The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-10
CHANLER LOSES
 INCOME AND
 BRIEF BRIDE
Politician, Artist and Social Leader Returns to New York, Broken in Purse
 and Spirits
Cast Off By Fascinating Opera Singer Whom He Welded Two Months Ago In Paris.
Special from United Press.)

New York, Sept. 1o-His income of $50, GOO year transferred to the wo- man he married who now offers him $240 year of it to defray his personal expenses, Robert w. Chan1er, grand son of John Jacob Astor, politician, society man and artist, is today hid ing from his friends, a broken, des- pondent man, his dream of romance, shattered.
 Over in Paris his bride of two months, the fascinating opera singer Lima Cavalieri, from whom his friends say he is parted forever, is accepting the attentions of the set in which she formerlH moved while secure in her strong Cox are the papers she forced marry him and which transferred to her the bulk of his fortune.
 New York intinates of young Chan Ter, members of the ultra-fashionable Paris telling of the manner in which he was hoodwinked by the opera sin ger, who has been characterized as the
 most beautiful woman in the world. " Those who have seen the distracted
 man since he hurried here from Paris are fearful that his mind may become affected by the strain and the few personal friends in whom he has con- fided, are carefully guakding him from interviewers and the etfious public.
 Chanler courted Lima Cavalieri for 12 months and his courtship was the most spectacular ever seen even by Broadway where love affairs of mill lionaires and chorus gar1s are hardly ever a matter of comment. Chanler first met her in the spring of-f909 just before the close of the opera season. From that moment she was the ''one woman in the worId'' for him. Night and day he was constantly at her side. He lavished gifts and flowers on her. took her to breakfast, driving in the park behind his fast horses, accom- FaaniQd her fo fra WI while she sang he sat in a stage box and cast soulful eyes on her. After the performances he and his close inti- mates in the so-caIled Bohemian set dined at fashionable restaurants with the Diva as the guest of honor.
 For nearly a year this kept up, Chan fascinating French woman whose proud boast it was that no man could resist the appeal in her eyes. Time and again he asked her to marry him, only to be put off with a laughing refusal that but added zest to the courtship.
 Cavalier all this time had another string to her bow, Dolgorouki, a Rus sian prince, blood relative to the Czar and enormously wealthy. That he could not marry her was not known to Chanler and it was his lack of knowledge of Russion court regulations that finally led him to hasten their marriage two months ago.
 Three days before their marriage on June IS, Chanler at the request pr his bride-to-be signed over. his fortune to her. Just how valid this transfer is the question bothering Chanler and his relatives today That an attempt will be made to have it set aside is certain and it is generally believed that a good part of it may be recovered. With a few days after their mar riage it is said, Mrs. Chan1df told her l husband she would allow him $20 a month spending money, but that he
 must go to work and earn his own 1 living.
 A cablegram from Mrs. Chan1er re- cefved here today reiterated her denial that they had separated because, of l money difficulties' but all of Chan ler's friends here insist that the story | is true.