The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-31
STRANGE, TRUE STORY
The Romance of Gallant Col.
J. Kennedy Stout.
HUSBAND OF IDA r. Holman.
How the Charities Reporter OF the New
York Tribune" Became . hiliion-
aire Newspaper Proprietor.

NEW York, Oct oa-The marriage OF j. Ken
needy Stout. of spokane. Wash, 70 Miss Ida L.
Homan, OF williamsburg. was solemnlzed To-
night The couple leit for Chicago tonight
The BROOKLYN Earle OF October = thus reiates
the romance OF the gallant colonel;
wedding which Involves more Etncs OF ro-
nance than there are color" IN - xteenta ware
girls hat will be csie6rsted on hooper street
this week; that is the wedding VIII De esle-
brated, ualess the eugsged couple eaenge lhsir
minds when they meet for the nFst time thss
afternoon at the nome OF the blushing orine %
be. The case, a. far rs IL has got; involves we
stage, Journalism-with great big J-pontlcs
aud the world of finance. Hall the eastern dis
trict girls may be expected TO pull en- their store
bangs with envy when they read all the entranc-
ing details. Reporters familiar with New J ofk
q dozen years ago or viii recall q stout, Snort
young man. with side whiskers ana
very precise manner OF speech, gener-
ally known as kenny" stout Ar.
Stout at that time covered the charities
department of the Tri5Haf and was supposed by
his associates To make the muniheent sum OF
about Is week. but a. he came oil good family
and had some private iueome, he sel1oTn looked
like a six-do!la--s-wees young man. The chart
ties OF the tribune didn't prove nourishing
enough for young St9ut's blood IN the long run,
80 be bought a ferry ticket and opened a Law
Office In Jersey City. Hudson county also soon
proved too contracted field FOR the ex-reporter,
and he departed into the mighty West, his Old
New York friends losing track OF him. They
would never recognize their old chuu Kenny IN
the imposing Col. J. Kennedy tout, OF spokane
Eatis, who viii GEEkFe et the Grand tentral Ge-
pot in New York This morning on the Chicago
limited and take caDrioist for 65 Hooper street.
without even stopping for drink. Col J. Men
pedy Stout is porily and ford, his size whiskers
are carefully brushed. his clothes came from a
Broadway tailor. ne is member OF the stan
OF Gov Ferry, fret governor OF the state OF
wa.hington. Is proprietor o. the Spokane
or, at ANY rate, 10 look like one. All that dis
tinctiop comes because he preferred Horace
Grssley's advice 10 the remuneration offered by
aFe.wvss and NGEf
when he was still young. And today, when he
r. by no means Old, he comes East on the most
romantic erraud that can possibly move man
with side whiskers aud a bald spot. But that Is
too long a story to tell in one paragraph, with
out taking breath, a. II were.
The charities department of q New YORK news
paper does not include unlimited free thester
tickets and passes for the stage door among its
perquisites, so The present colonel failed 10 sat
isfy all his theatrical longings before he lett the
metropolis II Is said that since he became pro-
prietor OF the mighty Spokesman of spokane,
Col. Stout has allowed his red men TO write the
politics OF the paper but has reserved the Ora
matte column for has own fertile pen, having
had his first taste of the pleasures OF dramatic
criticism years ago on the Easton, Pa, Express
While in pursuit OF his duties dramatic critic
Co. J. Kennedy Stout two years ago met Gertie
Homan the brilliant child actress OF Brook lyn
The colonel was sitting on the property man
big packing box in the Spokane opera house.
smoking cigar which sells in spokane for %
cents. and little Gertie looked up at him through
the maze of her yellow Lord Fauntleroy cnrIs
which cost Is yard Hundreds and hundreds
OF mothers have pronounced Gertie In those
curls 'just too cute for snything." as indeed she
VISA What wonder. than, that 10 the bachelor
colonel, unused to the witching ways of stage
childhood. the little actress wss a vision
of delight The spokane Spokssmdn fair
lya orrUscated that week with burning
tributes 10 the merit OF the uvenile
star. The stage manager let the colonel behind
every night and even delayed ringing up the
second act for ten minutes that he might not
interrupt chat between Gertie and her devoted
dramatic critic. The colonel and Gertie be-
came fast friends, In short, and when the little
actress wasn't kept too busy jumping between
one night stands she used TO write bright child
tsh letters TO her spokane admirer. OF course,
Col stout answered them, and by one of these
replies hangs the present tale The fateful let.
ter was addressed to Gertie's home, at IS Hooper
street Gertie was away from home and her
sister Ida, pretty, dark-eyed girl of % opened
aud read the M issivs just here the details of
the romance which, so far, have stood out like
a tableau under the lime light In the fourth act,
became somewhat obscure. But, perhaps, NJ iss
Homsn thought the letter too nice TO be wasted
ON little girl not yet In her teens. Al any rate,
the elder sister Is said TO have answered the
epistie and signed her own name to the
answer. Then the clever juvenile actress
seems 10 have been reduced from her rank of
star 10 the business OF leading Juvenile. or, per-
haps, first utility young woman More letters
from Col. Stout followed. Ii 10 said that photo
graphs were exchanged between Col. J. Ken.
nedy Stout and Miss Homan, and an engage
msnt OF marriage resulted. But mighty
continent rolled between the lovers, and, Col.
Stouts FIRST name not being joshua ii still con-
unued to roll until last week. At that time
some OF the state officials Of Washington de-
eided to come East. bringing I'm the contingen,
the governors stan, including Col j. Kennedy
stout, TO participate in the Columbus festivitie
at Chicago. That would reduce the aching
void which separated the lovers to go miles,
aud to a hustling Western journalist $50 miles
Is nothing when railroad passes are plenty. SO
the Western colonel IS rolling toward Brooklyn
at the rate of fifty-two and half miles an
hour and, as above stated, the wedding 10 sx
pected 10 take place this week