Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-14
LONG BRANCH WONDER.
The Heroine OF Seaside Sensation
Identified at ashiDgtOn.
Rrom "A Neln YorI. Worll

From tAe Netr York WOrld.
/ WASHINGTON, March 10.-Mr. s. f.
/ Emmons, an official in the United States
/ geological survey, has filed petition in
the Equity Court here to have jury
appointed TO inquire into the sanity OF his
wife. and to determine how her estate
shall be managed should she be found
insane. Accompanying his petition are
two affidaVits from two leading physi-
clans here certifying that she is IN
sane. Mrs. Emmons has been noted
figure in Washington for several years.
! She has been the subject of a great many
mysterious paragraphs in the newspapers
/ through her eccentricities. In the hrst
/ place she has always detied every form OF
conventionalty. although she has never
done anything TO injure her good name in
any way. She has simply been wild and
apparently fond of sensation. She came
70 Washington several years ago and
made a great stir on the street here by
driving pair OF handsome, snowy horses.
The horses were spirited and strong, and
required very good handling. She varied
her performances upon the road with this
team by occasionally appearing as an
eQuestrienne performing breakneck feats
asa rider.
She very much interested President Ar
thur by her bold riding no and down the
road back of the White House, where she
used to 20 to exercise her horses. The
President at that time became so much
interested in her riding that many rO-
mances were spun concerning her. There
was no mystery about It in reality. for
she never made any attempt to conceal
her identity. She was the woman who
made such a sensation at Long Branch
last season by appearing upon the beach
IN an Oriental suit as a bathing dress.
she was accompanied by great st. Ber-
nard dog, a c0lOred servant and maid.
Then she attracted a great crowd upon
the beach. She remained there the greater
part OF the afternoon engaged in a fight
with the bathing master, because he
would not permit her dog to 20 in the
water with her. She refused to patrOniZe
the beach after that, and made but one
later appearance in her Oriental dress.
Her last costume was a blue jacket,
pair OF broad flaming red trousers, and
sharp-pointed white French kid slippers.
She left Hildreth's West End hotel
about II O'Clock, one stormy night on ac-
count of some difficulty with the mana.
ayers of the hotel. She took a servant
and packed her traps into carriage and
drove through thunderstorm fifteen
miles up the beach to some other hotel.
1t was learned afterwards that the party
arrived there about three O'Clock the next
morning. She always had plenty OfmOney
apparently, and In her own right. Mr..
EmmOns, in his petition, asserts that she
has in her possession at the present time
1870 shares of Bell telephone stock, worth
$4,000, and 81 800 worth Ofjewelry.
All this property he says that he pre-
scented to her, and he now desires to con-
troll it in event Of her being adjudged in
sane by jury. Last year the EmmOnses
bought a handsome house here on Yer
mont avenue, near Senator Allison. Mrs.
Emmons has gone out good deal at diff
ierent times in society, where she has
been rather quiet and has not INDUCED
in any alarming eccentricities. She was
taken uD by Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen
when the latter was conspicuous here,
and through her became generally known.
Mrs. Emmons was supposed TO have been
Russian by birth, although there was a
mystery about her real origin. On ac-
count of her skill in managing horses
some of the gOssippers once invented a
story that she was a former circus rider,
but this was a mere romance of the time.