New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-06
BARONESS, BUILDER,
IS SENT TO A CELL
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work on theatre plans, and the baron
ess turned down coldly stately plan,
aMPs. Vanderbilt wants something
feminine. something light and airy,
something un-Greek, you know what l
mean" -o>
Mr.. Levitan (at a cost Of $50 more)
produced another perspective OF the
atre with a studio atop, but this dian
sujt. Then he evolved creation OF
the Tuscan style, that pleased her
"Now for the interior | want sun
light effect TO be obtained through
purple and silver" said the baroness
"And send one of your men over 10
Engeps Chop House. Have him take
the measurements, and produce me
something that will be delight 70
every lover of German architecture.
But why does Mrs. Vanderbilt want
Engels Chop House changed! askeo
Mr.. Levitan.
"Sbe doesn't. But | have the power
Of attorney from the owner
A red and green and yellow and black
creation was the result OF this com
mission, and while 1t was being done u
Ia asserted, the baroness borrowed sos
from Mr.. Levitan. -
A. this time Mr.. Levitan was called
!, NV Mr.. Benedict, who asked him to
mske plans for a twenty-five story
hn,eI for Mrs. Vanderbilt CON Baroness
Won Hatzfeld's ORDER. He was making
This when he began TO think mat al
This was about July Is. On August l
the baroness signed papers which gave
her. as Mrs. Vanderbilts agent, the
lease for ten years, at $4,000 year
OF the Fory-fourth Street properly
The lease was to take efect on sep
TENDER /, when Mrs. Vanderbilt accoru-
ing 10 the baroness, wouid eehu
check for $4,000. .,x,
~ . ebeck' and Mr.. Margolies called up
Mr.. Benedict and asked MN the M NJ.
son of the hitch in the agreement i ~.
Renedict telephoned TO Mrs. Elsie
Erencb Vanderbilt, and received tele-
gram the following day confirming MS
Telephone talk, which read;
81 do not know the Baroness Won
Hatfield. Miss Sara French Is no re-
lation of mine" ,;,.,
Then Mr. Benedict and Mr.. Levl.an
began 10 compare notes and inVestIka'.
cd And they learned, they sara, tta'
the baroness had visited other arehi-
tects and real estate men with siIiiin.
s,oyies and had obtained little loans
49, and there. One, they said, was
To- sIbo from Mr. Kerngood. OF the
Ksrngood Real Estate Company; an,
n.har was for $50 from Mr.. Hess, OF
Perry Goodell & Dwight tfrom w. %h cnn
,be was going TO purchase Sooo,oOt
tact Of land on Forty-eighth otrses
90 theatre, and 81 from Charles
Waddocks. q butcher of No. 1oo Ooiuh-
bus Avenue.
Said she Expected s35,ooo.
To n newspaperman. when, she was
sra;gned in court yesterday the paio"'
ess said: eco E.o, NJ Levi
~ "a true. Then ! gave HIM
-. 49, for the amount, some weeks Ia
.a Aid not know / had no money IN
W ha,k az the time. That day e1-
n VIC a check for $4,000 from Ger
49, from nv first husbands esta'o'
bnt il did not come; .ho n,b.
Ths baroness has figured in the pup,
,S;n,s before. In 1908 she was sueu
nc ab company for 1894 for rldes IN
1911 paYk She then lived on Central
psnt West. In 1907 she was sued oy
- / Brown, an insurance man. LOT
sson 81 notes Then she said that she
So 49, unable to meet the notes because
ce,,ar q Co. who had been remitting
SiIis 10 her quarterly, had suddenly
sStonned hut that she could make goou
,.ben she got in touch with her herman
sni;citors. for so she said she mao
oonrtoage of 100000 marks on IN
estate in Germany left to her by DAfon'
She told Mr.. Levitsn that her second
hn,band was Frederick A. Minuth, an