Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10

later he fled to Kentucky as b-cent de-
faulter and was captured in the very pres
ence OF two of our most brilliant society
girls. We imagined his blood had the tinge
of the sky and we are Mortified to find it
charged that his father was Boston white
washer and that his most distinguished an
cestors ate their meat on the banks of the
Congo. He now rests in the Washington
Jail and the fair ones who have corresponded
with him are lying awake at night wonder
ing whether their love letters will come for
ward in evidence. An effort will undoubt-
edly be made to prevent his case coming to
trial, but such hopes are vain, and he will
probably wear a louder suit within few
weeks than than he has yet had in his ward
robe. In other words he will 60 to the peni-
tentiary.
MISS PoRTER'S HOTEL WAITER.
On the heels of this scandal comes the
marriage of Admiral Porter's grandniece to
one of the walters of Washington hotel,
and the story of how the loving couple met
at the seashore and how the knight OF beef
steak and white apron by tidbits of soft
shelled crabs and soft cuts of Ienderloin
wooed and won the fairest guest at his table,
is being rolled about over the tongues of
however, with fearful hearts, and ask them
selves as they look at their own daughters,
What next?
Washington society is so constituted that
it is impossible to guard it like Ward Meal
listers Four Hundred of New York, or like
the bon ton society OF any other city or vii
lage. Every season people change. Every
Congress q new batch of maidens and
new set of hangers on ap-
pear on the scene, and every four
years new administration turns the social
world topsy turvy and the old order gives
place to new. Under such conditions any
one can 60 into society. The introduction
of Senator or a Representative or
politician is the opening wedge, and this in
these democratic days is free to all. There
have been noted ladies in Washington
society who had more blue blood than
money, and who for a consideration have
taken up ladies whose venous fluid was less
aristocratically colored and have pushed
them into the best of Washington society.
1 know other people in Washington society
who rank here higher than they do at their
own homes.
RoMANCEs OF WASHINGTON.
Some romances OF Washington society
have all the situations of three-volume
novel. George Bancroft's daughter year
or so ago trotted off on an elopement with
one of the descendants of Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton. There was, however, nothing
bad in this elopelnent. and the old historian
was tickled to death over the match. Not
long ago Senator's son was drowned in the
Potomac when out boating with a lady
friend, and the probability is that he died
by accident. The daughter of one of the
most noted men in the country died here
within the past five years. A bottle labeled
chlorsl was found in her room, and the evil
minded whispered that love affair with
foreign diplomat was tbs cause of her over
dose. Another scandal relates to one OF our
own diplomats. His domestic troubles were
caused snot by hotel waiter, but by the
dudelikc clerk Of summer boarding house.
From private letters from Denver learn
that Senator Tabor is making money right
along and that he will soon be in position
to spend another fortune on politics. HIS
opera house brings him in over $50, 900
year and be is making money hand over fist
in buying and selling mines. The beautiful
woman whom he brought to Washington as
his second wife is now the mother of pretty
child, and the two live in Denver not lar
of from the rich Mrs. Tabor No. 1. WASH
ington society was badly taken in by Tabor.
WERE TWO CEREMONIES.
millionaire from Colorado. No one knew
whether he was married or not, and he was
generally looked upon as a bachelor or a
widower. Shortly after he took up his
quarters at Willard's Hotel, he gave out
that he was about to be married. He showed
the correspondent some wonderful night
shirts embroidered with old lace, containing
double-breasted pockets, and it is my re-
membrance that some OF these cost 5000
apiece. The day was fixed lor the wedding.
A dinner was gotten up which would have
been fit for Lucullis, and noted priest per-
formed a ceremony. The most noted of our
thur bowed in his most courtly way when
he gave rose to the bride.
All Washington sounded the praises of
Mrs. Tabor's beauty, and the people kept on
sounding them until they learned the story
of the marriage Tabor had fallen in love
with Mrs. Doe while he was yet the hus-
band of Mrs. Tabor No. 1. He had gotten
q divorce in very questionable way and
had been married, in musty little law
Office at st. Louis, to her several months
before this second great ceremony took
place at Washington. All Washington
thought it was the first marriage.
A RARE BEAUTY.
don't think any more beautiful woman
than the second Mrs. Tabor has ever ap-
peared at Washington. I can see her now /,
as she sat in the Senate gallery one day
watching her black-haired husband trot rom
ore Senator to another with an autograph
album as big as Bible in his hand, getting
their signatures. She was dressed in black,
and she had pair Of diamonds in her ears
that were worth a fortune. They were great
solitaires, and they rparkled under the soft |
light Of the Senate Chamber. These dia-
monds, however, were no brighter than her
big, black eyes, and there was not Senator
in the chamber below who did not now and |
then steal glances at her. She has warm,
rich, dark complexion. Her forehead is low,
her features regular and her form that of the |
Venus de Medici. saw even George Fris- |
bic Hoar stealing sly winks at her, and I |
know that his blood jumped at quicker |
pace through his veins as he looked
She was, you know, at this time, only |
about half Tabor's age and she had been |
married before. Still when the wedding of |
Tabor was announced she was spoken Of in |
the papers as Miss and had reassumed her |
maiden name. After two divorces were
gotten they we're married, and at the second
marriage here Tabor gave his bride neck |
lace which contained $4,000 worth of dia-
monds. The day after the wedding he sent |
out cards which were bound In silver three