Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-24

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New York. Dec 49, 2s-The pub
LEGATION Of the tal\ment ~ Henry r.
Sloane and his vile have sepafasod sat
loose all the tongues which for months
past have been under close rein on the
subject, says the Journal. The whole
uncomfortable story was gone over, in
clubs and at theatres and other public
places, and its moral was painted In
dustriously.
Mrs. Sloane was Miss Jessie A. Rob-
bins. sister of Herbert d. Robbins, who
is himself member of many clubs and
a figure prominent in society and who
little more than year ago welded
in Paris Miss Mary Helen Carroll. sis
ter OF Royal Phelps Carroll, and daugh-
ter of the former Governor OF Mary
land. Their father. junior partner in
the drug house OF McKesson & Rob-
bins. gave his children all the advan-
tages that equip children for the social
life.
~ When Miss Robins. whose beauty
mle her a belle at thebnstant of her
debH was married TO IL AT. Sloane,
it was NNarriage of mu n0mn
in the FoihN Hundred. b
bins became ked with
bilts, Depews am ~
families in metropolis
marriage only widened h(
cial triumph. All the SloanN
was at her disposal, and In forciN
way to the joint leadership OF society
which of late she has enjoyed, she used
it lavishly, but with wisdom.
In establishing themselves in the So
cial vanguard there was need of place
fit for entertainment on the scale that
they planned. Then the house on East
Seventy street was built. 10
was accounted the finest home In that
district of fine homes, and great fol-
lowing built after them in the same
court" n4ighborhood- such. for in-
stance, as Il
Abercombie Nlrden and Col
other near neighbor is Mir
Belmont.
Entertainment at Reef POI
Sloane home, went on With
splendor which had marked
then, somehow, there was a littf
over the sunshine. a gloom OF
L., k.,4 oil lac
smiled. That was the cruelest OF
Then somebody whispered. and
said something in an undertUrd
then, on the gay summer stage. there
were scenes set for something not so
unlike the DIANA named "Othello."
Some time IA early August Henry r.
society,". has made no bones
Of telling this story. over to itself OK
late-Henry r. Sloane Taft his splendid
cottage Of Reef Point to run down TO
New York Mr. Sloane did not com
to Nav York. There Is a lfttie~hpt
at the, foot OF It's status and points
correct picture of it in the mind
called the Commercial Hotl
great merchah missed his
train a carriage wsuld tave
back to Reef Point IN a il
did not. The Commercial Ifocs, "
convenient, and he registered Their
naturally under a name other than bic
own, for it would be as well Newport
should not know that he had become
tired Of Reef Point.
But it would seem the hotel accom-
modations were not all he had adopted.
By IL o'clock or whereabouts he had
had enough of It, and decided that his
own level OF a place was better shell
ter after all. So he returned TO Reef
Point And 1t was late, and there was
a guest there 10 whose presence he OBJ
jected. About the manner and the
vigor of the objection there are two
versions Of the story, varying, perhaps.
according to the social value Mrs.
Sloane placed upon the Teiator Of II
when she revamped the society sched-
ule. One said he was calm and made
his protest with dignity. Another
draws different picture a picture 81
q rich man, hurt to the heart and rag
ing at the hurt
There was consultation, truce
and then western journey which
lasted for a week. Gossip was revived
shortly after the couple returned. and
finally the statement OF Mr. Sloane
came az an unhappy climax for the
time being. There will be divorce. n
sloane's declaration makes that pIa
1t makes plain as well hts consct
ress that he Is In the right Of the
mater, and that the children, e
have been made as bold AMI
social plans as brilliant, bT