The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1912, Page 3

CHALONERS BOOK | READIN COURT TD PROVE HS SAY Member of Chanler Family | Who Changed His Name | Begins Legal Fight. WANTS HIS PROPERTY. ' | The election of a jury to determine | the eanity of John Armstrong Chal- oner in this State was quickly com-| nletel this afternoon in the United! ex District Court. Mr, Chaloner | ot present, though he has a Fed: | court order permitting him to} come into this State for the purposes) of this case without any restraint or | nterference. He will probably make se of it during the inquiry. A notable array of lawyers repre: | sented Chaloner, who changed bis name | vecause he did not ike his brothers, | Winthrop Astor, William Astor, Lewis! t and W. Chanler Lawyer Tells Judge of Family Troubles, Which Began at Marriage With Noted Writer. ch took charge of * $090,000 property in this emmittee, in the person of the defendant is technioall, nti nan, action to discharge put Ms. Chalon Chis prope HIS PROPERTY WOULD REVERT TO HIS RELATIVES. ry © and w| possession | the ¢ into di Sroutd th the judgment of az e ng ARs nim, na wit workl ewal in) é fate and hove would ert to Ne ve fiewran was represented by doses) HL Choate jr, an au haired youth sere reseenbling In suavity and neniility those of his distingulsaed | ia } My newts lawyers are Hugh tor: | jon FAW Mem D. Revd | Uharloriesy tlie Lawyer W sv th aon ness Ware ome). thts Site ty Wan Duan of » Va its maa, ed sotod ive proof that the «® man chi opportunity to prove wa of his Hleoming- Years Behind the self prover avid at all times a nd his propert te who is guilt may forfett is fined tn prison for Ii “But he may not be tried in hy ag was Chaloner, though White Plains, and the Sheriff's at Jury Ywhich adjudged him insane was only ‘twenty miles away. Etther death cr "fe imprisonment is préferable to the eto which Mr. Chaloner's brother Pe condemned him.” TELLS ABOUT TROUBLES WITH HIS FAMILY. Mr. Ware said Mr. Chalmer's trouble with his family begun, when asa young ‘man he had a fight with Winthrop As- tor Chandler in w inthrop got a cut on the head 1d Mr. Wall, “the brother has atiti, apparently, @ lvely_memor There was a bigger Lreach in the fam- jly when Aleda Emme‘t, W. A. Chanier, Robert M. Chanler, Winthrop Chanler and Louls Chanler were not invited to Chaloner's wedding when he married Amelie Rives, now the Princess Trou- betskoy. Margaret Chanler, a eister, was the only member of his immediate family there. This, aaid Mr. Ware, was because Winthrop Astor Chanler had sent him a copy of "The Quick and the Dead,” with scruitious marginal notes, ‘The man went on to say that on Dec. 6 1906, a meeting of the Roanoke Rapids Power Company industry built up Mr. Chaloner, held in the Hotel Piatiator. In that meeting Winthrop ‘Astor Chanler approached Mr. Chaloner, who was lying {ll on a bed, and at- tempted to atrike him with clenched Chaloner deposed his brother and sai that he meant to demand an accounting of his father's estate, only one account- ing having been made by the executors, bis brothers, in ten years. MADE 'A WILL OISINHERITING + HIS RELATIVES. ‘Mr. Chatoner made a will which dis- (mhertted all but one of his brothers and Masters and left the bulk of hie prop- erty to the University of Virginia. Stanford White, after en acquain- ‘tance of several years, visited Mr. Chal- oner in Virginia and cursed him for burying ‘himself in the country and be- gan leading up to tie finally success- ful effort to get Mr. Chaloner to got back to New York. “Just before thet,” sald’ Mr. Ware, “Mr. Chaloner and his brother, William Astor Chaloner, were travelling in the compartment of a Pullman car. Mr, Chaloner saw a paragraph in a news. paper accusing William A. Chanler and the trainer of his racing stable of die honesty in racing the horse Salvacea. W. A. Chanler did not seem to resent the criticiem and to Mr, Chaloner’s die gust and they qi and did not ppeak for year.” Stanford White and a Dr. Fuller went to Virgina on the same train with Win- throp A. Chanter and with fr, Chanter in the background persuaded him to come So Yew t