Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-26
FORMER FRIENDS
AVOIDING Love
MARITAL TROUBLES FOLLOW Fl.
NANclAL EscAPADEs OF
ONE TIME oTTuMwAN.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-No longer sought
by his former friends in Chicago soci-
ETY. and beseiged constantly by report
ers, Sidney G. Love spent yesterday
in his rooms in the Virginia hotel.
1t is admitted on all sides that Mr..
Love Is not exactly welcome visitor
in Chicago. The dramatic finish of his
financial career, together with the ex-
pose incident thereto, wherein it was
charged that William H. Moore, his A.
nancial backer, had lost $2,000,000,
made the business world in which he
formerly moved, eye him askance and
the story brought by cable from Lon
don of his treatment of his wife, kept
most of his society friends aloof.
Love fell from the financial firma-
ment as suddenly as shooting star
For years he had shone in New York
and Chicago speculative circles under
the patronage of the Moore Brothers,
James H. and William n. Then he
contracted a brilliant marriage with
Marjorie Burnes, accounted the most
beautiful girl In Chicago. The sound
Of the wedding bells had scarcely died
away when there came the crash that
sent the Love brokerage houses into
liquidation.
Goes Out Of Business.
Love did not fall In the legal sense
of the word. He simply went out of
business. William H. Moore and Regi-
nald Vanderbilt guaranteed his ac-
counts to the extent of $1,500,00O, it is
said. All the bills were paid, and Love
as a factor in the speculative world
ceased to be. That was all there was
to it, but the thing came SO suddenly
and passed with so little explanation
that society and Wall street were
gasping with surprise several days aft
er it was all over.
The immediate cause of the closing
of Loves houses is said to have been
his unsuccessful operations in wheat
Last January James H. Patten closed
out his corner in that cereal at profit
estimated at from $6,0O0O00 to $10,-
100000. One Of the forces that had
fought Patten steadily throughout the
whole campaign was Loves brokerage
houses. 1t is said that when settling
up time came Love was short just
6,000,000 bushels, and that each one of
them cost him cents. Consolidated
Gas is said to have been another rock
upon which the Love financial ship
struck. He speculated in other stocks
heavily, also, it is said All told, his
losses are reported to have reached
$2,000,000.
The Love domestic drama, involving
a struggle for the possession of Z
month-old- baby. was brought to the
attention of the American embassy
In London last week.
Mrs. G. c. Burnes of Chicago, moth
er of Mrs. Sidney G. Love Of New
York, a very beautiful woman and pop.
ular in society, appealed to the embas.
sy to protect her daughter against the
husband, Sidney G. Love.
"Mr. Love is trying to steal their
baby girl said Mrs. Burnes.
She was admitted to see Ambassa.
dor Reid, whom she knows. Mrs
Burnes told the ambassador that Mr.
Love was making life unbearab1e for
his wife" OF course the embassy could
not interfere directly, but Mr.. Reid
did the best he could under the cir.
cumstances, and sent Mrs. Love, her
baby and her mother to small and
exclusive West End hotel
Guard of Porters.
There, with the managers co-opera
tion, a guard Of porters was thrown
around Mrs. Loves baby and she was
watched day and night.