The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-05-07
Her Elysian Farm.

she should wish to come out of her retire
ment.
Her Elysian Farm.
She had fancy for cattle, too and she
! established a Jersey bull of aristocratic lin
cage upon the place, Poultry was also to her
| liking, and game chickens and ducks were
added to the menage. A fish pond was made
by damming up one of the clear. cold noun
tain streams which iran through the place,
and the pond was stocked. There were choice
sheep. The farm itself would produce table
| aellcactes finer than those which had pallsd
her appetite in famous old world cafes
When she had collected her horses together
she started with them from New York for the
elys1um in the Western hills. The first ca
| tastrophe came to the car Of horses At Port
Jervls' the train went through a trestle and
was prec1pitated into the bed of stream al
most 100 feet below.
1t was miracle that any one ESCAPED.
me manager OF the car was picked up with
several ribs broken and an arm crushed.
The trainer of the horses was smashed up in
q frightful manner and a groom was killed
Inc best horse Of the lot was crushed in the
mass. All OF the mares save three were killed
outright. One was found knee deep in the
water calmly awaiting a summons to come
ashore. 1t was frightful wreck, which every
thurman in America remembers
The Lily was in New York at the time
She flew to the scene as fast as steam could
carry her, and for days leaned over the cots
Of the wounded men and tended them with
her own hands.
Abandons Rural Life.
What was left of this wreckage Of stock
farm was shipped on to California, and
hnally arrived at the elysium
Almost Immediately after she came out
Tor another theatrical tour there crept into
the scheme Of her life other things more
passionately moving than dream of
hillside. She wandered over America went
mack to England, forgot the pastures in the
valleys and the sheep browsing on the hills
ana ie1t her manager to do everything and
reap the benefits of the dream himself Short
funds finally compelled the manager to give
up active work. The weeds crept in and de-
spoiled, the trailing vines grew over the
FENCES, the horses were neglected, the sheep
went wild on the range, and the cattle grew
shaggy and wildeyed.
How Her Farm Served Her.
And then there came time when the Lilv
needing the dollars Of those other days, sold
the mares and the cattle, gave away the rest,
end advertised in the commonplace news
papers the fact that the elysium was for sale.
But the Lily's property finally came to good
cause for her. When she made that last
strenuous effort for divorce from her I'M
willing husband she did it in California. She
won her suit on the ground Of desertion.
IN order to win it she mus: be resident Of
the state. She pointed to the faded elysiura
showed the deeds to Gead dream, and the
courts allowed her a decree. - :,
And SO now. With ner husband gone mad
Just on the eve of her reputed marriage to
another, the Lily las ordered all her possess
slons IN America sold. The magnificent
travelling car which Freddie Gerhard was
alleged to have given her went long ago,
as did also the mansion "transferred'' by
James Gordon Bennett of the New York
Heraid and the spite house on West Twenty
Third street, New York. The WHITE I,adve
is for sale, and but for the fact that she is
to retain her racing stable one might imagine
Plat the Jersey Lily had gone into permanent
retirement