St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-17
A COUNTS ESCAPADE.
St. Louis Society Exercised Over the
Alleged Scandalous Action of
Count zacharof..
Ladies Belonging to the Elite Hor-
rify the Jesuit Fathers by Their
Spanish Dances.
Henry Shaw Donates Botanical
Garden to the City--The
Chinese Row.

Henry Shaw Donates Il Botanical
Garden to the City--The
Chinese Row.
Correspondence of the Globe
ST. LOUIS, May 15.-The question just
now agitating st. Louis society is, did or
did not Count ZacharOff, the superintend-
ent Of the Mann Boudoir Car company, in
troduce Pearl Clifford of st. Louis in
Louisville, as daughter of General Pas
senger Agent Morse of the Union Pacific
road Zacharoff has entered a most
thoroughgoing denial, which he sustains, it
is said, with documentary proof OF an I'M
answerable sort. have not seen it, how
ever. Pearl Clifford certainly was in Louis
vile with the count OF that much, all the
men about town here are certain; she is too
well known leader of the demi monde to
be hidden. ZacharOtf himself has been
rather a favorite in st. Louis and his
friends here are unwilling to believe that he
could have put such a useless insult
upon the Morse family, as the story told of
him would go to show. However that may
be, a great many foolish men have done a
great many foolish things for Pearl Clifford,
who is perhaps one Of the most beautiful
soiled doves ever known in st. Louis.
Her sobriquet, ''The Pet of the
Dudes" tells her story. She
is still very young, about %, 1 should say; a
blonde and fairly-well educated woman.
Unlike most of her class, she is very saving
and is said to have comfortable account
Of four large figures at the Proyident say
ings institution. When Lena Shields, who
had been keeping the most aristocratic house
of i'll repute in ST. Louis, married year
ago, Pearl Clifford bought her out, lock,
stock and barrel and paid cash, too. She
has since reigned in st. Louis almost with
out rival. The Kentucky papers which
comment on the the ZacharOff story seem
to find a matter of surprise in the fact that
the cocotte was not Immediately detected.
AS matter of fact Pearl is very regular
attendant at one of our most fashionable
churches here, and none OF the sisters have
as yet discovered her. | can't say as much
for some OF the brothers.
~
Wayman Crow died dnring the week now
ending He was the founder and chief
benefactor of the Washington university
here. His gifts to that institution aggre-
gated $500, 600. 1t was expected, as he
was very wealthy man, that his will would
show still further gifts In this, however,
everybody was disappointed. His property
is strictly tied up for his four daughters and
their children. He is said to have died
worth $750,000.
*#*
Speaking of benefactors reminds us that
Henry Shaw, who gave ST. Louis the mag
nifcent Towns Grove park, is still living
and at work upon his charities. He is about
to found school Of botany in connection
with Washington university to which he
will give ''Shaw's gardens . one of the Shaw
places of ST. Louis, and he will add to this
gift an endowment for the professOrship
of 1000. The only delay in
the matter arises from the fact that it is al
most impossible to find competent pro-
fessor of botany. Dr.. Asa Gray. the Har-
ward college professor, visited st. Louis this
week at Mr.. Shaw's invitation to discuss
the professorship problem with him, but
am told that no conclusion was reached.
That is only a matter of detail, however,
and as the salary to be offered will be about
81, 900, there should be little trouble in
getting the right man.
49,
Some time ago lot of society ladies gave
a series of tableauX vivants for the benefit
of Catholic charity, and the Jesuit fathers
permitted the performance to be given in
their hall. The priests did not know that
the program included a Spanish dance, and
when they found it out they were furious.
They declared that the dance must
the priests storned, the ladies
cried but would not yield. and so the dance
was given, not a clergyman honoring the
If q foirly
harmless dance Of course, one doesn't
often get chance to compare the calves of
society girls, and there wasn't much chance
here, still the long dresses would tilt a lit
tie, and as one critic put it, miss IS
legs are a very pleasant surprise to me-"
When the tableaIlX were over everybody
thought the row was at an end, but that
was mistake. The Jesuits are still I'M
consoled for the unholy perfOrma nee which
they innOcently aided and abetted, and they
have been reading the riot act to the fair
penitents ever SINCE This week I was told
some persons who desired to establish q
charity Joint of some kind went up to the
Jesllits' college to ask Father Meyer,
the president, for the use of the
hall. They were assured that never
again should the foot of woman be per-
mitted to pass line drawn about four feet
east of the stage in the hall. "Our conf
dence was grossly abused by the ladies who
had the hall last, and hereafter we put no
trust in woman" said Father Meyer. ''The
college cannot be made the setting for a
ballet again"
*x*
Like every other city in the land ST.
Louis has large Chinese population, but
our Celestials seem to be rather more war
like than those hear of elsewhere. Two
parties of Chinese belonging to opposing
camps fell afoul of each other on Eighth
and Chestnut streets on Wednesday even
ing and a riot ensued which was partici-
pated in by all the Mongolians within hail.
1t appears that there are thirty-six MEM
bers of the Canton company here,
which association bears the imposing
name of Lone Wee Tong Eng imeaning,
and that the Hong Kong Cinnamon, 200 in
number and all of the Sam Sing company,
have decided to run the Cantonese out of
town. The police greatly fear that there
will be bloodshed, as the celestials are very
savage and it is said that ST. Louis is har-
boring some of the worst desperadoes of
Hong Kong. The trouble began with the
raiding of a gambling game here. The
Sam Sing members think that the Cantonese
informed the police, and as retaliatory
measure thew have taken the law in their