Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-18
NEWPORT INTERESTED.
Mrs. Vanderbilt to Open Her
 Marble Palace There.
MAY BE A STEP TOWARD DIVORCE.

hd1 Db A o4hI 1OWhh D1NOhOns Just as the Rest er Society Is Getting Ready to Leave Mrs. While K. Prepares to Ar rive-Perhaps to Establish n Residence In Rhode Island.
 NEWPORT L. l., Sept. ls.-At the flag end of tho season, when everybody else is getting out of Newport. Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt has given orders to have the famous marble palace put in ordor. Her trusted housekecper, Mrs. Bolliet, is here experimenting the work
 Mrs. Vanderbilt was in Paris yesterday. If the present plans arc carried out, she will not arrive in Newport until October. By that time all tho cottage shutters will be up, all the society people will be gone, and so far as the locality where the mar ble palace is situated is concerned New port will be as stupid and uninteresting as a fishing villlge
 Therc win be no soc'el life there for Mrs. Vanderbilt then. She must put up with tho companionship of a few shop keepers wives and possibly a dozen or more secluded society ladies. who make themselves moro or less conspicuous by driving in dogcarts in the afternoon and causinS people to wonder why they stop there.
 Divorce Easy There.
 The popular supposition is that society ladies from all the country over who spend drcary winter in Newport remote from everything that makes life worth living to society woman, do so for the purpose of establishing the statutory resi- dcnce for divorce proceedings. In nine cases out of ten this proves to be the fact. Next to South Dakota it is easier to get di- vorce in Rhode Island than it is in any other state In tho Union. Besides 1t Is easy to run down to New York for week of enjoyment, while South Dakota is in the wilderness.
 The divorce laws of Rhode Island are extremely liberal. Hero is a summary of them:
 Any case where marriage is void or voidable by law, where either party is for crime deemed civilly dead. or from ab- sence or other circumstances presumed to be dead; extreme cruelty, willful deser- tion for five years or for shorter time, in discretion of court; continued drunken ness, neglect or refusal on part of husband to suitably provide for wifc, or for any other gross misbchavior and wickcdness in either of the parties rcpugnant to or in violation of the marriage covenant, and where parties have lived apart for 10 years Residence of one year required. No statutory provision as to marriage"
 There has bccn no reconciliation. This is stated upon the authority of the person who gave tho orders to hayo the Newport house put in readiness.
 No RcconcilIatIoD.
 To the uninitiated it may seem that the order to open the marble palace looks like n reconciliation. To people who know anything at all about Newport in winter 1t indicates exactly the reverse. It Is prac- tically penal servitude to n woman of Mrs. Vanderbilt's calibcr. Look at tho con trast! All other fashionable folk arc shut ting up their homes, boarding up the doors and windows, putting chains across the front gates, fencing in tho private roads, sending home their horses and dogs, and in fact doing everything possible to make tho Cliffs bowling wilderness. Newport in winter is the embodiment of misery.
 Just at the time of this exodus Mrs. Vanderbilt orders her house thrown open and says that she Is going to reside thero for the winter with her children. Moth | ing is said about NIT, Vanderbilt going | there. In fact, he is not going. When Mrs Vanderbilt reached Paris with her children and began to make prep arations for coming home MT. Wander bilt was with some friends in his shoot | ing box in Scotland. No communication has taken place between them except through the intervention of third parties since a period some weeks previous to tho time that the story of their quarrel was printed and the reasons for it. | Mrs. Vanderbilt has not yet dctcrmin | cd her date of sailing. She may go tC London first It is expected that she will l reach New York the latter part of thi, | month.
 Mir. Vanderbilt will not accompany her | He will probably cross in the Valiant SC as to reach here about the middle of Octo Der. He has business appointments mad, long ago which ho must kcop, and it Is or account of these business appointments that he is coming home.
 There is not the rcmotcst possibility, a, | matters stand just now, that his wife will be in New York when he arrives. But il spite of the order opening the Newpor house sumo friend of the family claims that n reconciliation is not yet beyond range of possibi ity. In fact, when MT and Mrs Vanderbilt como within the in nuence of their immediate relatives it il considered likely that the proposed appli cation for formal separation will b abandoned. Other friends take a differ ent view, and this latest move seems t justify 1t.
 To EstabIi~h Residence.
 Mrs. Nanderbilt's housckeeper arrive, in Newport on Sunday and began activ preparations at once.
 It soon became the chief topic of con vcrsation in the clubs and among the fev cottagcrs who remain there Opinion wero divided some folks claim to hav received information by letter that n rec onciliation had been effected, and tha the Nanderbilts would reopen their Ney York house soon after Thanksgiving
 The more knowing ones secuted thi proposition for reasons mentioned in thi article. They claimed to know MT. an, Mrs. Vanderbilt better than to assum that they would keep open house in New port when there was nobody there to par ticipate in their hospitality. It was ap parent to them that Mrs. Vanderbilt ha taken this step to establish her legal res idence. In fact, the marble palace belong to her outright. Her husband gavo it [ her as a birthday present.
 Since the house has been closed n watch man has been in charge of its 50 cd rooms filled with furniture that Mir | Vanderbilt has gathered in her travel: Twelve women were working around tn house yesterday, scrubbing it and Gcttin everything in readiness.
 | Cornelius Vanderbilt started for Ne'