The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-15

ClbY Has It's % eAAaN. - y ~
look over the glittering galaxy they
will in most cases be found to be women
of rare and good sense, manag1no tleir
affairs with judgment and bearing
themselves in very proper way before
the world. The fact that a woman IS a
rich mans widow is always something
to her credit. Men who do not have
good wives to help them in the worlds
strife rarely have the chance to leave
rich widows. How often do the people
of New York hear of Mrs. Schenley, of
Pittsburgh? Yet she is worth $4,000
600, according to the estimates Of those
who know where her property is and
the value of it.
Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, of Philadel-
phia, is a modest woman, notwithstand-
ing her S5, 900, 600 or more. Our neigh
boring city of Hartford has two or three
rich women, and one of them, Mrs.
Leonard Church, worth $1,000, 900, is
not above taking her outing in a turn
out worth at the outside figure, about
sos. l used to hear occasionally,
through some clever business turn she
had made, of Sarah Gates, of Kansas
City. She is a widow, and away from
her home is reputed to be worth $10,
600, 900, all realized from a real estate
investment of less than So, 900. / have
not heard lately of Mrs. Gates, but I'M
less she pinned her faith and bank
notes with too much tenacity upon Kan
sas City's future, presume she is still
accumulating money. The world hears
nothing of Mrs. Rachel Calf, of Cincin-
natl, nor Mrs. Oliver Perrin, of the same
place, and yet either of those ladies
is worth from 100000 to $780,
600. Mrs. Joseph Harrison, whose
husband built the first railroad in
Russia, is worth $4,000,o 600, but her
name is rarely in the newspapers. In
striking contrast with these women just
named, in the matter of avoiding the
public gaze, is Americas own Mrs
Josephine M. Aver, the patent-medi-
cine widow, who continues to dazzle
Paris with her diamonds, swell equip
ages and princely entertainments.
Something New About Conl1ling.
Each returning March brings up to
New Workers the memory of Roscoe
Conkling. Charles de Bodisco Temple
man, an odd character of an artist,
claims the credit of having made q dis
covery in regard to the great New
Yorker which will certainly be news to
his friends and admirers throughout the
union. 1t is that the famous turkey
COCK expression, which James G. Blaine
in an acrid debate on the floor of the
senate described in terms for which
Conkling never forgave him., was caused
by the kick of a horse. Most people
have always supposed that Conkling's
naughty look was due to haughtiness
of spirit Templeman says that when
boy Mr.. Conlzling was thrown from
his horse and kicked on the left cheek
bone. The ''puffed up look for the rest
of his life, on the Templeman theory,
was the result of the actual physical
putting up caused by the confusion.
Templeman executed the only author
lied portrait of Conkling But Temple
man is an erratic sort of fellow whose
chief pride in life is that he was named
after Count de Bodisco, the Russian
minister to the United States, who died
at his post in Washington many years
ago and whose family were lost at sea
on their return to their native land.
What an image breaking age it is, to
be sure. Conkling's pride was due to a
lorse kick! Somebody will inevitably
discover after due lapse of time that an
American president named Harrison
once wore his grandfather's hat during
an entire term in the white house be-
cause he didn't have any other hat!
Lottery Scheme Defeated.