St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-09
ONE GIRL is MISSING.
Mabel Howe Not with EIThe Pass
ing Show, This Time.


The following dispatch, which ap-
peared in the G. 10 e of yesterday,
was read with special interest by the
members of the Passing Show COM
pany, which opened last night at the
Metropolitan:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Lieut. C.
NJ. White, of the revenue cutter Bear,
who is now in Boston, has resigned,
and his resignation has been accepted.
His resignation was entirely voluntary.
The sequel to Lieut.. Whites resigna-
ton is rather sensational escapade
in San Francisco, known particularly
to the Passing Show people, for in
it Miss Mabel Howe, one of the quar-
tette of Pierrots who dance opposite
the Phrynettes, figures conspicuously.
This girl whom White is said to have
known in his youth, succeeded, it is
said, in winning him away from his
devoted wife and in breaking up a
happy home in San Francisco. AS
CLEANED from the members of the or
ganizat ton who reached here yesterday
morning from Duluth, Lieut.. White
arrived in San Francisco on the 18th
ult., after an absence of more than
seven months in Alaskan waters, and
White Immediately fastened to his
home, but found that his wife had
gone to a hospital, having undergone
a severe surgical operation during his
absence. The lieutenant fastened
thither and went unannounced to his
wife's apartments, where the physi-
clans would allow him to see her but
half an hour Later he returned, told
ba bad to raf11rp t0 10 shin nd tha
was the last the sick wife saw of the
gay lieutenant. e..e
Mrs. White, speaking of the deser-
ton, said to a San Francisco reporter,
Lieut.. White and l have been mar
ried just year. Shortly after our mar
riage he was ordered to Alaska He
returned Nov Is, and came at once to
see me. l gave him a letter which had
come for him, and, after reading 1t, he
told me it was from Mabel Howe, an
actress in THE Passing Show" COM
pany, and a woman whom he~h had
known long ago, and of whom he had
spoken laughingly to me. Almost i'm
mediately after reading the letter, he
turned to me and said: Dear, L must
leave you at once and go to the ship. ,
With that he kissed me and hurriedly
left the room. Although L was very i'll
l did not worry about him. -"
At about o'clock he rushed into the
house, much excited. He came to my
bedside, put his arms around my neck
and told me he had to go back at once
to his ship. With that he left the
room. He went half way down the
hall, then rushed back into my room,
embraced me and bade me another
farewell.
From that day to this 1 have never
seen him. 1 have learned he never
went back to the ship after he saw me
on the day of his arrival.
Mrs. White, it is said, will take steps
for a legal separation. Miss Howe
left the company at the termination
of the engagement in San Francisco,
stating that she was called to. her
home iu Bradford, Pa, by the death
of her mother, although some comment
was caused by her request that her
mail be forwarded to. her at the Audi
torium hotel, Chicago.
Lieut. White was seen but little with
Miss Howe by the members of the
company, but was known to several of
the company who say that he was al
ways literally supplied with money.
Miss Howe, who is said to have a
husband who is singing tenor with
Billy Vans minstrels, is believed by
the company to be with Lieut.. White
in Boston, although that is not known
to be the case. Her place In the Pass
ing Show" company was filled for the
Oakland engagement by Miss Jennie
Prayer, a graceful little miss of twelve,
whose mother is in the ballet, and who
continues in that place.
The members Of the company are
agreed that Miss Howe was not beau'
tiful and not particularly shapely.