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"The Herald May Be a News
paper " * * <r —Los Angeles Times
VOL. XLIII. NO. 144
WANTED HER FOR HIS BABY
Senator Fair's Love for a Little
Flower Qirl
SALLIE GAMBLE'S STORY
The Millionaire Wanted Her to Share
the Delights of Travel
He Offered to Settle Ten Thousand Dollars
Upon Her and paid a Dollar for a
Bouttonnlere
Since it lins been learned that Charley
Fair is going to contest tlie will of his
father, the late Senator James GK Kair,
people around town, and especially the
Hotel Nadeau, where the Senator had his
apartments while in this city, are telling
Miss Sallie Oantble, the Pasadena Olrl Who Might Have Harried the Late Senator
Pair Last Summer, When She Sold Him Flowers at the Nadeau
stories about his queer actions during his
lengthy stay in Los Angeles. During May,
June and July of lost year,- Senator Fair
and his valet remained in Southern Cali
fornia. His health was poor and his phy
sician ordered him to a higher altitude
than San Francisco, and Monrovia, situ
ated in the foothills of this county, was
the place selected by the Senator to spend
his long-needed vacation.
While at the Nadeau the Senator became
acquainted with little Sallie Gamble, the
17-yeor-old girl who had a news and flower
stand in the office. He suddenly found
that a boutonniere each morning would
greatly add to his personal appearance.
Suddenly he developed a graat desire to
know all the news of the world. Of course
papers hod to be purchased, and Ballie
kept them for sale.
Sallie Gamble for eight months kept the
atand in the Nadeau oflice. Fresh from
her home garden each morning she would
pick a basket full of roses, carnation pinks
and violets, which she arranged on glass
dishes and exposed for sole on the coun
ter of her stand. The drummers who
make the hotel their headquarters all Wore
Bailie's flowers. Sallie was a great favor
ite with them.
She had an eye for business and her
sweet smiles and shy glances swelled her
day's receipts. JWhen a boutonniere was
purchased it was always her pleasure to
pin it in place and talk plensantly the
while to her susceptible customer.
One afternoon when drummers were
scarce and flowers plentiful, Sallie stood
carelessly arranging her luxuriant growth
of dark hair before the large mirror, when
suddenly she observed a pleasant, good
natured old gentleman standing behind
her, running his ringers carelessly through
a bunch of roses. She turned quickly,
gave him one of hei famous smiles, and in
less time than it takes to tell it a bunch
of flowers and a silver dollar changed
places. The old man lifted his
silk hat gallantly and strolled
leisurely off, leaving Sallie standing
fingering the dollar and wondering who
her newly-found and liberal customer
was. In a moment she was told that it
was Senator Fair, the millionaire, anil
she once again got before the glass and
studied up a sweeter smile for the gay old
chap when he should favor her with an
other purchase—and perhaps another dol
lar.
Tbis is the story as it is told around the
hotel, and a Herald reporter went over to
Wyatt station, on the outskirts of Pasa
dena, yesterday, to see Sallie Gamble and
have her tell of., her acquaintance with
Senator Fair.
The reporter readily found the house,
peeping out from among a bunch of shade
trees and situated directly across the rood
from the hospituble home of Hurry Wyatt
of the Los Angeles Theater. Strolling
through the garden, the reporter met a
couple of Sallies little brothers, neatly
dressed and pleasant faced. Sallie was
called, and with the usual pleasant smile,
the reporter was seated in the parlor.
Sallies home is her own, for she has
made most of the money which purchased
it. The parlors are expensively and taste
fully furnished. Bright Brussels carpets
are on the floors, well selected paint
THE HERALD
• LOS ANGELES, MONDAY MORNING/, MARCH 4, 1895.-TWELVE PAGES
ings adorn the walls, a piano with
a dainty plush cover partly hiding it
and the top adorned with photographs of
many fuces familiar to the reporter stood
in the corner. Comfortable divans were
spread uround and altogethor Bailie's
parlor looked homelike. Sallie was mod
estly dressed in a black cashmere skirt,
linen waist, and a cute little pair of shoes
with black bows on peeped cunningly out
from beneath the folds of her skirt.
