The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-30

than the one she takes each day alone
Across the green hills she can see the
towers and turrets of a country man
sion whose green lawns are Tapped by the
sound.
That is her mansion. Those towers
she once mounted to get the view. Those
lawns were her delight. 1t is a million
aires country villa and she Is a Million
aires wife.
But she will never set foot in that gar
den again.
She is the wife of Henry M FIagler
Standard Oil magnate, railway king,
Florida emperor. His millions cannot buy
what is the only thing he wants in life
reason for this woman. Last week she
was pronounced hopelessly insane! Mrs
F1agler can never go out again into the
worl0 she loved so dearly. The physi-
clans have said it. So day after day she
sits, lapsing more and more into mental
blindness, less able each day to compre-
bend what goes on about her, while her
husbands millions roll on and on.
TWENTY YEARS OF TRAGEDY.
For ten years the husband had hope
His money was poured out like water in
the belief that he might bring back rea-
son to it's throne. Physician after physi-
clan was tried, there were baths and
electricity and trips here and there and
everywhere, medicines, rest cures, every
thing; but all to no purpose. Last week,
with bowed head Mr.. FIagIer received
the news of the tnevitable-there was no
hope. Each day he sees his wife's weak
grasp on reason a little weaker and her
memory slowly fading. But she does not
know!
Twenty years ago Henry NJ. FIagler
was a widower. His wife had died, leav-
ing him with a little boy. At that time
he was no millionaire. But he had risen
from a very humble walk in life and
people were beginning to point him out
as man who would succeed.
He married again. His second wife
was Miss Shrouds, of Philadelphia She
was young, beautiful, vtvacious, full of
life and spirits, and happy in the husband
whose future looked SO bright. Her
father was an episcopal clergyman with
but a small salary to support his large
family.
The bride of the Ohio oil man took her
place If another life. Hardly had she
been a wife a year when the Standard
Oil company began to be a power. With
the ROckefeilers and the TiIfords and
the other oil men, Henry NJ F1agler be-
came a millionaire almost overnight.
Her husbands great wealth Mrs Flag
Ter bore with ease and grace. She be-
came mistress of one mansion at Fifty
fourth street and Fifth avenue in New
York, of another at FIagler's Point Mann
arCneck, of a third in Florida. When she
Travelled by land she had a private car,
WHEN she went by water there was Mr..
Flagler's steam yacht the Alicia, with
captain and crew waiting her nod
IL,
this millionaire could not ENJOY wealth
alone Her heart was as big as outdoors
She must have friends to enjoy it with
her. On the yacht, on the private car,
at her villa, at her own home, it was the
same-lavish hospitality for all. The
guests We're made to feel as much at
home while the FIagler money was being
poured out for them as they might in
their own more modest homes. The
FIagler entertainments were as lavish as
any given anywhere by even the richest.
The SOCIAL SIDE OF LIFE.
Ten years ago Henry NJ. Flagler de-
cided to attack Florida. He owned most
of the railways there; he wanted more.
THE Spaniards" said he, and the
French have tried to make something out
of Florida; now I'll show people what
Yankee push can do
And he did Gardens grew where
swamps had once sent forth their MAS
matte doors. Railroads ran everywhere;
hotels sprang up like mushrooms-not
typical country hotels of the North, but
great palaces more like Alhambra than
anything else. Who is there that has
not heard of the wonderful Ponce de
Leon hotel, in st. Augustine, or of the
AIcazar and the Cordova? Boulevards
ran everywhere; the North learned at
last how pleasant a winter might be
when Northern luxuries are transplanted
TO Southern chimes In the midst of all
this fragrance and delight lived the wife
Flagler idolized.
Summer saw her at Mamaroneck; win
ter in Florida; spring and autumn in
New York Besides her husband the
only member of her family was her step
son, fine-looking lad, who one day got