The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-28


 are striking terror to the inmates of the house and the whole neighborhood. The first manifestations occurred several nights ag go as Taylor was in the act Of retiring for the night.
 He had just extinguished his light when the furniture commenced to dance about the room. dishes were thrown to the floor and shattered and the commotion which followed seemed nothing short ol 
 together different from what the scandal purveyors would have him.
 It is only just to the memory of the man to say that for none of these stories was there ever shown any proof. As 1t turned out later Harry Thaw, with the aid of detectives, had been trying for two years to fasten like offenses on the man he hated but had failed.
 Thaw a Direct Opposite
 In many respects Harry Thaw was the direct opposite of White. While White was the maker of his own fortune and had acquired fame for his ability and product of his genius, Thaw had never earned a dollar in his life, and his one aim in living seemed to be to spend the money that had been left by his father. Beginning life as a poor mechanic In PittsburR. William Thaw the father, had accumulated a vast fortune In the la ter years of his life the elder Thaw lived apart from his wife in downtown apart ments in Pittsburg. The Thaw fortune at the time of William Thaws death was estimated at $40000,000
 When Harry Thaw shot White he said he was IS years old. His age was subse- quently changed to 2S, and according to the best record obtainable he was born in 1870 As boy he was mixed up In all i. l., it tlfsl a knowledge of the world when he was sent to the Wooster university in Ohio in 1887. There he astounded the staid old college president when asked what course he wished to pursue, by saying that he would take up lawn tennis and penman- ship" He was a confirmed cigarette smoker at an early age, and was still in the Ohio institution when he left sud- denly for Europe. "Gone to bring back shipload of cigarettes was the message, he left for one of his college companions. Or his return he instituted many novel, ties in the tricks that he and his con- panions played. No theatrical company ever came to town but that Thaw sought out the female members of the troupe On one occasion he got all the girls of the show to wear garters and bows of col lege colors and display them.
 Frequent Visits to New York.
 v ton, and there he remained until 1897. In his days at the New Jersey college town he made frequent visits to New York. on one of these visits he smashed a valuable window in the Imperial hotel and paid for the damage gracefully. Returning to PittsburR. Thaw cut a swathe that even in that town, which was well versed in Tenderloinese, was considered very wide. His favorite method of entertaining his friends. it was said, was to take them 10 n resort where he would stand for" all the bills and then send them home to his mother. In his will his father had cut him down to an allowance of S250O year until he was 30 years old. but to this his mother added yearly allowance of ESQ., 000
 Thaw first came into the strong lime light, however, in 1900, when he went to Paris It was then that he gave his famous S50,0OO "beauty dinner" to which were invited the reignng beauties of the Paris giddy strata. The dinner set all Paris talking, and long reports about 1t Were sent here. Thaw made another trip to the French capital the following year, having done little more to attract atten- tion during his stay a home than to lose S4a,000 one night at poker. On his second trip to Paris there came reports that the Comtesse Louise di Montane had ar- nounced that she would commit suicide if Thaw did not marry her. Thaw sig nalized himself on this trip by enter taining Prince Komatsu. the Mikadu 8 brother. and some friends. This enter tainment consisted for the most part of a ten-days' revel at the Moulin Rouge This was followed by a famous tea party at the Cafe Madrid.
 Met Evelyn Nesbit.
 When he came back to America, Thaw went to Washington and leased the Don Cameron house in Lafayette Square. 1t was about this time that he met the Earl of Yarmouth, who was afterward to marry his sister Alice. In the meantime Thaw had met Evelyn Nesbit.
 The young woman over whom sprang up the enmity that was to lead to Stan ford Whites death was born twenty-three years ago in Pittsburg, the daughter of Winfield Scott Nesbt, struggling law yer. Her father died about ten years ago and her mother was forced to support herself and children. Since then Mrs. Nes- bit has become the wife of Charles J, Hol- man of Pittsburg. As a child Evelyn Nesbit. who was sometimes called Flor cree. was considered as having remark able beauty, and her picture was soon seen in the different photograph galleries. Later she was sought by artists who wished her to pose for them in their pie lures of child life. From Pittsburg, Mrs. Nesbit and the girl moved to Philadel- phia. and Evelyn Nesbit became known to the artists of the Quaker City. Ac- cordlng to one report Thaw first saw her In Philadelphia. but from best accounts he did not meet her until later in New York. and after she had become the pro- tegee of Stanford White.
 The lure of New York brought Mrs Nesbit and the girl here. where the stories of Evelyns beauty preceded her The girl. then scarcely 16 years old be- came a model for such artists az Carol Beckwith. Irwin Wiles, F. S. Church. Carl Blenner and Charles Dana Gibson. She was then described as the most beautiful artists model in America. She was of the brunette type, although her eyes were a distinct blue. Her figure was petite. Her skin was described as having the 'rare ivory and rose tint" and she had small and regular features that gave her a distinct appearance Her mouth was well rounded though not small. The artists said of her that she had the most per fectly modelled foot since Venus, and the rounded chin of the goddess as well. AL ready she had been chosen as the repre- sentative of Pennsylvania at an interna- tional beauty contest in Buffalo.
 Goes on Stage.
 Evelyn Nesbits first introduction to the New York stage came In August. 1901