Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-31
BITTER SOCIAL WAR
OVER EVELYN THAW
ACTRESS-MoDEL SToRMlNG BAR
RIERS OF PITTsBURG
Smiles From Naughty Dames-One
Who Was ShoperI and Another
Who Worked Typewriter Turn
Up Their Aristocratic Noses
Special to The Herald.

special 10 Inc Herald
PITTSBURG. Dec. 30.--Among a GER
tain class in Pittsburg the Corey af-
fair has been overshadowed by the ef-
forts of Mrs. William Thaw to break
into society with her beautiful daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Harry X. Thaw, who
before her marriage was known on
both sides of the ocean as Florence
Evelyn Nesbit, chorus girl and artists
model
This fight has been on for a long time
and the chances of Mrs. Thaw and
Evelyn are growing better each day.
That Mrs. Thaw will win, and that the
former chorus girl will soon dominate
Pittsburg society, seems probable now,
and then, it is fair to assume, certain
danes now in high favor will not be
allowed to even call on her. Evelyn
herself is angry clear through but un-
der the guiding hand of her mamma
tn-law she is saying nothing, smiling
all the while, but occasionally landing
body blow on the pride of some of
the danes of money and social preten-
| tion.
relative of Mrs. S. A. r. Peacock
had died. Mrs. William Thaw and
young Mrs. Thaw called and left cards
| of coincidence. Mrs. Peacock flew into
a range on seeing the card of MRS.
H. K. Thaw," and announced loudly
that she always liked Mrs. William
/
that Florence Evelyn Nesbit."
From Ex-shopsirI
A. A. Peacock is the man of whom
the magazine story, THE Curse of Too
Much Money" was written some years
ago, and Pittsburg grinned at this out
burst from Mrs. Peacock, who but
few years before had been q shopgirl
in New York store
When the now Mrs. Andrew Carnegie
was shopping in New York, gathering
their wedding trousseau, she came
across comely young salesWoman to
whom she confessed her coming nup-
! tials.
II, too, am to be married." blushed
the salesgirl. That's my intended
over there, the floor manager, Mr.. Pea
! cock"
the future Mrs. Carnegie. From where
does he come"
From Dumferline," replied the sales
woman.
Andrew Carnegie was told by his in
| tended of the young man in the store
who was from Carnegies own town in
! Scotland, and the laird of Skibo looked
him up and brought him to Pittsburg.
A few years later A. A. Peacock, sit
ting in the Waldorf-Astoria, was
scribbling like mad on n pad when a
friend approached
"Oh my wife at breakfast insisted
that I'm worth $10,000,000, but | think
it's only $1,000, 900. She's usually right,
but / cannot find that other SO, ,000, 900
I this morning.
And so Pittsburgers, knowing this
and few more things, only smiled
when they heard that Mrs. Peacock
had declared against the chorus girl.
Pastor Gave Thrust
But not only have the newly rich
tried to take a fall" out of Mrs Will
lam Thaw and her fair Evelyn. Mrs.
Thaw's pastor Rev. William l.. Nc
EVAN pastor of the Third United
Presbyterian church. is also alleged to
have thrust at Evelyn by declining a
reception for his new bride in connec-
ton with Mrs. Harry x. ThaW at the
hands of Mrs. William Thaw. Pastor
Mcl1wan's bride was Eleanor Colvin
who had been his stenographer and Sec
retary. Mrs. Thaw besides giving
most handsome wedding present sug-
gested to her pastor that it would be
necessary for her to give a double re-
ception when the pastor and his bride
returned from their trip.
Double reception" echoed Rev. MI
McEwan. ITO whom?"
"To Mrs. MoEwan and my daughter
in-law, Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw, who
is recent bride" said Mrs. William
! Thaw, haughtily, evidently not liking
| the tone of her pastor
This double reception was not held
How Rev. Mr.. McEwan extricated HIM
! self has not been made known, bur the
circumstance was commented upon re-
proaehfully by those who knew how
much Mrs. William Thaw had done for
her pastor, the same one who married
Harry X. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit in
| his study.
There can be no excuse for a man
II he allows a cold to develop into
| pneumonia Chambrlain's Cough Rem