New-York tribune., 1910-09-21
FIRST WIFE TO BEGIN SUIT
From Paris Mrs. ChanIer In
struCtS Lawyer to File
Complaint.
SHE WILL DEMAND JUSTICE
Couples Cavalier and Sheriff
Bob" in Action TO Set Aside
Ante Nuptial Agreement.

Unless Lima CavaIieri is not dependent on
real estate for her happiness and can sat
isfy her cravings by rejecting upon the fact
that. after all. she is a June bride still
and her husband is a man whose only
faults are his boisterous ways her immedi-
ate future does not seem crowded with con-
tent.
II she has set her heart on certain Dutch
ess County farms and particular West Side
properties in Manhattan. she is going to
have long pull and viii probably try 10
find some salve as good for wounded feel
ings as that which she is said to have in
vented for other wOmens complexions-
Many persons here and abroad say that
Lima never should have received that ante
nuptial transfer of Robert W. Chanler's
real estate. Lima was only second choice.
says Mrs. Julia Remington Chamberlain
Chanler in Paris. who successfully main
tains that she was first on Mr.. Chanler's
nuptial list Pointedly Mr.. ChanIer's first
wife notified her attorney. F. n. Watriss,
at No. 80 Liberty street. yesterday. that she
would demand justice along the well es-
tablished custom of first come. first
served
The first Mrs. Chanler is living in Paris
with her two children. Julia and Dorothy.
She has instructed Mr.. Watriss Immediately
to bring suit in the Supreme Court to set
aside the ante-nuptial agreement that
Chanler made with Cavalieri. Mrs. Chanler
and her children now receive $4,000 a year
under an agreement made with Chanler in
1908 when she got her decree of separation
from him in the French courts.
Mrs Chanler's counsel will begin action
by filing a lis pendens in the County
Clerks Office. it is understood. together with
a copy of the summons and complaint in
the proceedings against Chanler and Cava-
lieri
The lis pendens will serve to notify all
concerned that an action is pending in the
courts that involves the title to the real
estate that the former Sheriff tried to trans
fer 10 the opera singer. While the fling Of
the ante-nuptial agreement with the County
Register by Cavalieri gives her a lien on
Chanlers real estate ahead Of any judg-
ment creditor and does not affect the dover
rights of Mrs. Julia Chanler in the realty,
II does seriously affect her position with re-
lation to the income Of the property.
Chanler Is now reported TO be sorry he
did it whenever the ante-nuptial agree
ment is under discussion in his presence by
LAWYERS who are paid to try TO keep its ap-
parent face value from being realized by
Cavalieri. Every legal resource viii be
taken advantage of by the Chanler counsel
to that end. Chanler is docile now, they
say. He is even said to be in a highly
nervous state now, fearing that when he
issued that rash transfer he may have stood
between his two children and his first wife
and so much that could make them happy
There is no doubt that the Chanler fam
ilv will use money and diplomacy first,
and. if thev fail. whatever recommends it
self as the next best thing, 10 secure an
eternal ''goodby'' from CavaIeri 10 all those
w1felv hopes that may now rest in the
thought that her possessions and Roberts
are one.
The Chanler counsel are prepared to pay
her well for signing some duly iTon-ciad
post-nuptial agreement having for its chief
para graph the obligation on the wifes part
never. again to refer with an owners pride
to those same farms and West Side proper
ties several times aforesaid.
No money offer has been rendered TO Cava-
lieri as yet. but there is expressed in sew
eral quarters the confident belief that there
soon will be negotiations on between Sid
nev Harris. Chanler's attorney, and Will
lam Russell Osborn, Cavalieri's lawyer, IN
an effort 10 determine the size Of the tip
that a grand opera singer can bring herself
TO accept for releasing a husband.
Chanler's counsel declare that the artist
has not vet revoked the power of attorney
he gave to Cavalieri to collect her S2a0o0
1T am not going TO do anything in the
matter at present. said Mr- Harris.
ChanIer-s tailor will have to wait until
next Monday before he can demand judg-
ment bv default in his suit for 1897 brought
few davs ago before Judge F. B. Dele
hantv in the city Court. Afidavits in fhe
case we're fled by the tailor's counsel yes
ferdaV.