The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-14
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FRIEND OF WIFE WHO LAc 81. 81.
voRcED GEORGE RANDOLPH
CHESTER TELLS a PITIFUL
STORY OF A LOYAL SWo MANS
sAcRlFlcEs AND EVENTUAL
HEARTRREAk. 4 s 81
NEW YORK, Oct 14.-"The trouble
with Chester is what Is the trouble
with all these other literary men who
are getting, divorced these days-too
much New York. AS long as thew
stay s 9pt, IN Their, o!Yni, towns and are
poor enough to have to work hard,
everything goes wells, But when they
get itot New York aud begin to have
pleHtylof money 'ahdn all the women
are running after them and flatterine
them and begging to be put in their
stories, it's all off with the simple life
and the old ideals.- :
That twas the trouble with Ches.
ter: Too much New York-too much
money 81 too much Bohemia-too
much flattery from pretty Idle wo.
men," 20 W
In that way close friend told 10
a World reporter yesterday Of the
start of the trouble that led to the di.
vorcing of George Randolph Chester,
story writer. This friend was with
Mrs., Chester during THE illness that
attacked her after She learned OF
Chester's relations with the core
spondent. ;.stl.s'i 81
| Mrs. Chester and her two sons have
gone to liyeiin a town near this city.
Chester and his affinity are abroad
and the woman, Mrs. Lillian Deremo.
Is being introduced as his wife. Ches
ter wrote the "Get.Rjch;QuickI wal.
lingford" stories, a dramatization Of
which by George Conan had phe.
nomenal success on Broadway last
season. The Chesters' divorce case
was heard$priyately before a referee.
She Saved Him; He said.
IF you remember" said the friend,
who would not permit her name to be
used. Sin the Wallingford stories, 1t is
the wife who saves the man and re.
forms him. Well: Chester drew. the
character after his wife: He used to
say to friends that II It had not been
for her he would have. been in the gut.
ter years ago. When they We're mar.
1rled Chester was an architect, and
things were not too easy for them Il.
nally: He, started writing stories and
his wife copied them for him and aa.
yised him to send them to the pa.
pers. The stories were successful.
Chester could be prodigious
worker at times. and he and his wife
began to syndicate his work. She
managed 1t all, typewrltlng At, mime.
ogrnphing 1t and.swatching the bust.
ness end. The syndicate business
prospered SO that Mr.. Chester deter,
mined TO come to New York. He left
his wife at College Hill, a Cincinnati
suburb, to attend to selling the house
and winding up matters at home.
5t,i AsWonnan Of Power. 81
mrs. Chester's most intimate
friend was Mrs. Deremo, aayoung wild.
ow. She is a beautiful woman, small
and very slight with enormous burn.
Ing black eyes, and a skin as white as
chalk. She is capable of exerting a
tremendous influence over a man.
MRS. Chester on; the other hand,
"a woman with great charm Of sim.
plicity- and directness, She, Is small,
with large, soft brown eyes and brown
hair and a delicate face with a child.
ISL expression. She is about thirty.
five and Mrs. Deremoa good ten years
younger. q. itr
After Chester arrived in New York
he went TO live at the Van Cortlandt
Hotel. Mrs. Deremo came on from
College Hill for the ostensible pur.
pose Of going on the stage. She put
up at the Van Cortlandt. Mrs. Ches.
ter came on and lived at the hotel.
AFTER that Chester. was absent
from home a great deal on the plea Of
business, and Mrs. Deremo accom-
panied him. Still Mrs. Chester was
unsuspiclous, until one day the wo.
mans father appeared from Cincin.
natl, and asked Mrs. Chester! where
his daughter was. He had discovered
the truth. When Chester returned to
town, his wife confronted him with
what she had learned, and he con,
fessedt tji's e, I. AZ
He craved Beauty.
~" How have 7 failed you?" she
asked him. IN What way don't sat
isfy your a ;l:, q
/ you are perfect ingeyery, way ex:
cept one,' Chester replied. This jwo.
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