New-York tribune., 1905-08-11
MRS. FORNES SELLS HOUSE
Disposes Of Property GiUen Her by
President of Aldermen.

Following the announcement yesterday that Mrs.
Eda Olive Lyde Fornes. wife of Acting Mayor
Charles V. Fornes, had begun suit against him
for separation, was the transfer OF title to the
house at the southwest corner of West End-ave.
and s6th-st. which Mr.. Fornes bought and decided
TO his wife after their marriage, about six
years ago. Mrs. Fornes transferred title TO the
property yesterday 10 c. A. Borman for the ex-
pressed consideration of s52,5OO. While Mr.. and
Mrs. Fornes have been living apart from each
other for years, neither of them has occupied the
house but Mrs. Fornes has received the rents
Previous TO the transfer of title TO the property
a lis pendens was filed against the property by
John W. Comey attorney for the McFicar-Gall-
lard Realty Company of No. 2 Broadway, to re-
cover the company's commission of per cent on
the sale OF the property. Frederick A Wyckon,
manager of the companys branch office at NO 44i
Colurnbus-ave.. said that while Mr. Fornes was IN
F,urope recently Mrs Fornes placed the property
in the market and the realty company found the
purchaser for It There is a mortgage OF szoVo
on the property. The realty company commission
amounts 10 s525 Mrs Fornes, therefore, is entitled
TO receive s26.975
To nro-ect the realty conpany's interest Mr..
wyckof said a suit brought against Mrs
Fornes before title was transferred. and the lis
pendeus was filed The lien would be withdrawn.
he said when Mrs. Fornes paid the commission
For a week he said. he had failed to find Mrs.
Fornes.
Mr. Fornes did not go near the Mayors Office
at the City Hall yesterday. Some OF his friends
said he grleVeo deeply on account OF ms WlIe
suit.
At the Carnegie Hall studio building in West
s7th-st yesterday it said that Mrs Fornes
occupied rooms Nos. so and SO, on the ninth floor
of the building, for several months two years ago.
and seemed to be devoting her time to art study.
She had a lease Of the rooms for a year. and had
her name on the door Eda Olive Lyde. although
people in the building knew she was Mrs. Fornes
it said. and the studio was furnished in ex-
pensive style Occupants of the building said yes
terday that Miss Lyde'' was escorted to luncheon
at the Grenoble almost daily by a man whose
name was not known, but who supposed to
be French artist and was believed to have hired
part of her studio. 1t was the understanding that
they studying art in company.
Clerks at the Hotel Grenoble yesterday denied
report that the French artist who had been much in
the company of Mrs. FoTnes had been a guest the
hotel and had sent his baggage to a storage house
on the announcement of the suit of Mrs FOrnes
against her husband. Employees at the studio build
ing said Mrs. Fcrnes went the Martha Wash
irgton Hotel when she gave UP her studio At the
Martha Washington Hotel last evening II said
that Mrs. Fornes had not lived there in about a
year After Mrs. Fornes left the Martha Washing
ton she lived for time at the Hotel Cum herland,
broadway and 5fth-st. Clerks In that hotel said
last evening that she had moved away from that
place several months ago and had not returned