The age-herald., 1901-10-06
Miss Emily Hoffman Now
 Mrs. Daizlel-Young Bay ard Cutting Into Trade ..


 too. is it not that both these prominent society women had husbands in the hotel business. 1 am inclined to believe there Is something in running a great hotel that sharpens up the wits. Some years ago I knew a mild, sweet-faced httle Wo- man who took in the cash at counter in a Philadelphia restaurant. Often have I seen her looking at clock after one in the morning, and then, after rubbing tired eyes, look pensively across when late visitors laughed and talked. Today she drives in a handsome carriage with two men on the box. Her country seat on one of the Thousand Islands, is one of the handsomest places in America, her residence in New York is perfectly ap- pointed and she herself will shine in any drawing room. She is an accomplished, l beautiful woman, with the same sweet l face. gentle manner, but mentally well equipped. Do you guess of whom l speak? Mrs. George Boldt. wife of the proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York and the Strathmore and Bellevue in Phil adelphia. I prophecy that 1t will not be long before Mrs. Bodt will be as import ant a factor in society as Mrs. Potter Palmer is today and Mrs. Paran Stevens was d decade ago.
 The death of J. Hooker Hammersley | comes to me as surprise. He was com
 
 l two is young for a man who lived tho l life of ease Hooker lived. His hardest work was writing society verses and l checks. He did not have to take his I poems to a publisher and he did not | have to worry about raising funds to l meet his checks. Hence he was relieved l of the greatest strain that is imposed | on a literary man. He married Miss | Margaret Chisholm some years ago and since then has lived quiet lire. He l was bit eccentric, but he was always l the courteous. polished. cultivated gen. | tleman The greatest interest in his af- l fairs has been taken by the public by | reason of the will of his cousin Louis 1 IIammersley, who left the life income on seven millions to his widow and the | principal to the eldest surviving son Of | James Hooker Hammersley. The first l child was daughter but the second was | a son. The son named after Louis Ham, mersley's father, A. Gordon Hammers 1 ley. is a strong little lad who promises to outlive Lady Beresford, late Duchess l of Marlborough, late Mrs. Louis Ham, mersley, nee Lily Price of Troy. Some 1 i'll informed person declare the seven 1 millions have become nine. That is non | sense. There have been no accumula- tions to the principal as Lady Beresford draws the income with Spartan forti- l tude. Did she not begin the repairs of Blenheim with the Hammersley money and when the duke died the repairs were continued with the Vanderbilt money | as Consuelo became the duchess. Well 1 the little heir with his fathers great fortune will be quite a man ten years hence.
 The Hammersleys were great people twenty years ago, but they were very dgnifed, quiet people, and when the | Vanderbilt, Belmont, Oelrich syndicate | nar thnHy hoo v-tv, the Revolution the Hammersleys were tailors. They made clothes for the Brit | ish officers stationed in New York and l after the war was over invested their l profits in real estate. Life is odd. Think of it. The money Brisih army tailor made after a hundred years was to be spent in repairing the estate of Queen l Anne's famous General Jack Churchill. 1 Young Chandler, who, after hunting l for big game in the interior of Africa and settling himself down with Amalie | Rivers to taste the sweets of matrimony, I went, and was adjudged insane. He was confined in the sanitarium at Blooming l dale. One fine day, some months ago, the news of his mysterious escape star tied all his friends and relatives and now he furnishes them with another | sensation by turning up hale and l hearty, and adjudged perfectly sane. I am delighted to hear he Is well again, and that the clouds which lowered on his mental horizon have passed away. l The career of John Armtrong Chandler l has the merit of variety. Few, charac- l ters of fiction created to wear the pie | t,iresque and variegated robes of TO- | nance, strut the platform attractive- ! ly. He is the great grandson of the first | John Jacob Astor and. consequently, a cousin of Col. Jack Astor and William | Waldorf. Being an Astor he is presum- | ed to be millionaire several times over. This is a mistake. Although in his own time John Jacob Astor was a rich man, | 1t must be borne in mind that riches arc | determined by comparative qualities. | Riches today and riches in the early part of the last century are widely different. That portion of the estate which went to the Chandlers through the female branch was comparatively speaking, small. The bulk of the fortune went through the male line. and the develop ment of the great Astor wealth was made in a later generation.
 Even though the wealth of the Chan dlers is inconsiderable and diminished rapidly as divided In each succeeding generation, John Armstrong Chandler
 has an income of close to $1O0OO a year. As a bachelor, having no expensive, or rather extravagant, tastes, this income accumulated quickly, and finding him self in possession of nice amount of | ready cash, Chandler decided to go a | hunting. His exploits were heralded, and he found himself recorded among the worlds great Nimrods and ranking among great African travellers. By profession a civil engineer, he determin- 1 ed to become a lawyer. He was duly admitted to the bar.
 b. The Chandlers own an estate in Vir- ginia, and Chandler resolved to settle down. Here he met the beautiful, er- l ratio, talented Amaie Rivers. SAe had not then finished her novel, .'"The Quick or the Dead" Chandler examined her manuscript and advised against it's pub | lication. It was printed in the Lip pincotts and gave her a worldwide fame. He fell at her feet and worshiped
 her. Then they were married. But they could not dwell in love and peace, and so she went to Dakota and obtained a divorce. She married again. This time the Prince TroubetslSoi. Chandler fret | ted. his nerves gave way and he was sent to Bloomingdale.
 | One day, eight months after his mys- terious departure from Bloomingdale, a l quiet, composed gentleman, Mir. John Chiffon, arrived at Lynchburg. Va, and took rooms. After two months it was discovered that MT. Cnilton was Chan dler. The time had come. He was in | sound mental and physical condition, and was determined to recover his property.
 A peculiar streak runs through the 1 Some of the members of it have been l confined and many of them are arratic. l. ThA enqa par1ent of Mise Emily IJofg