St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-11

1884, and there was gala party of merry
makers in house in the West End. They
opened Veuve CliQuot, slipped egg-nogg,
sang songs and sat down to such a game
supper as would have made the mouth Of
an epicure water for months. Among the
guests was Mr.. Arthur Gainsford, the young
and accomplished proprietor OF the Gains
ford Carriage company, whose large factory
is at the corner of Eggleston avenue and
Eighth street. Some years ago he had lost
a lovely wife to whom he was so devOtedly
attacted that it was a common remark
among his friends when speaking Of him:
"Oh, if you want to find Gainsford, he's
either at his place of business or at home
with his wife" But Gainsford was lonely.
and not of the Capt MacHeath sort, who
would gather honey from every flower.
The Fates, who curiously weave our des
tiny, declared that he should meet his fate
that night. No superstitious maid on Hal
loween ever saw over her shoulder the
future object of her love than did he when
then and there he was introduced to beau
tiful black-eyed brunette who that day
had arrived from Minneapolis. She was
OF AN AEIsTocRATIC MINNESOTA FAMILY.
She had been finely educated, was only 10,
just blushing into womanhood, of exquisite
shape and figure, and possessing a skin
whose sdtiny softness reflected back the
glittering gas-jets and would have melted
the heart of an anchorite. She wore tall
hat, with wat ng plumes of snowy white
ness, that flashed as gayly as King Henry
of Navarro,
It was love at first sight, and it was mu-
tnal. There was nothing coarse in the ma
ture of young Gainsford. He worshipped
a beautiful, refined woman wherever he
found her, and was from that evening
Pearls ardent admirer and friend. His
habits were exemplary. ALI day he spent
in his Office, drove in his carriage to the ST.
Clair where he boarded, and then spent the
rest of the evening with her whom he
loved AS time wore ON the luster of the
attachment was not dimmed. She saw no
one but her Arthur, and thought of no one
else.
TO EUROPE.
'On the 9th of July the couple left this
city for New York, and on the goth sailed
for Europe, where he intended to spend
year and educate Pearl. They tarried in
London short time, and crossed the chan
mel and took in the gayeties of Paris, saun-
tered through the Bots de Boulogne, rushed
through the Netherlands, climbed the Alps
of Switzerland. and tarried leng at Lake
Geneva, where century before the old sin
ner Rousseau had wooed and won, and
where the great Gibbon had wooed and
been refused. Down they went to Rome,
and stopped at the Hotel CONSTANT, and
then returned to Carlsbad and drank the
famous waters
Chelmsford was delicate, and the couple
went to Nice, Italy, a delightful seaport
town on both sides of the sparkling river
Paglione. Here they consorted with the
many English invalids that gather every
season to drink in the balmy breezes that,
laden with the olive.and pomegranate odors
of the Mediterranean, float over the Prom
enade DIES Anglais.
''Their cup of happiness was full to over
flowing. She was progressing nicely under
able instructions in French and German and
music, when yesterday
THE CABLE
flashed the news over the Atlantic to Judge
Foraker. Mr. Gainsford's attorney, the sad
news that Poor Arthur is dead p He had
been subject to heart disease for many
years, and was only 26 years of age. He
had many plans for the future, and among
them was the preparation OF a home that
should be elegant and artistic in everything
that wealth and refinement could lavish in
Avondale, where he could end his days
with her whom he had educated, trained
and loved. In the midst of life pale old
Death hobbies along and knocks alike at
the cottage door and palace gate, and poor
Arthur, the model Of gentility and ease, re-
tinement and culture, happy breathing the
fower-laden breeZes OF the Mediterranean,
fell suddenly without a word of warning.
''Mr Gainsford left two sisters. who are
attending the Glendale Female seminary.
and his many friends will drop a tear of
sadness as they read that the little gentle
man died so far from home. A strange
part of the affair is that the parents OF Miss
Pearl do not to this day know where she is. J"
AT MINNEAPOLIS
this information, when communicated, pro
duced profound impression. What had
become of Pearl Langdon, alias May Og-
burn, was not generally known, but the
statement that her parents were in ig-
norance is a mistake, as she wrote them
constantly and letter was received from
her only few days ago. Mr.. Gainsford
had also written to them frequently, and
these letters convey an intention on his
part to have the girls parents ultimately
live with them. May Ogburn has two SIS
tiers and three brothers living in this city
and her whereabouts was known to all of
them, and Mr.. Gainsford has written to one
of them. calling her SISTER" There is an
other part of this singular and romantic
affair." which the Cincinnati people knew
nothing of and which ignorance led the En-
auirer to use the expression Miss Pearl. "
1t appears that her family believe she
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