her, anI tress, the wife of the millionaire attentions to her there nightly. ter quarreled, ' as Mrs. Holman was charged with having as- American girl who made an ar- is old and haggard. Then there Less than a year the same sub spendthrift, wa? not evolved dur-- The girl was 16 years old then, said Evelyn was accepting the at- saulted a little colored doorboy tistic sensation and won consider are otners vno say she has a in pr tie influence that had obtained one revolution of the short and she and her mother decided tentions of odious man," and trying to wreck the cafe, aJid, able wealth ljy her Greek dances strong face ; others who insist that for her scores of favorable press "that hand of the clock. The teaching that it would be well for her to, and she was done with her daugh- after having been put out, with in Paris. Then came the Nesbit it is a weak face As for her eyes notices produced this: . of the mother, the environment of obtain a. better education' than ter forever. Evelyn Nesbit re- breaking the glass doors of the affair, with the denials of the Eu- they are large and hazel. At the child, associations Florence Nesbit, who has been nlavinz the of the the role of the gypsy's daughter in "The the public, schools of the grammar turned to New York alone, and to place. He appeared at the police ropean marriage, the story of times they seem to be long ami young girl, the flattery; the tinsel wild Rose' Blnce it was first produced at afforded an friend she is reported station in an expensive fur coat Evelyn Nesbit offering to settle soft eyes Oriental eyes.' At times the Knickerbocker Theater. Is accounted grade had her in Pitts intimate the glow of the white lights, the one of the handsomest of the newer re burg and Allegheny, so she was to! have 'said:! "Harry Thaw . has and evening clothes with his hands for' $250,000, and the final mar- her face seems to be active and cruits to the stage. Her work has at- false angles on life these were tracted the attention of several managers, sent to a school for. young ladies all my jewels, He took them from and arms badly cut by the broken riage in Pittsburg. full of life, and then dull and cov- and she will probably the attributes that formed the be cast next sea- ex- glass. He gave the name of Will- After this marriage Mrs. Will- ered with shadows deep lines. son for an Ingenue In a comedy soon to at Pompton, N. J. It was an me because he Was afraid Iwas and whole. De produced. clusive institution, the member- going to leave him." She secured iam Thompson, but in his pockets iam. Thaw was determined that Her wealth of black hair adds to The turning point in her career It was at the Madison Square ship being ' limited to 2$. In the an' engagement with ' ' The Girl were found engraved cards bear- Pittsburg society should receive the picturesque effect of the face began 12 years ago, when she Theater where she first met Har meantime, Harry Thaw, who be- From' Dixie, "'but remained only a ing' the legend: "Henry Kimball Mrs. Harry Thaw into its bosom. and sometimes to its somberness. stopped a photographer passing ry Thaw, who immediately fell in gan his' attentions to Miss Nesbit few weeks. Thaw followed her to Thaw, Pittsburg, Pa." Now Pittsburg society can stand Then there is the low brow and along a street in Allegheny City love with her. Thaw began to while she was a show girl, contin- America and induced her to re- Three years later, when he was certain things at certain times, but the nose a good nose; not a Pa., and asked him to take her shower presents upon her, but her ued them while, she was a school turn to Europe .with him. where 30 years . old, he is reported to it draws the line at certain other Greek nor a Roman. It creales picture. The man looked down mother from the start objected to girl, much to the annoyance of the thev' remained' till November, hae given a dinner costing $8000 things at certain other times. And the impression of having started into the most beautiful little face him, bluntly-as- to to 25 persons in Paris. This din- it so happened that it drew the out to be a preferring the guardianship principal of the school, who 1904. when they came t back Greek nose, then

he had ever New-York..- ! said, given a lines on Mrs. that seen. It wa of Stanford White. One day ked him to discontinue his . ner, it was was to Marry K. Thaw, and changing to a Roman and ending round and full of life, full of glow piano mover rang the bell at the visits there. But young Thaw was This, in brief; is the story of dozen young women whose photo- the smart females of the smart by being neither. Then come tin-ful- l and full of shadows, and sur Nesbit flat. Mrs. Nesbit, now persistent, and it began to be Evelyn Nesbit iThaw's life not a graphs were displayed in all the Pittsburg set decided over the lips, which at times can be rounding and Nes-bit- it falling down her Sirs. Holman, opened the. door. noised about that little Miss 's life filled with good deeds and im- countries of Europe and America cups of pink tea to revolt. But compressed so that they seem thin I l T T 1 back, was a of insti-tutio- mo-- to Mrs. Williajit mass pretty curls, iiere is a grand piano, days at the. exclusive n pulses ; not a life with' high ! and whose faces were more apt Thaw was undaunt- and sharp. Altogether the mouth That was the beginning of her ma'am," said the man. at Pompton were nearing tives and ideals. But after all,' be seen when the lights were ed. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw went is weak. The ears are large ami fame as a professional beauty, for "We have ordered ho piano,"' an end.: .Then she fell ill and one asks, if the girl was wholly to turned on than in the open glare into rigorous "training for high long. The teeth beautiful, the soon after that Mrs. Darrogh, of said Mrs. Holman. Thaw went tearing out there in blame for that There was one of the day. At that time he met Pittsburg society, and worked figure lithe, the head shapely and Philadelphia, made a painting of "It is for yon, ma'am; there is an automobile with a doctor from primordial factor that entered in Paris Prince Komatsu, brother eight hours a day on music and well poised, and the smile the her head, and later Mr. Phillips no mistake," insisted the man, New York and a bushel basketful into her life and influenced it. of the Emperor of Japan, who languages without regard to what crowning glory of the woman. made some photographic studies "Here are the directions on the of cut roses, kissing her and That factor was Harry Thaw. We represented the Mikado at the she had studied at Pompton, N. J., These are the outward and vis- of her, and her mother, findin tag they are plain enough, shocking the entire school. have, all of us, read a great deal crowning or King Edward. Dur- and the education of the green- ible signs. What is the inward she could get well paid for the ma'am: 'Miss Evelyn Nesbit.' " Her school days thus suddenly of the shame of the Thaw family ing this meeting it is reported that room. She also went regularly and spiritual grace? Who islherc daughter's posing, encouraged gave to family to Who sent this piano" asked brought to a close, Evelyn Nesbit because of Harry Thaw's mar- Harry Thaw the Mikado's with the the fashionable to judge? Whc can read the se- her in that line of endeavor. Her J the mother, sharply went back to New York as an ar riage to Evelyn Nesbit. When brother the liveliest ten days he Third Presbyterian Church, with crets of this woman's heart