The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-03
MRS. POTTER'S FOLLY
Ran Away With Kyrle Bellew.
Only to Be Deserted.
WHAT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
The Engagement OF Jay Gould's Unfn-
teresting Son Eddie-The Old Man
Worth SI5O,Ooo,O0O.

New York, June 27-[Special Core
spondence. Three years ago this week
Mrs. James Brown Potter, in the two lit
tie rooms she then lived in at the Brevoort
house in this city. said goodbye to her lit
tie daughter Fiji and to her husband.
James Brown Potter, ESQ.,, of this CITY. a
good-looking man of unexceptionable
morals and manners. and sailed for Havre.
The cable now brings news of the dissolu-
ton of the dramatic partnership she had
then formed and has since maintained
with person known by the name of Kyrle
Bellew. The whole subject of this beauti-
full and interesting woman's extraordinary
mischance in life once more occupies the
minds of the friends whom she once
counted here by the hundred, and of the ac-
quaintances and admirers, for she
has undoubtedly the "fatal gift
of beauty" who might have
been numbered by the thousand.
i consider that there has been no more
tragic development of nineteenth century
social life than the career of Cora Ur-
quhart off and on the stage Something
over fifteen years ago in London, l heard
one evening at Brompton reading by
Rev. Bellamy Bellew, a gifted man of
splendid presence and excellent repute.
lie was clergyman of the Church of Eng
land, tall and erect in form. iorid-faced
and white-haired. l was struck by the
mans appearance as he walked TO the ros-
trum from which he read, the imperious
dignity OF his eye, which seemed to search
out the TemoteSt corners of the hall, his
perfect mastery OF the language. and the
tender grace and manly feeling with
which he rendered some of the
most beautiful selections in the Eng
hsE language. l never heard the
"Bridge of Signs" given more ten
derby than by him; nor the deathbed scene
from Dickens ''Old Curiosity Shop" nor
Jean lngeiow's magnificent ballad of
1.-The Noble Mercer" The Rev. Mr.. Bel
LEWIS silvery white hair fell in soft ring
lets around his neck, but there was moth
ing effeminate in his appearance or
bearing. If there was an inherited faint
OF any kind in the constitution of the
young man who at that time was making
something OF a reputation on the stage
under the name of kyrle Bellew, those
who know his father must believe that
faint came from the other side of the
house.
remember well hearing, indeed, at that
tire that there had been domestic unhap-
piness in the Bellew household, the head
of which had obtained separation from
his wife. The particulars were kept quiet,
and l never heard them. Shortly after
ward the Rev. Bel!amy Bellew, who
was certainly one of the most popu-
lar readers in London, although not
favorite OF the fashionable set, died, and
soon afterward his slender and personally
well-endowed son became a favorite
among a certain class of New York thea
ter-goers. / have never been able, on sub
sequent visits to London, to learn that
this curled and oiled young man with the
long hair and the spatulated fingers was
considered either an ornament or a pillar
OF the English stage. l am inclined to be-
lieve. indeed, that his reputation has been
largely the result of undeserved but we'll
sought newspaper publicity, spread
abroad, perhaps, in large measure by
that interesting but not very sagacious