The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-06-04
SALAD AND SOUP
DENIED HIS WIFE
MRS. JAMES b. STETSON, WHO
VISITED HONOLULU IN 1901,
WANTS A DIVORCE.


SAN FRANCISCO, May 2S-James
b. Stetson, president Of the California
street Railway Company capitalist,
clubman and leading citizen, has been
sued for divorce by his wife. Elanor
II. Stetson, whom he married on Feb
ruary 10, 1900, after the death of his
first wife. Mrs. Ellanor Stetson was
the widow of the late John s. Doe, the
business partner of his brother, Bart
lett Doe, who died in 1894, leaving his
widow a comfortable fortune. The tech
nical grounds for the divorce are nom
support and extreme cruelty.
The details are interesting and eX-
traordinary, in persons Of the social
status of the Stetsons. Mrs. Stetson
accuses her stepdaughters of eXercis-
ing undue influence over her husband
and of treating her with ignominy and
scorn. They are the divorced wife of
Chauncey Winslow, known now as
Mrs. Sallie Stetson Winslow, and Mrs.
Robert Oxnard. Mrs Winslow was
first married to Richard Pinto, Qua
temalan, from whom she was divorced
almost Immediately after her wedding,
marrying Winslow later. Mrs. Ok
nard and her husband are well known
in the social circles of the entire State
According to Mrs. Stetson's- COM
plant these two daughters of her hus-
band by his first wife have domineer-
ed over her in an unbearable manner
They have. she says, unlimited and
absolute control over him" She de-
scribes them as being women of VIC
lent and ungovernable temper" and
refers to occasions when they utterly
her husband has contributed nothing
Clay street and Van Ness avenue
when they deigned to go there. The
bearing of these step-daughters to-
ward her was such, she says, that she
felt compelled to claim the protection
of her husband against them, only to
be met with the reply that it was
none of his business" how his daugh-
ters acted toward her.
Mrs. Stetson has a daughter by John
S. Doe, little girl of IA named Mar
guerite, who, soon after her mothers
second marriage, asked her stepfather,
Stetson, for permission to call him
father" He is said to have refused,
on the ground that his own daughters
would not like it, This and other ex-
periences are said by Mrs. Stetson to
fering.
The complaint goes on to state that
since last September Stetson mas in
terfered unseemingly with the house
hold, giving orders to the servants as
to the cuisine and other details OF
housekeeping. He issued the mandate,
Mrs. StetsOn asserts, that soup ana
salad should be debarred from the do
nestle menu. One Sunday of this year,
when guests were expected to dinner,
Mrs Stetson says, she suggested that
the embargo on soup and salad be
raised for the occasion, whereat he
retorted
IF you don't like the board here
you can get out -- quick, and the
quicker the better it will suit me.
The foregoing and other specifica-
cruelty. In referring to the charge Of
non-support Mrs. Stetson AYERS that
ignored her, in the Stetson home, at
in the way of the common necessities
of life, but has made her pay out of
her own private fortune for her board
and lodging ever since their wedding,
refusing to give her anything that she
did not pay for
Among the various instances of Stet-
sons behavior to which his wife OBJ
jects was an incident that occurred
when she was in the East last Febru-
airy. She says that she rented a safe
deposit box from the Mercantile Trust
Company, but gave her husband power
of attorneys, as her agent, to have ac-
cess to the box. Later she changed
her mind, and, wishing to create an
other agent, wrote to him and asked
him to surrender the power of attOr-
ney and the combination to the lock.
In his rage, she says, Stetson went to
the trust company, showed the cashier
a letter he had written addressed to
himself, but couched in rude, curt and
uncivil" language, and asked the CASH
Ter to sign and return it, This letter
was then, according to Mrs. Stetson,
sent East as evidence OF the insults
to which she had subjected him.
Mrs. Stetson valves all claim OF
right in any separate property of Stet-
son, and asks only that she be granted
a divorce and permission to resume
her former name, Ellanor Doe.
ARRIVING.