The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-03-23
cv,asLorre cANDAs MONUMENT.
Tho sad Story of Wealthy New York OH
tx1,o was Killed Fifty Years Ago

Tho sad Story OF Wealthy ~" tof~ o'
Who was Killed Fifty Years Ago.
The Canda House at II Lafayette place
closs,l its doors theother day. The old puild-
ing will be torn down. and on It's site
large business block VIII be erected.
Tha canda House was built over 80 years
AGO bv Charles Canda, who intended II as
boarding school for girls. AT the time 1t
was the most elegantly appointed mansion
In the city, and Mr.. Canda's school was
famed far and wide for its superior educa~
tional advantages
Mr.. Canda came from France and was
rich. He had beautiful young daughter
named Charlotte. whose fair form Is still
preserved in marble In Greenwood ceme-
tery She was the idol Of her parents and
a belle Of the town. Two sumptuous little
parlors at the left Of the entrance to the old
mansion were fitted up for her own use, and
there she received her admirers and enter
| tanned her friends In a style behtting her
taste and social station.
Every old New Yorker knows by heart
the sad story OF her death, and grandmoth-
ers have told the second generation Of the
| fatal accident that befell her on chill day
| In February, 1913, which was the anniver-
sary OF her birth.
She was returning from drive through
the city when at the corner OF Broadway
| and Fourth street the horses attached to
| her carriage took fright and ran away.
| Whether she was thrown out or jumped
out, no one ever knew. She was borne into
the New York hotel and died soon after OF
her injuries
The horses turned into Lafayette place
/ ard dashed into the stable without even
mnrring the carriage. And TO this day
many women who yet retain those sad
| -, nd RI in fql o.
the story that if Charlotte had chung to the
carriage she might not have been hurt
| After her death Miss Candas remains
reposed in the dainty little parlor where
she had received so many Of her friends,
| and what was the most beautiful monu-
| ment in Greenwood at the time was erected
| to her memory.
The monument was made in Italy Of
| Carrara marble, and, as the story goes, the
whole of Miss Canda's marriage portion
was spent upon it. The design is rare, and
there is no other monument in Greenwood
that resembles it. The carving is so ornate
and the whole work SO delicate that it has
withstood this severe climate only with the
| utmost care.
The girls statue stands under a canopy
of white marble. gothic in style, and from
this two low marble wings extend forward
to embrace the stone that covers her re
mains To the right and left at a short dis
lance are kneeling angels, each on a pedes-
tai facing the monument, and at the gate
is stone which bears this inscription;
CHARLOTTE CANDA-
Died suddenly,
BY falling from a carriage,
| On the night OF the 3D. of Feb, 1913.
Being the seventeenth anniversary
OF her birthday.
Beneath are the following lines:
She sinks from sight. Ewes golden star.
Lost In the watery depths afar,
Yet still does the fair planet burn:
Not hopeless is our Charlottes urn.
In Gods own morn her orb will rise
Once more q star Of paradise.
Not far from the tomb of Charlotte Can
da, as the story goes, her lover lies buried
beneath a mound of earth, overgrown with
shrubbery and quite obscured from view
Long since its identity has been lost amonl
the hundreds of graves in that thickly pop
ulated part of Greenwood, and today It'll
is known of the young man and his life
save that he was Charlotte Canda's love
and that his grave is not far from hers.
The two graves suggest in a measure tn,
tomb of Abelard and Heloise in the famou
cemetery of Pere la Chaise. 1t can at leas
be said of the tomb in Greenwood, as of th
one where the French lovers lie side by sid
near Paris, that no man, no woman, NJ
youth ever passes without pausing to exam
Inc it and reflect on the sad story it unfolds
New York World.