Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-08

Filled With Varying Turns OF
4 Fortune.
Chicago, February THE life story
Of Mrs. Lydia Spaulding, the woman
Who has brought suit against the Pull
man Palace Car Company and the
AJchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail-
way for the recovery of 100000 dam
ages. is a romantic one.
/ Struggling with poverty as the wife
of an aged. unsuccessful physician, the
mother Of handsome BOY, united by
social ties with men and women who
became kings and queens in the twin
worlds of finance and fashion, the mis-
tress of the most paladal private hotel
and boarding house in san Francisco
suddenly bereft of husband and son.
the possessor of a hard-earned fortune,
sustaining the loss OF health, weak in
mind and body. laden with accumu-
laung years, torn from her railway
apartment, rudely thrust into dIngy
prison cell. to be surrounded with the
most loathsome Migrants in the town
of Leafyille. robbed as she says OF
5000 in jewels and money, these are
some of the successive phases, miser-
J les. pleasures, endeavors and hopeless
F features o. Mrs. Spaulding's history.
The woman who seeks to force the
big corporations to pay her for the in
diguities thus thrust upon her in the
/ Colorado town. and for which she al
/ leges they are responsible. was born n
/ Virginia. As a girl she possessed con
siderable beauty and became the wife
of DIR. Spauldiug. VINO was many years
+ her senior. With him she went to Vir-
/ sinia City, Nevada, in the days be-
( fore the great outburst Of wealth
which made San Francisco one of the
most remarkable cities in the world.
In Nevada she became acquainted with
the Mackeys. Floods and Fairs at
time when future millionaires were
poor and toillng citizens of Virginia
, City. The Floods. Mackeys and Fairs
prospered and won millions, while Mrs.
Spaulding saw the prospects Of her nus
band and herself grow gloomier. A
son was born TO them, and not long
afterward they
REMOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO.
In the City Of the Golden Gate soon
were settled the great bonanza kings
and while they lived i'm homes of splen-
dor Mrs. Spaulding was using her ut
most endeavors 10 help her husband in
his profession. He failed and She,
turning to her former friends, found as
sistance. They aided her in leasing the
Rals,on mansion, whose owner had
taken his own life, surrounded as ne
was by every luxury wealth could
bring. i'm a manner so romantic and yet
/ so startling that it became a part of The
4 history of the Pacific coast. This man
sion sumpUously furnished, Mrs
n Il NHHHaa
-, - Ii,.sl Mr. and Mrs Fair
1rr o,1 ,f~s r-oo5 Mr. and Mrs
~. AMI ,,,s..,- o-tar of fine almost
fsI,,Io,,s f.r,,,,,a.
IT, t,i..or olnh u-f~b IFS stately tur-
rots and brosd windows looking out
rno, .bo hav was one of The most
elaborate ediicas I'm the city. With
nolfs5ed hard wood floors. strewn with
costly RIOS with rich mosaics. walls
rsspIendsnt with mirrors and hung
with naintings chosen bva ccnnoisseur,
narIors divided bv s0frlv sliding doors.
fuad with ouqtn- little hooks. the place
was almost like a home i'm Falkland.
Here Mrs. SDauI7i7e pr0spered and
bappiness seemed ners until her hus-
hand. Suddenly taken IN. Fell
11t,u,r mss Al, ru-R rFET
- :,
Aouing 10 ner soi'oN' AeI 10! uleu III
equally sudden manner.
MIS-. Falr became more lhan ever
her Irlehu ana puiL1 loI neI d uo'ei VI
Iov IUoIlls' Iue Den, .SCe, anu ~ ' ~
e9.,,o'iS,, ,.'o l l,..I
e.ts She retired few ve7rs ago 10