The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-02
Tilted Sweetheart for Z Man
Of Millions.
wOOEO ONLY A FORTNIGHT,
TAsh She Sent a Nsts 10 Her Flancs Tell
Ing Hin ThsIr Engagement Was Broken.
ns Had Already Received the Nsw.

Denver. Col. Aprli 2.-Tilted four weeks
before his wedding day-that is the 10
of Gerald Hughes. scion OF one OF Den
vers richest and proudest families. And
the girl who has thrown him over Is
Miss Cornelia Baxter. the most beautiful
girl In Colorado. She will walk 20 an.
other altar within the month with an,
other man--Hugh Tevis, San Francisco $
millionaire golfer and general all-around
good fellow.
Society is wild with the gossip OF u.
Everybody knew that Miss Raxter and
Mr. hughes were engaged. The wedding
day was set. the bridesmaids and ushers
chosen and invited. the trousseau order
ed. the linen embroidered &c. H." and
the engagement ring purchased.
Denver had been chosen for the spring.
tiine wedding, The wedding nvitatio
were in the engravers hands and a mag
nihcent silver table service-gift OF the
parents Of the bridegroom to-b be-was al
most completed
Mr. Hughes had bougtt tiee site for a
home to which he could bring his heauti-
ful brde--the course OF true love was
running very smoothly.
The Baxters went to California for
little visit going 10 San Diego and Coro-
nado Beach. Monterey, Santa cruz and
San Francisco They are there now. and
the engagement OF Miss Baxter to Hugh
Tevis. son of the late multi-millonalre,
LLOYD Tevis, has been formally an
nounced at the Palace Hotel. Young Mr.
Hughes had left Miss Baxter but few
weeks before 10 come home TO take
charge OF the business of his father.
who had been suddenly taken ill
IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.
ltywas then that Mr.. Tevis came on the
ecene-rich popular. himself a widower
and the father OF a i0-year-old girl He
wasf building beautiful villa there at
Del Monte.
He met Miss Baxter-It was love at
first sight. and In a fortnight there was
brief note going back To Denver There
was a new engagement ring slipped on
taper finger one afternoon while the rich
Californian was driving with the beauti-
Hui Colorado belle.
I'VE will not return 10 Denver just
now wrote one of the Baxters back 10
Denver. The wedding will be very
quiet one and In San Francisco"
But the news reached Mr.. Hughes even
onore quickly Than the note of dismissal
from the bride that was 10 have been.
Ielegraphic news OF the formal an
nouncement reached here from San Fran
cisco. reporter called on Mr.. Hughes
10 verify IL. He turned crimson first:
then deadly pale. The news had stunned
ehe young man. He would say nothing
To-day he has spoken. and bitterly. too
The first | heard OF Miss Baxter's
Engagement TO Mr. Teyis was when the
reporter came TO me-" said he THE
last had then heard OF the Baxter fam
fly they we're soon TO return to Denver
Miss Bexter had gone to Monterey TO
recover from an attack of pneumonia
THE SECOND wooING.
The second wooing was but for a short
two weeks. There on the golf links. on
she sun-kissed beaches. I'm the cool live
oak groves and driving down the white
shell roads. Mr.. Tevis pleaded his suit
Day by day they went 10 watch the
work on his villa. and when he slipped
on the ring that he had In waiting the
Denver belle let II stay there.
Her note 10 her fance who waited her
In Denver was short aud
10 the point. II simply told that Miss
Baxter had concluded that he and she
could never be lifelong companions.
Denver society sides with young Mr.
Hughes, who is most popular I'm the
are going out OF their way to coggratu-
late the Tilted one on his escape Ills
friends, however, are greatly incensed
and his family make no secret Of their
indignation The goSsips are wondering
too. how the future Mrs Tavis would he
received by her former intimates should
she return at any time 10 Denver
'fhe Bakers came TO Denver few
years ago. MIR. Baxter was wealthy
cattleman. aud the family lived on a
great ranch in Wyoming. President
Cleveland appointed Mr., Baxter Gov
ernor OF the Territory. Last autumn
Miss Baxter. after finishing IN Paris,
made her formal debut
BELLE or THE PARIS SEASON
She brought back laurels from abroad
Az the Grand Prx her marvellous beauty
was the talk of tho gay world and sew
eral imprcssionable Frenchmcn I'm vain
sought the favor Of her glance Gerald
Hughes waS even then an accepted suitur
lie returned on the same steamer with
The Baxters Since then she has been
the belle of Denver. with her superb fig
nre, pure blond hair. her violet eyes and
Yer Grecian features.