The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-23
BIG INCOME LIKE
 REPUTATION MUST BE LIVED UP TO
Such is Witty Declaration of Witty Claimant Who In herits Large Portion of Pinkey Millions = Son Secured Conservator for Which Mother Blames Wife.

New York, Jan. 23. A new chapter in the spectacular ca reer of Mrs. Julia Watt Morris Cur tiss. of Fairfield, one of the three heirs of the $50, O,O0O,O0O estate of the late Ma ry G. Pinkney, of Harlem, was open ed yesterday when John c. Shaw, as committee of her estate, appeared be- fore Supreme Court Justice Davis with a request to mortgage some of her re- gently acquired property.
 :. Money, money, money is the plea of the handsome matron of forty-seven years. who divorced her first husband and was divorced by her second, and whose $450 parasols were the talk of the town some time ago. Though the Pinkney millions are almost within her grasp she is hard up and requires cash to settle some old bills, Sc. The Court yesterday allowed her, through her conservator, $2S0,000. She owes over $24000 in this city for clothes, medicine and hotel accommodations, and more than $19,000 in Connecticut for similar supplies.
 A part of the $2SO,OO0 too, will be used in removing the libel on her steam yacht Osceola, on which she was seiz-
 
 September, 1907, at Bridgeport as she was trying, it was alleged, to- escape to Europe. It was rumored at the time that the fair divorcee was in love and contemplated a third venture in natrimony.
 What will be her next move is now the inquiry of her friends. Will she, with the Pinkney millions at her com n1ar1d, they ask lift the ban of legal incompetence which the courts here and in Connecticut put upon her in 1907. just before the yacht episode, and do thereafter just as she pleases? Her son, Louis Morris, by her first hus- band, Peter H. Morris, whom she di- vorced in 1897, brought the action which resulted in her being declared incompetent.
 In the midst of the proceedings, the rich widow slipped into New York and practically barricaded herself in apart ments at the Hotel Savoy. It was a hot fight between mother and son, and though the son won the friends of the mother predict that before long she will again again become a, free agent, to follow her own romantic desires.
 Mrs. Julia Watt Morris Curtiss has luxurious tastes which only a fortune like that she has inherited from the Pinkney estate can amply gratify.
 'tAn income is like a reputation one must i've up to IL, Sne W1Ct1ly remarked when her son was trying to prove her incompet ent. She holds that $200 a day is not an eXtravagant ex- penditure for woman who loves only nice things and must have them.''
 Her friends say Mrs. Curtiss, should she determine to marry again, has profited sufficiently by experience not to fall into the clutches of a marriage broker. One of the first sensational incidents in her career was made pub lie in 1902 when rich old Henry H. Wi bert sued her for s23,O00 for services. He alleged, on the trial that he ''locat- ed'' for her Dr. Rollin A. Curtiss, whom she married in 1898, and had persuaded aged Miss Pinkney, her aunt, to deed her $25O,0O0 in property
 Mrs. Curtiss is said to be at her splendid country home, Fairfield, near She has blamed all her troubles on the wife of her son Louis. Mrs. Curtiss is noted for her elegant costumes and is said to be a, connois- seur of wines and rare foods. She has travelled extensively. Her son Louis was divorced from Rosetta Bailey, daughter of a Bridgeport carpenter, and then married Miss Nettie Smith Ba- deau,