The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-18
DIVORCE FOR The YzNACAS
The Famous American Beauty Cannot
Agree with Her Husband.
CALLED THE MODERN VENUS
History of the Career OF the Young Artist
Who Was Received by New York's
400 OH Account OF Her
Beauty.
By the United Press.

by the United l'reSs.
New York, Feb. IA London dis
patch, received yesterday, announced
authoritatively that Il separation had
been agreed upon between Mr.. and Mrs.
Fernando Y2naga, This was not alto
gether unexpected In this city. Mrs.
Yznaga, who was Miss Mabel Curtis
Wright before her marriage, was
belle for three seasons In New York's
fashionable society before her marriage
To Mr.. lZnaga. Her parents We're peo-
pie of neither fashion nor wealth, and
Miss Wrights entree into the ranks
of the 400 was due to her beauty and
some influential friends that it gained
for her. In the past year there have
been rumors that the relations Of Mr..
and Mrs. Yznaga We're strained, and
those who knew have been expecting a
separation. Mr.. and Mrs. Yznaga went
to England together last November.
George Curtis Wright, Miss Wright's
father, has for years been known as
one of the most skilful carpet designers
in the country He began under Elmer
}. Nye with the Lowell Carpet COM
pany, and later designed for the Il. ).
Higgins company. He asalso done some
landscape painting, and his daughter
inherited his artistic tastes. Mrs.
Iznagas mother was Miss Elizabeth
Peabody. Mr. Grenvllle Kane intro
duced Miss Wright at Narragansett,
and later at Newport in 1887, and she at
once became the rage. At the Patri-
archs and Assembly balls her beauty
made her famous, while her pleasing
disposition won her as many friends
among the women as among the men.
She was a student and an artist Her
water-color drawings, signed Elise Du
Pont. found their way into many
private galleries and several of them
have been published in magazines
New York society made an exception
in her case and took her up enthusiast
cally. Her blonde beauty and beautiful
complexion were talked about and
written about until Miss Wright was
one of the best-known bellies of this
town.
She Was Fond of Water.
Mrs. Yznaga was called the American
beauty. At Narragahsett Pier her pop
ular appellatiOn was Venus, a title be-
slowed on her because of her beauty,
and for the fondness that she exhibited
for the water. Her bathing costumes
were marvels even for Narragansett.
Mr.. YZnaga was and Is a member of
the firm of II. B. Hollins & Co., at 10
Wall street His family came from
Cuba. Mr.. Yznaga was first married
to Miss Gerry Smith, a sister of Mrs.
w. X. Vanderbilt. She went to Cali
10 ,.1N N,t. 4 l.,
now the wife of George Tiffany.
Miss Wright's engagement to Mr..
Yznaga was announced only few days
before the wedding and they We're mar
ried privately on March 4. 1890, in the
unpretentious boarding house where
the brides parents lived. No cards
were sent out until the day before the
wedding. which was hastened, 1t was
explained, by the serious Illness of the
brides mother, because Mr.. Yznaga
was suddenly called to England. He
arrived alone in a cab at Mrs. Nichols
boarding house at 6 East Thirty-ifth
street, where Miss Wright had lived
with her parents ever since her en-
trance into sicety. Mrs. Wright was
such an invalid at that time that she
was carried down stairs from her sick
room to witness the ceremony. DIR. Pax
ton performed the ceremony. There
were no bridesmaids and no best man.
The brides presents were many and
costly. They were sent by members of
the Vanderbilt family, by Mr.. and Mrs.
Coleman Drayton, Mr.. and Mrs. Gren-
Vile Kane, Mr.. and Mrs. William Wal
dorf Astor, MIR. Perry Belmont and
..fany others. Immediately after the
wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Y2naga sailed for
England. The Duchess of Manchester
and Lady Lister-Kaye are sisters OF Mr..
| YZnaga.
When the statement that Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Yznaga had agreed to separate
was made known to Mrs Yznagas
father last night he said it was not
authentic. and that he should deny It,
| He added that two days ago he got a
| letter from Vienna from his daughter
and in that letter nothing was said
about separation. He said that he
! had his daughters confidence, end he
thought that If there had been formal
! agreement to live apart he would have
known of 1t as soon as any one. As
! to the possibility of there being n separ-
| alton in contemplation he said he