Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-01
LIFE ~ GOTHAM.


New York Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.
The surrogate has a perp,eXiIg case before
him in the Tilby will contest. The decedent was
aWidOwer of three-scorc and ten with large
circle of children and grandchildren, who ex-
pected to inherit his estate Immediately after
his death. however. a widow appears. producing
Will made in her favor. which the other heirs
now contest The deceased was Washington
market butcher, and had accumulated 500 OOG
which Is sufficient to occasion a sharp battle IL
our courts.
The Badger case (Which has Just been settled
~ COmprOmiSe) Is of still more remarkable,
character. the facts being as follows:-Jacot
}ao!-,cr recently died IN his seventy-siXth wear
lie was rich old bachelor, and had for many
ears been at the head of an opu,ent shipping
..cuse. His heirs proceeded to divide the prop
trty when q claim madc hy Il woman who
teserted her dover right as his widow Fo.
ohirty-1ive years she and John Baker had held
1onubiai relations. their home being i'm Brook
iyn. Baker had always conducted hiIlsef in
an exemplary manner. providing literally. AMI
enjoying the respect of the HegitjOrhooti
very day he Went to New York, and returned
at night. and this uniform life was only termi-
mated by his sudden demise. Ii was then
earned that john Baker" of Brooklyn, and
Jacob Badger, OF New YORK, were the same.
ana the woman was allowed dover of $42 000.
New York contains many such instances
when find protection in that mantle which a
great city throws over society. l well re.nen-
Der the flour dealer, Daniel Angerine, who
always passed for bachelor. After his death,
however. it was learned that he had family,
which had only known him under q false name
was also we'll acquainted with another bach
elOr business man, (the late II. n. Ferris), who
kept his residence secret from even his clerks
Every morning he appeared at the store and at
night he lett, but no one knew whittier he went,
ana his employees became SO accustomed to this
mystery that it ceased to be a matter of COM
ment. Eventually Ferris was taken i'll and died
and it was then discovered that he had Il private
establishment in an obscure street far up town.
k. q. Schuyler, formerly the noted railway con-
tractor. also passed for a bachelor until his
failure brought out the fact that he had wife
and family in which he had long been known by
the name of Splcer. / could mention q man of
wealth and OF high family who passes in the
Fifth Avenue circle as a bachelor. but his friends
have long been convinced that he has a wife
somewhere in the city. Some of these secret
marriages occur in the following" manner: Young
men see the impossblity Of supporting those
i0nable establishment, and hence, going from one
extreme to another, they will sometimes marry
the daughters OF their washerwOmen simply
As such q marriage would distress their friends
they keep it secret and pass for bachelors,
being thus enabled to retain their position in
society. Such are among the strange features
in metropolitan life. No man. however can say
he marries below his station if his wife, however
humble. is of decent character and possesses in
teili@ence That false notion concerning men
marrying beneath them las led to vast extent
OF mischief