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Show THE EVENING FAUK - Z Jz'sStli - HERAIDTUESDAT.'JUtY TT - arm r - - 20, -. 1 -- Z. 1921--- " om i W(FU'' WM . Q. or d I rt The B':- -- Whose When the "Giies o lJ Pi kd T -- 1 ' V V I - - - went rrTOrintrnbgrTgarggrerBtnproh upttrrowt--ad1 I l , dmn. A few minuu lata she WM found dead, her . i i I - - pillow wet ' 7 Hawley had left with one, of the pretIt had aeemed fore tiest of nls schoolmates. was mak gone conclusion that as soon as Edwin Ing $10 or $12 a week they would be married. But suddenly out of a clear sky, Hawley'a fiancee broke their engagement. Two days later ?she married another man, a man who was making as a 'Dig money for those days from his trade atone mason. Shortly afterward the two moved ' from Chatham. , , . Months followed for Edwin Hawley tn "eirly friends say,"his entire charactef seemeomj ' .eariygravej leath-- of Edwin Hawley m 1912, the With the ' world first learned that a dUatstrous love affair of his yoffth had furnishel the incentive which "had carried him Trom a ?4 a week clerkship to control of $168,000,000 worth of railroads. And the world also learned wirn Trsnocc tnai; many of these millions had been Uft to a beautiHe grew narpxyaita fulLjftfLjiomiiiallv the ereat financier's house- CRHPp had-be- ea Vpgnf on to have r5wmMea-,th- 8 yiie uveuincs that iformen? wonlthv rprlnsc'a parlv sweetheart. the front porch of Ms fiancee's home or drifting A few days ago, with this same beautiful girl's among the circle oi ms youinim ixienus, wo love-wo- n He became more and otfW spent at the office. death, it became known that all her ' wealth had not been able to save Margaret Cammore interested in work, And with .the loss of eron from a broken lieart. A young man whom '"ail Other interests in lifer hiV ambition 4oeome-' railroad builder developed. (he cared for gudiicnly appeared at her home, ut hours- .- After they with hi bntle of ThiTtr years His life; as described Miss Cameron told her friends. work for Edwin Hawley. any other ""I cannot live without Jack. My life is empty by his friends, was entirely barrenof He worked now." interest than that of transportation. A few minutes later she died. himseli up to a foremost place in the financial " Back werW of America and with the opening of the EdwinHawlcy lived in Chatnanl, JJ. Y., with Kia sisters and brothers. He held a twentieth century he was the acknowledged masclerkship in the Erie Railroad, ter of thousands of mttjes of track. aS the Second and in the ordinary course would have perhaps The worid came to know him small job. a risen to a .Harrlman. But Wall Street also knew Hawley as ' ome and a large family. irlp ".,r It described him as one or , ' , : fj ipf-'j-- w$- At Leftr Margaret Cameron at the Age of Fifteen When She First Cam to th . wealthy Hawley Household as Housekeeper Tor the Millionaire Railroad uitr,. ccgiV-bnt-alo-td- -s- ; -- ; - ( 7' Magut. i TasedH5yT-yrsfnothing7b- -- rur sr-nTfjiBinr fno wirlw H- - - ijuarter and gave none. His entire life was boundup in his work and once whenit told by a friend that he should start taking easier and gHt married, he replied: she "Wife, jrou- - say; I wouldn't have one if - was as ia.i as Venus and as good as the Virgin." tie haa tasen nis nencw, f finance into W office to learn the business-oand bow to control the vast railroad properties, his after his own death. Crandell wassaid-t-to behave and Hawley is heiif he made good, cared mdre for the- young man than any other person in the world, at that time. that his prom-- . Yet word reached the financier some of his Ising young nephew was spending . -f- fice4ours making love to a beautiful . stenographer in the office, In a passion Hawley m a neglecting his work and his weakness lor - asked-fo- r 0 J. : a ed i tiS rg r Bride, ' r'j a' j t7rh" fu)o-Hb- Qt " , , ' J. that Edwin Bchool he had been in love A r"Tr-i t jr rtth iears.' From the time BROKEN heart brought millions and Iu But tiry to Marf a'ret .Cameren yeaw aga her own brokfn heart recently robbed her tflded life of all value and. carried her to a Ititrodiiced His A . edged by every servant as the mistress of the great establishment. The erirl was known as Margaret Cameron throughout most of her life. Actual fy her name was Emma Sturges. Intimate friends of the financier's say that she o red-liair- woman. - . - j.s.i. control xf.. hiraselV young rreutiit . " Crandell replied: "You're so cold that if a: rattlesnake bit would die." , you, the poor snake h The boy married the beautiful stenogra-phalso hunted a new the next dav.-- He Job, as Hawley for year refused to see the - Losing- - . - er - 7. young. Jnanjornm-jji!