The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-28

New York, March a1.-This is the
story of a successful adventures.
Two weeks ~ the manager of the
Hotel -Riltmore-which is the newest
plush-lined pile in town-spoke to the
cashier.
Present Mrs. Edith Wilson's bill
to her," said the manager. And tell
her that we prefer that h pay at
once"
Positively the only interference
With the managers program lay in
the fact that Mrs. Edith Wilson wasn't
in her elaborate apartment al the Bilt-
more. She hasn't been in since. Some
Of her clothes We're there. The Bilt-
more didn't want them, but took
them. as a possible asset. Mrs. Will
son didn't worry, because wherever
she goes she can get more on credit.
years, or thereabouts-lived the life
Of a millionaire or a ditch digger's
income. Like Cassie Chadwick, she
had demonstrated that money am be
borrowed on ii good story. The
Culebra cut could be filled with her
Riverside Drive, n h kept an all
tomobile by the month. and she spoke
about Schwab as Charlie and Gould
as Georgia" and Aston was nothing
short Of VINCE, dear
1t may be that her debts total $780,
vvo,-anu maybe lheS oon l. II ash |
likely thai n one knows. She was
known as a rich widow from WASH
ington. but she didn't come from
Washington, n she wasn't a widow.
She a safety deposit boxes full of
hot air. She was thirty-eight Years
old. admitted twenty-five of them, and
IN any, sort of an even break with
the light looked not more thar twen-
%ty-seven.
Men believed Cassie Chadwick be-
cause she was old and homeiy and
settled in life. They believed Edith
Wilson because h vas beautiful. She
eyes upon the victim of the moment.
When I was Queen Mary's house
guest at Buckingham" she has said.
You know, Lord Bancroft is my
uncle, and so l have the e~ntree-"
And the victim would hold up his
hit of fiction on it. At various times
she was engaged to Vincent Aston and
to one of the Goulds. Her companion
who was a charming and utterly
unsuspicious girl-visited Washington
with her. When Mrs. Wilson came
one of the from Montana.
lit was a beautiful idyl," she
gushed. Love at first sight"
Unfortunately. that particular sem
ator took that particular time to get
married to another oman 1t didn't
stump Mrs. Wilson.
The pertidious wretch she
stormed. prettily. II shall never trust
another man."
Therefore she said she broke" her
engagement to Aston. Meanwhile she
spent money-all borrowed or owed
at the rate of $780, 600 a year. She told
her men friends that her income was
n On mn and fhQf che 1f1rbf Iot.1 ~
single security that paid over 4 per
cent. That was true. But it wasn't
as good a reason for loaning her
money as her friends thought. She
would not open a checking account,
but. preferred to keep her money in
only. lately that it has occurred to
certain grouchy business men that a
many things - incidentally against
conversationally leaky bankers. If
only m person can get into a safety
what 1t contains. Mrs. Wilson vas
safe in tuning her talk to the key Of
millions.
She first appears az the protege of
a staid old Quaker woman in Had
doniield, N. j.. and inherited her pro-
tectress' money when she died. Edith
horizons The day after the funeral
she appeared in Philadelphia. where
she was later to play the role OF an
eccentric young woman OF wealth,
who did not care for society. Pretty
soon . Philadelphia married her. 1t
was q mutual disappointment, for
each thought the other was rich. But
they lived in some happiness for a
time. Edith did her own homework,
and earned the palate gratitude of her
friends o the culinary miracles she
accomplished. One day Old Man Will
son tottered up to her.
Fly with me-" he begged.
He was almost too shaky t o hold on
to a fence. But no was seventy-nve
years old and rich and she Jew. In
Venice she had herself made over by
. parafdne specialist into q tearing
beauty. Eventually they returned to
this country. At Atlantic City she
faxed Q toleKram, announcing that
her Philadelphia husband was dead.
Wilson was genuinely and senilely in
love with her. They were married the
next day and arrested soon after. The
shock killed Wilson. Edith was free.
with q sackful Of tewelry he bought
for her and. some thousandA in cash.
! The Philadelphian divorced her. and.