The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-06
JEANNE KEPT TABS
! Chef Ballard of the Hotel
Martin Sued for
Divorce
AS "
NICE GUINGS-OH IN BOWERS STREET
A Fair Soubrette Breaks Up a
Happy Home on Jersey
City Heights.
NICE GUINGS-ON IN BOWERS STREET

Monsieur Justin Ballard, who COM
mands q regiment of pots and Kettles
in the kitchen of the Hotel Martin, Uni
versity place, New York city, is in hot
ter water than he is accustomed to use
4 when he makes some of these famous
soups of his. His wife Augustine has
petitioned Chancellor McGill for a d.
vorce and she has a warrant for ms
arrest if ever he puts his foot on Jersey
soil.
Counsellor Warren Dixon, who repre-
sents Mrs. Ballard, asked the Chancellor
this morning to continue the case for a
week, when he will ask for alimony and
counsel fees. Miss Mary Philbrook, the
new woman lawyer, was on hand to rep
resent the chef of the Gordon bleu.
Monsieur and Madame were married
in 1888, and their life at No. 113 Bowers
street. on the Heights, was as delicious
as the fifty-cent menus with a half bottle
of vinegar thrown in, he was in the habit
of preparing. Madame some time age
left home for a visit to friends and dur
ing her absence cher Justin so far for
got her and himself as to bring home in
a cab every night a fascinating SOU
brette with captivating black eyes and
a bewitching figure. She was Mad
amoiselle Louise Saule, with a tempera-
ment something K that of her Biblical
namesake.
1t happened u9hatU Madame Augustine
left behind hsFqa Servant. jeans Cas-.
teran, to keepatabsspn her husband, ana
Jeanne made astonishing reports to her
mistress of masters Ygoing's IN" Back
home in a hurry came Madame and ad-
ministered a kind of sauce to her hus-
band infinitely more piquant than the
.eTartare'' he used at the Hotel Martin.
She upbraided him as an migrate and in
front Of Jeanne denounced him and the
fair Louise. - The latter, she said had
..une caractere infame'' and her hus-
band was .sune espece d'imbecfie." FL
nally she packed up her bag and left
the house. Jeanne was promptly bounced
by Monsieur who was deeply touched at
this return for odd dollars given to buy
ribbons with and at the same time to
hold her tongue.
A few days afterwards Madame re-
turned to get some things" and found
that Monsieur had put new locks on the
door and a stern visaged female, one
Mrs. eCharlex, was in possession. He had
emoved a lot of the furniture and was
preparing to remove everything when
Madame objected. Mrs. Charlex showed
fight and a battle was imminent.
In the meantime the servant Jeanne,
in revenge for her dismissal, turned anna
teur detective and discovered the chef
and Mademoiselle Saule living together at
No. 168 Waverly place, New York City.
The chef had dropped the name of Balord
and assumed that of Saule. This discovery
was promptly made known to Madame
Ballard, who Immediately consulted Coun-
sellor Dixon, and a petition for absolute
divorce was filed.
Monsieur fed to Miss Philbrook, who,
lit is Iunderstood, has filed an answer, de-
nying the charges and setting up the
Platonic1 affection excuse so far as the
Saule woman is concerned He is in
receipt of a salary of $40 a month and the
house at No. 113 Bowers street was given
him and his wife by Mrs. Betty Olden-
burg in 1873. Because of the furniture
which he has removed to New York which
Mrs. Ballard insists is hers, a warrant is
hanging over his head.
Next week the case will be partially
aired on the motion for alimony.