The evening world., 1911-02-14
Former Riding Instructor With
Whom She Eloped Says
They Haven't Separated.
SHE'S AT HER OLD HOME.
Hever, a Hopeless Invalid,
Lives Here With Children
Of First Wife.

James IIever, who eloped with Mss
Nancy Carnegie, niece OF Andrew Car
nesle. while he was employed by her
mother as riding Instructor in 1905, ad-
mltted to-day at his nome, No. 2Gi0
Broadway. that, his wife and their four
children are living In Plttsburs and
that he has not seen them since their
visit to him In the fall OF 1909.
Hever is a paralytir. iic requires the
constant attention OF "A male nurse. Ills
three children by Ills first wife. who
died some years ago. live with him..
They are william, twenty years Old.
who is recovering from an operation for
appendicitis in New York Hospital:
Mary. seventeen. who is her fathers
general aide. and James. who Is still at
school.
When an Evening World reporter
called to-day he found Hever In bed
In n darkened room at the front OF
the apartment but trying to read a
newspaper. His daughter ,old him tha;
an inquiry was being made concerning
his separation from his wife.
No Separation He Said.
There has been no separation he
said. Il am sick, my wife is sick. and
the children are not at all well. She
Is with them at her mothers home In
Pittsburg. and they are well looked
after. Her mother is Mrs. Lucy Cole
man Carnegie. widow OF a brother OF
Andrew Carnegie. We hear from each
other by mail and telegraph at fire.
quent intervals. and my wife Is AWAY
as solicituos for my recovery as
am for the general health n hap
piness OF both herself and our children
But we are not separated In the leSa
sense. n good feeling exists between
US"
When Andrew Carnegie announced II
1904 that his niece had been secreti!
married TO Hover he remarked that u
was much better than having a worth
less duke in the family
After Mrs. Carnegie had engage
Hover to give her daughter riding les
sons and to train her hunter. Dingle,
Bay, a friendship sprung up betweeI
the couple. In less than a year the,
eloped.
Hever leased the Highlander farm
near Cos Cob. and later his wife hough
a farm at Roslyn. l.. l., where the
lived until March. 1906. Their next resi-
dence was In New Jersey. lIever starte
a small racing stable. but he met wit
misfortune and sold his farm in tn
summer of 1909. His wife took her fou
children to Pittsburg.
injured by ! Fall.
Soon after her departure. while Heve
was trying a new hunter at Sleeps
, head Bay. the animal stumbled over
fence, pitched him TO the ground an
fell on him.
Hever's feet became paralyzed. ii
I soon lost the use OF his legs, and even
! tually the entire body was affected. ii
| engaged the apartment in which he
=, now living, and he has been unabl
to leave II for more than a year, Sine
= a visit OF his wife during the Hudson
Fulton celebration Hever has been cor
. aned 10 his bed. Three weeks ago a
>. operation was performed on q growt
= on his spine. but It was unsuccessful
= Hever's apartment is beautifully flu
nlshed, and has nine rooms, Beside
/ the nurse. he maintains a domestic an
. a maid for the CHILD.
Questioned as to his income. Hevs
declined TO discuss that subject. an
would not state whether or not he va
a still providing for his wife or h,
family,