New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
COLLINS SEEKS A DIVORCE.
ACCUSES HIS WIFE OF FAITHLESS CON
DUCT IN EUROPE.
FIRST MARRIED A GRANDDAUGHTER OF
COMMODORE VANDERBILT AMI
WAS SEPARATED.

Clarence Lionel Collins. member Oh tne
r,o,asa,a d,veoods firm of Within Collins. OF
No. H. worth-st, has begun an action IN 'he
S,,n-epe Court for an absolute divorce from
his wife Rosalba Beecher Collins, on the srouho
of alleged faithIessness in Paris and other cities
In Europe with DR.. Rykert. an American ueii
tist and Thomas Pearsan Thorn, an American
living in Paris.
penars will be submitted by A. H. Hummei
Mrs CoIlinss attorney, to Justice t1tzgeraio' AZ
a motion for 81 0O0 counsel fee. Sl,oo ior eA
penses TO secure testimony in Europe, anu a4A-
mony of $3.50 month pending the deterniiha-
ton of the case Mr.. Collins ooJec's 10 pay ms
any such allowance of alimony, and says his
income now is only $3.50 month as ms "iie
lavish expenditures in Paris have involved him
so heavily in obligations that he mas mao u
sacrifice a large portion Of his yearly snare HI
=, ,.,s- Of his business TO clear off these liza
biities. -
~ Rykert lives Collins alleges, at NO od
boulevard Haussnann Paris. and the core
s-,on6ent Thorn at No. u Place Nendome'
Paris He AYERS that his wife's relations Win
them occurred BETWEEN 1897 and 1893. at Paris
Treuznach Germany, and many other places
Mr. Hummel sets forth in his affidavits that
the two were married on January o. looo' sooh
after Collins and his first wife Louise Clark
granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt hau
been separated by divorce. There one child
of this marriage. Edith. who was married IN
1896 to Count Czaykowski an attache at the
Turkish Embassy at The Hague. Mrs. Collins
denies all her husbands allegations as abso-
lutely false She says she engaged DR.. Rykert
professionally to attend her mother and other
members of her family and met him and MT.
Thorn at the house of Miss Fannie Reed, sis
ter Of Mrs Paran Stevens, at whose nome she
a visitor.
Mrs Collins says she was before her marriage
a well known prima donna Her husband Rad
an income Of 100000 year when she married
him. and they lived at the rate of Sl5,ooo year
at No. Il West Fifteth-st. Her husband IN
1889 requested her to make arrangements Tor
the debut in society of his daughter, and in
order dc in proper manner they moved
10 No. 10 West Fifty-third-st., and their eX-
penditure increased to $4,000 year
After his daughters marriage she says Col
lins told her their expenses must be curtailed
as he had been a heavy loser in Wall Street, and
she said she would go back to the stage, as she
could make a great deal of money as a singer
He consented. and she consulted Maurice tirau
who advised her to go TO Paris and try II she
could not appear at of the European cap
itals and especially at Paris, where. if she was
a success she could return and capture the
hearts and money of American audiences
Mrs. Collins told her husband, who assented
TO her going 70 Paris and accompanied her there
He remained for time and then came back to
this country He allowed her sl30 asoo month
and IN February last to $500 month In An
gust a report gained some currency TO the ef-
feet that she about to get divorce and
then marry DR.. Rykert. and this occasioned a
cooiness between them. She telegraphed that
she would come back at once, but her husband
said she need not do so, he would not receive
her. When she came here last February he de-
clined to allow her TO live in his house, and she
had TO take UP her quarters at the Waldorf
Astoria
Mr.. Collins says he honored bills to the extent
OF nearly $4,000 incurred by his wife between
1894 and December 80 last. Her extravaganza
has, he says seriously Inconvenience him.