| Show susan emery holmes makiv old ti time me Par kites remember mrs susan emery holmes many knew her before she was either mrs emery or mrs holmes 0 mo knew her when she was the pretty young seamstress miss aliss susana in park city making dresses for the elite of park city as won well as for the other every day ordinary people of the h community clity because of f her attractiveness sile she was wooed and ana won by mr al emery who wai then a popular and likeable postmaster and expect accountant after his marriage to kiss ail a 3 susie mr air emery became interested in mines and mining and associated with mith the wellman mothers brothers and ana other successful mine operators ile he became rich with the rest of them and then mrs maj I 1 susan emery became P a dazzling social star and so continues to this day mr air emery because of his riches and laUty was always in a of pleasure and the pace was so rapid that while in san ban francisco he wag stricken with a fatal illness A few years after her husbands death mrs emery married mr holmes a wealthy and prominent gentleman of salt lake and the combined wealth c of f mr air and mrs holmes added rauch much to the up building of salt lake city mr air ho holmead I 1 isles died a few years ago As will be seen by the following taken from the san francisco flancisco call cf february icah with pictures of mrs emery holmes irs in evening dress and riding habit the prince in the involved case and anthers in the story Is evidence of mrs airs susan susa n emery holmes continued social activities s utter after all these years the story tells tell ot of her latest romance wilh a foreign prince and other interesting tidbits tid bits the inaccuracies in the follows following i article as to mr air emerys name his discovery ot of the silver king etc is am amusing 1 I to those who knew al but is all a part of 0 the story as printed in the san i francisco paper TRYING TO r OUR 1000 A DAY SILVER QUEEN EEN A PRINCESS recipe tor for a modern romantic mystery story I 1 take one tremendously rich sliver silver queen with an income computed at 1000 a day and two distinguished princes of the blood mix with rumor prediction and speculation then salt elti determined matchmaking match making the result at least new york society found it so forma one ot of the tastiest nastiest tast iest of conversational dishes even athe match making comes to nothing the three principals in a situation which set the smart set chattering are mrs airs emery holmes hoimes stately distinguished white haired window of utah prince nicholas scion of one of Rus sias sira most eminent families arid prince Dadia Dadi ant nl of georgia from which country came also the two princes mall vant husbands of pola negri and mae murray murray and the question to which some of mrs airs holmess friends demanded with scant success an answer was which of these royal suitors it if suitors they be will win out in the contest for beaul tul ful mrs holmess heart hand and fortune that you may better get the flavor of this stubborn attempt on the part ot of certain society acquaintances to marry off mrs holmes to one or the other of the noblemen let us consider the dramatic but today halt half forgotten youth of the silver queen born and christened susana bransford Bran stord as a girl she met and was charmed by an impecunious but romantic prospector richard emery in salt la lave I 1 re ehl il dick tramped the western hills aag easer rl iv seeking pay dirt little susanna sat in a modest millinery shop fashioning boeres tor for the utah social ilider at last dick struck the rich vein of ore he had been seeking the sliner silver king mine his discovery poured forth riches upon him knowledge of his sudden wealth lent him the courage he be had hitherto lacked to ask susanna to marry him becoming emerys bride she entered a new and glittering phase ot of her existence travel literature music art the th drama gorgeous clothes and prominent friends these were the allurements allure ments which her husbands fortune spread out before her fan wise the timid unpretentious tent ious milliner blossomed speedily into an imposing lady witty aggressive and full of personality and people w were ere beginning to talk the country over about those astonishing emerys when dick died for a while his widow was inconsolable but with the fleet passage of 0 time she was importuned importuner to wed by colonel 0 W holmes detroit magnate with ats utah h holdings and she eventually consented to become his bride but to 1 billow the revered memory of her first mate mat mateske eshe she insisted that the surnames of both bus husbands bands be linked by a hyphen hence her present day cognomen colonel holmes bought tor for his wife the famed amelia palace in salt lake and with the expenditure ot of a fortune transformed it into one ot of the most exquisite qui ite show places on the continent mrs emery holmes caused something ot of a sensation when in 1903 1902 she invaded the national capital flanked toy by her money bags newspapers of the period saw raw in her visit an effort to outshine socially the thomas F Wals hes who had bad been making a spectacular splurge in washington walsh was the owner ot of the camp bird mine in