The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-06-14

6esth came the startling announcement
that his widow had married again. The
Act was denied and again denied. but
hnally admitted. The bridegroom was
Wilson Nisner Of San Francisco He
he'd been . hotel o,sgx and . minsr.
He was hftssn Year, younger than his
BRIDE. who was. however. eth hand
ooms woman at forty.
hut the new master at the Fifth ave.
nue. mansion spent scarcely elk weeks
esnsath IL roof. and left Il from time
to time even during that period. Finally
he went permanently. followed BY the
rumor that he had demanded . settle
ment Of . million dollars. The couple
were divorced almost more hastily than
they had been married, and the bride
resumed the name Of Mrs. Yerkes. The
bridegroom disappeared for . time. but
last winter he was again before the
puolic as co-author Of the melodrama
The Deep Purple"
The bride was in no position 70 Set
tie, million dollars upon any one even
had she 20 desired. for the tangls Of
her affairs grew worse as time went
on. BY beginning the suit 70 break
the will she had rslinquishsd her claim
to the house. which bore the burden Of
q $4,000 mortgage. She wished to 20
OH trip around the world and to take
several friends with her. but there was
not ready money enough for thiA 80
the woman who had for years known
the luxury Vt millions found herself
living on sufferance In = home that was
not hers. and with scarcely money
enough to pay her servants. Her
ftlends were social climbers like her.
self who had never succeeded In pcnV
trating the charmed circle. and they
fell away from her an her prospects
srew dim. Even their advice was not
alwsy1 geod.
RUIN sRiNos ON NERVOUS =
MOTIVATION. ) ,
AZ . ANAL calamity her health broke
down and she had severe attack Of
nervous prostration. While she was
still too III to know what was going
on about her. the London Underground
Railways sent two detectives 10 the
house to protect their interests. Mrs.
Ysrkes was forbidden TO take out of II
even the portrait which Benjamin Con-
slant had painted Of her. She pro-
tested In court rs soon as she vas
able. but tho detectives remained ana
she removed to 0 much less pr stentious
house at No. 81 Madison avenue.
-Four years the battle over the will
went on. and In the end the other, isoirs
capitulated to Mrs. Yerkes. She re-
ceived practically q third of the shrunk.
,tla NAA
single million all told. A startling
proof of the unrest which pillows the
heads Of miliionaires as we'll as kings
was the filing OF codicil revoklng
the beQuests to servants. In his will
Mr.. Yerkes has left $1,000 to his val
ct and $4,000 to every other. servant
who had ever been In his employ But
Just before his death he had added the
codicil cutting them OF, as he had
heard OF asplot to poison him.
MILLIONS FADE AWAY LIKE AN
EVIL DREAM.
In the final settlement Of the estate
the priceless art collection. which
would have been gladly accepted by
the Metropolitan gallery. was lost to
the public. >The collection might have
remained there intact had the mill
li6haiee given II to the city. but In
his attempt to perpstuste his nams
In the building as we'll As in tho pic
lures inc lost even the memorial OF a
worthy collection In . public gallery.
Early In lyll Mrs. fsrkess health be-
gan 10 fall and upon April she died
of heart disease in her Madison avenue