New-York tribune., 1920-06-20

Wife of Multi-Millionaire
Sugar Man Declines
to Discuss Taking Up
Home i'm Divorce COLONY
Gave Up Fortune
To Wed 4 Years Ago
Childhood Romance Re-
vived After Husbands
Death Aboard Titanic
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

RENO, New, June 19.-Mrs Made
leine Force Astor Dick, widow Of
Colonel John Jacob Astor who pcrished
on the Titanic, and at present married
to William x. Dick, of New York, ar
rived here to-day. She has taken over
a residence belonging to a prominent
resident here. Mrs. Dick would say
nothing concerning her reason for com
ing here or as to how long she intends
20 remain.
Madeleine Talmage Force, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Force, was
married to Colonel John Jacob Astor,
father of Vincent Astor, September 9.
1911. In April of the following year
they were returning to this country on
the Titanic, when the vessel struck an
iceberg and sank. Colonel Astor was
lost.
On August IA. 1912, a son was born
to Colonel Astor's young wife. He was
called John Jacob Astor-thc sixth Of
his name. In the middle of June. 1916,
the engagement of Mrs. Astor to
William X. Dick. vice president Of the
Manufacturers' Trust Company and a
multi millionaire. was announced The
couple were married quietly at Bar
Harbor June % At that time i,
was said that Mr.. Dick had been a
childhood sweetheart of his bride.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Dick said
last night that the marriage had not
been unbrokcn happiness for either of
the couple. Their tastes, it was said.
differed radically. He was quiet, un-
assuming person who cared nothing for
society; she was brilliant and popular
wherever she went. In May. 1919. she
bccaAe the mother of a second son.
At the Dick homo, : East Eighty
fourtn street, it was said last night
mat Mr. DICE was spending the week
Gnd with has family at lslip Mrs.
Force, mother of Mrs. Dick, declined 10
discuss the presence of her daughter in
Reno.
Both Marriages Sensational
Both of Mrs. Dicks marriages were
sensational. Her first husband was
oid enough to be her father and bv
the terms of his divorce by his first
Wi.e, Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, a year
before, had been forbidden to marry
again
Miss Force at that time had onlv
just been graduated from Miss Spcncc's
school !. The bridcgroom-to-b had
considerable difficulty in finding a
clergyman to marry them. but finally
prevailed upon the Rev. Joseph Lam
bert. Congregational minister. of
Providence, to perform the ceremony.
on September Q the wedding was held
in the Astor home at Newport, Beech
wood.
The couple started on honeymoon
aboard Colonel Astor's yacht, the
Mona, and little later went abroad.
Astors Bcquest to Widow
BY the terms of the will drawn up
shortly after the wedding Colonel
Astor left the following bequcst for
his widow:
For Madeleine Talmagc Force
Astor, a trust fund of S5,OO0.O0O she
20 receive the income Of such fund for
so long during her natural life as she
shall remain his widow. and upon the
death of his widow or in case of her
rcmarriagc then. upon such rcmarli-
age. the capital of this fund small go
to William Vincent Astor"
The will also provided for $1,000
00t trust fund for any child that
might survive him. The testator's
widow as guardian of the child, was
to have control over this fund
Besides the property left in the will
there had been an ante-nuptial settle
ment on Mrs. Astor of about
Sl,000,oo0 in cash, personal and real
property.
Dick Fortune in Millions
Mrs. Astor and her second husband
were childhood friends in Brooklyn.
/ The Dick fortune was made in the
sugar refining business, and shortly
before his engagement was announced
William K Dick S fortune was osti-
mated at $4,000 600.
Mr.. Dick, though only twenty-nine at
the time OF hls marriage, was prominent
in Brooklyn affairs, social and bust
ness. His courtship of Mrs. Astor was
unostcntatious and the engagement was
announced only a week before the ex-
tromely quiet wedding.
Immediately after the marriage Mrs
Dick relnquished her claim to all the
| property left her under her first hus-
/ bands will on condition she did not
remarry. She and her second husband
then went for a wedding trip to Flor.
ida. Since that time Mrs Dick has
not appeared in the news, except or
the occasions when she was forced tc
appear IN court and account. undc,
legal routine, for her administration
Of the trust fund left her son.