colorado and his enormous wealth was proverbial in the years Int erveing mrs emery holmes now a widow a second time has had no cause to seek a bolstered up social status tor for her position in the Is gibraltar firm always much sought after with many gallant caval cavallars cavaliers cava liers lers in her train about a year ago 1 it t was noted that she was quite afredi frequently bently seen in public with the but still dashing prince the courtly gray hatred haired prince had gamed gained some attention as a matrimonial as since he had bad been t twice tire ire atri I Y lie he has long been a familiar figure in 10 w fre fron i P iq q t chapo ilic jilt wife was mrs clayton a distinguished figure of the chicago once known as the most beautiful woman in the middle west while he later became the husband ot of the baroness melanie de Luyt eull of paris because of the princes importance in this nar rafice some facts about his background will he be given his marriage to lovely evelyn was a sensation but the divorce which came a number of years later was a greater one the prince had been russian vice consul in chicago evelyn was the daughter of charles W the grain king I 1 i tw two 0 years af after t divorce e the princess evelyn obtained e d her ci divorce she startled and amused american society by announcing that she no longer cared to use the name and title that hod had come to her by marriage she che made the announcement with engraved cards which she sent to her friends and acquaintances the cards reading as follows by authority of the decree of divorce dlvore of the supreme court of tile the state ot of new york granted to me dated june the tenth 1016 1916 1 I have elected to resume my maiden name and will hereafter be known as madame evelyn florence EVELYN hotel city ot of new york june 1918 11 par far from being by this gesture prince is said to have been gratified ho he Is said to have remarked that he was pleased when his first wife resumed her maiden name because by that time he had married the baroness melanie de Luyt euil to have tva ladles ladies carrying his name and title curiously enough it was the status of the second princess which caused the prince some embarrassment when his name was mentioned recently I alth ith that of the beautiful mrs holmes t tile the second princess Is 13 believed to be in I 1 i california and it was thought that t she too had divorce the former russian diplomat i so 90 when the noble wes waa seen squiring mrs emery holmes about I 1 fashionable drawing rooms theatres theartres the atres and art galleries I 1 it t was only nat natural urai that the society gossips should be interested imi mediately the whisper echoed up and i i down clown park avenue my aly dear daar ashes going to marry that prince this whisper became open talk wb when en I 1 billy benedick journalistic commentator on society doings wrote ot of the possibility of trie tile match becoming a fact under the I 1 heading rich pasadena widow M may marry prince of Rus russia siao at this stage the atter attempts apts of the go gossips to wish a alv alve 0 on mrs emery i holmes took a 9 now new turn cholly knickerbocker another expert chronicler of activities had this to say in the new york american mrs holmes Is NOT the betrothed ot of tile the white haired and debonair engall this statement lent new interest to an elaborate reception which mrs airs george washington kavanaugh noted new york society leader was planning tor for the silver queen mr knickerbocker asserted j that prince dallant would be in the receiving line but other observers who v ho attended t e the reception reported that he d did i d not appear it if the society gossips up and down p park ark avenue had been stirred before as they a romance between engall scheff and the silver queen now they were both bewildered and moved to a deeper state of excitement this appeared in the form ot of another article by mr Ber benedick who discovered I 1 r some ome evidence that he believed pointed t to 0 the tact fact that prince wa was s n not 0 t divorced from his second wife and therefore could not be a suitor for the hand of mrs airs emery holmes the publication of this bombshell threw the blue blood gossips out once more own version of his marital status as riven given to a reporter from this paper is highly interesting H he e sal said d he had never been formally divorced from his second wife the former baro baroness rl de Luyt eull because it nece necessary s asked to explain further he be sa said id chait that as he and the baroness were married by a civil ceremony in parts paris and not a religious service in the russian orthodox church to the ceremony performed at his first marriage lie ile had bad never been legally married why try to annul a condition that does docs riot not exist was the princes way ol of putting it leaving this legal tangle to other heads to interpret the society gossips set back and waited to see what would happen next in the efforts to make our 1000 a day sliver silver queen a princess the denouement nou ement was ras mrs airs emery holmes left new york for her palace in pasadena still not engaged to any prince but her georgian admirer prince dadlani was at the station to see her off |
