Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-05

event, went ahead and remarked with
out waiting this formality. so that the
decree was granted after he already
had acquired another wife.
No more was heard from Edward
Tracy. though he survived until 1897
and then died in Bermuda on trip in
quest of health. His viii, made small
provision for the inimical sister Sarah,
with whom there had lately been an
attempt at reconciliation. Some other
provision was made 70 other relatives.
The residue was left in bulk to the
second maiden sister, Eustace. But
Eustace Tracy did not long survive her
brother and, dying left her newly ac-
quired fortune to the remaining sister.
Thus the woman to whom he did not
speak for quarter century eventually
money. Romantic perhaps, from some
viewpoints; sordid and harsh enough
from within.
Lived Quietly in Boise.
or all this Hortense Pine knew
nothing. she says. She lived quietly
in distant Boise. She knew that Ed
ward Tracy was dead and that his
sisters were his heirs, but she was
prosperous in her way and wanted to
modest 20 one.
And meantime, Sarah Tracy also left
Troy. Utterly alone after the death of
her sister, she removed to New York,
still lonely there. she set out on a trip
around the world. In Rome, on this
trip, she met Bishop p ]. Donohue. Ro-
man Catholic prelate of the Wheeling,
w. Va. diocese. The two subsequently
became intimately friendly and the
churchman was close counsellor of
the aging woman in the last years OF
her life. She lived in this period in the
Hotel st. Andrew. and finally died
there. in 1904 at the age of rs. Her will
made devisals to charity and left the
residue to Bishop Donohuc. The estate
is said to have been sa0,000.0o0.
Thus ended this complex family his
tory. To Troy. which had been the
center of the action, it was all dead his
tory. edward Tracy md his sisters
were long dead. The old property was
in other hands. Other men operated
the brewery. AS for Hortense Pine. no
one had heard of her or thought of her
for years.
Financial Matters Went Badly.
But Hortense Pine was to transcend
the grave of Troy's reco.lections. FL
nancial matters went badly in TIE west
Reverses swept away her savings. She
was in reduced circumstances. and put
to looking about for aid. 1t was here
she remembered that Edward Tracy
had finally recognized his marriage
with her, though nothing had come of
1t. She remembered his property In
hot ci,a
have a dover interest. and went to see
a lawyer about it. That visit started
her east
One morning Hortense Pine pre-
scented herself in the office of Shaw
Bailey and Murphy of Troy. one of the
noted upstate legal firms. and explain
ed her case. A suit was brought
against the brewery of S. Bottoms
Sons, in which Tracy had an interest
estimated ut $4,000. Supreme Cour.
Justice Gochrane, after an extended
hearing. awarded Hortense akdower in
terest, thereby recognizing her as
TracS's widow.
May Be Cash Settlement.
Under tho law Il dover interest is the
income for life from one-third The pro-
perty. Whese the widow wishes she
may make a. cash se;tl ament, and this
Mrs. Tracy did. tax ing one seventh of
the amount of her husbands interest,
in this case only little more than
$780,
But this was only the beginning.
There is other property IN Troy to be
sued and recovered from. And, Mrs.
Tracy remembered in an uncertain
way, there should be property in New
York. She knew that Edward Tracy hf d
been interested in the city and that he
had been the Tracy of Tracy & Russell
But she had no idea of the extent OF
the property, and knew no details. Her
Troy attorneys saw Il significance lost
upon her. They Immediately began in
vestigation in the metropolis through
Merchant, Olena and Merchant. law
yers in the Singer building and dis
closed an amazing state OF affairs.
Tracy & Russell in the seventies and
eighties had been large manipulators
in realty. They had bought number
of choice locations. held them for per-
iods of years, and then sold them.
Tedious and far-reaching investigation
disclosed the location of more and more
surprising pieces of land.
The homes of Andrew Carnegie and
Henry Phillips. the Ethical culture So
ciety building. the Century theater. the
Hotel Majestic stand on the land once
owned Ly Edward Tracy and his part
ner In all. 80 or 40 parcels of realty
are affected.
These plots were sold. almost with
out exception. In Tracy's lifetime. II
Is just here that the shoe pinehes leg
aII i,I. IL.
when he sold these pieces of property
we're not signed by his wife. since
Tracy always represented himself
single man. In New York married men
cannot give title TO property without
the signatures of their wives. Hence
these deeds are Illegal and void, If
Hortense Pine Is the widow of Tracy
she has not signed away her interest In
these plots. and her demands mus. be
satisfied.
Thus the law. that austere and ludi-