Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-14
It Involves the Well-Known
Hubbard Family Of Cedar
Rapids in a Scandal
N. M. HUBBARD AND WIFE PART
Alice Cooper, the )ssosjawea so,'lp-
tress, Comes Between We'll Known
Iowa Lawyer, His Family and His
Associates--Law Firm Broken Up
Romance Began Four Years Ago.

| Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Rapids, May 14.-yrhe follow
ing story appearing in a Chicago pub
| lication OF today has created the sem
sation of the year in this city. altho
Intimate friends Of the Hubbard fam
| lily knew that trouble and a possible
scandal were brewing. Your cores
pondent has verified the facts, con-
tanned in the Chicago story. which
follows:
1t may have been the spirit of SAGA :
jawea, the bird woman" who guided
Lewis and Clark across the mountains
to the ocean; 1t may have been the
spell of q death mask; it may have
been the artistic temperament What
eyer 1t was, 1t brought Nathaniel NJ.
Hubbard from his home in Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa. and made him haunt "bo-
hemia" in Chicago; 1t closed the studio
OF Alice Cooper, sculptress, In the Fine
Arts building: 1t left an unfinished
figure in the deserted studio, swathed
in damp. clay colored rags; 1t sep
arated ~ husband from his wife: 1t
gave an Iowa town and the studios
in Chicago a topic for gossip. Yet 1t
may ell have been only the jealousy.
Of a yearning wife
These are the facts:
N. NJ Hubbard Jr. of Cedar Rapids
son of the late N. NJ. Hubbard, attor-
rley for the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad in Iowa, has agreed to separ-
ate from his wife and has retired from
the law firm Of which he was a mem
Der. He has come often to Chicago,
and day after day has visited the stu
building. ~
Miss Cooper. the creator Of the
|sculptured figure OF Sacajaweas the
"bird woman" which stood under the
great gate to the Lewis and Clark ex-
position looking out from Portland to-,
ward the sea, has left her studio and
gone from bohemia"
Out in Cedar Rapids. Iowa. they
whisper OF romance, and down la the
Fine Arts building on Studio floor"
the artists tell Of having seen Miss
Cooper and Hubbard together often.
Rumors OF divorce suit to be be-
gun by Mrs. Hubbard against her hus-.
band were answered In Cedar Rapids
last night by Attorney Wheeler.
member of the law firm with which
the elder Hubbard and the younger
Hubbard were members in turn.
mo divorce proceedings have been
begun" declared Attorney Wheeler,
"and no paper will be fled. Mr.. ana
Mrs Hubbard have simply agreed to
separate. Mr. Hubbard has retired
from the firm, and Mrs. Hubbard Is
living with her hq1sban ds mother in
the old Hubbard homestead"
The roinance-if 1t. Is romance
began four years ago. Following the
death of the elder Mr.. Hubbard. The
elder Hubbard was one of the big men
of Cedar Rapids. The son wanted to
honor the father. He decided to have
a death mask made and later he would
have the face cast In bronze and made
q part ola Life size figure.
At this time Miss Alice Cooper's
lme was being printed in all the mag
azines. A rival to PocahIontas had
been discovered ajawea, who led
the explorers over the mountains to
The Pacific. Miss Cooper had been
selected to make the colossal bronze
of this Indian woman of nomances.
| Mr.. Hubbard read about Sacajawea
and the young sculptress who nodded
her features into clay. He sent for
the sculptress to make the death mask
Of his father. The mask was made
and Miss Cooper came back to her
studio In Chicago to begin the work
Of modelling the figure.
4 Soon afterward Mr.. Hubbard came
to Chicago to see how the work was
progressing. He was here q week and
then he went back to Cedar Rapids. It
was not long before he returned to
Chicago to transact some business
with a banker. The work on the clay
likeness of the elder Hubbard went on
slowly. Hubbard's visits to Chicago
were frequent.
(. He became known among the stu
dos. Off and on all winter he made
his appearance on Studio floor" He
displayed remarkable interest in the
clay figure. Last week, the artists say,
the work was completed. All that re-
manned to, be done was the casting into
bronze.
Miss Cooper is gone,'' said an art
list yesterday; Il don't know where.
The statue? I think 1t is still in her
STUDIO"