The sun., 1916-11-19
BERGER BANKRUPT
AS RICH FAIL TO PAY
Newport Caterer Lists Noble
men and Society Folk
Among His Debtors.
$4,000 DUE FROM COUNT
Petition Reveals How Unsuc-
cessful International RO-
nance Was Financed.

NNTI beTEeT, Cutt. toto'e'
taurateur, asked the United States DIS
trict Court yesterday to declare him a
bankrupt because Of his inability 10 get
together enough money TO meet the debts
which he ran up while he was ucklins
the paiates OF society folk and visiting
noblemcn with his spicy dishes ana help
ing them entertain their frisnds at
sumptuous dinner parties.
Berser lives ut 26 West Fffty-hfth
street, but most OF his catering work
was done at Great Neck. /. l., and New
port, where for years he kept u fashion
able restaurant in Belleviile avenue
Both the Newport and Great Neck sstAb-
Iishments were closed recently because
Of attachments nisd' against their pro.
pristor. The list Of debtors named by
Berger In his petition reads X a page
from q social register. and contains the
names Of several titled foreigners. from
one OF whom, Count Alexander Rudlik
do Futack OF Budapest. Hungary, Berger
may some day collect $4,000.
Financed Q Romance.
The origin Of the $4,000 debt lies In
IN unsuccessful international romance
which Berger Internationally financed.
Several years ago. according to Bergers
attorney, Jerome c. Lewis Of les Broad
WAN Futack came to this country and
rot into the social swirl. He was intro
duced to Berger. a fellow countryman. b.
Theodore Havemeyer. Soon afterwaru
the nobleman began to pay ardent court
to q wealthy widow. who appeared to
favor his suit. Berger loaned Futack
5000 and extended him $4,000 worth
Of credit In the form Of dinner parties.
About the time Newport was expecting
the courtship TO ripen into an engage
ment the widow became betrothed to an
other, the Counts creditors began to
press him so mercilessly that he returned
to Hungary. where he u said to be In.
0usntial in political circles.
Other Of Berger's foreign debtors and
the mounts owed by them. according &c
the petition. are Prince Lubeke Of War
saw, $1,000, and Richard Feiher kap'
herr. former German military sttache 81
washington. These debts are also FOL
catering work done by Berger. Tit bill
owed by Prince Lubeke Nas contractet
In 1886. Under the heading Of accounts
receivable Berger lists the following
claims:
Mrs. Charles De L. Oelrichs. 103 Eas'
eeventy-ifth street. $3.50 F. II. Prince
Boston, $3.50; Newton r Adams. Sum
init, N. j.. S25S Herbert Hartman. ~:
East Fifty-sixth street. $50 Lawrence
Waterbury, 1872 East Thirty eightl
street. S2s II. Binney. 3 Rector street
S27 Ensign L. X. Forde. Y. s. 3. Nortl
Carolina. $50: Misha Ferenxof. 1 Eas
iisth street. SIS: r. r. Waterbury. t36
and h, II. s. Gregory. st. Paul Hotel
Sixtieth street and Columbus avenue
$3.50.
Berger's Creditors.
To Nicola Tesla, the wireless inventor
Berger owes a balance Of $3.50 OF q LOAF
negotiated in 1895. Among his othe
creditors are the Town Topics Publish
ing Company. $50 for advertising. an,
his wife, Mrs. Honore NJ. Berger, WIN
holds a chattel mortgage against tn
property at rs West Fifty-ifth stree
for $4,000 Mrs. william Aston Chanlei
$500 for rent Of his Great Neck estab
lishment. and Lawrence T. Durant,
dancing instructor. who has died
breach OF contract suit for $500 agains
Berger and his wife. Durant was en-
gagged to dance at Berger's Newport res
taurant.
As q chef Berger became famous Q
the originator Of many complex dishet
but In spite of that he has always bee
an ardent advocate Of the simple III,
In 1908, while manager OF the Hot
Gotham. he announced his ability to al
fifty years to the life OF any man WI
would follow his rules for exercise an
simple diet. His II a fine example {
the efficacy OF his own theory and he
regarded by such Al eminent authori,
AZ Sandow as a perfect specimen