Sallie was perfectly at ease—lier sweet
smile showed that. But' when the re
porter told her that he wanted her to tell
him for publication all about her ac
quaintance with tho deceased Senator tbe
color left her cheeks, the smile no longer
pluyed around the corners of her mouth,
and just for a second Sallie really looked
serious. When assured that her relations
witli the Senator were reported to have
been only proper, and that she simply
met him in a business way, Sallies smile
returned, and one foot began to kick up
and down from across its comfortable
position ucross the other knee.
"Well, now," began Sallie, us she tossed
her little head from one shoulder to the
other, "I don't mind a bit telling you all
I know about Senator Fair. Ho was un
awfully nice old gentleman, and I am in
deed sorry that he is gone, for by his
death I realize that I lost a man who was
very kind to me.
"I first met the old gentleman in July,
I think it was. As you know, I kept the
news stand at the Nadeau, and while
there, of course, I was in a position to
meet a greut. many people.
"Senator Fair used to come to my stand
buy flowers for his buttonhole. Some
times he would purchase one bouttonniere,
and toward the last he used to buy two a
day from me. He invariably used to pay
me a dollar apiece for them, and it was
worth all the money I got, too, for I used
to pin them on.
"My newspaper sales greatly increased
while Fair was at the Nadeau, for he used
to buy one of nearly all tbe papers I had
nearly every day. He appeared to be
very (ond of me, and as long as I was
there to make what I could, so long as I
did nothing which was wrong, I didn't
mind his advances,
"For hours the Senator used to stand
talking with me. Half the time I didn't
know what he was saying, and didn't
care, for that matter. Occasionally I
would reply 'yes' and 'no,' just
to entertain him and .make him
think that I was all attention and
intensely interested in all he said.
"He told mo all his troubles, and the
dear old gentleman thought he had lots of
them. He told me that both his sons
drank hard, and that one of them was
dead. He said that he hod several daugh
ters, but that they went with the mother
when he was divorced from his wife. He
appeared to deplore their absence from
him during his sickness, and I was so
pleasant to him that he used to stand and
talk with me for hours at a time about
himself and his family.
"As time wore on he became very
friendly with me, and I learned to like
the old gentlemen very much. One day
he become more confidential than
usual—in fact he became quite loving. He
astonished me by telling me that he
wonted me for his baby! He said that he
wus awfully lonely traveling around with
a stupid old volet and that he would like
to have me with him always. He said that
he liked me and that he would take care
of me.
" 'Intend traveling all over the world,'
he said, 'and I want you to be my daugh
ter ond go with me.' I didn't give the
matter a moment's thought for
all I have in the world
is my good name and the love of my
family. I wont money, but I won't do
anything which would give people a
chance to talk about me to get it.
"Although I did not entertain the propo
sition, the gay old Senator would continue
to buy my papers und flowers and chat
with me by the hour, just the some as
usual. He asked me where my home wos,
and I told him thot I had a nice place at
the base of the foothills, where I grew
flowers for my stand, and where I lived
with my parents and my brothers and
sisters-
He said he always liked tho country
quiet was what he wanted rather than the
noise and din of a city. He told me that
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ONE SUNDAY IN CONGRESS
Great Crowds Flock the Senate
and House Galleries
MANY PEOPLE CROWDED OUT
Long Lines of People and Many
Carriages Attend
The Lower Branch of the Nation's Legislature
the rtost Popular, a* a Quarrel
Was Expected
Washington, March 3.—The unusual at
traction of a Sunday session of Congress,
in the plesuant setting of mild, spring-like
weather, furnished Washingtonians a hol
iday in the modern acceptance of the
word. Throughout the afternoon there
was v stream of carriages und sundry pro
cessions toward the capitol buildings.
The broad steps leading to the Legisla
tive halls had somewhat the appearance
of inauguration duy, and the plaza to the
cast was dotted with strolling groups,
and lines of carriages were drawn up
stretching clear across the streets.
Within the building the jam was so
great that it interfered with business.
The doorkeepers in the galleries were
busy restraining people for whom there
was no room. The elevators were loaded
to the limit of their capacity. Every trip
streams of people elbowed their way from
the House to the Senate and from the
Senate to the House. The comparatively
small detachment which could be accom
modated in the galleries of both houses
kept up a Babel of chatter, which, com
bined wlith the rushing hack and forth
and clamoring of members, made the
scene like that witnessed any busy day in
the pit of a stock exchange, and almost
overwhelmed the routine proceedings
and kept the Speaker's gavel hammering
incessantly.
