The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-12-19
EBERT
HUBBARD
In PERIL
Prophet of the BOycrOft
Craze
The Victim of a Mysterious
WOman--TO0 Bad
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East Aurora, N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE
divorce court is awaiting with open
jaws for Ebert Hubbard, Roycrofter,
editor Of the Philistine, and lecturer.
The wife OF Fra Elbertus has left
him. She accuses him OF having led
double life According to her state.
ments, he has bestowed his affections
during the last eight years on Miss
Alice Moore, a woman who went to
college with him. This woman has a
daughter 8 years old. Fra Elbertus is
said to be the childs father
AS one of the hired hands in the
Roycroft shop put 1t the other day
trouble is coming the old mans way
in freight cars" Not only must Hub.
bard face a divorce trial, but there is
also pending against him a suit for
$4,000, brought by a man who claims
this sum is due him for having taken
care of the girl who is said to be
Hubbard's daughter
spell evil backwards and be hap.
py' is one of the notices of Fra El.
bertus. And he is living up to II.
Correspondent? Nonsense! The
whole truth of the matter is my wife
never did like my communistlc ideas
Thus the founder of the Roycroft es.
tablishment tried to make light of the
suit that is pending against him.
A year ago Fra Elbertus and his
wife began having so many arguments
that he concluded to live in the shop.
He has since slept there, while Mrs.
Hubbard and their two sons occupied
the handsome Hubbard mansion on
Grove street.
The Mysterious Woman.
About the time that Hubbard left
his home a mysterious woman with a
pretty little girl appeared in Concord,
Mass. She told the neighbors her
name was Alice Moore. She was not
beautiful In fact, she was plain in
appearance.
The first man to visit her in her
new home was Ebert Hubbard. One
day he swung of the train, with his
slouch hat pulled down over his eyes,
and his long hair and necktie float
ing in the wind. He went TO Miss
Moore's home and remained there
three or four days.
AS soon as the gossips learned that
the visitor was Fra Elbertus they be
gan busying themselves with the mys.
terious Miss Moore. Neighbors who
called on her were very politely re-
ceived but not cordially welcomed.
They failed to shake the reserve OF
penetrate the private life OF the
woman who had become one Of them.
When they met Miss Moore on the
street she failed to respond TO recog.
milton Soon she was left 10 the soli.
tude she seemed to desire.
II is said that Miss Moore was
slightly known in Concord before she
made her home there As the story
goes, Hubbard, in the early COS took
a course of literature at the Harvard
summer school. AT the same time
Miss Moore was studying at the En-.
erson School Of oratory. Together,
II is said, he N Miss Moore drove
frequently to Concord.
An interviewer visited the myster.
ious woman a few days ago and asked
her concerning the reports that Hub
bard was In love with her.
Il have nothing to say" she replied.
coldly. !
rs II not true that, granting a al. |
vorce be given Mrs. Hubbard, you and
Mr. Hubbard will marry?" she was
asked.
Her eyes glittered coldly and her
cheeks flushed. II have nothing 10
say" she repea ed.
Then you don't deny it?"
II win neither deny nor affirm.
nave nothing to say" And that end
I'd the interview.