The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-05
THAW WEDS EVELYN NESBIT
WITH HIS MOTHER PRESENT AND
KISSING THE bride.


The Glrl's Mother and stepfather the Only
Others Present AZ Ceremony in Pitts
burE-She WAS a F1orOdOrA Girl and
the WOOinE Has Been = Long One.
PIrrsBURo, April 4.-Harry X. Thaw
and Florence Evelyn Nesbit were married
this evening in the study Of the Rev. William
J.. McEwan. pastor Of the Third Presby-
terrain Church Of Pittsburg. They were
driven to the pastors residence at o'clock
accompanied 10y Mrs. William Thaw, the
mother OF the bridegroom, and Joseph
c, Thaw
There they were met by Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles j. Holman. stepfather and mother
Of the bride. No one else was present.
The ceremony was brief, and then Mrs.
William Thaw, who last fall set her foot
down on having anything to do with her
son Harry 80 long as he kept company
with Miss Nesbit, the chorus girl, kissed
the bride She took them in her CT rTiage
TO her home on Fifth avenue and had dinner
quietly
II Is believed that Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Thaw have taken fast train for New York
or some other Eastern city, from which
they will sail for Europe.
Social Pittsburg Is not gasping over
the marriage because social Pittsburg does
not yet know Of Il. II was not until O'Clock
tonight that the news leaked out and then
Mrs. william Thaw, when called up by
telephone, admitted that her son Harry
had been married to Miss Nesbit this evening.
The Rev. Mr.. McEwen also admitted that he
had performed the ceremony. Later Mr..
Holman, stepfather Of the bride, came
downtown and talked with the Pittsburg
newspapers about g. He seemed pleased.
Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit reached
Pittsburg from New York this morning.
He went to his mothers home and she
went quietly 70 her mothers home In Oak
land. 1t was her first homecoming since
she fell In with young Tlaw abroad two
years ago.
Harry X. Thaw first got himself con-
spicuously before the public about three
years ago, when he gave a beauty din
ner' IN Paris which Is said to have cost
SIS, 900 and to have drawn together more
fair women than even the Bohemia Of Paris
ever saw In one place before. Since then,
he has furnished news at the rate Of about
a column a week For his eKtravaganoes
he has always been mainly dependent
on his mother. who Is a strict Presbyterian,
for his fathers will left him only - 500 a
year until he should reach the discreet
age Of IS. His mothers generosity raised
II 20 $4,000 a year That financial ar
rangement is supposed to have been the
stumbling block in bis love affair with
Evelyn Nesblt.
NJ. Naabff h. liLa Thau baila from
the region Of Pittsburg Is about 20 years
old. At the age OF Is she came TO New York
and began 10 pose as an artists model
Her beauty OF face and figure made her a
rage in the studios. She drifted TO the
stage and was in the original production
Of sFlorodora not, strange to say, aa'one
Of the original seTtette, but as a flower girl.
Harry Thaw met her at about that time.
Two years ago she went abroad. pre-
sumaby TO study music. Harry Thaw
took steamer for Europe at about the same
time. When he was arrested last summer
for speeding his auto In Switzerland It was
reported that he was accompanied by Mrs.
Thaw, young woman Of unusual beauty.
Then last fall word came that Harry
Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit had registered at
the Carlton in London as man and wife.
ouoINlN hlNtl Nhsu Nllcg INNhihSd W we
United States on the same steamer, but in
different apartments.
Arriving here on Nov 3. they refused TO
say whether they were ma rried or not
They went together to apartme nts in tho
Hotel Cumberland. There Mr.. Thaw re-
fused TO register her "a his wife. The
management made him occupy a room
on another floor that night. In the morn
ing, as he still refused TO write down sand
wife on the register, the management
gave them until noon to leave the hotel.
They left.
Miss Nesbit went 20 live with friend,
and Thaw went. In time, back 10 Pittsburg
| where he met his family, There have been
many reports about the affair since. One
! had II that the family ultimatum gave him
the choice Of leaving Miss Nesbit OF Of liv-
| ing on his 81. 500 year. Another ranthat
an Offer Of 325 600 had been made 70 Miss
Nesbit to give him up.
Two years ago Alice Comelia Thaw,
| Harry's sister, married the Earl OF Var
mouth, rather against the wishes Of her
! family. Harry Thaw stuck out for the
match, and was on the programme to give
! the bride away at the ceremony. He
! failed TO appear, however, and a younger
brother took his place. II was said at that
! time that Harry Thsw WAS angry because
Of the marriage settlement upon which the
Earl insisted before he would go on with
Il.