The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-24
MRS. GILLIG TO MARRY
A RAG TINE WRITER


New York.-Mrs. Amy Croker Ginig
has disposed of her famous kennel Of
French bull dogs and is fitting up another
handsome New York town house pre-
paratory to her third experiment with
Young Jackson Gouraud. the ragtime
song writer, is the prospective bride
groom No. 3. The marriage is set down
10 take place in the early spring.
Mrs Amy Croker Giilig. with an in
come of 100000 every ELECTROMAGNETIC
erratic heroine of score of 1an de steele
adventures, VINO has smlhngly ana SeneT-
Ously divorced two husbands, both
charming and popular men-Mrs. Gthgs
the always incidentally good bOhemiene-
is again seriously cogitating uniting her
fortunes with third husband-Jackson
GOuTaud-
Jackson Couraud is the second son OF
Colonel George f. GoUraId, formerly of
the lnited states, but now resident IN
England.
Young Gouraud made his appearance in
New York straight from London just four
years ago. he was sent over here To
shift for himself though allowed a small
income from his parents, who have lived
In England during the greater part OF the
past twenty years mike MS prOgenl-
tors, young GOuraud shTunk from rub
bing up against the prOsaic workaday
world, and being very good natural mu-
stefan, found bOUnteOus welcome among
the habltues OF Maria s, the boulevard
He CHANGED to meet a couple of music
publishers one night who were delighted
| played for them on the piano. IL was
they who suggested that he publish them.
| He laughingly replied that he knew
nothing about music, and could not read
a note The outcome of it was that they
had him play TO one of their musicians
who arranged the notes for publication,
and thus were given to Broadway the
melodies in coon time of Keep Your Eye
on Your Friend, Mr.. Johnson, She a
Spectacle Married ColOred Lady, The
/ Waldorf-Hyphen-A Astoria, Hes Ny Soft
Shell Crab on Toast" and several other
| delectable ditties of the same dashlng
sort.
! 1t was at .",beefsteak dinner that they
met and Mrs. Gillig was the guest OF
| honor in that strictly Bohemian gather
and rag time was in its popular infancy.
Mrs. Gfllig heard Jack GOuraud play,
! euthused over him. extended to him the
| gracious hospitality of the Oriental apart
ments at her hotel
/ Within week Jack Gouraud was d
/ welcome caller at the Gilsey house. and
/ the bewitching California heiress enter
4 tanned him and his boon companions
/ sumptuously.
| Later on box parties at the theatres,
| with GOuTaud as the conspicuous chleL
| cavalier, at Mrs. Gillig'S side, became
/ subject of comment among her former
/ friends and those Of her husband
! When summer daWned "a hurried cable
/ brought Harry NJ. Gillig back to New
/ York A stormy scene was watched by
! three sleepy-eyed French bull dogs, and
| listened to by d frightened maid and foot
man at the outer door. a truck load or
1 trunks was three days AFTER nOiSteu into
/ the hold of one of the great ocean liners,
/ and from that day it was given out that
Harry NJ. Gillig had gone to Paris to
have his wonderful baritone voice Cultl-
! waited TO perfection. Harry NJ Gilltg only
| makes short visits to New York nova
/ days, and the past two years have been
/ spent by Mrs Gilig in securing the alb
! solute divorce from him which was grant
/ ed in the New York courts last Deem
! Der.
| As a daughter Of the late f. B. Croker,
! one of the Central Pacific ma gnates, Mrs.
! Gillig had also all the money she might
| require and probably much more than
was good for her. Her father died when
she was very young, leaving her gOod
portion of a fortune estimated at some
! Sc, 10000
Her first husband was r. Porter Ashe,
a young Kentucky lawyer, with whom
| she elOped- Divorce came after a child
had been born. 1t was in New York, in
1889. that she was married to Henry nj.
/ Gillig the DOssessOr of rarely beautl-
full baritone voice and a small bank ac-
| count.