The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-01-24

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permitted to enjoy the full income OF
his interest in the estate which was
$4,000 year. Mrs Thaw and the
other heirs took pity on Harry and
consented to let him have his full in
cO.rN right along. He was then only
eighteen.
Partisan Beauty Dinner.
Thaw became a spender. He first
attracted newspaper notice by giving
q remarkable dinner in Paris. All his
guests were women, and all beautiful
women, the most beautiful to be found
in the gay French capital. Each guest
received as a present a costly jewel.
The dinner and it's accessories cost
Thaw $4,000. Later he gave SINH
lar dinner in New York, little Evelyn
Nesbit being the hostess. Evelyn Sc
lected the guests and tried to Guido
Thaw's Partisan dinner in the beauty
collection. $500.
The Thaw-Nesbit escapades in Paris,
London and New York finally created
such unwholesome notoriety for the
Thaw family at Pittsburg that the
young mans mother permitted him, at
the immature age of hirty-two, to wed
the former artists model and stop the
scandal So Thaw got his bride and
kept his income-that Is, until he could
spend it. Young Mrs. Thaw took les
sons which were supposed to fit her
for polite society in the millionaire
class, and she aspired to shine as a
social queen in Pittsburg. From time
to time the lights Of Broadway lured
the couple to New York. The Thaws
had lost their premier place on the
front pages Of sensational journals
when came the tragedy Of last June.
One Of the best known men in New
York was Stanford White. A man
may do great things in that mighty
city AND remain stranger to the peo-
pie. Shakespeare might write his
unknown, because the literary master
piece is monument visible only to the
intellectual elect. But Stanford White
built monuments to his genius visible
to the naked eye. He was an archi-
tect of substantial buildings instead
of airy rhymes.
New York is rich with the products
Of his genius. He was poet in brick
and granite and marble. One of his
accomplished dreams is the Washing
ton arch at the foot Of Fifth avenue.
he designed the beautiful clubhouses
occupied by the Century, the Metro
politan and the University clubs. Sev-
| eral Fifth avenue palaces are of his
conception. The new building Of the
New York university, his alma mater,
grew from his artistic brain. As an in
terror decorator he shone with equal
| brilliance. Just as a pastime White
painted in water colors, and compe-
| tent critics have said that his work
was equal to that of Turner. Other
| cities-Richmond. Washington, New
port - contain permanent monuments
to his architectural genius, and in New
| York that greatest Of pleasure houses
and convention halls, the Madison
Square Garden, where he met his trag-
ic fate, was designed altogether by
| Stanford White e., ..... .-
| A Constant Creator.
This man worked. Every day he did
a days work in his Offices. 1t is said Of
him that he applied himself with dill
gence to his profession during the
working hours of the day throughout
his career. His visible works are proof
Of this. He could not have achieved
such results without intense applica-
ton. He was a lifelong producer,
constant creator. His works live after
him. The good that he did in produc-
Ing masterpieces Of architecture for
the enjoyment of all who see them
cannot be inferred with his bones.
So notable were the works of STAN
ford White that he became popularity
known even in the thronging metropo-
lis where he lived and wrought. And
among the other artists, the painters,
the actors, the men of letters, he was
well and widely known. Enjoying the
financial fruits of his genius while be
lived, Stanford White had money to
spend, and he spent it. Every thing
that he desired was his for the price,
and he had the price. After his days
work he played From the shrine Of
art he turned to the shrine of nature,
where also he worshiped beauty That
was his pastime and his passion.
Shocked the Country.
Observed from any viewpoint the
ThawWhite tragedy is a sorrowful
story. Its elimination shocked the city
and vibrated throughout the country.
Tales that were told of both men after
the killing continued the vibrations of
the shock. They made men and women
of even and average lives shudder.
These tales may be true or untrue
One cannot help but wish, however,
that there might be some sort of law
to require that every ablebodied boy