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Show THREE SHORT SKETCHES Of THE 3 PRINCIPALS IN THE THAW TRAGEDY READING WITH A MORAL. i Stanford White. Of the three principals in the Thaw-White Thaw-White tragedy .Standord White stood first because of the gTeat ability as an architect that brought bim international fame. The other two, Harrv Thaw and his wife, who was Kvelyn Nesbit, artist's model and chorus girl, had also been heard from on two continents, but theirs was a notoriety of the champagne-stained order, that cornea with the lavish spending of money and gav doings in Tenderloins, be they local or foreign. White at the time of his death was in the zenith of his career. He was 53 years old, and in tho structural growth that tran formed New York's sky line in the past twenty years his handiwork hand-iwork was seen. His frieni declared after his death that nearly every block of New York's greatest thoroughfare was full of monuments to his taste and genius. Madison Square Garden, on who'c roof he met hi drath, was ierhap the greatest of his achievements. achieve-ments. White was married and had one son. who took dinner with him on the ninht he was killed, and is an undergraduate at Harvard. White was a member of the American Institute of Archi tects. of the Tile, Knickerbock- r. Union, University. Brook. Players' and Lambs clubs, of the ( enturv association, of the Garden City Golf Club of America, the Metropolitan and the Automobile Club of Ameri- a. The College of the city of New York conferred the dc- ! gree of M. A. on him in j In appearance White looke.l much more the heavv -weight athlete than the artist. He was six feet tail J and of heavy build. He had a rugged face, a heavy mustache and a massive head. His shag-gv shag-gv auburn hair, which he wore j in pompadour fashion, had no I streak of gray irf it. His figure |