The evening world., 1894-08-30
NElLIE'S GAY LIFE.
It Is Alleged that She Caused
the Vanderbilt Row.
Many Men Of Millions Have Been
Among Her Adorers.
Divorced from Henry Neustrctter, a
Cigar Drummer.
(By Associated Press.)

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said to be the cause of the family
troubles of William X. Vanderbilt. is
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wen hhowh mere one 10 u naive Vi
Seminary, Alameda County, resided for
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nuhi"eI Vi years III San 'iaheisoo
and has frequently inquired in escapades
that have won her notoriety both in the
,au ,na oil, ,,,or,a.
rev anu o'u Woiius
years ago in Eureka. where her father.
pen Cohen kent a c,oth,ng store and
Ben Ioheh' kept ciothing store anu
became wealthy. she returned to Eu-
oiehtsan var. o,d anS was ,Sa ,s,e
e,sh.eeh years oio ana was 'he peie
Of the town. Pretty. witty. graceful
and yiyacious. she possessed all the
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'eIu,o'.e 'oi VIC o'eaN'ns Vi "e''
Her hfst victim was the nephew OF
well-known capitalist, and her liaison
WIN mn o,ea.eu SUI s.anua, .na' her
parents sent her to the care OF relatives
In San Francisco. The change failed to
soon became a marked figure on i<ear-
ney and Market streets during the af-
Among her admirers was a wealthy
and his fortune at her feet. She utilized
them both until she fell in love with a
cigar drummer named Henry Neustret-
ter, She married Neustretter in 1854,
and all went well for a time. Her hus-
bands business compelled him to be out
Of the city most OF the time. and during
was the boon companion Of all the fast
young men about town, and the end
came In 1887. She left her husband and
Laura Edeimen. a noted woman OF T Los
| Angeles. Neustrettcr secured a divorce.
and Nellie continued to live a gay life
In New York.
She captured the heart of a millionaire
manufacturer, who gave her n s,impt,l-
GUS fiat. horses and carriages and all
the money she could spend. He took
a princess. When she returned To- New
York she dazzled the people with the
elegance of her Worth dresses and the
In 1890 she returned to San Francisco
to visit her parents, who had removed
to this city from Eureka. She took
than any woman in town: Wore Wore thor thour
money as Freely wp as ef size hs ana spent
limited letter OF credit on the United
| States Mint. Her money began to give
out and she went back to New York
for more, taking with her a pretty Oak
land girl.
she had nss to OF ar her
had been elected from the Continental
wrote that she was studying for the
stage. and always concealed from them
the fact that she was leading fast
life. She wrote that she would return 10
San Francisco in October next
Among those who went on the yacht
| Valiant for the ten months cruise last
November, but whose trip was curtaiIed
by the breaking up of the Vanderbilt
party at Nice last March, was DR.. Ed
ward L. Reyes, who lives at East Sew
enty-fourth street, and who has an office
at 100 East Thirty fourth street
DR. Reyes was the first OF the Valiant
party to return to this country after the
breaking up of the party, and he was
interviewed upon his arrival. In the i'm
terview, had on April IA, he was thus
quoted:
Throughout the trip Mr.. Wander
bits party was in the best OF health