Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-30

to attend the funeral Of President John
Newell Of the Lake Shore road. He was
seen In his private car by a correspondent.
and asked II the cable correctly reported
the domestic trouble Of William X. Wander
bilt.
"You must excuse me. but desire to
say nothing on the subject" was the an
swer.
He seemed much affected. He was here
but three hours and left then for the east.
How 1t In Taken at Newport.
A special dispatch from Newport. r. l.,
to the New York Press says: The contem-
plated separation of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. X.
Vanderbilt, announced by cable today, does
not strike society here with great surprise.
Incompatibility Of temperament alone Is be-
lieved to be the cause A society man, who
begged that his name be withheld, said:
Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt are totally un-
fitted for each other, and for several years
they have led an unhappy existence dis
agreeing upon the most trivial matters.
Yet Mrs. Vanderbilt is a clever. even bril-.
liant. woman, and person who Is well
liked by many friends. Mr.. Vanderbilt Is
a most agreeable man, with whole-souled
ideas; and yet, upon matters unimportant
as ell as important, they failed to agree.
The speaker added that Mrs. Vanderbilt
was a strong-minded southern woman.
with exclusive ideas. Mr.. Vanderbilt was
open and free. He failed to agree with Mrs
Vanderbilt in the exclusive character OF
their house here, and especially with his
wife's idea of surrounding 1t with high, al
most impenetrable walls.
Nellie Neustetter's Early Life.
A San Francisco dispatch says:
Nellie Newsletter, the young woman who
is said to be the cause of the family trou-
bles Of William X. Vanderbilt Is well
known here. She Is native of Eureka.
Nevada; was educated at Miles Seminary,
Alameda county, resided for a number OF
years in San Francisco. and has frequent
ly figured in escapadGs that have won her
notoriety, both in the new and old worlds.
She was born twenty-Rine or thirty years
ago at Eureka, where her father Ben Co
hen, kept clothing store and became
wealthy. She returned to Eureka from the
seminary when size was eighteen years
old. and was the belle OF the town. Pretty.
witty, graceful and vivacious, she possess
ed all the requisites for the breaking of
hear,s.
Her first victim was the nephew of a
well-known capitalist, and her liasons with
him created such scandal that her parents
sent her TO the care Of relatives IN San
Francisco. The change failed to make the
desired reformation, and she soon became
marked figure on Kearney and Market
streets during the afternoon.
among her admirers was wealthy man
named Rothschild, who laid himself and
his fortune at her feet. She utilized them
drummer named Henry Newsletter. She
married Newsletter in 1884. and all went
well for time. Her husbands business
compelled him to be out of the city most
of the time. and during his absence Nellie
led rapid life. She was the boon COM
panion of all the fast young men about
town, and the end came in 1887. She left
her husband and went to New York III
company with Laura Edelman, a noted
woman of Los Angeles. Newsletter Sc
cured a divorce and Nellie continued to
lead gay life in New York.
She captured the heart Of a millionaire
manufacturer, who gave her a sumptuous
FIAT, horses and carriages and all the money
she could spend. He took her to Europe,
where she Travelled like a princess. When
she returned to New York she dazzled the
people with the elegance of her Worth
dresses and the brilliancy Of her Jewels.
In 1880 she returned to San Francisco
to visit her parents who had removed to
this city from Eureka. She took rooms at
leading hotel. dressed better than any
woman In town, wore thousands of dol
lars worth of gems and spent money as
freely as II she had an unlimited 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 Oakland girl.
The next that was heard of her was that
she had gone to Europe again and had
been elected from the Continental Hotel
in Paris. To her parents she wrote that
she was studying for the stage, and she
always concealed from them the fact that
she was leading a fast life. She wrote tina:
she would return to San Francisco in Oc-
tober, but pre- badly her encounter with Mr..
Vanderbilt may interfere with her plans.