The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-16
HOW LAKE COT
THE SAVOY HOTEL
His Predecessor Left Suddenly,
Deserving a 100000
Spouse.

In connection with the announce
ment that H. W. Lake. formerly Of the
Hawaiian and later of the Young, had
taken the management of the Savoy
Hotel, San Francisco, the following
from the Examiner of January IA is of
interest:
James T. Dunn, manager and pro-
prietor of the Hotel Savoy has disap-
peared from this city, leaving behind
letter to his wife, begging forgiveness
and explaining that it is best that they
should part Mrs. Dunn has been noti-
fed at Los Angeles by telegraph of her
husbands sudden departure and she is
coming up on the Owl train and will
arrive here this morning to protect her
interests in the hotel.
The unannounced departure of Man
ager Dunn for the East comes as a de-
nouement of a whirIwind. courtship
in which Dunn the hotel man won the
hand of Mrs. Sarah Rodgers, dashing
widow with "a large fortune. The
couple were married in Los Angeles
last August Their honeymoon, spent
in the fashionable resorts in the south
ern part of the State, was conspicuous
because of the lavish display of wealth
made by the couple That the domestic
life of Dunn and his wife has not been
of the happiest, has been known TO
their friends. but that Dunn contem-
plated a hasty separation was not
thought OF.
INVEST IN HOTEL.
''Since Dunn's marriage he has pre-
vailed upon his wife to invest over
$4,000 of her own money in the Savoy
Hotel. The. hotel has done fairly
good business and the friends of Mrs.
Dunn here cannot understand why he
should, leave her in the way he has
done.
lit appears that Dunn came to San
Francisco two years before the fire.
He left in the East a record both as
a hotel man and as a man admired by
several women who had money and
who spent their money on him because
of his good looks and engaging man
ners. One of these women has recent
ly arrived in San Francisco. He is re-
ported to owe her a considera Bile
amount of money and according TO the
hotel people she made a demand on
him at the Savoy Hotel several days
ago for reimbursement of moneys loan
ed to him while he was a hotelman in
New Haven, Conn. He refused to ac-
cede to her demand. They quarreled
about their financial transactions in
the East, but later patched up their
differences. Some of Dunns friends
think he finally went East with this
particular woman.
whether that is true or not, he has
left letter to his wife stating that
it is best that they should part and
that while he married her for her
money he does not think he has taken
a cent from her outside of what money
she put in the hotel to keep it running.
WIFE HAD 100000.
when Dunn married Mrs. Sarah
Rodgers in Los Angeles in August,
1906, she had an estate of 100000. Her
friends attempted to prevail upon her
not to marry Mr., Dunn. Dunn is a
very tall, athletic, handsome-looking
man who has always been noted for
dressing in faultless style. He was an
ardent woer and Mrs. Rodgers, throw
ing the advice of her friends to the
winds. finally married him.
"Dunn's wife was Mrs. Sarah Rod
gers. She was a divorced woman.
When she married Rodgers she was
the widow of the wealthy "Ducksie"
They lived for years in
apartments at the old Palace Hotel
before the fire, which cost them $1,000 a
month. When Rosenbaum died he left
her an estate worth s60O,000 Two years
after her first husbands death she
married Rodgers. They were divorced
six months after and her Iaconic re-
mark that her marriage and divorce
from Rodgers had only cost her $780,
900 and was entirely pleasing TO her,
is one of the records of the divorce
court of this city"