The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-04-16
MADDIE SAYS SHE WON'T
Miss Pollard Refuses Eany Biz 0nsrs
10 Go on The Stage.
SHE HAS MANY FRIENDS
Mrs. Brown Talks In Highly Inter-
estlng Way About the Scam
dalous Things Done in
Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Madeline Pol
lard is the most talked OF person in WASH
ingion to-day. As might have been en-
pected. the long strain of the trial culmi-
mated IN nervous prostration. She was
taken last night 10 the Providence hospi-
tai. The attending physicians do not an
ticipato any serious effects from her i'll
ness.
During the trial several communications
came 10 Miss Pollard and her lawyers
from the managers of theatrical and opera
companies Offering her high salaries IL
she would appear in almost any capacity
under their auspices. Acting under the
advice OF her lawyers she has paid no at
iention TO any of these communications.
Since the verdict was rendered yesterday
afternoon tho theatrical managers have
redoubled their opportunities and several
kilograms have come to Miss Pollard
offering her astonishing sums to 60 on the
stage at once. Her friends decline to give
the names Of the theatrical managers or
the offers, saying no attention will be paid
To them.
Judge Wilson's defense Of the rights of
woman TO an equal place with man in tho
professions was so appreciated by many
Washington ladies that n party of them
sent to him magnificent bunch of la
France roses, which adorned his parlor
to-day. They were accompanied by note
stating they were intended as an express
sion OF appreciation for his championship
of the cause of woman in the professions.
One OF the slgners was Mrs. Dan Waugh.
wife OF the Indiana congressman; an
other was Miss Louise Lowell. the stcno.-
rapher who wrote Colonel Breckinridgo's
love letters, and another was Miss Mary
Deshay. sister OF Mr.. Brcckinridge's late
wife. The tribute of Miss Deshay is sig
niilcant Of the feeling of the relatives of
the late Mrs. Breckinridge toward the
colonel.
CINCINNATI, April l5.-"You may say
positively that Miss Pollard will not go on
the Stage said Mrs. McClelland Brown.
While Miss Pollard was pupil Mrs.
Brown was, with her husband. in charge
OF the Wesleyan Woman's college. She
has just returned from Washington where
she testified in the Northumberland
case. She said Miss Pollard had theatri-
cal offers from $500 to 5000 per week. She
was tempted hourly by lecture bureau of
fers but would not accept them because
they all wished her TO give the story of her
life. and that she will not do. She has
brother in Washington, and il is her wish
to live modestly with her brother and
write. and her offers in this line have been
as good accordingly as the other ones. ~
would tell you just in what line of writing,
but am not at liberty to do so. She will
carry out her life's ambition, the ambition
which lay so close to her young heart at
the time she first met Breckenridge"
The Washington women have been
quietly holding many indignation meet
ings. The notorious conduct of congress
men and public men at Washington is a
national disgrace and the women are now
thoroughly awakened to the disgrace and
are thoroughly determined 10 bring about
better order of things. 1t is an open
secret in Washington that there are
women, beautiful, brilliant and fasci-
mating, whose relations with congress-
men and other public men high in the
counsels OF the nation are either
perfectly understood or suspected. who
are met AT every turn at the most fashions
able functions in the receiving line, or
elegantly dressed, presiding in the tea
room or as assistant hostesses.
Society knows all this but SO powerful
has been the influence of the names back
of them that no one has the courage TO
drop the women and rcbukc the men.
"As TO Miss Pollard's money TO carry on
the trial." concluded Mrs. Brown, "there
is no doubt Mrs. Luke Blackburn Obtained