New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-19
WIFE DIVORCES
H. 5. HARDNESS
Son of Standard Oil Man
Must Pay Her $4,000
a Year Alimony

Harry s. Hardness, president Of the
Sheepshead Bay Motor Speedway,
amateur aviator, and an administra-
tor Of the estate Of his father, Lamon
V. Hardness, third vice-president Of
the Standard oil Company, who left a
fortune Of about S150,000,000, will
have the distinction Of paying the
second highest alimony in this state
TO Mrs Marie Marbeck Hardness, who
yesterday obtained decree OF divorce
in Westchester County.
Justice J. Addison Young, at White
Plains. signed the decree on the
recommendation Of Charles II. Young,
who. as referee, heard the suit and
awarded Mrs. Hardness $4,000 year
alimony, payable monthly.
Howard Gould son Of the late Jay
Gould. is paying the highest alimony
In New York state 20 Mrs. Katherine
Clemmons Gould, who obtained a
separation from him. Justice Bowling
having allowed her $4,000 year
Secrecy Observed in Suit.
Great secrecy was observed In the
Var<ness suit. Not only was tne case
heard before referee, assuring no
publicity Of the testimony the papers
in the action being sealed under Rule
rs Of the Appellate Division, as m all
divorce hearings before referees, but
the signing Of the fral decree yester-
dav was the first official news that
there was a suit Three months must
elapse under the law between the sign
ing Of the interlocutory and fnAI
DEGREES
The lawyers in the ease we're reti-
cent Yesterday, but u was said the
correspondent was not mentioned oy
name, being referred TO only as an
unknown woman.
Harkne.s IS yachting somewhere on
the Caribbean, in the neishborhood OF
Bermuda.
Not until their honeymoon was two
weeks old, in 1905, did i become known
that Miss Marbeck and Hardness had
been married AZ the Marble Collegiate
Church by the Rev. Dr. David James
Burreu. only two witnesses attended
the ceremony. The couple spent a part
of their honeymoon on the California
ranch OF DR.. Harry McCombs, Hark-
ness's brother-in-law.
Made l6-Mile Flight
Hardness was one Of the first owners
20 drive racing motor cars N America.
He gave the Hardness trophy offered
for the winner OF the race At the
Sheepshead Bay Speedway on October
% Five years ago, when captain OF
the New York Division OF the United
States Aeronautical Reserves, Harkness
made a 46-mile fight across country IN
California 20 demonstrate the utlhty
OF the aeroplane in military service.
Lamon V. Hardness. his father, dled
in California on January II, 1915. he
was one OF the largest holders OF
Standard oil stock Harry 5. Hardness
and his sisters Mrs. Leila Il. Edwards,
of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Myrtle II. Nc
Combs. Of Paicines. Cal took out let
tiers Of administration IN the New 1ork
Surrogates Couyt on the estate OF their
father. Since then a controversy mas
come up between the estate and the
state Controller "a 20 the place OF resi-
deuce Of the decedeut. =,
The Controller has contended Nj.
Hardness was a resident Of New YORK
ana that the estate should pay a trans
Yer tax here, while for the estate the
contention is made that MS residence
was in Lexington, Ky, % which place
his son also considered himself a resi-
dent.