The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-22
GENERAL ORDWAY DEAD
BETTINA GIRARD's FATHERS DEATH
FASTENED BY HER CONDUCT.
The Distinguished Soldier Had Re-
turned from Abroad Last Week
In Very Poor Health.

NEW YORK, Nov a-Gen. Albert Ord
way died at 7:15 o'clock tonight at the
Hoffman House in this city. When death
came the generals wife, his sister, Miss
Emma Ordway, Dr. Pease, the attending
physician, and Lieutenant Very, a close
friend and business associate. were at his
bedside. General Ordway and his wife re-
turned from Europe last Wednesday. They
engaged rooms at the Hoffman House.
Next day the general was taken sick and
he continued to grow. weaker and weaker
until 7:15 O'Clock this evening, when he
passed away. The generals death was
doubtless FASTENED by the sad and recent
events in connection with his Maynard
daughter, Bettina Girard. General Ord
ways death is attributed by the attending
physician to jaundice and pleurisy, which
developed from a cold contracted in Paris.
1t was a pathetic reconciliation beside a
humble white cot in Ward 20 of Bellevue
Hospital Mrs. Ordway mingled her tears
with those of her unfortunate daughter,
known to theater goers as Bettina Grad,
who, after d meteoric career, beginning in
Washington society and ending in the
feverish life of a too genial footlight favor
tie, now lies in the hospital, known only as
plain Betty Schuyler" old and worn at
twenty-eight, a helpless invalid, suffering
from partial paralysis.
General Ordway, with his wife and little
Miss Padelford, Bettinas daughter, of
whom the grandparents have taken charge,
reached this city on Tuesday aboard the big
liner Kaiser William der Crosse. Despite
the i'll health of the father, who has been
an invalid for year and half, his first
thought was for his poor daughter. He
means he could take to aid her.
In the midst of his paternal eagerness the
infirm old man was stricken in his apart
ments at the Hoffman House. Mrs. Ord
way then bravely decided to do what she
knew would please the stricken general
more than anything in this world. A ba-
rouche drove up to the Hoffman House,
and Mrs. Ordway, accompanied by DR.. w.
G. Wylie, was driven to Bellevue Hospital.
DR.. Wylie, who is one of the visiting ply
sicianS of the hospital. led Mrs. Ordway
into the hospital ward to the little cot
where lay poor Betty Schuyler" wan
and pale Then the doctor stepped aside.
There was smothered exclamation. Mrs.
Ordway sprang to embrace her daughter.
She knelt beside the little cot and wept,
while the poor invalid smiled and placed
her weak hands upon her mothers mead.
Obscure Betty Schuyler" lay there no
longer. In her stead was Bettina Ordway,
daughter of General Ordway.
The next day Bettina was removed to a
private sanitorium, and as soon as she
was able it was the intention to have a
happy reunion of the family in Washing
ton General Ordway died without being
able to see his daughter. Nothing could
exceed General Ordways devotion to his
daughter He has always aided her ard
chung to her, despite the eccentriciues and
VagarieS of her life
Bettina Girard is a strange young woman
with a strange history While still a WASH
ington bud she created great sensation by
presenting to a young attache of the French
legation her slipper, fun Of champagne.
which he drank amid the applause of the
jewellers. Her marriage. to young Arthur
Padelford was a brilliant affair. but it was
She then drifted to the stage. She was
young handsome, possessed of a good voice
and had figured in a sensational divorce
trial She made her first appearance at the
opera called SThe' Kings Fool Her last
appearance in New York was in the 'Twen-
tieth Century Girl After that she opened
in Boston in "a Black Sheep Bettina
was engaged last year to play the part in
THE Lady Slayey" that was afterward
given to Marie Dressler.. After a few re-
hearsals, however, her health proved too
bad for her to continue the work. She has
had three legal husbands and her present
name of Schuyler was acquired from her
associations with a man who has stood by
her when all others turned away.
Brevet Brigadier General Albert OrdWay,
who was born in 1913, served with credit
and gallantry throughout the civil war,
the greater portion of the time with his
regiment, the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts
Infantry. An act of personal gallantry at
Newberne. n. c., was followed by his APP
pointment as adjutant of the regiment. He
remained in North Carolina until June, 1868,
later served In the Army of the Potomac,
then in Florida and through the campaign
of 1S64-65 in the Army of the James After
the occupation of Richmond he was APP
pointed provost marshal of Virginia, where,
through a portion of the troublous recon-
struction times, he directed the delicate du-
ties of his position with much skill and
tact. For gallantry at various times and
because of his ability he had been success
lively promoted until, when slightly over
twenty-five years of age, he was made
brevet brigadier general, being the young
est officer in the service to receive that
grade. His regiment and himself were re-
tanned in the service until February, 1866,
and were the last volunteer troops mus
tered out in the State. After being mus
tered out General Ordway went into bust
ness at Richmond, and about ten years
later removed to Washington, where, as
commanding officer of the National Guard
for number of years, he brought that
organization up to a high standard.