ed brag Ww. A. Shaner cealment on the same train. Mr. Ware. antord White the y ‘ Ud Apartments Adtertised as Magnificent, With Views of the Hudson, Large, Sunlighted Bedrooms Articles by Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1912, by The Prees Publivhthe Co. (The New York World). and Servants’ Baths, Are Gloomy Cubby Holes a t High Rates. There Are the Flashy, Gilded Hallboy, but the Imposing Entrance and Only Other Magnificent Features Are Gorgeous Women Tenants and a Haughty Superintendent. nificent New York entrances vante’ baths’ Mrs. amoung the skeleto: and surveys the this Perhaps she bi before. In that eun has set thet nixork * als,” with magnificent views of the Hudson, imposin: d hallboys, large, sunlit bedrooms and “ser-! Which to choose of the glittering array of mag: apartments—all at “moderate rent. is the problem which confronts little Knickerbocker when she sits, scissors in hand, mized remains of the Sunday papers stack of wlvertisements she bas selected for Monday's tour. jas never searched for an apartment ent se will realize before another hn D. Rockefeller or J. Pierpont “Bighty-five dollars.” “Have you anything cheaper?” ] “Yes'm; the back apartment as one less room and {s onl it “Let me see it,” bocker. ‘The back apartment is generally of the railroad variety, which has been described as ‘a telescope, with & window at one end.” “I-I don't think I care to pay 60 much," Mrs. Knickerbocker falters finally. After half a dozen such experiences Mrs. Knickerbocker is no longer ¢ proud, care-free little bride who was given to wondering if any other woman in the world were as happy as she. She has realized that there are thou- Mrs. Knicker- tiona ew jsands of women whose husbands can afiord to pay any price that 1s asked ,for tho gilt discomfort of apart. | ment that she cannot afford. She knows | that these women afe not y better GREELEY* SMITH) Morgan must make a littie money on the side by! than she—“not so good,” ehe says, re- writing the advertisements of New York apartment houses, for no individua less affluent than either of these Mnanc! York as “moderate.” But Mrs, Knickerbocker eallies forth Monday morning with the idea of DOESN’T LIKE TO BE ASKED ing five or six sunlit rooms of @t least moderate stze for an equally | perhans she has) + friend that apart- $10 a month for red to pay #0 nows Mr, Kniek- warrant such vent. i experienced | Monday morning she expects 10 get the) very best to be had in the clty for her) $30 and she takes @ street car to the/ first address, _ To her inexpei Goes not seem strange that a strect number which indicates clearly the middle of @ block should be ad- vertises as “commanding ® TIAg> nificent view of the Mudson.” Aven when se crosses the impressive threshold of the “Knickerbocker Arma” e “Stratford Court” or th. “Golden * {t does not occur to her that » North River would have to change Hy course as often as the Mizsisalpp! ff it had a friendly desire to help ite advertisers to make good. CAUGHT BY FLASHY EN- TRANCES AND BRONZE LAMPS. bly she likes the entrance wit meapecr rugs and tinted marbles, the brons Jamps upheld by opulent Venuses, those faithful percherons of brewery art. To her daszled eye, ike amid such magnificent surroundings will be almost equal to “living in @ hotel,” and this to all feminine soule who haven't tried it and to many who have touches the zenith of luxury and am- on would like to Hai od jartment: . ickerbooker jares pels me engaged at the switc! Board, and the youth after completing | arrangements to take a young lady to the moving pictures that evening looks | up with the languor of a true lotus eater and remarkw that the “superin- tendent ts out. ae on Mrs, Knickerbocker will ‘know that the combination of that gilded entrance and the possession of the superintendent costs money, much more money than ahe can afford to pay, but meantime she is imprease¢ peer "4 much the high firing 20 0 high cost of biuf- poor—at Jernte rental ment enon r monthiy, (4 other people oa air of St. Peter about to caer an easasirebis transient to a 81 a day room, the dusky hallboy te per-| suaded to take