Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-31
NOT MISS NEUSTRETTER
The Parisienne Known as the
 Queen Is Another.
SOCIETY GOssIPs ARE MISTAKEN.
The Woman Who Now Is Connected With the Vanderbilt Scandal Said to He Mime. MeIie-Ths Other Woman Is Now RoIi- ing High In New York.


 Meiie-Th. Other Woman Is Now RoIi- ing High In New York.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-It is Mime Me lie (pronounced Maleel who is basking in the smiles of Willie K. Vanderbilt in Paris and not Nellie Neustretter. Miss Nellie Is Tn this city and has been here thrcc years. She arrived direct from Par Is. She lives in n luxuriously appointed flat in a stylish neighborhood between Fiftieth and Sixtieth streets, not n stone's throw from Broadway.
 Last night, with gentleman much older than herself, she occupied two or chestra chairs at the Casino. Her costume was a marvel of pink Parislan delicacy, md as she entered the lobby of the thea ter, which was crowded with first night CTS, she created a decided sensation, Her companion looked painfully "hayseedy" in comparison, as he was dressed in an ordinary light sack suit and straw hat
 Miss Neustretter is, trifio under me dium height, with largo, fiery black eyes and hair. Her hair last night was brush ed straight back from her low, broad fore head, while two prominent split curls" adorned either temple. For a hat she wore some sparkling jewels that could have been put in one's waistcoat pocket.
 Clubman's Story.
 A reporter had been given the tip that the big dailies were all wrong in the iden- tification of the young woman who was said to be creating such havoc with the domestic peace of MT. and Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt, and that the young woman who had been named was in this city.
 Standing in front of the Hoffman House were two gentlemen, both club members and all around highfliers- If anybody would know if Nellie Neustrettcr were in tho city, they surely would, and they did. More than that, one of the men not only knew her, but knew her history, and he told 1t to the reporter
 ''Nettie and not Nellie Neustrettcr be- gan life as Nettie Cohen," said ono of the clubmen. she was born in Eureka, New, and her father was Ben Cohen, who amassed a fortune in the clothing trade. She was q beautiful child and her father s pride. When II years of age he decided that the educational facilities of Eureka were not good enough for his daughter, and he sent her to the Mills seminary in Alameda county, Cal
 When she was in her eighteenth year. she was graduated from the seminary and came home as beautiful q specimen of young womanhood as you ever gazed upon. On her account alone hor father having retired from business, moved to San Francisco, where ho had hoped to make n brilliant wedding for her.
 ''She was witty. graceful, all that was charming, which, with her beauty, easily made her tho belle of the town.
 A Varied and Shady Past.
 ''Frum her associates in the seminary Nellie had obtained love for gayety, which soon led to unconventionalities in her manner ot behaving herself, and 1t was not long before she posed prominent ly in two continents. Her face was ia miliar ono on Market and kearney streets, San Francisco until she met rich old man named Ruthschild. He became so infatuated with the dark haired beauty that he placed his fortune ar her disposal, and she made things hum, you can bet.
 up to that time pretty Nettie s heart, however, had not been touched, and it TO mnined for n young cigar drummer named Neustretter to call that entirely his own. Both were much in love, and they were married. For a time Nettie was all that n wife should be, but her husbands busi- ness keeping him from homo tho greater part of the time. his bride relapsed into her gay mode of life.
 In lSS7 she loft her husband and came to Now York with Laura Edelman, a popular woman of Los Angeles, who is now under the protection of n we'll known 
 woman had been in this city only a short time before a prominent manufacturer, with almost unlimited capital, succumb- cd to her charms.
 Tho couple went to Europe, where the fair Ncttie travelled like princess, and on her return to this city she created u sensation by the magniflcence of her Worth toilets and jewels. In 1890 she re- turned to Frisco on visit to her parents and set tho town wild by the magniflcence of her attir'. She returned to this city and in 1891 again went to Paris. She Posed a Duchess.
 They stopped at the Continental hotel in Paris, where Miss \cttie scared so high that she was requested by the manager of tho hotel to seek other quarters. Her conduct on that trip was so sensational that her friend cried quits and returned without his black eyed pet. Nettie, how ever, was not long without n protector, and some months after tho manufactur CTS return she also landed in New York Sine had in the meantime, however, risen in the social scale and was registered al 1 one of the leading hotels of the city as tho Duchess da Costa.
 Her toilets continued to be marvels o beauty and good taste, but the duchess uncomfortable desire at times to pain things led the hotel proprietor to reques | hcr to move. Among her love affairs 1T this city one which attracted much atten | ton was that with a popular bachelor law yer. That's all know about Ncttie Neu | stretter, except that hear shc Is going or tho stage and has been engaged by prom | incnt manager of road companies" over an Embankment.