The House was the theater of the popu
lace which preferred a lively scene, while
in the Senate the spectators were more
orderly and fewer, though more of the
notables were to be seen in the reserved
galleries, particularly in the diplomatic
seats, where the sky blue ribboned
Chinese Minister was a center of interest.
After nightfall and until the street cars
stopped running at midnight, the crowds
pushed in and out, hung about the rotun
da, looked at tbe historical paintings,
when they could not secure admission to
the galleries, and not a few spectators
were holding tbeir seats in tho early
hours of Monday morning.
SUNDAY IN THE SENATE
The Clock Set Back and rtore Legislative Work
Done P
Washington, March* the Vice-
President called the Senate tou«#der ert-'it
o'clock this afternoon, by an ancient
legislative fiction it was called Saturday,
March 2d.
Business began very promptly with a
request from Jones of Arkansas for the
consideration of a bill to provide for a
compromise and settlement between the
United States und the state of Arkansas.
Peffer of Kansas offered an amendment
to confine the operation of the bill to is
sues between the United States and the
state. An amendment exempting the
Richmond Locomotive Works from pen
alties incurred in connection with the
construction of the machinery of the
Texas was concurred in.
Aoar, Republican, of Massachusetts, in
terrupted the proceedings with a motion
to table the motion made by Brian Sutur-
The Future Countess Cattellane and Her Maid, as Sketched by a New York World
Artist While She Was Shopping; on Broadway
day, to recede from the vote by wbich the
Senate concurred in the formal House
amendment to the lottery bill. To
do this he was obliged to antagonize the
naval appropriation bill, and the yeas
and nays being had on this motion it was
lost; yeas—l 7, nays 37—and the considera
tion of the naval bill was continued.
The pending amendment was one re
ducing the number of battleships to be
built. Hansbrough, Republican, there
upon took the floor and argued that the
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WHAT THE SESSION HAS DONE
Epitome of the Bills Passed by
the Present Congress
A REVIEW OF THE WORK
Much Was Attempted, but Very Little
Accomplished
Many Unsuccessful Measures Which Were
Presented Only to Die—Record in
House and Senate
Washington, March 3.—A review of the
work of t this last session of the Fifty
third Congress, must necessarily deal
more with what was attempted to be
done than with what was accomplished
since most of the important business con
sidered belonged to the first class.
The term has been particularly marked
by the inability of the Senate anil the
House to agree upon any of the most im
portant problems presented by the mem
bers.
Congress met on December 4th last,
with one imperative and perennial task,
to frame and enact the various appropria
tion bills. Next in importance was the
financial question, for which no definite
plan of settlement beyond many free sil
ver bills and various individual schemes,
was then in view. Several important
bills came over as a heritage from the
last session. Foremost among them were,
in the House, the Nicaragua Canal
bill, the railroad pooling bill and the bill
for the settlement of the indebtedness of
the Union Pacific Railroad, known as the
Reilly bill. The Nicaragua Canal project
has not been able to secure a hearing in
the House. Largely through the efforts
of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, the Nica
ragua bill was pushed to a vote in that
body after a protracted debate and was
sent to the House, where the conference
committee substituted ita own bill which
had been on the calendar throughout the
session and which differed in several
points from the Morgan bill.
The pooling bill was passed by the
House early in the session but the Senate
refused to consider it by a negative vote
of 42 to 24 on the question of considera
tion. Strong opposition to the Reilly bill
was developed in the House and after a
very heated debate it was recommitted to
the committee without instructions.
Several important bills were placed on
the calendar of the Senate at the begin
ning of the term, handed down from the
long session, when they had been passed
by the House. Prominent arriong them
was the bill to establish a uniform sys
tem of bankruptcy, which was debated
intermitantly but finally side-tracked.
Another unsuccessful measure was the
anti-option bill. There were also on the
Serrate calendar the four bills which the
House had sent over, to place on the free
list sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire, but
ibe attempt to secure consideration of the
free sugai bill was negatived by a small
majority, und the opposition to. the three
others was so apparent that they have
been allowed to pass into oblivion.
The most interesting chapter of the his
tory of the session is made by the attempt
at financial legislation in both houses.
