The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-28
HER SAD END
WAS F|)RETOLD
CarIotIa the Beautiful and Her
Fate
OF FASCINATING CHARM
Men Pursued Her Wherever
She Went.
OF FASCINATING CHARM

World says:
At eighteen, Carlo the Beautiful" is
dead at her own hand, fulfilling the SIMS
ter prophecy of d mysterious woman who
claimed the power to foretell her future,
and who declared that she saw a trag-
edy at the end.
Take the Ions, long journey to Cali
fornia which you will be invited to take, g"
said this Indianapolis sibyl, and you'll
surely die And your death will be sud
den and terrible"
Carlo" the Beautiful laughed. She
liked the prophecy. 1t was unusual, for
one thing, and then it was so impossible.
She told her friends about it. Most of
them laughed because she did Others
we're superstitious ana would not laugh.
50 she laughed at them.
But fate always has the last laugh In
its strange, mysterious. inevitable way it
was mapping out her life in accordance
with the prophecy. Did the old fortune
teller then. really forsee what would
come TO pass? All, that is another mat
ter. which you may settle to suit your
self, you are mystical and supersti-
tious the one hand. or logical and
given to hard-headed common sense on
the other
What fate actually cid was to intro
duce to Carlo the eBautiful.' at Indian
apolis young man named Robert Hem
ingway. At first she admired him. and
within a week she loved him
Carlo the Beautiful recalled the words
fortune -f41lpr fh.n Thazr no
seem so laughable as they had seemed at
first. 1t was wonderful. she admitted.
how this part of the fortune had come
true. But, pshaw, What could that old
woman have known about it? Fortune
tellers were excellent things for a girl
who had a little money to squander and
plenty of time to kill but as for permit
ting them to control ones life. that was
quite another affair Besides. she could
not bear the thought OF a separation from
the man she had so quickly and deeply
learned TO love. She shrugged her shout
GERS and dismissed the prophecy She told
Hemingway that she would go.
At San Francisco Heminway intro
duced her as his wife, but when. six
weeks after her visit TO the fortune
teller. she had killed herself for love of
Kim, he turned coward. While her body
was being prepared for burial he spoke
about her in such a manner that the aU-
thorities of the race-track where he kept
his running horses ruled him off. The
President of the New California Jockey
Club declared that no man who would
thus defame a woman could ever again
enter the Tnglesde Enclosure.
no wac l-noxs-f, Cincinnati and Cow
irgton as Carlo the Beautiful" She was
so called at indianapolis. where she lived
a very little time and in Hot Springs,
Ark. They caller her Carlo the Beauti-
fIl' in San Fra ncisco
Her real name was Carlotta Steffens
but in Cincinnati she was oftener called
h. the name Of her Rtepfather. Campig-
lilo, In Indianapolis she used her own
name and in San Francisco she was
known as Mrs. Hemingway.
II is said that her father was a rich
grocer in New York and that her neither
divorced him. The mother married g.
F. Campiglio. at one time a famous So
lcist who was for many years organist
of St. Johns Episcopal church in Cincin-
I-2ti He also he'd a music store in Gov
irgton, Ky. which IS just across the Ohio
river from Cincinnati.
When she should have been gaUky
schoolgirl Carlo was woman in ap-
Tearance and marvelously lovely. At
fourteen she was called the most beauti-
ful. sirl in Cincinnati. she compelled ad-
n,iration when she appeared or The
streets. As she walked along five persons
out OF six would turn their heads 10 look
Of hnr ri 81 rr f..s
equalied 10y the perfection Of her figure.
When. according 10 the ordinary rules
which govern the Development of young
girls she should have been in school and
wearing short dresses. she had admirers
by the score
There seems 10 have been certain
pagan simplicity about her nature. She
loved admiration as flowers love the sun;
she loved laughter and fun and what
sre known generally as good times. a
phrase that covers more things than char
ity.
She was little more jnan fourteen
when she was ready TO hy away from her
homo Hemingway has told why and he
vas ruled OF lie California racetracl
Tor saying IT, She remained away for
several months and then returned 10 Gin
oinnat- bat she did not stay long. Many
Iiaces knew her and she WAS always light
hearted and gay. her friends said
But l am SO Young. only rensemher."
she said in that last pathetic letter she
wrote. and the sentence throws food
OF life upon her life. She was very young.
very foolish. and The realization Of per
s6nai responsibility never seemed 10 have
teen awakened in her untu The last few
days of her life
Carlo the Beautiful" was SHARED 10y |
Der own loveliness She took delight in
II as does child who has not been awak- /
ered TO the necessity Of distinguishing /
between right and wrong. In these days |
OF her coming ard going love never bios |
serned in her heart. and those who knew /
her. especially those who provided the |
good times" declared that it WAS lack |
ing in her temperament Hemingway also |
T ade that same statement.
Carlotta's very dear friend Hazel Reid |
GTeve. Of Cincinnati. whose father is
ial Reid "a writer OF plays. ~ept very /
rrofusely when she heard OF the young 1
vomans suicide And Mrs. Greve said. /
amid her tears that Carlotta was last /
y Cincinnati on the day that President |
Roosevelt visited the city. She remember
@ ii distinctly, for it Was on that day |