The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-25
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
How a Pretty Apple Peddler Be-
come a Rich Mans Bride.
THE RED JACKET MEDAL.
scarlet Garb OF the Chief Was Given
Him by the British-M Mission
aries for Africa.

NEW YORK, Jan. Especial CORES
pondence. There sailed away on one of
the big ocean steamships few days ago as
bonny bride as ever saw. She goes to
the continent for few months with her
rich Cuban husband. Three years ago she
was peddling apples on Park Row. She
was young woman of commanding pres
ence but poorly educated, and was known
by the name of 10. She had dancing black
eyes, coal black hair and all the comeliness
OF a beautiful Irish girl During the
years she went through the big buildings
down town no word OF suspicion was
ever breathed against her. She had
many admirers, and as she told
me on many occasions, bona tide
offers of marriage from well-to-do
men. One day, two years ago. she disap-
peared, and for three months heard moth
ing of her. Then, to my amazement, she
swept into my Office one day, and for a
moment / hardly recognized her, she was
so richly dressed. She carried Spanish
primer in her hand, and was surprised TO
learn that she had been deyoting her time
to the study of the Spanish language with
private tutor, and had also been prepar-
ing herself in the rules of good society.
She told me that a rich Cuban had fallen
In love with her, had supplied her mother
with all the funds necessary for her edu-
cation, and that he had gone TO Spain on
business trip and would return in year
to claim her as his bride. Perhaps it was
because | am not much given TO romance
that laughed at her, but she stuck perth
naciously to her story, and three or four
times during the past year she has visited
me, as she has visited many of her old GUS
toners. A week ago ! received sweetly-
scented note in a strange feminine hand
As it was signed by name that had
never heard of, was at loss for some
time to understand its meaning until
read in a postscript, II am Jo." Then
knew it all. 1t was 10, the apple girl, and
she was married. and living at the Murray
Hill hotel for a few days, and she asked
me to come and see her and meet her hus-
band and congratulate her. ] did so,
and was surprised to find her superbly
gowned, her ears flashing with dia-
monds, and altogether conducting her
self much the same as any society
queen. Her husband | found to be very
agreeable man. entirely wrapped up in adj
miration for his wife, and devoted as any
bridegroom should be- There were others
of her old friends there, and in the even
ing there was friendly glass of wine, in
which all present drank her health and
prosperity, and the next day she sailed
away in one of the big ships, and is now
on the Atlantic. When she has made a
sufficient stay on the continent she will go
TO palatial home in Cuba.
Who shall say now that there is no
romance, even in this big and wicked city?
FOSTER COATES.
RED JACKETS MEDAL.
While the Indian of the present day is
shivering in his thin blanket on the bound
less prairie, it is interesting to turn back
page of history and glance at noble red
man, whose name was derived from the
magnihcence of his attire 1 refer to Red
Jacket.
My attention was called to his history by
seeing at Tiffany's the great silver medal
which Washington gave to the eloquent
chief This was in 1892. and Red Jacket had
come to see the Great White Father as am
bassador for the Six Nations whose hunt
ing grounds were in the western part of
New York and whereabouts. The Father
of His Country was much impressed by
the bearing of the chieftain land also wished
to reward him for the services he had rem
dered in bringing the six nations TO
peaceful frame of mind. So the big silver
medal was made and presented with due
formalities.
This interesting relic is hereafter to be
the property of the state of New York.
Mrs Elizabeth Townsend Meagher, widow
of General Thomas Francis Meagher, has
given the medal, and has arranged that
the Red Jacket Club, of Canandaigua \.
Y, shall be its custodian until the state
provides proper place for it.
The medal is of pure silver, oval in shape
and about i've inches long. 1t bears upon
its face an engraving representing George
Washington presenting the pipe of peace
to Red Jacket The chief wears the medal
land not much of anything else) The in
scription is:
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President.
1892.
On the reverse is the old-fashioned eagle,