The San Francisco call., 1910-09-07
NOBODY;
NEVER LAUGHS
MRS. BRUGUIERE
I'm Not Engaged to Any One,
Nor Have Been, Nor Will
Be-" She Avows
Beauty Repndiates Role of a
Sugar Princess to Be and
Laughs Again
Especial Dispatch 10 The Cdlll

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DEL MONTE. Sept 6.-In spite of the
fact that many of her friends still
stoutly maintain that she is engaged
to be married to one of the sons OF
William F. Havemeyer, sugar king of
New York, and that Joseph Eastland
yesterday cabled~ from Turin. Italy,
that she was his fiancee in most en-
phatic and unmistakable terms, Mrs.
Vesta Shortridge Bruguiere, firmly but
laughingly denies both statements
When seen this morning at the at
tractive Bruguiere bungalow. crowning
the crest of one of the first low wooded
hills back of Monterey. Mrs. Bruguiere
reiterated last nights denial of her en-
gagement.
I am not engaged to anyone" she
said, "and haven't been, nor will be.
1 am exceedingly sorry Mr.. Eastland
has made the move he has. I wasn't
unprepared for it, as he had previously
cabled me, but it puts him in such a
ridiculous light before the public, to
say nothing at all of my own position,
which is, of course. not an enviable one
under the circumstances. 1 am not en-
gagged to him and never was"
EMPHASIS VARIES
The statement was made with en-
phasis, far more, in fact, than when
the subject was switched to young
Havemeyer of sugar fame.
What makes you think I am en-
gagged to him?" Mrs Bruguiere asked.
Yes. I know him well. I know all
three sons of VIM. 7. Havemeyer we'll,
and have for some time. They are
Raymond, Arthur and George. Which
one of the three is it supposed to be?'
Dressed in dainty pink and white
morning dress, her blonde hair piled
high on her head, Mrs. Bruguiere
looked charming in spite of the fact
that she had been up all night. Until
nearly o'clock this morning, she
watched by the bedside of her brother,
Maurice hortridge who was stricken
with diphtheria when two days out on
the famous walking trip to Post. over
the sands, with Mrs. Bruguiere and a
group of walking enthusiasts.
BROTHER PASSES CRISIS
I'VE had two doctors come from the
city last night and Major Woods also
attended the case from the Presidio"
she said. The crisis came at a about
six this morning and today he is out
of danger, but he was very sick boy
last night. And now my cousin is in
bed with same maIady. It's just as
well that we broke up our walk
Ihls subject and almost any other
she is willing to discuss 1t is only on
the question of her engagement that
she is evasive.
I have not anything to tell" she re-
peats. Il am not engaged. / can't saw
am when / am not. even to please
the public" and as proof she held up
her hands absolutely devoid of rings.
No, her mother, Mrs. Shortridge.
added. I surely would know if my
daughter were engaged and she hasn't
taken me into her confidence yet"
RUMOR STILL PREVAILS
In spite of both denials the rumor
holds sound at both Del Monte and
Monterey. among most of Mrs Bru-
gulere's little group of intimates, that
a formal announcement is soon to come
of her enga agement to Raymond Have
meyer of New York, who is due here
any day
DO you think there has ever been
any truth in her reported engagement
to Joseph Eastland?" one of them was
asked.
Well. you can't exactly tell with
Vesta,' was the reply. but somehow
don't think there was. He Is awfully
in love with her, however. but she ac-
cepts homage and devotion as matter
of course without falling in love her
self In return. Don't you remember
that w mite, VINO was
crazy about her last year? Well, Joe
Eastland made her a present of hand
some Limousine one morning, hoping
she would smile upon his suit. and
when White heard of it he hurried to
the nearest telephone office. Before
evening she was the recipient of
handsome set of sab1es bearfn his
card but she did not accept him either.
/ understand that this rumor of Have
meyer started with Vesta directly: that
she told q few special friends it was TO
be announced on his arrival from the
east and that they were not overdis-
Greet"
But when this statementsw repeat
ed to Mrs. Bruguiere she would not ad-
NIT its truth. She is absolutely enig-
matica1 on the subject.
Il have no intimate friends" she
said laughingly, cigarette between
her lips, and am not engaged to Mr.
Eastland. positively not nor to an
army officer, nor even to the Tahitian
prince, and how this rumor about Mr..
Havemeyer ever started l don't see at
all When did you say he was com
ing?'
Nevertheless, Mrs. Bruguiere has told
one of her intimate friends that she will
be married to Havemeyer in February
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