The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-06
CALUMET CLUB SCANDAL OUT.
FRANK DE PEYSTER HALL SUES
FOR 100000 DAMAGES.
Says He Was sIandcred BY President bond
and by the N. y. u. &. Secretary Car
mack. Has Lost Ills Employment and
Is Ostracized-They Plead Justification

Frank de Peyster Hall has sued Alfred
II. Bond, president OF the Calumet Club,
Fifth Avenue and Twenty ninth street,
and George A. Carmack, secretary Of the
New York Yacht Club 81 West Forty
fourth street, for $4,000 each, for SANDER
Hall alleges that both men, in conversa-
ton with others, accused him OF Disgrace
full practices while he was a member of
the Calumet Club. They admit having
made the statements, but plead that the
charges were true and that the converse
tons were privileged. Hall denies the
truth of the charges, and obtained from
Supreme Justice Leventritt yesterday an
order requiring Mr.. Bond to give him a
bill of particulars, specifying the time
places and names connected with the
charges. On the settling Of this motion
late yesterday afternoon, all the papers
in the case were filed in the Supreme Court.
Frank de Peyster Hall is member of
an old family, and was until recently presi-
dent Of +. de Peyster Hall 4 Co.. importer
of wines at 10 Cedar street. He was a
member of the Calumet Club until July
2s, 1903, when his resignation was de-
manded and Immediately given and in
az a member of the st. Anthony Club. the
New York Yacht Club and Trinity Alumni.
Both Mr.. Bond and Mr. Carmack are well
known. Halls suit against Mr.. Carmack
was brought in the City Court, and the
plaintiff has expressed his determination
OF prosecuting both actions to the end.
If he does the case threatens to he as
noisoms as the Oscar Wilde case.
In the complaint served on Mr. Bond, on
May 10 last, Hall charges that the defendant.
with intent maliciorIsly to in iure and SANDER
him. on Oct. 10, 1903, told Russell II. Hoad-
ley, who is director OF +. de Peyster Hall
4 Co., that the house committee of the
Calumet club had informed the board Of
governors in July. 1908 that Hall had been
guilty Of disgraceful practices in his room
in the Calumet with bellboys belonging to
the club and that because OF Halls condu,.
the boys had refused to go to his room or
serve him.
Hall declares that these statements made
by Mr.. Bond to Hoadley were false and
untrue. and maliciously made, and that
there was not in his conduct even ground
for suspicion on which to base such charge.
His good name. fame and credit have been
was obliged to resign from the presidency
of F. de Peyster Hall h Co., from which
company he was 10 receipt Of a substantial
salary. Furthermore, his acQuaintances
and associates, both business and social,
he AYERS. have refused to transact business
with him any longer. or to be connected
with him in any way. and he has, therefore,
been obliged to abandon entirely his oc
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asks $50 900 damages.
In his amended answer, Mr.. Bond, after
admitting that he had made the statement
attributed to him, act up for a first de-
fence, on information and belief, that the
charges of disgraoeful conduct on Halls
part were true. For a second defence,
Mr.. Bond says that on July %. 1903, Hall
was asked to resign from the Calumet Club
and that thereafter, on Oct. 10, Russell
H. Hoadley, secretary of Halls company,
called on him at his place Of business by
appointment and said that he desired to
know the truth OF the rImors that were
flying about concerning Frank Hall
Mr.. Bond says that he was unwilling to
discuss the matter. but Hoadley urged that
he and the other stockholders In +. de
Peyster Hall d Co. were entitled to know
the facts, as, il the Tumors were well
founded. they could no longer retain Hall
as president. Under this persuasion, Mr..
Bond admits that he did then disclose all
he knew. just as Hall has alleged, but that
he did it In absolute good faith and with
out malice. He considers that the con-
versation ought to he privileged, as, in his
opinion Hoadley came to him as the agent
OF Hall, seeking for information.
On receiving this answer Halls counsel.
Morgan h Seabury, moved for a bill OF
particulars, and Justice Leventritt granted
the motion with costs, directing that names
times and places concerning the alleged
acts be given by the defendant as nearly
as possible. and where names are unknown,
descriptions may be given.
In opposition to the motion, and as proof
that Hall was only fishing to find out how
much Mr.. Bond knew, Niooll, Anable 4
Lindsay, Mr.. Bonds lawyers. submitted
to the court copy Of the amended answer
made by Mr.. Carmack in Halls similar
action against him in the City Court Mr..
Carmack admits that he did make to Ernest
Staples, fellow member Of the New York
Yacht Club, the statements attributed to
him by Hall and that he was justified in
doing 30 by the facts. Mr.. Carmack says
that Hall did resign from the Calumet
Club because it was found that between
July /, 1901 and July 20. 1908. he had been
guilty Of disgraceful practices in his room
in the club. Staples called on Mr., Carmack
on Jan. I, 1904, at his Office, for informa-
ton concerning the club rumors and Mr..
Carmack then informed him that the clubs
house committee had employed detec-
tive to watch Hall, The detective dis
euised himself as a bellboy and discovered
such a state OF affairs that the board OF
governors empowered the detective to
70 to Hall with a written resignation and
demand its signature Mr.. Carmack says
that Hall signed the paper Immediately
and h never since demanded an explana-
ton at the hands Of the clu or sought re-
instatement.
Reid Langdon Carr appeared for Hall
on the motion before Justice Leventritt
while Cornelius j. Sullivan represented
Mr.. Bond.
FRANKIE de Peyster Hall is graduate Of
Trinity College. He has been W ell known
in club life for some years, and when he
formed partnership with the late Albert
Stevens Of Hoboken and Raoul Duval,
formerly of Paris, now OF San Francisco,
the firm OF three young society men engaged