The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-14
COLLECTORS HAUNT
mrs. YERKES HOME
Widow Of Chicago Traction King Is
m-Sad Scenes at Beautiful
Fifth.Ave. Mansion.

NEW YORK, May 14.-This Is a
tory OF a tragedy. a living. soui-sear-
ng tragedy Of life-a tragedy that
Will live until death mercifully seals
l.
IL concerns two women-a wife ana
favorite. The mamie IL dead.
Mrs Charles r. Yerkes, nearly bO
how, widow OF the famous Chicago
.ondcn traction multi'millionaire, Also
ex.wife or one Wilson Miner. eccen-
tric young society swell-is one OF
these women. Emile Grigsby. 30
beautiful Emile Grigsby. whom
Yerkes introduced to the world as his
wards the other.
This story OF theirs is easily told.
III 10 the best told by tearing page
from each OF their life books. Let II
he, In both cases. from one days page
In last weeks books.
A physician comes up in his auto
mobile and enters Mrs Yerkes' beau
ktlful Fifth.ave. mansion The butler
sends him straight up To his mistress
4 apartments The medical man Is ad-
United by maid and finds. as he mas
been finding for weeks, that his pa
lent has passed a restless night.
Her temperature is high her pulse
Hast. The wanness OF her face Is
heightened by the dark rings under
}Aer eyes. Tiny beads OF perspiration
j show along her forehead. close TO her
mass OF hair. now fast growing gray.
Ills patient is a sick woman and sick
ness is fast robbing her OF the beauty
with which she SO long defied age.
The doctor prescribes for Mrs.
Yerkss, speaks a few words of en-
enlargement and bows his way out.
AZ he leaves, the butler sends up an
other man.
He is Mrs Yerkes' lawyer He is
also a daily caller. He has been max
ing daily report that runs some
mink like this:
The situation looks darker pc
tition has now been filed in the Unit
ed States circuit court in behalf OF
he Bank OF America. to intervene In
the suit against your husbands es.
tate brought by the Underground Elec-
trio Railway of London. ithe London
people. you know. Mrs. Ierkes, are
admitted creditors TO the amount or
$500. 900. This Bank Of America holds
q claim for S12S.000, which the courts
at Chicago has admitted.
1T is all very unfortunate. my dear
Mrs. Yerkes. We are hoping against
hope Your husbands estate 1t seems
IL hopeiessly involved. We are put
ting up a hard fight. but you may be
penniless still"
The lawyer departs.
The next man who climbs the stone
steps isn't admitted. He is told that
Mrs. Yerkes is too Ill TO see him. even
( that were not out OF the question
The suave butler refers him to Mrs.
lerkes' lawyers.
Another one OF them collectors,
he butler explains to the second
maid. Lord. how they do come
There's somebody after every stick or
furniture in the place. The taxes
rave not been paid in five years. III
he missus ever gets we'll enough 10
out. she won't dare. These fellows
will lock her out If she does. near
III that she's only living here by SUI
,erance of them that she owes.
Now let's go over 10 the beautiful
marble palace at Park-ave. and Sixty
seventh-st Emile Grisby lives here;
she'll continue to live here, come what
nay. It's her mansion unassallaoly
Ter mansion. The tempest which RACES
round the Fifth-ave. pile does not
blow here.
Emile Grigsby is better off now
han she was during Yerkes life. Al
els end when his wife was becoming
olainer with each day. and the other
woman was daily coming nearer and
nearer 10 the zenith OF her young
beauty. Yerkes provided that the hap
DIness OF Miss Grigsby should be OF
The kind that endures. She alone OF
hose who enjoyed his riches Is pro,
.ected in them after his death.
Miss Grigsby is giving dinner to
night. Her house is ablaze with light.
She receives her guests in the mag.
nificent fourth floor salon. Costly
draperies depend from the immense
AK beams of the dining hall and orien.
tai rugs worth kings ransom cover
the polished floors The guests sit IN
gold Louis XIV. chairs.
The doors are thrown open. Miss
Grigsby and her guests are going TO
another entertainment. Two limou.
sines are drawn up at the curb. A
Negro footman, respondent in livery,
appears, and then comes Miss Grigsby
An evening cloak covers her Partisan
costume Her golden red hair is fash
Toned into an elaborate coiffure
You steal closer. Through the open