down the keys from where they ate hung in the framework of the gilded elevator and to show Mrs, Kniokerbooker the splendid modern apartment, with magnificent view of the Hudson, By way of making Mra, . Knickerbocker feel at ease, he chants | the words of the latest popular song as ho guides the elevator with @ series of folte to the fourth floor, and the pros pective tenant is dazed if not alarmed by the refrato, Medel, on $20 a Week?” Once inside the fourth floor front eeee one oul room wed ip --e tate ae "How Do You Do It, | 1 ‘ers could describe any rental in New | one smat! room papered tn dark green, one dedroom with pink flowers on a white ground, one bedroom with blue flowers on a white ground, one black hole of Ca sts the need of a nary to bathe in it, and one micro- scople i which does not com- municato with the dining room except by the hail. In the interests of accuracy it must be said that she does not see any of thege things till she hus become accus- tomed to the Plutonian twilight of the apartment, Of course, there are two rooms where a person with good eyes might read by daylight for several hours, but one look into the doors of the bedrooms indicates thet Whiatler must have derived his color scheme of “black upon black” from living in a New York apartment. Still, of course, Uttle Mrs, Knickerbocker tells herself that bedrooms really don't need light—| one uses them only to sleep in, etc.— for the lure of that magnificent en- trance ts upon her. ONE HAS TO RISK ONE'S NECK TO SEE THE HUDSON. But ashe misses something, and con) sults her memorandum, “II thought you advertised « view of the Hudson" ‘ea'n,” saya the hall boy, ohcerfully, 's right here!”” He leads the way to the front window, throws it open, jackknites himself o the alll til! Mre. Knickerbocker tear will lose his balance and be hurled to} the pavement below, and points umphantly to the west “There {t 1s, ma'am—over there.” Then he steps aside and offers to let Mrs. Knickerbocker lean from the parapet trie . Knickerbocker, aps other plans for # painless death, declines. “What ‘s the rent of this apartment?” |membering the vortrait of a bona fide| Great-grandfather—-but she is neverthe- less.very uncomfortable and humiliated | and annoyed. FOR “REFERENCES.' | She is asked for “references,” perhaps, | and the great-grandfather turns over in his grave. Mrs, Knickerbocker doesn't ike it elther, Perhaps she is sianding in tho gilded lobby of an apartment house in earnest {conference with superintende | The gilt elevator opens, the gilt elevator boy rushes forward to open the door. Me is followed by a suet face, a head that has robbed the peroxide bottle and several » & gold bag, a Pome- venien. A limousine uffs at the oor. The superintendent bows low, the iallboy helps the Pome- rauinu and the Pomeranian Venus into the oar, am. the superin- tendent, resuming his haughty mazner, turns to Mrv. Kniocker- booker. “Of course, we require itferences, the names of two persons who can tet to your husband's financia! abilit But Mrs, Knickerbocker has fled. She) has yet to realize that be it ever a humble there is no apartment ho without its quota of gilded visions who toll not neither do they spin, but Solo- mon in all his glory not arrayed even as th ] ————. Wife and Three Rabies Hear Man Sentenced. When she heard her husband, Salvator Bintolino, of No. 470 Hicks street, sen- | tenced for not more than twenty-eight nor less than fourteen months for burg lary by Judge Cantine of Ulster, sitting lin Brooklyn, this afternoon, Mrs. Sinto- lino created such a aceno that she had! to be carried from the court room. In} the corridor she fainted and had to be} attended by @ physician. ‘The womar was sitting at the back of the room with a baby in her arms and two little | girls clinging to her skirts when sen- \tence was pronounced, She ran forward ser ing until she was intercepted by court officers, Sun rises Sandy Govern Hell Gate We comply with the law in Fire Prevention Please co-operate with us by passages, stiirs and fire-escapes free from ot allow waste or rubbish to accuumu- tions, Do n late, Do not light mateb