Show Y 1 v MILLIONAIRES GO PACE THAT Kit Pittsburg Men of Wealth Unequaled in Furnishing I Sensations for the Lovers I of ScandalAllurements of Painted Stage Beauties Fatal to Domestic Peace and Harmony New York Now that the crlmo of murder has been added to the eccentric eccen-tric doings of the dozen or more Pitts I burg millionaires It Is probable that the limit of their capacity for soma tionnllsm has been reached j Remarkablo divorces remarriages I breaches of promise alimony and chorus girls have hitherto been ordinary or-dinary features of their lives They seem to have become rich so suddenly I that they have lost their heads Never before however haw any one of them been accused of murder Years before Harry Thaw ever heard of Evelyn Nesbit or Stanford White ho was eccentric to the verge of crazl Bprans up between Mr Phipps and his wife The breach gradually widened and Mr Phlpps brought suit for divorce di-vorce naming Hart McKee as co respondent PltUburg society was disrupted by the news and tho McKee Mc-Kee and Phipps factions waxed bitter In their denunciations Kidnaped His Children Following tho return of Mrs Phipps to this country her two little children were forcibly taken from the Waldorf Astoria by Mr Phipps and hurried away to Denver where he had resided for some time It was openly stated that when the divorce proceedings were over Mrs Phipps would marry Hart McKee but In the meantime that eccentric young man had become enthralled en-thralled with Mrs Hugh Tovls whoa who-a few years previous had been wed and widowed within six weeks Mrs Tevis and Mr McKeo sailed away to Europe on the same steamer and shortly afterward were married Things were rather dull In tho Pitts burg colony for awhile until Mrs Phlpps went out to Denver where the divorce case was brewing I Mrs Phipps began a contest for the possession of the children but eventually event-ually terms were reached under which HART + a ItfKE W E COREY i 9p I r N L L HK v s p fW f at 11 Q I shy5qy r 1 N e + d K t t 4 I jta Klw r LRRK I r4g1 1 R a i 4 I pACOCK 1 = = ness Ho was known as a cigarette lend a I heavy absinthe drinker an admirer ad-mirer of chorus girls nnd a reckless spendthrift Ho gave dinners costing tons of thousands of dollars and like the general run of Pitts burg millionaires million-aires he always had one or more affairs af-fairs on hand with women of the footlights foot-lights It is a strange fact that chorus girls and actresses seem to appeal to the Plttsburg millionaire past all power of resistance Four of them who have made New York their home during the past few years and whose wealth amount to 50000000 In the aggregate aggre-gate have become infatuated with stage beauties moro or less widely known throughout the country according to the World of that city Three of them have married actresses ac-tresses and the Infatuation of the fourth for a beauty of the footlight Is being used against him In divorce proceedings pro-ceedings Although Harry Thaw was probably the wildest among the Pitts burg high rollers who have sowed In tho wild winds of the Tenderloin young Hart McKee was almost as well known but In a different way Forgot Marital Obligations Ills father E Sellers McKee a mul tlmllllonairo glass manufacturer of Pitts burg supplied him with practically practical-ly limitless funds with which the young man preceded to cut a wldo swath lIe WAS handsome dapper and fastidious with the red and white complexion com-plexion of a healthy girl Soon after leaving college he married a Miss Sutton Sut-ton from whom ho separated a year or two afterward giving her 300000 outright in lieu of alimony In Mrs MeKoas allegations against her husband she testified that ho was not with her much during the two years of their married life and that he became more neglectful as time proceeded pro-ceeded Finally Mrs McKee left him owing to his entire neglect She made affidavit that he cut off her personal per-sonal allowance and household allowance allow-ance and put at the head of the household house-hold ft butler who was objectionable and very insolent and over whom she had no control He was given the money to pay tho servants and was empowered to hire nnd discharge them Mrs McKee protested but was told that she had no power to discharge him himMcKeo McKeo became acquainted with Mrs Genovlovo Phlpps the wife of Law roiico Phipps another Plttsburg millionaire mil-lionaire then living In Denver McKee Mc-Kee and Mrs Phlppa were