The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-19
LIVELY MISS SENT HOME.
SHE WAS roo MAGNETIC FOR THE
OTHERS At THE Ely SCHOOL.
Banished With Two Other Girls To sharon.
COnn.--Then Arose wonderful Tales Of
f1Opements That Failed and brothers
Who Weren't Reiati,cs-t;iri q NOlc0tt.

Miss Madeline Wolcott, a pupil at the
Mise, Ely's school on Riverside Drive,
has been sent home 10 Natick, Mas The
Misses Ely say that her influence on other
pup.ls IN the school was not for the best
M!ss Wolcou il a cousin Of the late Gov.
Wolcott Of Massachusetts.
At the school Yesterday il was expli ined
that lust before Thanksgiving Miss VOL
colt. together with two other pupils, Miss
I'll beth Joyce of AEdover and Mrs
Beryl Whitney of this city and California.
slipped out of the build ng on Riverside
Drive. unci aperoned, and were at large
for about half an hour. A. this was a
gross infraction Of the schools strictest
rule, severe run.si IN, M was deemed
necessary.
TIE three girls were cent to Sharon
Conn. with Mis- Lima Monkey, ere Of the
teachers They were exi.ed TO a boarding
house al Sharon known as the Bartram
Cottage. but instead of being properly
repentant. they took their bansi mort
rather phlosophically After a two
weeks STAY Miss Monkey returned with
her charies and a report. which was SO
unsatisfactory thu, Mss Wolcott went home
promptly in care Of chareron.
Miss Wolcott entered our school last
fall said Miss Elizabeth Fly, one Of The
principals Of the school. "She is very
handsome girl and Possesses the quality
of attracting other girls to her In this
way she attracted Miss Whitney and Miss
Joyce.
In November. when Miss Wolcott. ac-
companied by the other two, went out alone
and remained about half an hour. we felt
that something must be done 20 W. sus-
pended the three girls for two weeks. This
was about Thanksgiving We sent the
girls in care Of Miss Moxley To Sharon. We
thought that would b. nice quiet place.
and didn't think al the time that 1t was so
close to the Hotchkiss school
we might have known that, hut II es-
capped our notice somehow. We found that
| after they went there Miss Wolcott's con-
| duct Vas open to critics m. and be-
| lieve that she was the leader in the esca-
! pades that followed don't mean To init
| mate that any # the girls has done any
| thing really bad, but they are fun Of mis-
chief
AT Sharon the three girls saw three
| young men from the HotchkiSs school.
| That came about through Miss Moxley,
| who was a friend Of one Of them The
| boys took dinner With the three girls once,
| hut Miss Monkey was present.
| We are very sorry that Miss Wolcott's
| her parents were not entirely frank with Is
| when they communicated with US about her
| admission to the school SO far a. the re-
| ports of midnight visits e. the sharon Inn
| by means Of a ladder are concerned, know
| nothing about them, and do not think there
can I've any truth III them
| The story bout the ladder IL being told
| in Sharon. which il gossiplng whole lot
| about the escapades Of the three girls
| there. According to this story. about the
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| Perkins Of Seattle. Wash, was suspended
| from Phillips Exeter Academy. He knew
| Miss Wolcott, and that magnetic young
person telephoned to him al Exeter, hu, Vas
| informed 10y a tutor that the Exeter rules
| TO, babe students talking 10 girls over the
telephone Mrs Wolcoit then telegraphed
according TO the story, and Perkins then
wen, TO Sharon and put up AT the Sharon
Inn.
Iakeville College. better known as tho
Hotchkiss School. is only six miles from
Sharon. The girls, according To he Sharon
story. knew some Of the Hotchkiss BOYS,
too. and communicated with them. The
Hotchkss boys became persistent in their
visits. but Prof Huber Gray Buehler was
appealed to and kept them away
Miss Joyce secured permission TO attend
her sisters wedding at Andover and Miss
Whitney announced that her brother was
coming to see her. few days later a
strapping youth with yellow hair arrived
II was decided after while tflat ne ana
Mrs Whitney were too afectionate for
brothe and sister. and Miss Whitney then
admitted that her brother was known
elsewhere as -Bondy- Graydon. the Har-
ward full back. He announced that he
had Miss Whtney's promise Of marriage.
Sharon gossips added to this that the two
had been married week before in New
Jersey. which Mir Ely says il untrue.
A ladder found one morning at "A win
dow in the Sharon Inn caused the gossips
to talk still more -Thad' johnson, the
coored man Of all work. confessed. accord
ing TO the story. that he had been bribed to
put it there and had escorted the girls.
who were talking Of an elopement, TO the
window AT midnight, but though they
threw pebbles at the window they failed To
arouse who ever was near IT, and they re-
turned to the cottage.
Perkins. according to the talts in Sharon.
applied the next night to the Town Clerk
for a license to marry Miss Wolcott. but
didn't get II when he gave his age as 10.
The next day the girls were brought back
her. and Perkins went HON" To Seattle
Miss Ely says that nobody eloped and none
Of the girls. so far as she knows, is married.