The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-08-31
TANDERBILT'S SIREN.
The Woman Whose Charms Cap.
tured the Multi-Millionaire.
sHRBwD, SKILLED ADVENTURES,
BY Her Personal Charms She Has for
Several Years won tho Admiration of
Men of Wealth, aud Mado the Most of
Her Opportunities.

Men of wealth, aud Made the Most of
Her Opportunities.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3L-Nellie Neu-
stredtter, the young woman who is said to
be the cause Of the family troubles of
William X Vanderbilt, is well known
here She is a native of Eureka, New,
was educated at Miles seminary, Alameda
county, resided for a number of years in
San Francisco and has frequently figured
in escapades that have won her notoriety
both in the new and old worlds. Che was
born twenty-nine or thirty years ago in
Eureka where her father, Ben Cohen,
kept a clothing store and became wealthy
She returned to Eureka from the seminary
when she was Is years old, and was the
belle of the town.
According to the story printed in a To-
cal paper. after her return to Eureka from
Miles seminary. n er beauty and dashing
manner captured the little town and also
the heart of Frank Mills, nephew of d.
o. Mills. Young Mills was very devoted
in his attentions, and in order to stop the
affair Nellie's parents sent her to San
Francisco. She was then Is years old, and
seemed TO care for nothing but to have a
good time. Already her TASTES were ex-
pensive, and she showered her favors on
anybody who had the wealth and inclina-
tion to cater TO her pleasure. Up to 1884,
as far as was known, Nellie's heart was
whole, but in that year she became smit-
ten with Henry Neustredtter, who was
popularity known as Judy" on account
( of his nose, which was a standing remi-
niscence of the old time Punch and Judy
show.
Ben Cohen, Nellie's father was de-
| lighted when she showed her preference
for Neustredtter Neustredtter, who
was then, as now, the agent of well
| known brand of cigars, was not in affiuent
circumstances, but he was making good
/ income, aud when he finally married Mel
lie, in 1884, he set up nice little estab-
| lshment on Sutter street, between Tay-
| lor and Jones.
Business called Neustredtter to Portland
| and they therefore, removed there and
| alternated between that city and San
| Francisco until 1887. Before the close of
| that year Nellie was, in one sense of the
word, going to the dogs" She dressed
expensively, wore good iewelry, and in
many ways showed she was handling
| plenty of money-far too much, in fact,
from what she could get from her hus-
| band. Many and many an evening she
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| resorts with choice spirits like Porter
! Ashe, Fred Webster, Tom Williams and
| Harry Neouve, and she achieved her rep
utation as a thoroughbred, because no
pace could be set that was too fast for her
She, however, managed to fool her hus-
| band, and he did not know anything was
WI ong until one day she told him she was
| going to New York to visit some of her
| relatives, and away she went.
After her arrival in Gotham strange
| stories came to her husbands ears. He
| learned that her trip to New York was in
/ company with a crowd, one member OF
which was the celebrated Laura Edelman
of Los Angeles. Laura had a record of
her own She was one of the most beau.
tiful women in southern California, but
the moral traces could not hold her, and
one day she let every one know she had
kicked them over by deserving her hus-
band and child.
Neustredtter began a close iuvestiga-
ton, and found that his fears were more
than realized. He made one final effort
to get back his happiness. He wrote tC
his wife and said: Come back and all
will be forgiven" His request was un
needed, and realizing the situation he ap
piled for a divorce in the Californif
! courts ana got IL.
|. Nellie was so charming that even il
New York she shone with unusual bril-
} liancy. She captured the heart OF Stude
baker, the millionaire carriage man, anC
he gave her a sumptuous fiat bought hel
a carriage and horses, and gave her ser
wants and all the money she wanted. Ii
1889 he took her to Europe, where she trav
eled like a princess When she returned
to New York she dazzled the people will
the elegance of her Worth dresses and thu
brilliancy of her jewels.
In the latter part of the same year sh,
returned TO San Francisco to visit he
parents. who had removed to this cit
from Eureka She took rooms at lead
ing hotel, dressed better than am
woman in town. wore thousands of dol
lars worth of gems and spent money al
! freely as if she had unlimited letter o
! credit on the United States mint, He
{ money began to give out and she wen
back to New York taking with her Jessi
Whiting, a pretty Oakland girl
Shortly after they reached New Yorl
the news came to the coast that the tw
women had gone on a trip to Europe an,
a few months afterwards came a cable
gram stating thar Nellie had been forci
bly, elected from the Continental hotel il
Ia is.
To her parents Nellie recently wrot
that she was studying for the stage, an,
she always concealed from them the fac
that she was leading fast life. She wrot
that she would return to san Francisco il
q October, but her plans may now be changes
Vanderbilt Wants His Children.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3l.-There is som
change today in the talk about the uoubl
in the William X Vanderbilt family