The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-11
Before Marriage Artist
Made Over His Es-
tate to Singer.
$40 A MONTH is ALL
WIFE ALLOWS HIM
He Ekes Out scanty Income by,
Selling Little Pictures to
Friends-Finally Quits Wo-
man When He Finds Her
With Rus
sian.

Copyright. 1910, by The Press Pubs
fishing Co.: The New York Worldly
Especial Cable Dispatch to Tho WORLDLY
Paris September 1o.-Robert Win
throp Chanler. who last June was a
millionaire, is now a pensioner on $40
a month allowed him by his wife. Lima
Cavalieri. His dream of love has
been shattered. The former Sheriff OF
Duchess County, artist. clubman, So
ciety man and politician, and the
grand opera queen, 1.-The most beautiful
woman in the world.' have parted for-
ever. Cavalieri las CHAMBERS entire
fortune and he Is in America penni-
less.
The World ,sernnd this to-day,
through friends oflCsanler in this city.
Many OF the details-how Chanler was
duped by the singer, how she got him
to transfer his property to her. how
she fouted him after the marriage and
many of her escapades with a Russian
nobleman since the wedding, are mat
tiers of common knowledge among GER.
tain Americans now in Europe.
Courtcd Her Night and Day.
1t was in the spring of 1909 that
Chanler. not long before she sailed,
after her grand opera season here, fell
in love with Lima Cavalieri. From
the moment he set eyes on her. the
grandson of John Jacob Astor lived
with one object in view-to make her
his wife. He went to see her at noon
every day, as soon as the singer had
left her bedroom; he was with her
every afternoon: he went to hear her
sing every time she appeared at the
Manhattan Opera House. and then took
her to supper every night after the
performance.
There was nothing the singer ex-
pressed desire for that Chanler did
not try to move heaven and earth to
get For twelve months the millionaire
courted Cavalieri She played him
along. now sending him to the seventh
heaven of rapture. now plunginE him
to the lowest depths of despair. Many
an afternoon she would go to his
studio on Fifth Avenue and, while
Chanler would pretend to work on his
mural paintings. Cavalieri would sit
at the piano. play and sing to him.
or would Toll in an easy chair by his
side, watching him work and slipping
tea. Between sips she would purr soft
nothings to him lnNsuch manner that
he would forget work. time and every
thing In the world save the woman
by his side.
Played Prince Against Him.
All this time Prince Dolgorouki,
one of the richest noblemen in Russia.
was an ardent sutton OF Cavalieri.
Considerably over SIX feet tall. strik-
ingly handsome. practiced In all the
arts of attracting lovely women. he
was Just the kind of man who
would take by storm the heart Of
capricious beauty. Because Of MS as
siduous attentions, Cayalieri blew hot
and cold for Chanler. AS day after
day he asked her to marry him. she
put him off. taking care not to de-
cline him, but not wanting to accept
him when there was a possibility that
she would land the Russian, whom She
is said to have loved as much as
Chanler loved her.
Then In March of this year. with
other famous grand opera singers.
Cavalieri sailed for Europe, having
promised Chauler she would decide on
April 15 whether or not she would
marry him. On that day Chanler
walked around with his head IN the
clouds. He had received the following
cablegram:
Paris. April is, 1910.
Robert Chanler. New York: w
will accept your proposition
marriage on my return to Me- -ork
IleSl season.. MUCH 1--WE
| Answer by cable.
LIMA cAvALIER1.
Chanler Eagerly Accepts.
Chanler. beside himself with 1oyt
sent the following In reply:
| Nine. Lima Cavalier. Paris:
I accept your propositions 1t is
| long wait. but wise.
ROBERT w. cHANLER.
That night Chanler gave a bachelor
dinner at the Alps Restaurant. Sixth
| Avenue. near Fifty eighth Street. to
| celebrate the engagement Among
| his guests, we're Henry Clews. Jr..
| Peter Cooper Hewitt. f. b. Herzog.
| Robert NIacCameron and Richard LIE.
| Gallienne.
But Nine. Cavalieri had not decided
she would marry Chanler until she
| was satisfied she could not marry
| Prince Dolgorouki. Soon after she
arrived In Paris she went to st. Pc
tersburg. The object OF this trip was
not generally known until few
weeks ago. when 1t was learned by
friends In Paris to who9the indignant
| Chanler told 1t.
Gar Refused Consent.
| 1t Is against the law for functions
aries Of the court of the Gear of Rus
sia to marry without tho consent OF
| their imperial master Prince Doll
| gorouki has an enormous fortune. be-
| side which the fortune of Robert Win
throp Chanler looks like mere pocket
money. If he married without the
| consent OF the Gear all of this fortune
would be forfeited, one-third to the
Imperial Treasury and the other two-
thirds to his family. Although abe
As said to have loved the Handsome
and noble Russian. the fair Lima did
| MT 1.-Two him wall enough 10 taxa him
| without his money.
So she went to st. Petersburg 10
try to get the consent OF the Gear to
| the wedding. She did not succeed,
Through her beauty and the influence
n i.El