Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-15

who CrUelly deserted her, and atlUrwaTd by John (. II,en..!, the prize fighter, whom she married l.: !-5, soon after his return from Lu gland, WL!,hcr kC had gone 10 bat tie Tom S;tEv-s for the worlds champion ship. lIeenan repeated the slnle deSpica- ble act as the Californian.
 Broken hearted by Heenans abandon meut. Mcnkcn soon sailed for the sunny shores of France. There she made m in Stantuneuu~ suvcc~-, first ill that thread bare drama "Niaztppa" and afterward in light opera. Nor was that all. She scored a decided lit iu her literary work and be came at once tAe t.yIv, n of the Bohemian set, of which The elder Dumas was the cen tral figure, at the gay French capital. That gallant Frenchman soon won first place ill her affections, only to be supplant- ed later on by the emperor, Napoleon III. Bonapartc was completely enraptured with her and many were the tete-a-tetes the twain had at the palace of the Tuileries. Once the Empress Eucenie surprised them and Iherc was scene. Adah never visited the royal household again.
 The inevitable ut last OcCurrtNl. \ change came ill the fortunes of poor Menken. Sick ness sappcd her mental strength and made sad rava-es upon her comcliness. Theatri- cal managers and devoted admirers both kept aluui Amid humble surroundings in the tencu.e.t district of Paris, in abject pN'NtEtE SsIttI klN Sllbt.Is lLC ulUSI lIl trrss of her time hre.,thed her last. And think rf it-tly fuvoritc of au emperor was buried i'll potf,rs field. Happily her re mains did IuJ stay there long. Among Mcrken's ,u"st faithful worshipers-and she did not rrciprOcato his fcelings-was Ed James, for years the foremost sporting editor ia -ku.tr!cH As soon as he heard of her sId cud he at once sailed for France, caused her body to be tliSinterred and o1, i,, d. hn most fashionable iu Paris. He also erected q magnificent monument to her memory Its cost was [IOOOO. Chivalrous, manly Ed James is now himself lying at deaths Lour in the great city of New York desti- tute ot funds and dependent upon the be ncVr!enrc Cf friends, rhilosophically await ing the end.
 The Fall of a Meteor
 Who does not remember spriGhtly, viva ciou-, bewItchirg Alice Oates' Sweet Al ice, whose bright brown eyes restless as a tropical sea. sitVery voice petite, plump figure and poetic motion: wEo that has ever heard il will forSet the merry peal of | laughter, like the music of a ripplinR riyu- 1 let, which accompanied her rendition of the wine song in ''Girofle- -Girofla:' Alice Oates was one Of fortunes waifs. She was in bliseful ignorance both as to her name and family, the surname of Oates being assumed She was brought up in a work house in ole England and at the age of Id went upon the stage. She was successful from the start and soon became popular faVorite.
 In time she attracted the attention of Al | 5er, Edward, priur'. of Wales, and enjoyed the qI.e~J Iuuablr :,dyaurugrS acCruiuy from ! Ei~ patronage H:;i ''prutecIiun." Then she came 10 America. She saw and conquered Comic opera WAS all the rage nt that period, ! T h. secured fame, fortune and the adulation of the public with the suddeuness and brill fancy of meteor She became engaged 10 the son of a bonanza king but the nuptials never took place.
 Then disaster came unmerciful and con
 stant. She lost succcssively the little for
 tune she had accumulated in bad invest
 ments, her health and Der voice. Sine was
 without resources and soon died of a bro ken heart. She now lies buried in potter's field near Cleveland. An old lover com
 posed and set 10 music that sweetest and
 most pathetic of ballads, My Dream of
 Love Is Ger" He afterward sang it in
 memory of Alice Oates, whom he soon fol
 lowed to the grave brokenhearted- Poor Aimee!
 Next comes Aimee. the gentle child of
 France-iolly, rotund, mirth provoking Aimee, whose chic and abandon will long
 finger in the memory. Aimee was sol
 dier of fortune. For years she rode on the crest of the wave. She literally coined
 money in France, England and America. She was regal in her extravaganza, how
 ever, and failed to set by storehOuse for : old age. She died few years ago in indi- 1 gent circumstances in her native land. 1 Aimee, too. had an affair of the heart. The | Duke de Moony wooed and won her. He l was to have married her. but-well, he