carelessly. pentine and all dangerous ‘of the above placard about upon request, 7 Do not bring lighted cigars or cigar- ettes into these premises. Benzine, naphiha, gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, tur- flulds prohibited Give evidence of your desire to prevent fire and lows of iife by banel: CARBONA CO, FIRE PREVENTION DEPT, 146 W. 28d Bb, N. Copies of this placard FREE on request. keeping doorways, hes and throw them aw y of Dasiness. ye . ¥ WY place mass ae ene nam has b duty, state tory for Soci! WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 ment through a decision of the Supreme Court to-day falled to get $119,000 addl- owned by When 196 from Paris for Mra. Lyeda, only a paid on them, or} ‘This was under a classl-| floation of the ornaments as pearls in the naiural state, not etrung or set.” ver since the Government Practical strung.” MONDAY, FEBR ER KEEPS HOUSE| Heartbreaking Experience of Hunting a Flat in New York—Second of a Series of) “p SEEING THAT “SUNNY BED Room” ‘MRS. LEEDS WNS DUTY ON PEARLS {Long Fight of Government in| Famous Case Ends in Vic- Woman. 1 du Mrs. , William York and Newport the pearls were nt. duty w 0, heen eeking to col claiming the pe It based this la ments that Mrs, on a necklace of Lee pearia in Paris before they ported, UARY 1912. 19, 1912. | PAT, MAT AND.AL! MONY ALL ON 108 IN WHEELER SUIT corneal Poor Hubby Finds Matrimony a Lemon,.’Cause Patrimony Wort Pay His Alimony. | Alert Gallatin Wheeler Jr.. { “the pretty girl in the red tights, ‘is most deucedly broke, donfher-know. Jif tt wasn't for the money his papa |kives him he would find it looming hard to pay carfare, buy) ciwarettes or et a manicure, And he used to be | ‘auch @ big apender and carry a million Vaottars in a satchel and all that sort him that much to pay allmony, Mr. Wheeler took the witness stand himaelf to-day and told hie own sorrow- ful story, POOR MR. WHEELER! AIN'T IT AWFUL HOW MONEY GOES? But before Mr. Wheeler testified Mra. Annle B. Carlstedt of Chicago, mother of Mrs, Wheeler, took the stand. She wan asked to describe the atyle in which Mr. and Mra, Wheeler lived. “It was elegant,” she said, “the finest T ever saw. There money could buy.” ‘Thon Attorney John V. Bouvier jr. tor Mr. Wheeler made his opening state- ment. He pathetically told the tale of Mr. Wheeler's financial distress, Did Mr. Wheeler ever have money? The tender-hearted listeners held their breath, Indeed he did, What did he do with it? Well, there was J. 1. Rusaell & Co. J, B. Russell & Co. was a sort of sponge to soak up @ young man's gumey, alas! How much of Mr, Wheeler's money sponged away? He put in 35 per cent. of the firm's capital. There was $110,000 in cash, And it was his were “set or | ery own, ‘Then there was his seat on rely on the | ts) Stock Exchange—value $78,000. It ds wore the | Was really, really his, too, And there were {m- | Was $78,000 worth of stocks and bonds ‘that belonrs1 to him, too. Besides i ‘as everything that ~The Govern- | pearls B. Leeds of imported in — ; Jot thing! | ; i } ‘These pitiful revelations were made J In the separation and alimony ault of ‘ bs Mrs, ‘Claudia Cariatedt Wheeler, on trial | to-day in Part IIT. of the Supreme Court | P before Justice Newburger. Mra, Wheeler a doesn't wear red tights any more, She used to when she played a part {n “The| Mandarin,” but to-day she appeared In| court in @ mont fetching blue hobble now has @ judicial order for $6,000 @ year alimony, but dear me, she it can't Hve on that, she says. Her tastes there are simple and she has suffered, oh! " so much, #0 she could manage to live | sort of lovely female hermit life on \$10,000 « year, but nothing less, Judge— |my, my, not j Mr. Wheeler doosn't question all that. He's entirely too nice man to say |that any Indy should try to live on| less than $10,000 a year, but, by Jove, | the $10,000 because papa won't give a 0 per cent BY¥Saie Grecian-Treco Nos. 1 T Chemises . Night Robes Corset Cover | Corset Cover _ lit over the figure like the skin itself. McGibbon & Co. | (Formerly Broadway and 10th St.) Values in French Hand-made The Bien Jolie