The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-21

was going upon the stage was pub
lished. She is not relative, they say,
and is in no way connected with the
family.
Mrs. T. Benton Letter is now at the
Hotel Imperial, planning her coming
campaign into the theatrical field
About month ago, when in Chicago,
she made her debut as an actress be-
fore an Audience that comprised many
fashionable persons. Mrs. Letter eX-
planned the need of her making money
in some way, as her husband is an in
valid and expenses must be liquidated.
To go on the stage was the most profit
able way out of the difficulty, and when
the wolf is at the door one doesn't stop
to split hairs over small matters like
the approval of relatives who turn up
their noses at one. 1t is well known in
Chicago that prior to Joe Letters grad
uation from college, Levi z. Letters
Chicago affairs were managed by T..
Benton Letter, the son of his brother
James.
HE it was who built Siege!-Cooper' S
big Chicago building for Letter and
managed the Montana mines of the lat
ter. During a strike among the work.
men employed by the Letters in Chi
cago T. Benton Letter was struck on
the head, and has since been an invalid.
About that time Joe Letter had grad
uated from college and was placed in
charge of his fathers interests.
Mrs. t. Benton Letter was seen last
night by a Morning Telegraph reporter,
and the news of the reputation was
broken to her. She didn't faint; she
didn't scream: didn't even cry-and she
has theatrical aspirations. too!
why she said, quietly, Mrs. Levi
q. Letter has never seen me, it is true,
but how she could deny the relationship
Is more than ! can understand. 1t is all
very simple. There We're three original
Letter brothers-Jacob, James and Levi
u. Jacob died young. James died two
years ago and Levi still lives.
James had four sons, one of whom is
T. Benton Letter. His uncle. Levi. took
| an interest in him when he was young,
and took him from college. He placed
young Benton in charge of his large in
terests in Chicago until Joe Letter left
college and Benton was injured.
On July 9, 1896, T. Benton Letter,
nephew of Levi H., and l We're married
in Cheyenne. Wyo., by the Rev. Mr..
Davis of that town. There was no OPP
position to the marriage, and for time
everything went smoothly. When my
husband was stricken l made up my
mind to make a living by going on the
stage. That is all there is to it. and if
l have, been repudiated I must stand it
as best | can. 1t matters very little to
me what Mrs. Letter thinks. l have
never tried to make capital out of the
relationship.
Mrs. 7. Benton Letter is handsome.
well-bred woman-a typical product of
the West-who seems in New York
about like squirrel in a cage. Her
ways and thoughts are as typically
Western as the Rocky mountains, most
of her life having bPpn SDent in the
foothills and at the mines in Montana
and Wyoming. There Is net trace of
affectaton about her. When she de-
cided to go on the stage to help her in
valid husband back to health she did it
with as much sang froid as she would
hoof it over a mountain range or take
shot at wild cat. 1t will take a long
time to turn this spontaneous young
woman into a 'tenderfoot.'