frequently seen together and an estrangement = a divorce was granted on the ground of desertion Then almost before their friends had ceased talking about their case Mr and Mrs Phlpps made up and It is said that they will be remarried re-married This seems to have finished the calendar of sensations as far as the Phipps and McKee millionaires are concerned Another Plttsburg millionaire who had a varied and noteworthy career was James King Clarke known to his friends as Jamie Young Clarko Inherited a part of the millions of his father Charles J Clarke of Pitts burg Ho was In the habit of spending a part of his time In Washington and It was there that he met Miss Esther Bartlett They were married on April 26 1899 In Washington and with the best man Mackintosh Kellogg journeyed to New York where they took rooms at one of the big hotels I As related by Clarke In the stilt for divorce which began a month later upon their arrival In this city he left his bride In his room with Mr Kellogg while ho went downstairs to look after I some baggage He was detained for some time On his return he found the door locked and when It was finally opened Mr Kelloggs shirt front was stained with the violets which Mrs Clarke wore as a corsage bouquet That settled It Mr Clarke waxed wroth and loft his bride Mrs Clarke afterward sued for and obtained a divorce after which sho became be-came tho wife of L T Whitehead of Erie Pa Mr Clark then married n Miss Katherine Wllloughby of St Augustine Fin thus closing nrother chapter of Pitts burg millionaire s nsa tionullsm Career of A R Peacock Mr Alexander Rowland Peacock Is another Smoky City candidate for fame Mr Peacock Is worth many mil lions of dollars When he came to Now York ho evidently made up his mind to live up to the traditions and habits of the lively Plttsburgers who I had preceded him To perpetuate his II name ho had a 17000 peacock mad of genuine diamonds sapphires anti emeralds and gave it to his wife He also had a peacock put on the livery ot his servants Onco Mr Peacock was In Los An gelos There were only upper berths left In tho train to Chicago Give rue a special train then ho ordered Itll cost l00ii said the passenger agent Ill take It replied Peacock un folding a roll of bills as largo as an elephants trunk The run broke nil records Fifteen engines wero used There were eight passengers and to transport thorn in lower berths Instead of upper cost 113 a minute for 59 hours or nearly two dollars a mile But Mr Peacock was from Plttsburg and did not care When some Englishmen sent over 150000 to hack Shamrock II Mr Peacock Pea-cock headed n syndicate who covered It with 2tiO000 He played In a poker game on the steamship Deutschlnnd In which 500000 changed hands Peacock Pea-cock won although there wero nine other Plttsburg millionaires at times In the game There was a 90000 jackpot jack-pot They tell how when Mrs Carnegie was buying her wedding trousseau In this city years ago she was waited upon by a handsome young saleswoman saleswom-an to whom she told her secret Im to be married too confessed tho young woman That is my intended In-tended over there Mr Peacock Thats a Scotch name said the future Mrs Carnegie Where does he rjome from From Dunfermllne maam replied the salesgirl Andrew Carnegie learned about the Incident nnd in duo time the Iron master brought Peacock to Plttsburg and made the lloorwalker a millionaire At the Waldorf one morning Mr Peacock was discovered scribbling on a sheet of paper in tho writingroom A friend asked him what he was doing Oh my wife at breakfast ust now Insisted that I was worth 10000000 I think it Is only 7000000 She Is usually right but I cant find the other 3000000 this morning Married Mothers Maid John Alston Moorhead Is one of tho latest He was a heavy man on the Yalo football team and also pulled in the crtw Ho never did anything else to deserve particular distinction Only a few weeks ago he eloped with his mothers French maid They have not been entirely forgiven yet but Its It-s understood that John Alston is be nc treated in a New York sanitarium his father paying the bills and It Is said the little French maid Is crying her way back to sunny Franco well paid if cash can make it good but with her foolish little heart broken More recently the limelight of notoriety noto-riety has been turned upon W E Corey ono of the best known of the Carnegie group of Plttsburg millionaires million-aires He dawned upon New > ork several