These are too well known to require re
capitulation. No financial legislation has
yet resulted from the host of bills intro
duced during the session, with more or
less weight of authority behind them.
The principal class of legislation accom
plished by the short session was that mak
ing appropriation for the support of the
Government. Not a little general legisla-
tion was incorporated into the appropria
tion bills. These bills, in the order in
which they were passed by the House,
were: _
For the Military Academy at West Point,
army pension bill, fortifications bill, di
plomatic and consular bill, District of Co
lumbia, postal, agricultural, Indian, sun
dry civil, legislative, executive and judi
cial, navy and general deficiency bills.
When the last week of Congress began
tho House had passed all except the gen
eral deficiency bill, and the Senate bad
the last four to consider. The pension bill
was re-enacted', containing provisions
that pensions shall not be paid to non
residents who are not citizens of the
United States, except for actual disabili
ties incurred in the service, directing the
examining surgeons to state the ratings
to which they say tbe applicants are en
titled and fixing the lowest rate of pension
at ?tj a month. The diplomatic and con
sular bill increased the salaries of several
representatives, and the Senate passed an
amendment authorizing tbe President to
contract for the laying of a cable between
the Hawaiian Islands and the United
States, and to use $500,000 in the work,
an amendment which the House refused
to accept. The agricultural bill em
powered the Secretary of Agriculture to
enforce rules for the inspection of live
cattle whose meat is intended for ship
ment abroad in any form, and regulations
to prevent tlie shipment of condemned
carcasses abroad, or from one station to
another, and fixing a heavy penalty for
violation of such regulations.
Considerable legislation was included in
tlie sundry civil bill and much more was
attempted in the Senate by proposed
amendments. The completion of several
public buildings was provided for in the
bill as it passed the House and sums were
added in the Senate for new buildings
niae Anna Oould In Bridal Costume, as Drawn by a New York World Artl«t from
Descriptions Furnished by the Dressmakers
Another Senate amendment provided for |
th« purchaee of $150,000 ter the site of tne
Blame mansion. Provision was also in
cluded to transfer the military prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the Depat
ment of Justice, to be known as the
United States penitentiary and main
tained for keeping United States prisoners
who have heretofore been held in state
prisons under contract.
The naval bill was notable because of
the "new navy" provision for two battle
ships and six torpedo boats and the in
crease of the enlisted force by the addi
tion of 1000 men.
The general deficiency bill was reported
to tne House, amounting to $6,159,539. An
amendment requested by the Secretary
of State to pay the claims of Great Britain
for $425,000 damages for seizures of sealers
in Bering Sea, was voted down by the
House.
The most conspicuous personal legisla
tion passed was the revival of the grade
of lieutenant-general of the army that
Major-General Schotield might be pro
moted to the rank of the new office, while
the act of greatest importance to the
government departments and congress was
the printing bill, which practically places
the control of all Government printing in
the hands of a joint committee of three
members from each of the two houses.
Laws affecting shipping were passed.
To establish rules to prevent the collision
on the Great Lakes and tributary waters,
another to the same effect applying to har
bors, rivers and inland waters, supple
mentary to the act of August 19, 1880, for
prevention of collisions at sea.
Tbe time for making the report of the
board of engineers surveying the canal
routes from Lake Erie to the Ohio River
was extended to the next session of Con
gress and numerous bridge bills were en
acted.
The commercial travelers organizations
secured an amendment to the interstate
commerce law permitting the issuance of
joint, interchangeable, 5000-mile tickets,
good over more than one road.
The House adopted a joint resolution
for an amendment to the Constitution
providing forthe election of United States
Senators by a direct vote of the people of
the states, but the resolution was re
ported adversely by the Senate commit
tee on privileges and elections.
The most important of the Senate bills
which failed to pass tho Housi were a
joint resolution for inquiry into the
practicability of deep waterways between
the ocean and the Great Lakes, and a bill
for the regulation of steam vessels.
Among the important House bills
which died were one for the reorganiza
tion of the line of the army and one to
punish train wreckers by capital punish
ment and attempts at train wrecking by
hseavy terms of imprisonment.
