Arizona republican., 1899-02-01
MARITAL WOE OF SLOENES
Divorce Suit Unearths a Scandal in
 Highest Society.

New York. Jan. 31-The marital troubles of Henry T. Sloane, the mil lionaire carpet manufacturer, and his wife, a prominent leader of New York society, were first hinted at publicly on October 1 last On that day MT. Sloane
 transferred to his wife their elegant residence at g East Sevelty-second street. Because of the nigh social and financial standing of the family no guesses were made in the public prints as to what this really signiied.
 But sufficient facts had bean gathered by December 20 to warrant their pub lication. The general public then kn5W for the first time that Mir. Sloane had shut the door of his princely man sion behind him and had gone to live at a hotel. Enough was said authori- tatively to warrant the conclusion that proceedings for a legal separation would follow sooner or later. The whole miserable story came out gradu- ally, the nan.e of tke man whom MT. Sloane charges with being the caU>e of the trouble not being made public un- til today.
 Mrs. Sloane was Miss Jessie A. Rob- bins, sister of Herbert D. Robbins. who is himself a 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, ard daugh- ter of the former governor of Mary land. Their father, junior partner in the drug house of McKesson & Rob bins, gave to his children all the ad- vantages that equip children fo- the social life.
 When Miss Robbins, whose beauty made her a belle at the instant of her debut. was married to Henry T. Sloane, it was a marriage of much significance in the "4O0' By it Miss Robbins be- came allied with the Vanderbilts, De- pews and others of the greatest fami- lies in metropolitan aristocracy.
 Her marriage only widened her field for social triumph. All the Sloane wealth was at her disposal and in fore ing her way to the joint leadership of society with Mrs. Ogden Mills she used it lavishly but with wisdom In estab- fishing themselves iu the social van guard there was need of place fit for entertainment on the scale that the SlOanes planned. Then the house in East Seventy-second street was built It was accounted the finsst home in that district of fine homes.
 Mrs Sloane and Mrs. Mills. with the autocratic power which they had ac- quired in society, decided to overturn the social schedule that Ward McAliis- ter and Mrs. Astor had drawn up. They the names of many esti- mable people and built up on the ruins of the 400" the 'Seventy-iive." Trouble began at this point, for it was soon whispered about at Newport, where the SlOanes had a summer residence-it was at first ascribad to jealousy-that there was something wrong ill the Sloane family
 Finally the following story assumed tangible shape:
 Some time in early August Henry T. Sloane left his splendid cottage at Reef Point, at Newport, to run down to New York. There is a little hotel at the loot of Thames street, called the Com merc1aL If the great merchant missed ms boat or his train 9 carriage would have taken him back to Reel Point in a Jl1fy. But it did not. The hotel was convenient, and he registered there. naturally under name other than his own, for 1t 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 rot all he had hoped. DS II U OIOCh O4 Iu6I6dDOulS ne had had enough of it and decided that his own jewel of a place was better shelter after all. So he returned to Reef Point. And it was late and there was g guest there to whose presence he objected
 When he appeared next day there was no mark of violence of temper and overwhelming consciousness of injury. He stormed, as angry men will. He forgot the chief danger which eternal- ly 6esets people in society. He de- clared-in truth had declared the night before-that he would begin legal ac- tlon at cncs, regardless of what the end might be.
 Cn the advice c9 friends there was a truce, which amounted to a probation, with definite conditions. Both made Concessions and the anger vas hidden, and to cover everything LID from prv-