The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-06
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
R Francis Phillns the National

New York, November s., 1910
Chafing under the means employed. II
Mrs. w. G.. Stewart ever gets cnance
to square accounts with her naughty
step-daughter, Mrs. W. ID. Leeds,
widow of the multi-milllonaire lead
magnate, who, elected her Few
weeks ago from her handsome suber-
ban home at Montclair. which belongs
to the latter, there will sure be one
picturesque time OF 1t.
Mrs. Stewart has been camping on
the firing line for a week or more
watching for an opportunity to make
o breach in the Pinkerton guard line,
which is detailed to protect the house
from any hostile sorties which the
Indignant. woman may undertake to
recover possession. Accompanied by
her daughter she sought to gain en-
trance the other day through ruse
pretending that she desired to get a
valuable hair pin which she had left
behind her when the eoiissaries of
Mrs. Leeds several weeks ago seized
her i'm bed and summary carried her
out of the house wrapped in -blan-
ket. Divining her purpose the SER
wants and guards slammed the door
in her face and sliced the dog on her
like any common intruder.
RetreatinE. under pressure she biv-
ouacked on the sidewalk outside while
she summoned her lawyer for a con-
ference to discuss the best way of re-
establishing herself in the mansion.
To make such a feat more difficult
Of achievement Mrs. Leeds, who is
riled by the attacks made upon her by
her stepmother. has doubled the force
OF Pinkertons and is prepared to with
stand a protracted siege. That the
outcast stepmother, who feels much
like a queen dethroned since she was
put out of the imposing looking build
ing I'm which she lived life Of sump-
tuous elegance, has i'm mind embark
ing upon a sanguinary campaign is
apparent. For the next few months
Mrs. Leeds may expect to be bonn
barded with legal processes from half
n dozen angles. One of these will
be for damages In a substantial sum,
the eWcted woman claiming that her
pride has been irreparably damaged
by the unccremonious means en-
ployed to get her out Of the premises.
The widow Of Leeds, who gave her the
house In question is prepared for the
fray and can be counted upon to put
Summing Still Attractive.
Stunning has lost one of its most
picturesque features by the placing
of police embargo upon the visit of
white men and women 10 Chinatown
after / a. m. Under the new regime
in the saddle of police headquarters
the free intermingling of whites with
the yellow skinned sons of Confucius
has been held to be not for public
peace and order and is strictly ia
booed.
Those smart" society matrons VINO
have heretofore found diversion and
excitement in midnight excursions to
the opium dens, fan-tan parlors and
joss houses wherein the Oriental is
seen I'm his native environment must
now seek other and less bizarre
amusements.
Policemen who took census Of the
white residents of the crooked little
streets constituting the Chinese quar-
ter wer> amazed the other night at
the large number of white women
who make their home there as con-
sorts OF the almond eyed denizens
of the section. With few exceptions
all Of them are slaves to the deadly
opium habit. When the police Or
dered them to vacate the neighbor-
hood they presented a pitiable spec.
tacle. Some of them FASTENED next
day to the City Hall with their Chi
nese lovers and took out marriage