The dramatic authors of the United
States secured a report of a bill f6r pun
ishment by imprisonment of play pirating
by theatrical managers, but in the
House considerable opposition was
manifested by members who objected to
penal punishment for violation of civil
statutes so the bill was withdrawn. The
only legislation affecting the tariff act
was a resolutoin to extend to April loth
time for making returns to the interroga
tories under the income tax provision and
modifying the questions required to be
answerer!.
With many people admiration begins
where understanding ceases.
"The Herald Is a Newspaper" *
* <r —Los Angeles Times
PRICE FIVE CEXTS
A MARRIAGE OF MILLIONS
Nuptials of Anna Gould and
the Count Today
HE IS AN IDEAL CHEVALIER
One of the Greatest Social Events in
Qotham's History
The Fair Bride Will Have a Hagnlllcent
Dot, and the Qroom Is Very Wealthy.
The Bridesmaids
New York, March 3.—One of the geatest
social events of the century will occur in
this city today, and it is tlie marriage of
Miss Anna Gould to Count .lean de Castel
lanc. Despite all the publicity given it
the family aim to have the marriage cele
brated as quietly as possible. The invita
tions were issued today by Mr. and Mrs.
George J. Gould and the wedding will
take place at noon Monday, March 4th,
their house, No. 071 Fifth avenue: Arch
bishop Corrigun i« to solemnize the cere
mony.
Miss Gould, Wherever she goes, is sub
ject to tho stares that used to confront.
Mrs. Cleveland in the zenith of her fame
She has been living at the Hotel Plaza for
a week or so. She has four maids and is
endeavoring to escape publicity.
Count Castellane is an ideal cavalier—
a bunca of violets the first thing ever;
morning and a dainty corsage of lilies o;
the valley every evening to assure his
fiancee in the most poetic way of his un
varying thoughtfuness.
The approaching marriage has excite !
more general interest than any simUi'
event for years, and the preparations
have been watched by the publio with
perhaps more attention than the young
couple and their families like. The bride
will wear the diamond and ruby ring, the
diamond and emerald bracelet, and the
string of pearls given her by Count Castel
lane. The Count's younger brother will
be best man and Ho\vard Gould, Rao
Duval and Pripce Del Drago will be'ush
ers. Miss Helen Gould, of course, will l»t
maid of honor, and Miss Anna Cauveroti
Miss Anna Gould's closest friend, will be
lirst. bridesmaid. The other bridesmaid .
are to be Miss Addie Montgomery ami
Miss Beatrice Richardson. The Marquis
and Marquise Castellane will be the guests
oi Mr. and Mrs. Gould while they are ia
New York.
The amusing protestations concerning
the "dot" allowed by the Gould family
yet excite unappeased interest. As if a
French marriage was ever solemnized
without this time-honored "dot>" and if
those most, concerned do not know, the
"dot" is "satifactory. even more satis
factory" than the Count's family de
manded.
The last week the Count has devoted
much of his time to correcting this im
pression concerning Miss Gould's ante
nuptial settlement on him, with the r<?
suit that many have been made to be
lieve it is not so. The best information
is, however, that Miss Gould has agreed
to contribute 1,000,000 francs ($200,000) a
year toward the maintainance of their
home in France, while the Count de Cas
tellane will give all the income and reve
nues of his personal estates. In addition
to this Miss Gould will spend l,2.">0,000
francs ($280,000) toward the purchase
and lifting up of a suitable residence in
France. The ante-nuptial contract arti
cles were submitted by Judge Dillon, the
family lawyer, to Miss Gould last Wednes
day, and she, it is understood, is satis
tied with them. Not to be outdone by
George Gould, who is tv give his sister a
$40,000 coronet, the Count has presented
his bride-to-be with an elegant corsage
decoration, which may be one of the
most highly prized pieces in Miss Gould's
jewel case. It contains 200 pure white
brilliants and two perfect emeralds. Its
cost is estimated at, $14,000, It consisu
of a central piece nearly as large as a
woman's band in a diamond-crusted
foliated pattern enclosing one of tho
emeralds. When tbis caught in the cen
ter of an evening bodice, double chains
of diamonds will run up to right and
left high on the bust, caught at one end
by a cluster of three diamond feathers,
anil at the other by v small duplicate of
the middle piece,also holding an emerald.
Xo touch of color will mar the beauty
of tbe bride's toilet, and as she is of the
petite brunette type, a white satin gown,