Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-28
WOMAN DENIES
THAT She IS TOO
ACTIVE A "J|NER'
Has No Children, So She Be-
comes Society Member to
Occupy Time.
HUSBAND OBJECTS TO
..9 SIS PER WEEK ALIMONY
Charges and Counter-charres
Handed Back and Forth in
ChancelI0r's Court.

Denying that she is a too o-strenuous
liner. Mrs. Marie A. Benedict, of
Crawford. who wants divorce from
her husband, Roswell A. Benedict, now
somewhere in Connecticut. put in her
answer to his allegations before Vice.
Chancellor Emery today In the course
of the argument on exceptions to a
weekly alimony OF S.. This amount
had been recommended by Alfred r.
Stevens, sitting recently as master in
the proceedings, and the husband now
seeks to reduce her ambition as to the
amount. When the vice-chancellor had
heard the arguments of William H..
Parry for the wife and Robert d. Reyn-
oldts for the husband be reserved deci-
sion.
The couple was married February IL,
1892 by the Rev. Madison c. Peters, of
New York city, and lived in that big
town, where Benedict worked as ste
nographer, until May, 1908. Then they
moved to Passaic and afterward to
Crawford, where. so she alleges, he de-
serted her January 20, 1907, "wilfully.
continually and obstinatcly.'
wife Joins Societies.
/ They have no children and she
sought comfort In Joining q multitude
of societies, many Of them run on lines
altruistic. At the same time she denies
that she Joined as many as he says she
did, and declares that she did not have
the all-absorbing interest In them that
he is inclined to assert that she has
and had.
She is asked in the bill whether Or
Jaa tat, ho fo a
been a member of the executive COM
mittec of the following associations;
The Village Improvement Association,
the New York City Mothers' Club. the
Little Mothere' Aid Association, of
New York city; the New York City
Womcp's Republican Club. the New
York City Sunshine Society, the New
York State Federation OF Women's
Clubs, the National Congress of Moth
ers, the American Playgoers and the
Womcns Legislative League. In an
swer TO this she replies serially.
"As 10 the lmproyeent Association,
was secretary; as to the New York
City Mothers Club, l was secretary for
one year; as to the Little Mothers Aid
Association, l. never held office, nor
was / q memoer of the executive conf
uittee as to the New York Clty
Women's Republican Club, / was treas
urer for two or three years; as to the
Sunshine Society, was never a mem
ber of the executive committee or an
officer; as to the New York state Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs. l was never
g. member OF the executive committee;
as to the National Congress of Moth
ers, was never member; as to the
American Playgoers, l was merely @
member and not on the executive board; !;
as to the Women's Legislative League,
was an officer In that association.
on the other hand, she AYERS that
when they were living at Mrs. Hollub's
boarding house, 70 West Eighty-ninth
street, New York city, he told her, and
she fixes the date in October, 1908, that
he was making $4,000 "a year. which
she knew from experience that such
was not the case. as they were spend
ing very much less than that amount.
The feet that the husband Is taking
exception to the IS week alimony. ad-
vised by the master, was urged as a
point in making denial OF this alleged
statement of the husband.
Mrs Benedicts marriage to the man
with whom she, Is now at odds is her
third venture In the matrimonial field.