The sun., 1909-06-07
SPRECKELS AND MISS CASE IN
SINGER SAYS SHE'S ENGAGED;
BOY NOT 50 EXPLICIT.

wireless From Claus spreckcis. sr..
Takes the Young Baryt0no Straight
From tho ship to tho Temporary
Paternal Headquarters In Town.
Claus spreckels. Jr. who arrived yes
terday by the new Hamburg American
liner Cincinnati. intended according to
dispatches from Paris to marry i'm
mediately after landing Miss Mary Adele
Case OF Portland. Ore. q singer who has
appeared professionally Ia Paris and who
met Mr.. Spreckels in that city. They
were fellow passengers by the Cincinnati
and were In each others company nearly
every hour OF the day on the trip Miss
Case was ohaperoned by friend. Miss
Myrthel Mac A. Teer. soprano and violin-
let Of Pittsburg and Mr. Spreokels, who
10 about 2i. but looks younger. took care
Of himself.
A delegation OF reporters went down
the bay to have a long talk young with MIR.
Spreokels and Miss Case while the liner
was coming up to her dock. At first Mr.
Spreckels' would not be interviewed but
he finally consented under the urging OF
Miss Case
Miss Case, arrayed in white. which
accumulated her dark complexion, and
looking several years older than MIR.
Spreckels. received the reporters in the
ladies' sitting room, She was as cool as
| the Young man was hustered She was
asked il it vas true that she and Mr..
Spreckels had come here to get married
She smiled and answered II have nothing
to say about II just now Perhaps yo'i
had better ask Claus himself
| Miss Case than asked Miss Teer to hunt
up Claus and bring him to her. Miss
Teer went away and came back without
Claus. Miss Case thereupon went after
' the young man herself and came back
| with him. lie was asked II it was tr,,e
that he was engag ged to marry Miss Case
After Il moments hesitation he answered.:
mo. it is not true. That story started
in the Hamburg American Lines Office
in Paris. Miss Case was coming to Amer
ioa. and I. as any good friend would do for
another. offered to help her about her
tickets. I noticed that in booking Misc
Case the agent OF tho line from whom
got the tickets booked her as Miss Chase.
Later reporter came to the Hotel Males
tic, where Miss Case was stopping and
asked to soc Miss Chase. That is why 1
know that the story must have started
from the lines Office in Paris.
Miss Case had been pa!nning for some
time to come on this ship and / also In
tended to return to New York bv her. 1
went over with my mother in January.
My mother went to London and ! went
to Paris to cultivate my voice. which 1
am told is a good barytone, and there in
the course Of my association with my
teacher. MIR. Clark. met Miss Case
Reports have been published that young
Spreckels had been summoned home by
his father. He said in answer to Ques-
tions that he had been attracted to Miss
Case because Of their interest in music.
He thought that at pinch he might earn
his living with his voice. which his teacher,
who was very sorry to SEQ him leave Paris,
had praised. While he was visiting Miss
Case in Paris she was chaperoned by Nine
fischer Miller. the writer,
Young Mr.. Spreckelss nervousness
increased as the liner neared her pier.
He had received wireless message
from his father who arrived here the
other day and is at the Woloott. telling
him among other things that an en-
ployse OF the hotel would he at the pier
waiting for him and that he was to come
Immediately to the hotel with the man.
just before he got into cab with the
hotel man he seemed to have changed
his mind bit in regard to his reported
enga cement to Miss Case. Il will neither
affirm nor deny it," he ssid To ques-
ton as to whether he Nexpected to he
married at once he replied: Il can't say.
am liable to do anything
Miss Case and young Mr. spreckels
at the pier. She went in another cab TO
the Hotel Knickerbocker She was
asked again on the pier il she we're en-
gagged to Mr.. Spreckels and she answered:
"ies. | am engaged and begged to be
excused from saying anything more
had nothing al all to say on the subject.
Mise Case will sing in concerts chiefly
in cities OF the West