Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-15
CHANLER SUED BY TAILOR
Doesn't Believe Antenuptial Agree
ment Will Stand.
OTHER CREDITORS PRESSING
Claims Amounting to Thirty Five
Thousand Dollars in Hands of
Attorney for Collection.

Chanler, it was stated on apparently gooG
authority here today, Is coming to this
country to attempt the Strengthening out
Of reports Of their marital differences
said to be due to misunderstanding over
the marriage settlement.
Nine. Cavalieri's coming is awaited with
interest. as Mr. Chanler has made nC
definite statements concerning the status
OF the couples affairs, concerning which
such widely divergent reports have been
circulated. According to Nine. Cavalieri's
friends, She will not hesitate to speak out
Both have denied that there were any
differences Of a serious nature, and Mr.
Chanler's counsel recently declared that
1t was only a matter of financial adjust
| ment which was worrying them both.
Nine. Cavalielis health. it was said
would be the only bar to her speedy ap.
pearance on this side of the water. II
was hoped that by week after next, how
ever. she would have SO far recovered
for appendicitis as to be able to make
the trip.
Sued for Tailor Bill.
The financial difficulties with which
Robert Winthrop Chanler has been
threatened ever since he returned to this
country after his brief sojourn in Europe
as the husband of Nine. Lima Cav
alieri, the singer. got as far as a
court proceeding yesterday, when suit
the value Of one evening suit and twelve
white waistcoats said to have been por-
ton of his wedding fneiy. Before the
day closed receivership proceedings were
threatened against. him.
The clothes were made for Chanler by
q ~ toll hA-
tween last November and April. They
were valued at 1887. Shortly after the
clothes were made Chanler left for Europe
with Nine. Cavalieri without paying for
them, The tailor turned the account over
to a collector named Fullencamp, and the
latter's lawyer, Matthias Radin Of 800
Broadway, after various Interviews with
Chanlet,s lawyer. began proceedings aim
Ing at = Judgment creditors action In the
supreme court.
0thef Creditors to Act.
The action on the tailor's bin was the
only one which. was actually brought
against tChanler yesterday. But it came
out that. Chanier also has other creditors
who are preparing to attach his already
much-entangled property.
According to a statement made yester
day by a member Of Mr. Radin's own le-
debt, $35 600 and who belong In the neigh
borhood of his home in DutchesS county.
have placed their claims In the hands Of
a Poughkeepsie lawyer. The name of the
man who made this statement Is Irving
Minsky.
During the interview with Sidney Har-
rs, Mr.. Chanler's lawyer, at 6 Wall
street, last Monday said Minsky, 'he
told me that Radin and 1 should file our
claim against Chanler with Edward r.
of pnn0hkoonSfa
mo that Perkins already represented $780,
600 in claims against Chanler's income"
Mr.. Harris himself, Mr.. Chanler's coun-
sci, was not in his Office all day yester-
day. Rumor had it that he and his cli-
ent had gone away to some secluded spot
to discuss ways and means Of straighten-
ing out Chanler's tangled finances.
Unable to Get Service.
Mr. Radin, representing the first suit
filed against Chanler in the present tan
gle, gave this explanation Of his efforts
to get Chanler to pay the debt without
legal recourse:
Our action against Mr.. Chanler is
founded on a bill for clothes sold to him
between November Is, 1900. and April 1,
1910. amounting, with accrued interest,
to $9S7.
been verified as soon as Mr.. Chanler ar
my clerk, who tri61 20 serve Mr.. Chanler
several times without success. ! then
asked Sidney Harris, Chanlers lawyer.
to get in touch with his client. Harris
answered unsatisfactory, and 1 made
up my mind Mr.. Chanler was evading
service.
To-day I prepared an afndavit set
ting forth these facts and on the strength
Of It Judge Delehanty In city court sign
ed an order permitting me to serve Chan
Ter by substituted service. Chanler will
have to make answer within SIX days,
and l will have q receiver appointed to
take care of his property. In this way
the rightfu1 creditors will take possession
of his property.
NINE. cavalieri. believe. has no title
to any personal property he may have
given her or signed away to her. l ex-
pect to begin a Judgment creditors action
in the supreme court to set aside all his
conyeyanceS to her
Expects to Break Pact.
Mr.. Radiin declared emphatically that
he didn't believe the much talked OF
"ante-nuptial agreement" which Chan
Ter Is said to have signed in Nine. Cava-
lieri's favor before marrying her would
stand In law.
I'VE will quickly brush aside any
claims Nine. Cavalieri may think she
has on Chanler's property said the
lawyer.
Oreste Cavalieri, Nine. Cavalieri's
brother, who came here from Europe last
week, kept carefully out of the way yes
terday. At the Hotel Savoy. where he
has been staying. 1t was said that he
had given up his room.
According to a friend OF the Cavaliers,
however, the much-talked-of ante-nuptiai
agreement which Chaner signed in Nine.
Cavalieri's favor stipulates that he shall
pay the singer $4,000 year out of his
income. It transfers to her in fee simple
CHAMBERS Red Hook farm in Duchess
county, consisting of coo acres, ON which
are two dwelling houses. on which
mortgage of 5000 is carried.
Property in the neighborhood of 57th
street and 9th avenue, consisting of
dwelling houses estimated to be worth
S32lOOD but on which there is a mort
xare of $4,000, is to go to Cavalieri at
Chanler's death. On his death property
which has been tied up. In a trust fund
for the first Mrs. Chanler and her two
children is to go to them.
When this description of the ANTE
nuptial agreement was submitted to
William Russell Osborn of l65 Broadway.
Nine CaSalieri's LAWYER yesferdoy hv a