The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
ONE SPOUSE DIsGUSTED.
Tried to Secure a Divorce,
but There Was No Knot
to Sever.
NOTED CAREER IN COLORADO
Fall of Cultured Financier by His
EIopement With Kangaroo
Dancer.

NEW YORK, N. Y, June 25.-Mrs.
Rachel Greig finds herself in very pecu-
liar position. She married Carlisle Nor
wood Greig on February 81, 1892, at Bos-
ton, and after living with him for several
years she says she discovered he was a
married man and the father of three
children. She Immediately left him and
applied to the court to have the marriage
annulled. Judge Beach, before whom the
case was tried, has just decided that proof
of marriage of Mrs. Greig No. is in
sufficient, as is also that of the prior mar
riage to the woman with whom Greig is
now living, and therefore he connot grant
her the decree. Mrs. Greig No. was
formerly Miss Allen. She was born in
San Francisco in 1866. She is the mother
of one child, of whom Greig is the father.
DENVER, CoLo., June 25.-The New
York Dispatch of to-day, telling of the
career of Carlisle Norwood Greig and his
double marriage, is interesting to resi-
dents of this State, where Greig lived for a
year or two and cut wide swath. He
came to Colorado from Albany, N.
Y, with letters from Bishop Doane
and several prominent citizens of the
capital of the Empire State, which
aided him in securing position in the
Bank of Glenwood Springs. This position,
however, was too contracted for Mr.
Greig's abilities and he soon drifted to
Denver, where he became member of the
exclusive clubs, director of one or two in
vestment companies and assisted in organ
izing the Denver Water Storage Company,
an enterprise with capital of several
millions.
In 1891 he went East to sell the bonds of
this company, and opened a luxurious
suite of offices at 45 Broadway, New York
At this time CDR. Bill'' was the reigning
success at the Garden Theater, and its fea-
ture was Miss Ray Allen, who, as the kan
garoo-dancer, had the metropolis at her
feet. Greig, in his new position as "a man
about town." met Miss Allen and became
infatuated. He forgot his business, his
wife and children, and one day eloped
with the pretty kicker, the flash of whose
skirts had set many New York Johnnie
half daft.
The pair proceeded west and it appears
were married. Greig's money giving out,
the new bride left her associate at Kansas
City, and he proceeded to San Francisco.
There he spent season around the news
paper offices and became quite we'll known
on the coast. Finally his first wife after
hearing Of his escapades rendered the olive
branch and Greig returned East to
Chicago, where he obtained employment
with Lord IL Norris. Then he became the
business manager of the Inter Ocean, but
retired from that position upon
the purchase of the paper by
William Penn Nixon. Then he went
to New York, assuming prominent place
on the World. 1t was while in New York
that Miss Allen, whose popularity had
greatly waned in this interval, first heard
that Greig was married man years be-
fore she met him. She immediately began
proceedings, and to avoid awkward conse-
quences he took steamer for London,
where he now resides. He is person of
considerable culture, and his friends say
would have been man of decided mark
in the financial world had he not been in
fatuated by the kangaroo-dancer, whose
unsuccessful application for divorce was
told in these dispatches this morning,