The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-28
GOTHAM GOSSIP

New York. May 27.-Anibel Zelaya.
nephew of the former president OF the
republic of Nicaragua, was much per-
turbed this week because of the dis
covery that he had taken out license
to wed the other day at the city hall
Zelaya was sued for breach Of prom
Use of marriage last year by a pretty
Greek maiden named Elizabeth Juliet
Hero, who was awarded a judgment
against him of $4,000 by jury in the
supreme court here. Since then he
has been quietly practicing medicine
in this city and little has been heard
of his movements outside Of the res
taurants where Central Americans
make their headquarters and plan
Z fresh revolutions in the republics of
Mexico When the fact that he had
taken out a license to marry Senorita
Cordoba, the daughter Of Cuban
planter, became known, the young
physician vigorously denied that he
had made any such application and
intimated that some impersonator had
assumed his name for the occasion
He admitted, however, that he and
Miss Cordoba were cordial friends and
when approached she made a similar
acknowledgment Friends of Zelaya,
explaining his denial declared that he
was afraid that some friends Of Miss
Hero, who felt aggrieved against him
for discarding her, would try to inter-
rupt his wedding II they became ap-
prised OF his plans before the ceremony
took place.
When and where the marriage will
take Understanding that 1t has not
already been solemnized quietly in the
suburbs of the city-no one pretends
to know.
Wealthy Women Fight Fire.
Fire nghting by wealthy society
women has become quite vogue now
adays. Early in the week, Mrs Au-
gust Belmont co-operated with a large
force of her neighbors and their en-
ployes in extinguishing a big blaze
at her country home on Long Island
and by all accounts acquitted herself
nobly The blaze continued to glow
well on into the night and II was long
after midnight before she was able to
throw aside the buckets with which
she carried water to those who were
bearing the brunt of the work Of sub
jugating the flames. When it was all
over, Mrs. Belmont, who was the
beautiful Eleanor Robson, the actress,
of Merely Mary Ann" fame, said she
didn't mind the thrilling experience
one bit and that the excitement as a
matter Of fact was thoroughly exhil-
Grating. Since her marriage to Mr..
Belmont, whose second wife she is,
she has been one Of the most attrac-
tive and popular members of the fash
ionable set in which her banker hus-
-
since he attained his teens-some
thirty years ago.
Mrs. c. c. Rumsey, who as Mary
Hartman before her marriage, was
the favorite daughter of the late E.
H. Hartman, the ti-millionaire
railroad smagnate, had an experience
not unlike that of Mrs. Belmont at the
Hartman estate at Arden a night or
two later. Mrs. Rumsey is an athletic
young woman and possesses a good
deal of the organizing genins of her
father When the fire broke out she
quickly summoned two or three hun
bred of the hands employed on the es-
tate and marshalling them into an i'm
provised fire fighting company directed
them in the work of fighting the
flames until they put it out.
The. report which has been going the
! rounds OF the country. imputing to
Lillian Russell a plan to marry again,
has caused some of the statisticians
along the Rialto to figure out how Of
ten she has been charged with cher
fishing the matrimonial notion since
she divorced Peruginni. her third and
last official husband. The findings of
rNr fV- riyxy
indicate that she has been reported
as engaged to no less than five hun
bred SWANS, who were admittedly
moro or less ensmored of her peren-
NAL beauty, upon which time has in
diligently left no apparent imprint,
despite the fact that the song bird
is fifty years old this year. For a
long time, it was said the late secre-
tary of war, William c. Whitney, who
was devoted to her, had in mind ask
ing her to marry him.
When he died. under what has re-
peatedly been said since then to be
myterious circumstances. Jesse Lew
insohn, who has a million or more
that he doesn't need, became the ia
vored sutton of the beautiful Lillian,
accompanying her daily to the races
and elsewhere about town when she
was at leisure. Whether the fair
songbird passed him up or he heark-
ened to the call OF some one with
less burden Of years on her shoulders
is not quite clear. At all events he
subsequently married younger wom-
an, following the example Of his
brother, who married Edna May, the
prima donna who graduating from
the ranks of the chorus in New York,
went to London as the leading woman
in The Belle of New York; and cap
tured the English capital. AS one
swain stepped down and out Of her
life, another, equally as enthusiastic,
stepped up to the shrine and made his
Yotive Offering at the shrine, so that
the diva has never lacked for the
alteration she has felt was her due.
The road Is said to be Earring on her
nowadhys and 1t Is not unlikely that
y she would marry IL she could get the
man who would look good enough to
her-to- warrant her in believing that
she could keep him until Gabriel blows
his mighty blast. This time she
wants her man for keeps-if she has
him at ALL
Twenty-Five "cuIts."
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