sev-eral yearn ago on a special train consisting con-sisting of one dining car four sleeping cars and two baggage cars which carried car-ried the entire office forces of the National Na-tional Steel company ana the National Hoop company In the baggage cars were 50 trunks filled with ledgers and account books and 12 typewriter girls who took down dictation as the train rolled along Coreys Lurid Exploits Some time afterward Mr Corey gave Mr Schwab a Lucullian feast The costliest wines the daintiest hothouse fruits and the rarest flowers were lib Harry Thaw the Only of Gay Crowd That til Essayed the Novel Sen t tion of Murder But Have Sought in Start i Manner to Dissipate Th pitte Easily Earned AfiVronj db h lies of Miss Gilman and at oee Corey Is In the west where present she 111 Id siding with a view to securing a x11 wren I gs During the course of business yssse In Pitts burg Andrew Carnegie Ira ° erra formed Gibson D Packer from a c e man into a millionaire Mr paj p Pac 0 a did not miss his chance to get wl an tho public Mrs Mary 1 Vetter arm rs eo It is said with 140 love letters j twat pared to sue Mr Packer for JlOOO 000 COI broach of promise There were I pledges of affection In the shape slog jewelry ailed Contemporaneously with the Th jitts murder Mrs Scott Hnrtje the wile dton Augustus Hartje Plttsburg millions it de paper manufacturer has begun I left against her husband for divorce on t Hartje says that her husband w Lit paper collars for years that he 110 ° v buy a 1500 horso over the telept ss and tho next minute refuse l her Hartjes request for three dollars 10 g pair of shoes Some of the charges a both Mr and Mrs Hartje cannot Ise printed here ih r Cooked His Own Meals 4fe e Charles Clarke son of Mrs El 1dr Clarke cousin of James King Clarl fl = d married Miss Elizabeth Stocking ri i Atlanta Oa Chic as ho was kno 6mvr was a Jolly good fellow Before Bas marriage ho tried newspaper work tl4C Pitts burg He essayed a publlcat sR similar to Town Topics but the Unil lorg States could only stand one such aj Qe sl time and the Pitts apn Plttsburg production d i and the owner was In debt Tin C4R went hard with him about the tl he married and he apparently lost I ltla his money it being tied up In le of broils Either he tired of his wife h she tired of him God I At any rate he sued for tlvor told that he had endeavoro I i I tain the two by doing the f oily I w Ing in a chafingdish In tslr lltj Ids i room over in Allegheny HP 1 got t I divorce and the next day the wife 1 IJ I came the wife of Sport Donnelly i I 1It of a Pitts burg millionaire + While George Lauder Carnegie b figured somewhat among tne Plttsb I prodigals his broher Coleman l Coley also a highroller has I clcled to straighten up Hitherto I has been piking along on 125000 II year without saving much of It It kfr said that if Coleman will continue a straighten up his uncle Andrew IyiN take him to Scotland and make a I f laird of him Frank Gnley nephew of John t Galey partner of Col James McGnSl il1 1111 tG z 91 CoREYs 4 Q SWIMMING PARTY a s r 41 r i H1MJIff dolfJff t j y ll loo hna fl RS tli coast II a Tn ° y ban h t J his Ic f II I ana l tlgl 6 R 1c 11 l Kf1P 9lvr I ed f A i leas IPVi I l hr i t la I I I w 11 Tqr 0 1 dl r Ier I llp1 tlfdt 1Dq BUTLER hllQ ll his 8CJEP j lVfs f I AOyEN4 d1 l ANDMAfRifDAfRfrKd tie tl orally provided The waiters wore colonial costumes with powdered wigs and the souvenirs wero allvor card cases Previous to this however Mr Corey had emulated other Plttsburg rich men by figuring in a swimming Party of which Miss Maybello Gilman an actress was u member The party took place at the Plttsburg natatorium There were hot birds and cold bottles and somo very pretty exhibitions of plain and fancy swimming At this party an Infatuation for Miss Oilman Is said to have sprung up on the part of the millionaire An cs trangemcnt took place between Mr and Mrs Corey supposedly on account em rl Trot > r of tho millionaire oil producer tit burg distinguished hlm vlf by c d ke milling a burglary Tho suicide of young f OC Jo 1 lip millionaire > s 1 ii the only Bon of the kl man of Plttsburg a few weeks asos of s record tingly rounds out the young Smoky City high roliere fat had lost his mind because of his t PK for his first cousin a charming himself when or burg girl He killed married another This almost exhausts the croP Plttsburgs glided youths but the r g a new crowd growing up They lre yet in knickerbockers q tit t-it 1 |