CHAPTER II.
Harry Thaw's Sensational Courtship and Marriage.
YOUNG MILLIONAIRE'S ROMANCE STARTLED THE WORLD—MET
EVELYN NESBIT AFTER A PLAY WHEN SHE WAS
ONLY 17 YEARS OLD—FRIENDSHIP RIPENED INTO LOVE—THE
YOUTH'S STRANGE CAREER—WENT TO EUROPE
WITH THE FOOTLIGHT AND STUDIO BEAUTY—REPORT
OF MARRIAGE ABROAD SHOCKED RELATIVES—DENIED BY
BOTH THE SUPPOSED BRIDE AND GROOM—RETURNED
TO NEW YORK—EJECTED FROM FOUR HOTELS—HAD
WEDDING CEREMONY PERFORMED IN PITTSBURG—MOTHER
OF THAW AT FIRST REFUSED TO ACCEPT
EVELYN AS DAUGHTER—OFFERED $250,000 TO GIVE UP
HARRY.
Harry Kendall Thaw's winning of Florence Evelyn Nesbit stands out as a thrilling chapter in the great book of love. The biography of each of the parties was studded with the bizarre. Fifty thousand dollar dinners, ejectments from hotels, diamonds and grand pianos thrown about as carelessly as if they were trinkets, family opposition, and remarkably romantic love were some of the ingredients.
Harry Thaw's eyes first fell upon Evelyn Nesbit when she was only seventeen years old. She had carried her beauty from Pittsburg to the studios of New
