The San Francisco call., 1908-12-25
MRS. HANBURY
TO BENEFIT BY
HUSBANDS WILL
Millionaire Speaks FOndly OF
Wife TO Whom He Has Re-
Gently Become RecOnciled
She Denies Report That She
Was Telephone Girl Before
Becoming a Bride
EngIishman's Secretary Assists
Couple in Correcting Pub
Iished Reports

In my will L have given all my prop
erty 10 my wife. The island is already
hers 10 do with as she wishes. She
had contemplated selling it, but now.
I understand. she is about to place
count de Soto in charge Of it
NY interest in the brewery in
England is small. but it is also hers at
my death. I would be less than civil
lied if / did not give full recognition
TO the faithful little woman who
nursed me through my illness and is
my sole companion now"
With these words Millionaire Han
bury last night acknowledged his
strong allegiance to the American girl
who won his heart as sweet girl
graduate from a convent, ana, IN spite
of difficulties and arrangements, has
become the wife Of his bosom. They
were seated at dinner in the Hotel
Jefferson and the conversation was
mostly devoted to the plans for their
forthcoming stay in Monterey and the
trip to England which is TO follow
MY wife has the kindest of invi-
tatfons to spend a year at my brothers
house. but she has been so far strangely
diffident." said Hanbury. Il have
finally persuaded her to go there in the
spring To tell you the truth, as 1 told
ID TO my friend, Captain Amundsen,
when he wanted me to take the return
frip through the northwest passage, I
am a married man now, and must pay
sbme attention 10 the wishes Of my
wife
HANBURY C0RRECTS REPORT
And I also wish to correct the many
false statements purporting 10 have
come from me-" continued the explorer
millionaire. A morning paper printed
q supposed interview which quoted me
as saying that I still own the island.
wish 10 state that il was pure fab
rication. 1 have nothing to do with
that now. and never made such state
menfs. The same paper also said that
detectives were following my secre-
tary and my wife. The whole thing is
ridiculous, and no such statement was
ever made by any Of Us. wish to make
an emphatic denial of it all.
Mrs. Hanbury also had complaint:
Certain papers have consistently re-
ferred 10 me as telephone girl. where
as / never worked day in my life at
that sort of thing. L was married to
Mr. Hanbury three months after 1 left
the convent.
tfsf AK - trhl1lt AN1E
some of these papers print any
thing said the secretary: they have
quoted me again and again as saying
things / never thought of, and as a
matter of fact could not have seen
them many of the times at which they
claimed 10 have interviewed me-"
Mrs Hanbury, although suffering
from a cold, was presiding at the cosy
dinner table in her suite at the Jefferson,
and during the discussion occasionally
flushed as red as the poppies on her
dressing gown Hanbury, well groomed
and alert, and Faddan. diligent and
attentive. We're her willing slaves. 1t
was a quiet but happy Christmas party.
We are happy now, and want to
be left alone said the smiling wife.
This is Christmas eve and we are very
happy"
Just say that everything 7 have
viii be my wife's in time. She is
nearest and dearest TO me-"
And the millionaire beamed at his
wife. There was no gainsaying that
look. and any woman would have been
glad of such a Christmas gift, for it
was a sentimental capitalization of ap-
proximately $5.O0O,0o0.