The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-04-02
ANOTHER
CASSIE
CHADWICK
OASHINC EDITH WILSON
BILKS WISE ONES AND
GETS BY

to know the present address of Mrs.
Edith Wilson.
Two weeks ago the manager of the
Hotel Biltmore-which is thu newest
plush lined pile in town-spoSe TO
the cashier
Present Mrs. Edith Wilson's bill
to her" said the manager. And tell
her that We prefer that she pay at
once
Positively the only intereference
with the managers program lay in
the fact that Mrs. Edith Wilson
wasn't in her elaborate apartment at
the Biltmore. She hasn't been IN
since. Some of her clothes We're
there. The Biltmore didn't want thSm,
but took them. as a possible asset.
Mrs Wilson didn't worry. because
wherever she goes she can get more
on credit
She has lived in New York for four
wears. or thereabouts--liv lived the ilte
of a millionaire on ditch digger
income Like Cassie Chadwick, she
| had demonstrated that money can oe
borrowed on any good story Inc
cnlebra cut could he filled with 1er
creditors. She had an apartment on
Riverside Drive, and She kept an
automobile bv thu month, and sne
spoke about Schwab as "Charlle ana
Could as George, and Astor was
nothing short of 'Vineie, dear
Il 1t may ibe tina: her debts bo'ai
s150 0OO-and maybe they don't IL
| isn't likely that any one knows. she
Twas known as rich WIDOW from
Washington. but she didn't come
from Washington. and she wasn't
widow. She had safety deposit boxes
fun Of hot air. She was thirty sight
vears old admitted Twenty-Five or
them and in any sort OF an even
hrsak with the light looked not more
than twenty seven.
Men believed Cassie Chadwick be-
cause she was old and homely ana
eottled in life. They believed Edlth
Wilson because she was beantil"i'
She would turn a pair OF very pre'H
hlua owes upon the victim of the mo-
ment
when was Queen Mary's house
euest at Buckingham she has SAID
.you know. Lord Bancroft is my nh-
Gle. and so ] have the entree-
And the victim would hold up ms
nose and beg her to balance anothe'
hit of fiction on it. At various times
sha was engaged to Vincent Astor
and IN ono OF the Goulds, Her com
nanion-who was a charming ana
utterly unsuspicious girl-visited
Washington with her. When Ms
Wilson came batk she said the q !
was 70 marry one of the senators
from Montana.
at was beautiful idyl,' sn'
pushed Love at first sight .
Unfortunately, that particular I'm
ator took that particular time 10 nH'
n,arried m another woman. It dida
stump Ms Wilson
THE nerfidious wretch sne
stormed prettily. q shall never trust
another man.
Therefore ~ said she broke h"'
,rpagement tc Astor. Neanwhila ynf
s,ent monev-all borrowed or owed
AZ the rate of $40 .o0o year she
told her men friends that her income
was $40. 900 and that she dldh
have a single security that paid oV''
nor cent. That was true But
wasn't as good reason for loahih'
her money as her friends thoush'
Sbo would not cren chechhns ac
count. hut preferred TO Keep ne
money in cash. in her safety hepo>l
box. It's only lately that II has o'
cured to certain grouchy business
men that a safety box Is a pro'ec'o'
against many things - insidentali'
agains; conversaiionally leaky bank
ers. II only one person can get lh''
a safety box. only one person cal
talk about what it contains MIS-
Wilson was safe in tuning her tai
TO the KEY Of millions.
She first appears as the proteee o
staid old Quaker woman III han
donfield. \. j.. and inherited her pro
tectoress's money whsn she dieo
Edith had always planned a HE o
wider horizons The day after IN
funeral she appeared in Philadeiphia
where she was Later to play the ron
OF an eccentric young woman o
i. wealth. who did not care for society
Pretty soon PhIiadelphian married
her. il was a mutual disappointment
for each thought the other was rich