New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-26
BRIDE Who WOULDN'T
KISS GETS $50 A WEEK
Asked $500 from Husband, but
Judge. After Reading Letters,
Strikes OFF Naught.
TWO MONTHS OF TREMBLES
Mrs. Arthur S. Hoyt, Who Is
Being Sued Here for a Di-
vorce, Says the Spell
Suddenly L # Her.

Arthur :. Hoyt who is an officer in sew
eral corporations and is chief stockholder
j., the Atlantic Starch Works, made sue
cessful opposition in the supreme Court
Yesterday TO the application Of his wife.
Estelle. for anmony Of $500 week and
counsel fec Of $4,000, pending trial Of
his suit for a divorce and her counter suit
for a separation. Justice Giegerich award
ed Mrs. Hoyt alimony of $50 a week anG
$3.50 20 pay her counsel
As a part Of the record in the alimony
matter several letters exchanged between
Hoyt and his wife were filed. Through
them Hoyt hoped to prove that he was
not the Jealous and unreasonable person
that his wife alleges in her action. Mrs.
Hoyt has characterized as false and
malicious" the allegation Of Hoyt on
which he bases his suit for a divorce.
Hoyt has property valued a 10000. his
wife says.
The life Of the Hoyts together lasted
only short time They were married
February Is and Mrs. Hoyt left her hus-
band April %. after a honeymoon trip TO
Europe. Hoyt says while they we're
abroad his wife was cold toward him and
refused TO kiss him, although she per-
mitted him TO kiss her.
Mrs. Hoyt in her application for all
mony says her husband has an income OF
$4,000 a year, and that he contemplated
maintaining their home at the rate Of
$4,000 a year She says Hoyt abandoned
! her. Hoyt. in his answer says some Of
4 the corporations with which he IS con-
nected are not successful. and his income
is not more than $500 a year. Mrs. Hoyt
/ is receiving so a month alimOny from q
( husband she divorced in Chicago he says.
and is not entitled to any alimony from
! him because Of her conduct.
! Hoyt says he reluctantly revealed to the
court the unhappy situation but he
! did so to disprove his wife's allegations.
! She denies the Chicago alimony story.
Hoyt says he received the following
| letter from his Wife following talk
over the telephone:
MY dear Arthur: I've just been talking
TO you over the phone and doesn't it
occur TO YOU that as the days 90 by We
! find less and less TO say to each other?
] hate to say anything that seems un-
kind; but you should, being far more
/ clever than /, see that this sort Of thing
can't go on-we simply antagonize each
other and ! cannot stand the strain
Last night after l got in bed / stopped
trembling-the end OF a spell that lasted
since February 2S That is not the worst
my mind is becoming affected. We have
both been disappointed and disillusioned-
we might as well consort with the dead.
II is better for you to write instead OF
telephoning up here | shall expect you
10 suggest an alternative.
"ESTELLE."
In reply to this letter Hoyt says he
! wrote:
MY Dear Wife Estelle I cannot agree
with YOU on all points. The most pleas
ing part TO me is that you have stopped
trembling. Now. dearie. you must know
that my heart is tender ! love and pray
you do not cease writing TO me every
day. even line. telling me how you are.
If YOU do not. | am unfit for anything and
cannot sleep Can't you realize? Don't
be cruel TO me"
Hoyt says his wife then wrote as fol-
| lows:
Il haven't written you simply because
l have nothing TO say. We have had too
many talks already, perhaps. The things
we dared not have the outside world
know have proved too much for us,
showing that the ideals Of all are about
the same in the long run"