-Hvu..euch a brilliant future.... Years of .loneliness passed for the railroad master., iccn.tuu--fe- i took denly a great change Haw-',?place onihe magnificent ley estate at Babylon, L. I. A beautuui young" girrBniB to "it, nominally as the housekeeper but acknowlz , . V V -- ; ' ,"4 " f' 'JHa1 was "So coi ' ' parried -- . ft44 bovhood friend of Hawley's, The mother is said to have brought-th- e girl to- Hawley, said she was too poor to sup- port her and asked him to pro- Yide for the girl. And charac- the financier took teristlcally, the-- girl, installed her as the chatelaine of his great estate and is said entirely to have disregarded. the girl's parents thereafter. Just, what the relationship between Hawley and Margaret Cameron was, the wona nas never discovered. She first came into his charge at the age of fifteen. A few years passed and then aa Ihe girl Misa" Cameron's invitation that the 700112 . couple spent the first night of theis ' at the Cameron home." Above: - Another Photograph of Margaret Cameron, Taken Just Before the Death of Her Benefactor, Edwjn Hawley, When, as a Charming Hostess, She Managed the Country Estate of the Late Millionaire;: p j f 4. - - - ' ' s ' ,Z - -- t jj ' relatives would inherit the Hawley " that heand his ' j fv Ztt 4 " 3 .. t- - 1 w 4 - .v '. ' A battle for the Hawley millions never entered the courts. Margaret Cameron discovered a letter written by Hawley before his death, " ie was directing- his heirs to provide for her. allowedJo retain! iheJabylojisttaAndtheNeW' York City mansion, and a large "income waa settledeon her. It was also discovered that the - . ' 1- : '.. n J Jrp town house was kept up, so that she might have a place to lunch quietly during. her shopping visits to New York City. When Edwin Hawley died suddenly in 1912 .with his dreams of a transcontinental railroad unrealized, the world was at first shocked to hear that. for years he had been maintaining a beautiful protege on his estate and then astonished that he had left no will providing for her. With no existing will, Hawley's nephews and nieces-becahis hejrs. Frederick -- Crandell, whom yearB before" the financier had turned "out -of. his office, because of his marriage, was discovd ered living in poverty. - The beautiful stenographer who had-- been the cause of his first misfortunes had just been" Sentenoed to jail for .drunkenness. CrandeP managed to secure a divorce from her. a. few days after he was notified red-haire- fy, ' . f arlesrhan- - it iad beenHi-fe- w Hawieyettate-w- a years before the financier's death, and as it was known that Hawley had lavished jewels and money on Margaret Cameron it Was believed that the beautiful girl had become a very wealthy woman even before the financier's death. Years went by, Margaret Cameron, while iH beautiful, approached middle age.. Recently it became-knowto the wealthy woman's friends "thatTtarhad freoUent caller, a brilliaht young matr,'; only twenty-nv- e years. old, Jack Greasley Taylor, son by a former marriage of Mrs. Edward 5 New York' Jrark Avenue, C. Ochs, of , City. s: To her few intimaTfrTriends Margaret Cameron her "infatuation for "Taylor,-a- ll 7 the deeper, perhaps, because of her early thwarted life with the cold and lonely railroad middle age for maartgrvtjtwasjhe rash love I youth, the tragedy of a woman "who for all her.j -r- oillions-oould not ..bribe' the' tale . her mirror nightly told her or purchase back the charm which years before had won wealth for her. A few nights ago Miss Cameron held a small , party; at her home. Taylor was the honored guest. He excused himself in the middle of he evening; "A few hour: later he returned with bis bride of an hour, the former Doris Emmeline North- -. Dwyerr aughtetfrleiJPj3w '- !i' i port,.L.'''L': The party continued. Margaret Cameron waa the perfect hostess, if paler than usual. So cordial was her invitation that the .young married couple spent the first night of their honeymoon 'home. The following day at Miss Cameron's " " ' :" , they left ' " That afternoon Margaret Cameron told ah old . - - n 4 No.-93- freely-admitted , - A . , Y - f- Ito,." - , , 1 ' f r t t" 4. '"t4'4'jAi 1 ffCi 4, JI 1 beautiful woman, freplace between the two. quent qoaireU rescued from the Cameron ' Margaret lake at about that period, screaming that she wanted to die, that only death could . stifle, her .. .. . .. misery. ' tt lso' becameT known after 'Hawley'a deatn that he had had a secret passage constructed in thelvaDa of hir great home, a passage,, according to. the servants' gossip, that waa frequently used ' the beautiful ,irl,when Hawley had business frienda as his guests on the Babylon estate. A wtehAd bound the cold man-driving? financier to the beautiful, budding woman Jiis life that she was master oi.millions his , Ws constant' companion-othe Babylon 'estate. - She it was. who waa mistress - '.1, Into rbegn to maturetook was-eve- - --7r V : " -- k W.. 1' t 1 !fa : 111' ,.j 1 !fc ill- II-"- ... . . ,Taylpr. r..; -- -XJj - - -- --- . . Mrs. Jack (1 romerlr mtsar- - Dorjs E. Dwyeni of Newport, tfrtde of the Guest eft Honor at Misa , Cameron's Party, for the Man' She Loved; A i fXu i.oTTS,., .wa. - r; : Edwin HwteyrMilHonaire RailrtMd. Head. Whose ir.. FArtnnn Wan at Last Divided Between Hia Various Belativea and ilia Pretty Housekeeper Who Died of Broken Heart. - - rum acme. - lSmHM miii 1. 1 im in n jf " '' ':. . - .friend: "I cannot I - live without Jack. now.V ' My life b empty 1 She .went npstairs.to her bedroom and la . A few minutes later she was found dead, herpillow wet with tears, The coroner's court pronounced it death from natur causes. ; But her friends pronounced her death as that of a broken, heart, a broken heart nawiev on w-- win-- 1 such aa naa spurred had sftgUdeiand broken', down . A it:ningi.the.milliotti.that -'- chiefly-foriherrth- f i r f v w ( 11- -. r!irLr iyiixr i 1 w-vr,2y- yxi tw. v VUA-l |