New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-23
MOTT SAILS TO CHINA
Grandson of IronmaSter and
Actress Travel on Freighter.
EACH is ALREADY Welded
Young Man Slips Away from Sol.
der of Fortune offered $685.
900 to Keep Him Sober Year.

The latest esca pade OF Jordan Lawrence
Mott. III, writer and the grandson Of the
founder OF the Mott Iron Works. has been
10 elope to China with a pretty brunette
actress who recently appeared in The
Chocolate Soldier"
The woman in the case. like young Mott.
IS married, and there is a man in Flushing.
Long Island. who will not see his actress
wife for some time to come. She and
young Mott sailed on the British tramp
freighter Indradeo, on Saturday morning
at daybreak, as Mr. and Mrs. J. Mott.
The young mans father. Jordan Mott III,
with whom he had stormy scene at the
Ritz Carlton a week ago Monday with re-
gard 70 the woman. accompanied by his
wife started for Europe on the Mauretania
on Tuesday to intercept the Indradeo at
Gibraltar
with Motifs parents is Hector Fuller,
war correspondent and writer OF sea
stories. who successfully ran the blockade
at Port Arthur to get news. His task Is
TO get Mott off the Indradeo and away
from the actress. Fuller has $4,000 in
cash and a letter of credit for $4,000
more, and his friends in this city said
last night that he would undoubtedly sue
coed in his task. Fuller's friends believe
the clippers will not offer any resistance.
for when the woman suddenly appeared
at the Mott estate. at Pilantry. ~ c. two
weeks ago. Fuller quarrelled with Mott
and gave him sound thrashing.
Fuller who has been a soldier Of fort
une in South America and in South AZ
rica was engaged several months ago to
keep young Mott from drinking He took
the young man to Pilantry on hunting
trip and was getting him around. as he
thought. when the actress. evidently in
response TO letter. arrived a the scene.
After the fight between the two mon
Mott and the woman came here and took
up apartments on Amsterdam avenue, near
10th street On Monday Of last week he
visited his father at the RitZ-Carlton. The
scene was a stormy one; the son was
dered from the hotel and told not to see
his father again until he had stopped drink
ing. The young mans mother was pres
ent at the time and wept. The fathers ul-
timatum TO his son was:
"Al your dealings with me for the next
year must be through Fuller. II you don't
do as he says you will be dislnherited"
Fuller suggested long sea trip and said
that together they would write sea stories
Young Mott asked II the woman could not
be taken along with them. Fuller agreed.
realizing that heroic measures alone would
win him the IS, 90 bonus which the elder
Mott had promised il he kept young Mott
away from liquor for year.
That afternoon young Mott went to Del
monlcos 10 arrange for a dinner for four
teen He learned however, that his credit
was not good at the house. Fuller then
made an appointment for a final dinner
Saturday night before going TO sea. hoping
TO shanghai his charge on a sailing ship
on which passage had been engaged. Young
Mott showed up with 500 in bills. which
he said Colonel Harvey. Of the Harper
publications. had advanced on the sea
stories he intended to write.
With part Of this money and with part
OF a sum OF 500 raised by the woman young
Mott had engaged passage on the lndradeo.
paying 500 to Captain Alexander who
signed him as purser and the woman as
stewardess. ON Monday the elder Mott re-
ceived a letter from his son, telling him
that he had sailed.
Mott, at the age Of nineteen, ran away
from the Lawrence Scientific School, at
Harvard, and married Miss Carolyn Pitkin,
daughter Of the senior professor at Thayer
Academy. She lived with him at his coun-
try house, near White Plains. until q year
ago