The Detroit times., 1910-09-19
lhTIMATIOh MADE
THAT CHAMBER MAY
Be INSANE
Reports State That Members Of Chan
Ter Family Are Applying To Courts
TO Have Commission Appointed
For Bob.
Cavalier Is Offered $4,000 and
Annuity Of $1,000 for Quit Claim
To Husbands Property.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-John Arm
strong Chaloner may not have been
very far out of the way when he sent
his now famous telegram: Who's
loony now?' 10 his brother. Robert
w. Chanler, when the news that Chan
Ter and Cavalieri had disagreed be-
came public.
Attorneys who have examined the
ante-nuptial agreement unite today
In asserting that 1t Is seemingly
legal proof. That this Is the opinion
of the members of the Chanler fam
lily ia indicated by the intlmaton
from them that they would be will
ing TO Insure Cavalieri a lump sum
OF $4,000 and guaranteed annuity
Of $4,000 II she will execute a quit
claim to her husbands possessions.
While none Of the members OF the
Chanler family, nor their attorneys
will discuss the proposed offer, II Ia
generally credited that II has been
made. People who know Cavalieri,
and who are amazed over the revela-
tons contained In the agreement III
ed yesterday, say that she will hard
ly accept any such offer. They admit
however, that the Chanler family
and its influential connections, the
Astors, may be able to force the
diva to come to terms.
She Is admittedly bound up In her
art. AS a star. she draws good fat
salary, but she can earn less than
half as much In foreign appearances
as she can In America. The Astors
have prominent part In the affairs
Eof the Metropolitan Opera house and
might be able TO show the diva that.
II she consents to repent some, and
choke on the present scandal, her
American engagements can be pleas
ant for her.
Until Cavalieri arrives here II will
be impossible to tell what she will do.
Her attorneys expect her TO fight,
but refuse to say so for publication.
The ante-nuptial agreement Is so
strongly formed that II cannot be set
aside ont the grounds of fraud.
Commission For Chanier.
Some Of the members of the Chan
Ter family are said TO favor applying
to. the courts to have a commission
appointed for Robert w. Chanler and
proper. They say that hts action
In the world can be accounted only
on the hypothesis that he was not in
his right mind. They seem to think
that It might be possible to show
that he is not responsible. II the
courts should hold so, the ante-nup-
tial agreement would not be worth the
CHAMBER attorneys, nor the members of
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today would discuss this story. They
are angered at the publicity they have
so far received and from now on will
try to keep every move that may be
made secret
w. Russell Osborne, attorney for
Lima Cavalieri, said today he had
nothing to add to the agreement 1T
has been fled and the public can judge
of it's value for ITSELF" he said. He
declined to say when he expected
Cavalisri 10 arrive in this country, but
intimated It would be soon.
Verbal Agreement, Also.
In return for the iron-clad ante.
nuptial agreement by which Robert
w. Chanler bound. himself to turn
over practically all of his fortune to
Lima Cavalieri, 1t transpired today
that the pair entered into a verbal
agreement. by which Cavalieri agreed
to pay of CHAMBERS debts, clear his
property from its mortgaged indebt-
edness and turn over the first $4,000
coming TO her out CT the written
agreement to CHAMBERS first wife. in
satisfaction Of alimony due from
Chanler.
This agreement, however, being
verbal will be hard to enforce, 1t is
admitted by Chambers friends. II
indicates the hard head for business
possessed by the diva, who bound
her husband by compact, from
which he will have difficulty escaping.
Cavalieri, 1t is said, agreed to pay
CHAMBERS debts In the belief that
they did not exceed $4,000. When
she found that they were twice this
sum, she began to complain.