The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
RoAEANUEs OF THE RING
True Tales Of Hard Hitting Heroes of
 Past and Present
tBy Ta.rn1
5 The Bruiser and the Beauty

face expressed vactltty and vainglory. but whose slender body was clad in all the sartoria1 embellishments that s'srnarts' tailor of the '50s could de- i wise. He was seated at a, small table { in a flashy- restaurant frequented by l the ssportyS and theatrical set. Across from him sat one of the most < ravishing,, flashing, dashing beauties [ that masculine eyes ever gazed upon. Her dark. glorious. expressive eyes a4ion. upon a. tall. handson1e athletic man who had just enter redAfhe room. The newcomer was aHYerttable gfa.nts for he stood we'll over aixsfeet, but he carried hfrnseIf with an easy grace, l and without a. trace of awkwardness.
 A brtziser ?'.srepaeteds the lady "A pugilist2'. F
 The empty. face youth nodded as- sent. It was plain that his little soul was filled with peevishness, for he 1 was n1ad1y in love with the little beauty who sat so near him, and yet was as distant as a star. That another man. ands that man professional fighter, could arouse her interest was to him gall and wormwood.
 The lady spoke again.
 "A bruiser That makes him all the more interesting. Bring him to
 Reluctant, sulky and petuIant, the gf1ded youth obeyeds A fno1nent later John Carmel Heenan, better known to the fancy as The Benicia Boy. A was introduced to the lovely, charm ing, talented actress. Adah Isaacs ca, andfsoonsfo be the pet of two con- ti1ents, and the most celebrated eart-breaker of modern times.
 The bruiser and the beauty talked only in zcomfnonplaees, but when they parted 1t was with the light of nl-.
 
 and with the whispered promise to meet again soon.
 It wasi a hurried, imp vio- lent Wooing. and before the New r ear of 1860 had been ushered in Adah Isaacs 1denken had become Mrs. John e. Heenan, the wife of the famous American pugilist who had just chal-s Ienged Tom Savers the champion of FEngIands to do battle for the world s title.
 The Cruiser who thus captivated the heart of the woman who had refused l dozens of the richest yunog bIoods of Ann erica was described by a college professor of that period ass a taIl,+ grave. urpame gentleman. with red dish-brown hair and a dark mustache He wore black broasdcIoth and tall hat, and diam onds spaFkeld here and there.
 A dashing couple they must hav@ made. but mot for long. The bruiser soon left for England to prepare for his battle with Savers. Incidentally the American was victorious. but was lrobbed or she worlds title which was rightfuIly his. The gifted Adah was as tickle as she was beautiful and she soon tired of her sta1Wart lighter hus- band. Within three years she secured I a divorce, and again returned to her i destined task of breaking nasculin : hearts, The gallant sBenicia Boy
  ! tie for the WorIds championship. de- pr1ved of his chaIning wife. was for a l time tnconsoIab1e. Time healed his wounds. however. and he married another actress. Sara Stevens. in Eng i land
 1denken was a mingling of folly and tragedy A woman of rare intellect as well as remarkable beauty, sae was Tickle and restless in love as in every thing She went through her brief life like a flaming meteor unsatisfieds heart hungry, seeking always for a change.
 h her beautifuI body mingled the blood of a French mother and a Span isa Jew father. Dolores Adios Fuer- tes was the name she bore in her maiden days in her native city of New Orleans At seven she went on the stage as a dancer and at thirteen. she became a fuII-fledged actress
 From the first she was immensely 1lpopu1ar, and her masculine victims 1 doubtless nuulbered thousands. New l Orleans hailed hek as the Queen Of i the South, and Havana crowned her Queen Of the Plaza
 | She was a merry widow and twen- ] ty-four years old. when she met and l married John C. Heenan. Four years I before she had become the bride Of Alexander Isaacs Menken at Calves ton. Texas, and ever after she was generally known as Adah. Isaacs Men j ken After her first marriage she quit the stage and published a. volume T of really creditabIe verse Mem mories.' ' under the pen name of Indigena, .
 Her first dream of love was soon rudely shattered. and in 1sB8 it ended i in the divorce courts. Adah FeturneEs to the stage, and in the intervals of her theatrical tours of the South stud jed sculpture in Cincinnati.
 Then came her. romance with FIee9t an. She went abroad with her hus- d band, and, when they separated, she remained in Europe. Playing in the iero1e of ssAdazeppa,', at Astleys Thea tre in London, she broke the hearts .l of half the fast youths of the British internationally celebrated as authors [poets. and artists. were in her train of admirers. In Paris she was the f center around which Hooked many famous men. The elder Dumas was said to have been deeply attracted 4by her. She carried on a correspondence with Charles Dickens, and her volume zl of verse, Infelicia,' z published in Lon don in 1867, was dedicated to the great novelist.
 Adah Menken died in Paris in 1888, at the aga of thirty-three, and she sleeps the long sleep in q modest .grave in the French capital. Another grave on the Troy-Albsny road marks the last resting place of J ohm C.. Heen- an, who was a native of Troy. N. Y I He was stonly a bruiser,'' but a gentle man for all of that.
 2. The romance of the bruiser and the T beauty was from the first doomed tc