Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-17
CHANLER GIVES
CAVALIERI HIS
ENTIRE FORTUNE
-NuptiaI Agreement Between
Singer and Artist Filed with =
New York Register.
CONSIDERATION ONE DOLLAR
Document Lists Large Estate by
Parcels and Confers Great
Power on Woman
CONSIDERATION ONE DOLLAR
Associated Pressl

NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-The pre-
nuptial agreement between Robert
Winthrop Chanler Of this city and his
bride, Lima Cavalier. the prima donna,
of Paris, was filed today in the office
of the registerof New York county.
Nine. Cavalieri's full name is given
as Natalina Cavalieri, spinster, an
Italian subject, resident in Paris.
After defining the purpose of the
agreement as designed to remove all
doubts that might exist owing to the
different nationalities of the principals,
as to the law governing their mutual
property rights, the document pro-
ceeds to state that, "in consideration
of the sum of one dollar paid, and said
intended marriage" Chanler shall as
sign to his wife all his real estate, all
Mrs. Laura Delano, subject to mort
gage of about $4,000, for her sole and
separate use absolutely"
ONE DOLLAR Is CONSIDERATION
For the same consideration of one
dollar and the intended marriage, the
UIluGBIOOLn 0Oln AuAliASL SON01hAb "
pay his wife $4,000 year in four
quarterly installments, all payments
free from income or other taxes, and
for the purpose of securing the pay
ment of the said yearly sum" Cava-
lieri is constituted "his true and lawful
attorney, irrevocable," to collect the
rents and profits. Should the income
fgom the real estate prove insufficient
at any time to pay the 100000 yearly
agreed on, a second power of attorney
is conferred to govern the income pay
able from the fund held in trust for
him by the New York Life and 1nsur-
anee Trust company.
Should this additional income still
prove insufficient, third power OF at
torney is conferred to govern the in
come from the fund held in trust for
him by the New York Life and Insur-
ance Trust company.
With the exception of these details
the agreement specifies the property of
each of the principals shall remain
the separate property and under the
sole control of each of them, and fur
thermore that their status and ca
pacity generally shall be governed by
the laws of the state of New York"
SWEEPING POWER FOR BRIDE
If Mrs. Chanler cared to attempt to
compel her husband to carry out the
terms of his pre-nuptial contract, the
fling of the original here today by her
lawyers would be her first step in any
effort to interpose her rights between
him and his creditors, who, 1t is sup
posed, will contest the agreement
The document not only confers the
sweeping powers enumerated above,
but 1t lists, parcel by parcel, all the
real estate taken under it's control. APP
pended to the list Is the following
clause:
"And all other realty Cf any) form
ing part of the share of the above
named Robert Winthrop Chanler. and
in the estate of the late Mrs. Laura
Delano, subject to q mortgage of
$4,000 or thereabouts, and all his
rights, title and interest therein, but
subject to the mortgages thereof"
An incumbrance of $140,000 on the
thirty pieces of New York real estate
listed would amount to less than $4,000
on each parcel
The agreement is dated May 81, and
signed and witnessed in the presence
of Hanson c. Cox, deputy consul gen.
eral of the United States at Paris. 1t
is written in English, on parchment
made in London.
Before his marriage to Nine. Cava-
lieri, Robert Chanler married Miss Ju-
liza Chamberlain, from whom he Is di-
vorced, and by that marriage there are
two children, Dorothy, aged 6, and Ju-
liza, aged 2, now living with their
mother. I.
Overtures have been made to Cava-
lieri, the New York World will say
tomorrow, to settle the case without
litigation.
Under the terms proposed she would
cancel the document filed today and
accept instead $4,000 outright and an
annuity of $5000