The National tribune., 1909-03-18
PEOPLE.


for his second wife n very beautiful
Spanish girl. The General aud his wife
had been separated for many years, but
the lady appeared in New York last
Se2to-ebe-, saying s;c ,,al come 10 I've
H.. h,r husband, .Gt ..at vita him.
1t now comes out that she has been
living under the same roof with the Gen
eral, but as far away as il she had been
in another house. The General had
separating partition put UP before the
lady moved in, SO that if She wished
10 see him she was obliged to so around
the.corneT to his front door and ring the
bell, like any other caller. The house
was built for two families with two
entrances, but until the time of Mrs.
Sickles's advent the two dwellings were
practically one, with no division. 1t is
now said that Mrs. Sickles did not come
to New York desiring to bring about
reconciliation between her husband and
herself. but if that were her object the
separating wall of wood which he had
erected between them, in addition to-
that barrier already existing, must have
killed any hopes she had i'll that direc-
ton. 1t is said, on the contrary, that
she contemplates suit for separation,
desiring alimony from the General in
order to enable her to return and end
her days in her own country.
More than 100 bluejacllets from our
battleships sent recently to the Brook
lyn Navy Yard We're welcomed back
home by Miss Helen Gould the other
day in the Y. III. C. a. Building of the
Naval branch of that organization,
which was founded by her five years
ago. The jackies, who had heard that
Miss Gould was to be present, most of
whom had never seen her, paid very
little attention to the religious exercises
which preceded the reception, but We're
craning their necks in all directions,
looking for some lady glittering with
jewels and in fashionable attire. When
a very quiet-looking woman in "A simple
black hat of modest dimensions and
plain black suit, without q flash eman-
ating from any part of her person, was
pointed out as their benefactor, the
men refused to believe it. They really
seemed disappointed to find in her ap-
pearance no evidence of her great
wealth. Get out" they said. She
amt dressed like that. Where's her
diamonds However, they forgot their
disappointment when Miss Gould shook
hands with them, mentioning the name
of the ship to which the jachy be-
lonGed as she took him By the hand,
and saying something nice to him about
the cruise. And when later they ad-
journed TO the rooms used by the Off
GERS of the branch, and all drank tea
Gould and all, the men thought she was
a mighty nice lady, even if she had
left her diamonds at home. Miss Gould
has always taken q great interest in
our sailors, providing many of the ships
with libraries even before she founded
the Naval branch of the Y. II. C. A
She put S450,000. nearly a half million
dollars, into this project, and Mrs. Rus
sell Sage contributed s350.000 more.
The jackies have fine building in
Sands street, Brooklyn, completely
equipped, and as the Brooklyn Yard is
the most important of our navy yards,
and large numbers of our sailors are
always gathered there, with no special
place to spend their time when on
shore, Miss Gould, by her generous
gift and kindly interest, has done a
magnificent work which the country
cannot too highly commend.
After filling much space in the pa
pers for many weeks and affording an
inexhaustible topic for conversations
around o'clock tea tables and at other
social functions, Miss Katherine Elkins
and her affairs, matrimonial and other
wise, disappeared from their columns
Now, however. she is again to the
front, and this time we are told the
happy man is Lieut.. Townsend u. s.
N, who was an officer on one of the
ships of the squadron which welcomed
our recently returned battleship fleet
Miss ElkinS was at Fortress Monroe
with her mother when the fleet came
in, and she and Lieut.. Townsend were
often seen about the Chamberlain, in
the long corridors and in the palm gar
den, coZily chatting as they took their
cup OF tea, listened to the music, and
watched the passing crowd of hand
somely gowned, laughing girls and we'll
set-up young officers. OF course, this
may be nothing but idle gossip. without
a word of truth in It, but we can't help
thinking that Miss EIkins's happiness
would be good deal safer in the hands
of n good-looking, manly American
naval officer than it would be in those
OF any foreigner, even tho he be the
scion Of royal house and the possible
heir to a throne.
The antics of operate stars are not
worth noticing possibly, but they not
infrequently add to the gaycty of Ma
lions. One wonders that Oscar Ham
merStein, the manager Of the Manhat-
tan Opera, ever finds time for anything
except smoothing out the ruffied tenn
per, and soothing the wounded feelings
of his emotional. temperamentaI family
of stars. The other day Mr.. Hammer
stein announced the opera OF "Rigolet-
TO-, and in giving the names of the
leading singers who would appear in it
placed that of Constantine. who is con-
Sidered by his manager, Mr. Bauer. to
be the greatest living tenor, third in the
LIST and in small type instead of caps"
the preceding two being in big letters.
Poor ConstantiBo'S heart Was broken
He could endure that TctraZzini's name
should be first, because she YVES n lady.
and ordinary chivaIry dcmandcd that
he should gracefully yield TO one of her
sex, but that the singer Denaud should
have been placed before him and in
capitals. while his name was in small
type. was an injustice which Re could
not support. As for MS manager, Mr..
Bauer, he declared that the slight put
upon his great tenor was Outrageous,
iptrleTab!e ineZplicabie;" that Mr..
HariInerstein had promised Constantine
that he shoFIid be given Just as much
publicity as any otllcr singer IN mis- corr
p2nV. and row lie had announced his
name in sinan type Mr.. Bauer stor,ned
about III lively fashion, net able t. for
get for an Instant the odiCus slight and
disgrace Of the small type. lie declared
Constantine should rot sing note in
any opera Mi Hanuerstein should
bring out until he got bis longed-for
publicity and was announced in capital
letters; but Constantine did sing, and
in "Rigoletto.'' too.
1t may sho" shocking Ignorance to
fail to fall In liue with Mrs. Marie
Wtndsor's new remedy for the muItitu-
dinors His of the flesh. but judging the