The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-26
MRS. PETER CHANCE
THE VIOLET QUEEN"

The following story of Mrs. Maude
Robinson King Chance who was re-
Gently in Honolulu, a guest at the
Young Hotel, appeared in the Los An
geles Times:
The ''Violet King is dead: Long
live the new husband of his widow.
The picturesque young woman, Maude
Robinson King Chance, the protege,
wife, then widow of the enormously
rich old man, James c. King, whose
mild passion was to give yiolets away,
has returned to Southern California.
But not as the queen of the dead "Vio-
let King" of Pasadena.
She has brought with her new hus-
band to share her paltry million or so
from the King estate; and her name is
now Mrs. T. R. Chance.
Her husband is dentist well known
in the fashionable "American colony
of Paris. They are at the Hotel Vir-
ginia, Long Beach.
It seems that after the death of the
t'Violet King the executors had the
audacity to offer the young widow a
mere 100000 as her share, and her in
dignation occasioned by the necessity
of making a stern demanded for about
81, 10000 more (and getting it, re.
CURED that she travel to relieve her
nerves.
She had been, as a young girl, of
Morrison, H., and old James c. King
had taken a platonic and fatherly in
terest in her musical education, send
ing her abroad.
As she grew up, he ceased sending
violets impartially. to all the young Ia
dies about the hotels in Pasadena, and
sent them only to her.
She became the ''Violet Queen, -
with an agreement that she was to have
100000 at his death-which agreement
she afterward repudiated and sailed
away for Europe few years ago with
a few million to remind her of her
romantic marriage. The estate settled
her claim, giving her half the fortune.
In Paris she met a very handsome
young dentist who had torn himself
away from the bucolic destinations of
Canton, o., for the larger fields and
the richer teeth of the principal Amer
lean colony of France.
They were evidently married there
at recent date and started or a voy'
age around the world, arriving seven
days ago in San Francisco, to the as
tonishment of the late ''Violet
King So friends.
They both seemed to be singularly
! diffident about making known their de
but in Southern California.
They were preceded to the Hote.
Virginia by the brides mother, Mrs
Robinson--and much mystery.
Some of the trained hotel servants
at the Virginia are from Pasadena
hotels where the ''Violet King figured
, as a famous character.
1t is said that 1 demand was made
on the management at the beach hote
! that none of these old familiar faces
should be allowed to remain and that
] general Encouragement was made sc
as to assure Mrs. King Chance that she
would see no serving people who had
] known her before.
On arrived. DIR. and Mrs. Chance went
at once to their rooms, and have scarce
" been seen since. They dine in pri
waite and preserve the strietest seclu
sion.
DR.. Chance is regarded by some about
the hotel as a very handsome, but very
eccentric, person who rings furiously for
messenger boys and then is unable to
remember why he wanted them. On
his few public appearances he has been
elegance and affability personified.
Mrs. Chance was called up yesterday
afternoon by one of the newspapers,
which offered her a hearty welcome
home.
"My name in the paper7'' she cried
in a voice of horror. "Heavens mol
Not word, I don't want anything
said. No, [ don want even a men
ton that we have arrived. I don t
want my name in there at all,''
Millionairesses are cold, just like
that, sometimes.
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