Grecian- Treco is a distinct Corset innovation, combining Fashion and Health. Grecian-Treco is a peculiar kmtted fabric, so strong it holds the figure in firm natural lines; yet so light, soft and flexible, it offers free- dom and suppleness in every movement. The Grecian- Treco is the only Corset ever designed for gencral trade which has a seamless bip. his added feature makes the garment In Various Styl $5.00, $7.50, $10. Bien Jolie Grecian-Tre ed at the following store To get smooth, unbrok Corset, the bien Jolie jiere aid. 500, $1.00, $1.50 to $12, Be>jamin & Johnes, Newark, N. J. above your your best Have Removed to an} and 3 West 37th Street O0-MORROW | Undergarments. | . . . . + 1.25 1.50 . . : . 2.75 3.25 | andSkirt. =... (8.25 i and Drawers. . . 3.75 husband § vas $501,000 In bonds of the | of his beauty? Woe, woe, the nel Company, a@ Chicago! value of these possessions, namely poration. Those ponds Mr. Stock Exchange seat, is $78,000, with # for nearly twice that amounts that, there note T subway r borrowed from papa now wi is all ths wealth whete are the anows of yes J.-B. Russell & Co, were bond and stock brokers They endeavored to Ah, 1, you might say price paid for the props erty was $46,000, and about $12,000 more Was spent on improvements. When J. B, Russell & Co. first began Tieu J. B. Mussel | Dueiness in LNG Mr Wheeler was to $15.00) salary and $5,000 for ex- *, but the firm, he said, never aid any profits, so he really owed all ‘he actually drow, his salary being de- ‘pendent on the concern’s earning the of excitement | money to pay it. nd the m —_—_——_ pay the loan was ralved ple “Fatted Calf” a Day Late. incidentally Mr. Wheeler's se: ‘There will be no performance to-night Bt Xchange was “hooked ot “The ratte Gait" at Daly's Thee- y of $160,009, held by J. Kennedy | tre. A change in the cast made it nec- & Co, which Mr. Wheeter ae |CAaeey 10 wale fe wath Feeaeny or sprung a leak or something—anyway, they wouldn't fuat & Co, bougit outrleht $2,000,000 worth | ha of them, borrowing the money from | Kuhn, Loe & Co, to do so. Kuhn, Loeb & Co, called = allowing for another day's re- umed personally on behalf of his firm. | Rearsal. Nekets purchased for to-night's What ts the present value of Mr. | performance will be honored Tuesday Wheeler'a earthly possessions, cxolusive Advance Suit Sale! Actual $20 Value 15 To-morrow, Tuesday and those for Tuesday, on Wednesday. “One Style This is but one Pictured Truly a marvel in pore workmanship, handsomely satin lined. Alterations FREE SALEAT ALL THREBSTORES Mark | Specials in - a . Ladies’ Hosiery | Ladies’ Black Silk Hose, $1.00 Pair— | Guaranteed to give satisfactory wear. baat | {ll prevent drop stitching below the welt. Lisle lined | Inner soles. Also with Cotton feet. Black Li Cott half dozen Tiel ond Coton Som, Sas) out 'wo-toned and Richelieu Rib Boot sizes. 35c apair. Values SOc and 7Sc a pair. LY hen 1.85 All shades Marabout Boas, Scarfs, Etc. We also place on Sale to-morrow a new line of Marabout Collarettes and Scarfs in black and smoke, at $5.50, 6.00, 7.50 to 28.00 each. ato at He 18 to Ege each. ‘eas ae so specially luced to close Promptly, Ostrich and Marabout Muffs, black and white, at $15.00. Value $25.00each. Stoles to match, $16.75. Value $27.00. Black and Natural Marabout Muffs, $5.00. Value $8.00, Black and Natural Marabout and Ostrich Muffs, $6.75. Value $10.00. Marabout Stoles, $3.95. Regular price $6.50. James McCutcheon & Co., 5th Ave. & 34th St., N.Y. waaereatforie Stocks and Bonds’ Wanted by many readers of the Morning and Sunday NEW YORK WORLD who outnumber, in New York City, the readers of the Herald, Jimes, Sun and Tribune ADDED TOGETHER, see how The World leads in “QUALITY” advertising: Or the HIGHEST CLASS of ADVERTISEMENTS—those, for instance, which SEEK CAPITAL FOR INVESTMENT— REAL ESTATE ADS. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ADS, FINANCIAL ADS. There were printed last year 179,022 in THE WORLD. 26,463 MORE than the Herald. If World readers were not INVESTORS this truly remarkable World lead in “Quality” advertising could never have been estab- lished and maintained,