The evening world., 1912-04-04
KALH
HOME FOR RICHES
WITH TWO BABIES
Hampstead Girl Who Eloped
With Preacher Is Welcomed
by Grandmother.
PASTOR NOT ADMITTED.
HeireSS Not Married Yet, but
Is Happy and Has Home
in Frisco.
PASTOR NOT ADMITTED.

Floretta whaiey, who I'VE years ego
this month eioped from the Hampstead
O.. ~ home Of her wealthy grand
mother. Mrs. Mary whsisy. with the
Rev. Jers Knode Cooke. then pastor of
St. Georges Episcopal Church At
Hampstead. Of which August Belmont
In senior warden. 10 back home for .
visit with her two babies and the IN.
ffockcd rector.
In defiance OF all the proverbs. the
young woman In supremacy happy. has
been welcomed TO tho arms of her
grandmother and IL three times an
heiress. This week she will receive
$4,000 from 81 uncls's estate. next
year she will get $4,000 from her
fathers estate. and her grandmother
has assured her that she will share
equally with her sister Edna In the
$4,000 estate of Mrs. Whsley.
Moreover the Rev. Jsrs Knode Cooke
has built up . prosperous dscoratins
business In san Francisco. where he
NJ the nsme Of oeraM' Baicom and
won Q host Of friends.
CANNOT MARRv PAoroR. WHO
~ NOT DIVORCED.
The only missdng link from the youns
womAn's chain of happiness lies In the
fad that the man che eloped with II stiii
unable to ivaiiy father her children.
never having been divorced from
the wife he abandoned for the pretty
sixtssn-ysar-oid girl. But "Florstta
Baicom'' 10 not worrying over this. con-
ndent that n will not be long before
the divorce 10 obtained and she can faco
vHsqqateiwith the man he loves and
her be1tea.
The slop,ns couple ana their babies
arrived 10 New York from San Fran.
cisco last month. but II was not until
Sunday that Fioretta went to Hemp.
stead and was embraced and forgiven
BY her grandmother. Jsrs Knods Cooke
did not 20 10 Hempstsad and viii not.
Tor the forgiveness Il Mrs. Whalsy
does not sxtenA 20 the ex.pastoe.
stxit&s SnaAf001usoms SouHt VSt6an
who walked ,AArpush the sstrssts -
Asaostsaa iast Sunday With ous, baby
In her srsas and Aaothsr toddiing at
her SIDE no NJ recognised the comedy
Stri ot sixtsen With aansuag hair.
oraids who CAUSED the ~sensatiee a q
AScAAe " Sunnih1 sway With the pas-
tor Of the mest fashionable church In
that section Of Long Island. ylorstta
10 twsnty.sas nsw. grown 70 full
wemanhood. She has biossomsd into .
bssuty.
PREACHER A 1000 sReAow,N.
NQR. 0tRL oANn.
The sisi told Nrs. whalsy that most
q the stories that had come Dast and
whtch teid Of her dire poverty and the
hslplsssnsss Of the ex-Rsv. Cooke were
pure hsments.' From the very hrst,. she
said. Cooke had made good a. . bread
sasDss, bsolnning Ct .anythinS he could
turn h1s hAl to bur always working o.
somethanG and providing tooA ana shell
Ter. Degtnning at the trade Of painter
no he'd branchsd ous. developing into q
dseorator and during the past year or
twe has he'd . large force Of msn ct
work under him.
A good deal Of this the giri hsd re-
IND home TO her sister ana grandmother
during the past two yeArs.
She had written In February that
there was ~ spidsmic of scarlet fever
In the nelEhborhood OF their home, snd
that they were planning TO ~ Fast
for q visit, Would Grandmother Wha-
ley receive her? Mr& Thaloy replied
that she would and gladly. bat that
Cooke must not show his faco In Hemp.
stead.
THIS was agreed to ana the little fam
lily am East. The day they .rrlvcJ
Edna Whaiey. Fioretta's younger sis.
ter. mat than ana want into ecst ,ciA
over the babies. Until Mrs. VIII Hey
Yves ready 20 receive them Edna WA.
ley visited Flerstta every day. Th-r
there were interviews with lawyers ovs,
the thousands that are coming to tho
young cioper. ana ~ soon ~ the mono,
10 turned over the 'naicoms'' will 70,
turn to their California home.