New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-18
REBUKED BYJUDGE BARNETT
MAN MUST TREAT HIS WIFE PROPERLY.
JACOB A. VANDERBILT ORDERED TO INCREASE THE
MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR HIS wIFE-Affi-
DAVIS ON WHICH THE VIGOROUS

MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR HIS w1FE-Affi
pAvIrs ON WHICH THE VIGOROUS
DECISION WAS BASED.
Jacob Hand Vanderbilt jr., IS being sued In the
supreme Court by Mary Vanderbilt, his wife, ior
| limited divorce on the ground of abandonment anu
failure to support her The defendant Is the son oi
| CAPTAIN Vanderbilt and cousin of William H. Wander
hut The case came before Judge Barrett at Chambers
IN Anr,I on n motion by sackett and Bennett, Mrs
vanderbts counsel, for temporary amony and conn-
sci fee Judge Barrctts decision was fled yesterday.
| The plaintiff says In her papers that she is the
daughter OF parents in humble circumstances, living
in Central NewYork; that she made the acquaintance
of the defendant while visiting In this city, and that he
afterward visited her at her country home and nnay
made PROPOSAL of marriage, which she accepted sew
era months before the marriage took place. He toid
her that his first wife dead and that he had TWO
little children who cared for by his father jacob
Hard Vanderbilt ST., at his home on staten lsiahd' lie
said that his father millionaire and brother OF
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt that hc was in receipt OF
an annuity under the Will Of William II. Vanderbilt or
s2 0oO and that his father also made him an annual
allowance OF 81 900 and that he besides the owner
of personal property Of various kinds and OF consider
able value He told her. however that his father had
been very angry ana had raised great disturbance at
tho time Of his former marriage because 1t vas mado
without his consent and because the bride was poor
and that II he should learn Of the contemplated mar
rage with her. his father would never forgive him.
Therefore, it was necessary that they should be married
under an assumed name, and in order completely to de-
ccive his father, he would have to spend portion OF
the time each year at his homo Staten Island where
he lived with him.
MARRIED UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME
The plaintiff says she consented TO this, and that
they were married under assumed name In this
CITY in the spring of 1885, They began housekeeping
in furnished fiat In Seventy where they
lived until October Then they rented a little house
In Harlem and lived there until April, 1887. During
this time Mr.. Vanderbilt was absent at his fathers
home portion of each week, in order to keep up the
deception as he told her.
They then hired a furnished cottage near Long
Branch and lived there from the spring Of 1887 up 10
the middle of june They had very many househoid
articles and great quantity Of slvcrware which no
had given to her and told should be hers. In the
early part Of June 1887 for the first time since their
marriage, he absented himself for more than weoA
from the house without giving any reason, ana "hci
at length he returned on June 20 his manner o"aru
her was entirely changed Instead OF the loving nus
band he had at times before bcen he had become u-
kind and harsh in his manner and speech toward her'
This he explained by saying that his father had learned
of the marriage and very angry. His father de-
clared he said that they must separate and that he
was 10 have nothing to do with her; falling this
| he would disinherit him ard his two children, ana
further II he found that he violated this injunction
he would throw him out Of doors He said there was
nothing else for him but to follow his fathers COM
| mand.
Mrs Vanderbilt told him that she thought they could
live on the income which he had assured to him and
take care Of the children well, and she wanted him
| to do this. His reply was that this
| would be impossible His life had been
such that he could give up what he had been &C
| customed to enjoy. lie added that his father In
sisted upon their leaving the Long Branch House, and
| II Tie Ife ia onul1O
some place else. She begged him to 20 back TO his
father ask the old TO come TO her and talk the
matter over IN which she believed she could in
duce him to relax his stern decision. Her husband
promised to do this, and went away. The next time
she saw him he told her that his father was Tmcr than
ever, and that he refused to her. lie asserted,
BESIDES that the old had cut off HIS previous al
| lowance Of 81 200 year.
| VISITING HER HUSBAND ON STATEN ISLAND
The plaintiff also states her affidavit that june
% thore was meeting in this city between Mr. Van
derbilt, tho husband; Augustus c. Brown, Captain
| vanderblts lawyer, and herself and her counsel,
| Henry W. sackctt On that occasion1Mr Vanderbilt
| said that If there separation he would give
| her 1000 O year, but that he must follow his
| fathers wishes and give her up. sho went back
! to the New-Jersey cottage and remained about two
weeks without having received any communication
| or money from tho defendant. Tho household bills
for June then coming in and she had nothing 10
pay them with. She went down TO staten island 10
see the defendant his fathers house. He again do
cared that his mind made up to do as his father
demanded and he could not live with her longer
She replied that She could not return to New-Jcrsey
she had money and that there was no other place
| left her 10 60. He babe her so to the Wellington
Hotel on Forty-sevenhst and said that he would pay
tho bill She remained there about week, but he gave
her no money and she obliged to soil her ewelry
in order to pay her hotel bill and meet other expenses
In the beginning Of July her husband went to the
Wellington Hotel and took her to an expensive board
ing house in Fifthave but left her without any ad-
ditional funds. day or two aforward he sent her
telegram, in which he said
Have been to New.Jersey. Packed trunks Sent them
| to your house to-day. Had to do It, JACK.
| 4 few days later he removed from the New-Jersey
house to his fathers house on Staten Island all the
valuable svcrware and some other household articles
| he had previously given to her.
| SIXTY DoLLARA A MONTH RECEIVED.
| From June 90 TO the time that the action was
| taken in July 1887, the only money means which
the plaintiff had received from hor husband was 80
| which he gave her in June About August 20 she re-
ceved telegram announcing her brothers death In
| Central Now-York, and upon that fact being
communicated to tho defendants counsa
s5o was sent to her since that
time 600 month has been regularly sent her through
her counsel She attended her brothers funeral and
remained at her old homo until October, when she re
ceived a telegram from Mr.. Vanderbilt, asking her TO
| meet him on her way TO Ncw-Yora- She met him and
he took her to boarding house, where she has since
| been-Alrs Kline's, No 90 East Forty'seventh-st.
There their correct name Of Vanderbilt was given.
The defendant picked out room for her at s15
week. and when the plaintiff suggested that that was
too high price, he said that he wanted her to have
good place as that, and assured her he would send
her sufficient money to enable her pay that amount
for board. But he didn't and she received nothing
up to the time of the making OF tho motion, but tho
| $50 a month. She found herself unable 10 retain
els and had TO take an unheated hall bedroom,
where she has been living during the last winter with
the result that she contracted a cold became
seriously ILL., and unable for lack OF funds 10 pay
ply sican or 10 procure suitable clothing for winter,
| or other necessities Her husband refused also
allow hor take out Of the storage warehouse frnl-
| ture which had been given TO her when they
| living in Harlem, and which had been stored In his
| name when she desired TO make other arrangements
| for moro economical living.