Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
FREDDY WAS ANGRY.
Ordered Langtry's Horses Turned Out
for Wild Beasts to Eat.
THE TRAINER WOULDN'T OBEY.
How the Lily Purchased.a Mine While Do
ing a Statue Scene
GEBHARDT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD BAIRD

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 1S.-From
picturesque Lake county, Cal, where the
ex-cooing doves, Lily Langtry and Freddy
Gebhardt, own adjoining ranches, several
thousand acres in extent, comes story Of
love, fickleness and intended revenge by
the Tilted lover that makes very interesting
reading in connection with the report from
London that Abingdon Baird, who is said
to have bought the Lily fashionable
house and paid off her fashionable debts,
went to the house the other day and, find
ing fashionable young man with her,
forcibly elected him from the place and
then kicked her in the face until she re-
sembled almost anything else than lily.
It would appear from the reports that
Freddy, cast aside after these years of con-
stancy, has very sore heart in consequence
of Langtry's desertion, and that he deter
mined upon sweet revenge As said before,
the two farms adjoined each other, and as
Gebhardt was exceedingly fond of horses,
and owned some very celebrated ones, he
had his fine equine heroes and heroines re-
moved t. his Lake county ranch. Lily, not
to be outdone by her admirer, also pur-
chased several valuable horses, among them
being the celebrated stallion Friar Tuck, by
imp. Hermit, worth perhaps $4,000.
Intended to Return to California.
DR.. G. W. Ably, the wellknown horse
man, was chosen by Gebhardt to look after
the valuable stable that had been combined
in one. Thus matters stood when the couple
left for the East It is impossible to know
what Langtry's intentions were when she
left her beautiful mountain home, but GER
tain it is that she left instructions that
nothing should be touched in her love of q
cottage. Her furniture was there, the etch-
ings and bric-a-brao were there, many of her
rich dresses hung in the wardrobe, and it
would look as if she meant to return. But
as it was then, except that the lawn, once
green, is thickly grown with weeds and
looks desolate.
As soon as Freddy learned that he had
been coldly cast aside for Baird, instead of
wasting his time in vain repinings, it is
said he at once telegraphed Ably to
drive all the lovely Li1y's thoroughbreds
out into the wild highway to prowI about
at will, to become food for the wild beasts of
the adjacent forest. This fierce mandate
from the ferocious Freddy was a little too
much for Ably, who preferred to stand the
wrath of the Tilted one rather than sacrifice
such noble animals in the way outlined.
Therefore he refused, and the attorney of
Mrs. Langtry in this city journeyed to the
white cottage and made proper arrange
ments for the disposal of the stock, and
now, SO far as the stock is concerned, all is
settled.
How Langtry Bought a Mine.
There are incidents of Langtry's visits to
California which are of interest and which
have never been published. 1t has been
said, and with truth no doubt, that she did
many shrewd things in the way Of advertis-
ing. At one time she rented house some
where out in the Mission, and tried to make
everybody believe she intended to remain
here until gathered to her fathers, when she
would be laid away in an elaborate vault in
Laurel Hill Cemetery, or some other city of
the dead. But it was all myth. Then
she bought some ground over in Nevada, had
a hole dug in it, and called it the Langtry
mine.
Sam Davis, well-known newspaper man,
says he sold her the ground for 5000. She
was in the statue scene of Galatea in "Pyg-
malion and Galatea," and during the scene
Davis was in the wings. She dared not
move a muscle. He said in q low voice:
SIS it bargain for 5000? I'll consider
that it is if you don't shake your head"
The statue remained still, and even when
the Lily came out afterward she was SO
taken with the originality of the scheme
that she paid the money over at once.