The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-12-11
ONCE A MAJOR, He
FALLS TO PRIVATE
STRANGE SEQUEL TO ELOPE-
MENT OF CAPT. STRONG
AND LADY HOPE.

ChaC during the past few years have
been told of the famous Hope dia-
monds, of Lady Hopes separation
from her titled English husband and
her subsequent elopement and mar
rage in Buenos Aires to Capt. Put
nam Bradley Strong, son of a former
mayor of New York City, followed
by her temperance in some of /
Americas vaudeville theaters.
Lady Hope, it may be we'll to ex-
plain, originally was a plump and
pleasing young woman named May
one. She first came into the stage
limelight early in the nineties. when
she figured in spectacular summer
shows in the old Chicago opera house,
under the management of David Hen |
derson. She was then known as 'the |
girl with the three notes." because of !
the fact that three of her vocal tones !
were entirely unlike any of the 9th /
ers Anyway, she got by" on her
beauty and was prime favorite with !
Mr. Hendersons young men patrons.
There came night, however, when
she failed to show when time came
for raising the curtain, but the play
went on without her. 1t developed
that May had during the afternoon
| eloped with a Chicago mammals flax
en-haired boy, but this local sensation
soon died down and May returned to
her stage work and the lad to his
home-for a spanking, perhaps.
Welded to Lord Hope.
Next heard of Miss Yohe was her
marriage in London to Lord Hope,
the possessor of the famous collection
of jewels. Their matrimonial rela-
tons continued several years, perhaps
a dozen, when they agreed to part and
Lady Hope returned to her native
! land.
1t wasn't long before Lady Hope
was announced in the vaudeville thea
tres of the big circuits, accompanied
+ by a special guarantee that she would
wear the world-famous Hope dia-
monds. When appearing in Chicago
she certainly was fully cit up" but
whether the countless big sparklers
were genuine, or merely stopples
from cut glass bottles, is a mystery
that has never been quite cleared up.
! 1t was while she was a star of the
vaudevilles that her elopement and
marriage to Captain Strong was an
nounced. This, of course, caused an
uproar in New York society and in
army circles, but when the pair final
ly concluded they had had enough of
notOriety and romance they bade each
other a last farewell and went their
ways, the lady returning to her first
love-the stage.
Having thus briefly reviewed Miss
Yohe's checkered career, let US now
turn to the present-time whereabouts
and doings of Putnam Bradley
Strong, captain during the Spanish
American war, and who can now be
classed with other men who have
come back"
Makes New Start as Private.
After a sensational worldwide ca
reer Strong has now come along af
ter having worn the shoulder straps
of major in the army, to make
new start as a private.
From the bottom of the ladder,
struggling along with baled hay for
the FESTIVE mule and holding some
officers horse, he is laying the foun-
| dation for a new career and a new
place.
Now comes the story that he has
gone into the big hopper into which
thousands upon thousands of private
soldiers are being poured and from
which there will come some heroes
and some men with high hOnors.
1t means hard fight for the man.
! He is no longer the gay youth who
/ looked so much like a military tail
or's sign back in 1898.
Strong's Activities Abroad.
After freeing himself from May
Yohe, Strong returned to the ORIENT.
! He was a clerk in Bangkok when he
succeeded in getting a King of Siam
! interested in his winning personality
and was given post IN the reorgah-
! ization of the Siamese army. The
! land of the sacred white elephant did
not long hold him.
Pretty soon the papers began to
get information that he had entered
the japanese service. Nothing IS
known of his career in Japan other
than that he is supposed to have
1o1I ~ yooiOr'S conoTniSCiOn
He had the martial bug to high
degree in all of his turnings and IN
1912, when Bulgaria was turning her
guns on Turkey, Strong offered his
services to the Bulgarians to help, IN
fighting the Turk. The Bulgarian
government did not profit by the of
fer and the man returned to New
York and settled down to a quiet
life.
In the summer of 1909 May Yohe
left Portland, Ore, but returned
there in 1910. and on March 8, 1910,