The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-03

the following interesting story of the
life romance of Harry Thaw, and his
beautiful wife who are today the cen
trail figures in one OF the tragedies Of
the day, the White murder in New
York.
The Thaws lived in Pittsburg and
the story of the Dispatch is of I'M
usual interest, dealing as it does with
inside facts not publicly known. The
Dispatch Of June %, says:
Harry Thaw, millionaire, rounder,
spendthrift, social exquisite, clubman
and patron OF the half world; Harry
Thaw, student. literatuer, art con-
noisseur, economist and writer on
sociological problems.
Evelyn Nesbit, beauty, artists model,
actress; Evelyn Nesbit, innocent,
trusting. deceived, the central figure in
one of the greatest tragedies that has
ever startled the country.
These are two pictures, both of Har-
ry Kendall Thaw and the Pittsburg
girl whom he made his bride in spite
of the opposition of his family, in spite
of the laugh OF the world and the
threats of disinheritance of the for
tune that had made his life one of
glamour. Both are best known to
the world from the wrong side, but
there are hundreds of friends OF both
who will maintain that both have been
known too much from that side and
too little from the best.
Almost from his boyhood Harry
Thaw has been in some way or other
in the limelight of publicity, sometimes
with but small audience and some
times with larger, until now the
glare in which he stands attracts the
attention of two continents.
Born to Indulgence.
Born about IS years ago, the son
of the late William Thaw, one of the
best-knOwn railroad men in Pennsyl-
vania and one of the fathers of the
coke industry in the state, young Thaw
never knew what it was to want, what
it was to be deprived of anything he
wished. Educated in a school of liber-
ality 1t became his second nature to
believe that whatever he wished was
his by right, and many of his friends
ascribe some of his eccentricities to
the fact that he had always been able
to command what he wished. One of
his closest friends in 'Pittsburg said
yesterday: 'If Harry Thaw had had
to go to work he would have made
brilliant mark in the business world.
The trouble was that he never had to
concentrate himself on anything and
the result was that he never did, al
ways depending on his money to bring
him the results that others obtained by
hard work
Escapade after escapaae kept the
young man now in the Tombs in the
prints of two nations and on the
tongues Of the gossips Of the various
cities, Pittsburg, Washington, New
York, London and Paris, where he has
made his residence. Few of these
stories have been to his credit; in
justice, few to his discredit. Head
strong, erratic, reckless, he has been
in many scrapes, but in none of them
has he ever been accused of doing any
wrong except to himself and his own
fortunes and conscience.
Stnrtles Paris.
He startled even Paris when he gave
a dinner to the most beautiful women
he could find in France at cost of
$4,000 and he repeated the sensation
by giving entertainments in New York
that are said to have cost even more.
He filled the papers with stories of
his eccentricities when. taking up the
stranded wouldbe actor, the Earl of
Yarmouth, he made him his fast
friend, introduced him to his sister,
Alice Thaw, and became the match
maker for the international wedding
that was consummated only after the
most bitter opposition of his mother,
family and friends had been over
come.
And he startled the world even more
when, at almost the very last mintue
before that wedding. he became so pro-
nounced in his opposition to it that
it almost created scandal, the cere-
mony being deferred for time after
the guests had assembled until the
Yarmouth lawyer and the Thaw family
came to terms. Harry Thaw con-
veniently and his carriage go to the
wrong church where the ceremony
was performed, his half brother taking
the place intended for him in giving
away the bride.
The climax came with the infatua-
ton of Thaw for Florence Evelyn Mes
bit, the Allegheny girl, artists model
and actress, and his subsequent mar
riage to her after a stormy courtship,
or honeymoon, which has never been
definitely determined.
Where He Met Wife.
There is difference as to where he
met the girl model. A most intimate
friend yesterday said that he knew
positively that the two had met at a
Bohemian dinner party in New York
long before she had ever gone to Paris.
Another story was that he had met
her in Paris only two years ago, being
introduced to her by young Pitts
burger, the son of millionaire, who
had been seen frequently in her COM
pany in the French capital.
Miss Nesbit, who is now between
10 and 20, was the daughter of Win
field Scott Nesbit, well-known law
yer of Allegheny, living on Cedar
avenue From her childhood. she was
marked for her beauty, and as little
girl all who saw her raved over her.
When her father died about five years
ago, she went with her mother to
New York. There her remarkable
beauty soon attracted attention and
she listened to offers to become an
artists model. Within year she was
known as the most beautiful girl in
New York and her reputation soon
led her to the stage. Men focked
about her, paid their tribute of adorna-
ton and poured out their adulation:
AS show girl she is said, in one
story, to have met Thaw; as show
girl, in another story, she is said to
have met White, the victim of the roof
garden shooting. Both Thaw and
White are credited in different stories