The Saint Paul globe., 1904-12-07

The woman's department will be
very much pleased if some kind per-
son will come and tell it what the
Chadwick affair is about, OF Whlcn
the papers are so full. All that can
CLEAN is that the lady in question OBJ
tanned from one bank in loans nearly
four times the amount Of that banks
capital stock, and that at present she
is occupying a pleasant suite at the
Holland house in New York. Clever,
clever Mrs. Chadwick! To be guest
at the Holland house is delightful, to
be a prisoner there would even have
its compensations, and while circum-
stances may prove Mrs. c. TO be
much maligned woman, during her So
journ at the Holland the woman's de-
partment viii withhold its sympathy.
What she has done and when. is not
at all clear; she appears 20 have dr1v-
en- one banks officers nearly mad and
to have obtained a great deal of money
that any honest man, with the best
intentions could not have by any
chance secured, and in some .eXp1-
cable manner the name OF the great
philanthropist who supplies the world
with reading matter, Andrew Carne-
gle, seems to be mixed up in 1t, al
though he declares he knows not the
woman and signed no notes. Very
often when a fiction story is published
seriaIly in a newspaper synopsis or
preceding chapters is published at
the top of each installment. Now, if
I might make a suggestion, 1t would
be that this method be followed IN
the Chadwick affair, for the enilght-
enment of those who would be glad
+1,o -v,1o md "a II iC oh0fIf-
One or two things seem plain; that
men are very great and able when II
comes to managing business-except
at times. Then at those times some
fascinating woman appears on the
scene and works them until she has
obtained most of what they own In
the bank from which Mrs. Chadwick
seems to-. have taken more than 1T
oWned-which may appear paradoX1cat
men were at the helm and they must
have been persons endowed with some
business abilfty or they would not have
been there, and yet they handed over
the banks money to her in the sweet
est way. Mrs. Chadwick undoubtedly
thoHght it was sweet. Probably If
she had wanted $500 they would have
laughed her TO Scorn, but wanting such
immense sums she was able to Impress
them. Moral: if you want thousand,
ask for a million.
AS to Mrs. Chadwick herself, you
can take your choice of two descrip-
tions; one says she was always queer,
has served a-term in prison, been a
clairvoyant and borne doubtful rep
utation. The other calls her a perfect
lady, a society leader, above reproach,
and now most awfully slandered.
At all events she is stopping at the
Holland house, and report says she
has q suite of rooms on the fifth
floor If she had gone into the bank
and stolen fifty dollars from the coun-
ter she would be occupying a suite of
rooms at the city prison. So, on the
whole. Mrs. Chadwick seems to have
the best of it and the sympathy of
the country at large should be given
to the bank which was apparently
cleaned out by the clever lady. Just
why she should have Mysteries or be
on the verge of collapse is not clear.
The Holland house cuisine is the best
in the country, and there is nothing
that money will not buy at that COM
Portable hostelry, therefore 1 think
tute business men who loaned every
thing their bank had to the lady of
the Holland house can we'll be imag-
ined on the verge of collapse, but Mrs.
Chadwick never. If she had the nerve
to take money as reported, such a lit
tie thing as a fuss in the newspapers
ought not to diSconcert her. At all
events she must remove from the Hol-
land house before she receives any
sympathy from