Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-07 | Page 8 | Richest Girl in World Found She Couldn't Buy Happiness

7 ih SAL ALl T Richest Giitl in Word v GrId F Found und She Co k Buy y Happiness S' S m ii Y a i iS 5 I Y M R t LI LIt i t r V VIS I l IS ISI i I fI t Herc H re is a r rare rc portrait of Mrs Catherine Catherino Barker Spaulding Known v as the richest girl in in the world woid who 11 has filed suit uit fo for o divorce against Howard H. H Jr wealthy Chit Chicago go clubman Below is ioan an old picture of the young couple taken at the time of their marriage just justas as they left for their round world the world thc honeymoon ll 6 I Catherine Catherine Barkers Barker's Romance Romance Ro Ro- Romance mance Now tV Wrecked v b by by Divorce MICHIGAN TY Ind NEATho NEA- NEA Tho woman who u used ed to be called the richest little gir girl in the world has discovered once more th that t 30 is no insurance against un- un happiness Catherine Barker Barler S. S Spaulding whom the newspapers of fifteen years ago called Americas Bertha Krupp has filed suit for divorce in Chicago against Howard H. H Spaulding Jr well to do to-do to Chicago clubman n and lumberman to whom she was married mar married mar mar mar-i ried pied in She Sh accuses him of drunkenness drunk sa saying that he has b habitually been a heavy drinker for fort t two taro O years Although she was born borri into conditions conditions con con- coni i seen seemingly as ris' ris fortunate asa as asa a a. girl could poul could as ask ash this heires heiress has had a life clouded several ral times by trouble IS LEFT AN ORPHAN It was was- in 1896 that Catherine Barl Barker er was bon n. only child of oC Mr and Mrs John II IL Barker Barker was the head of the hip bir bi Haskell B Barker Car Cal company plant here and was extremely wealthy A Aw Afi achild a achild achild i child Catherine Catheline had over everything that wealth could bring She made madea a number of trips to Europe before she had reached her teens teens had private tutors tUtOI'S to give re give h her r her lessons les lessons les- les sons spent her summers when summers when not traveling with her parents parents parents-at at their summer mansion at Harbor Point Mich on picturesque Little Tra Traverse Tra Tra- Traverse verse ba bay One would have sa said d that life lire was bound to be very good to her ller But it was not When she was 14 att attending a private school at t Detroit she was called home to the deathbed of oC her mother Six months after her her mother died her father also d died She was was- an orphan or or- phan worth phan-worth worth a great fortune to be he sure but a lonely little girl never never- 0 The sudden deaths of ot her parents made the girl a prominent Newspaper newspaper per figure for Cor some ome time Ume Reporters Reporters Report Report- ers besieged the Barker home here columns column were written about ab ut the poor little rich girl girl het hers hei- daily schedule of oC getting up eating studying pl playing ying- ying and going to b bedwas' bedwas bed bedwas was was was' carefully jotted down n and interviews in interviews interviews in- in were occasionally granted grante J ESTATE GROWS TO I Und Under r the guardianship of or the late lite James R. R Forgan b banker rand and aid a trustee of oI t Bar ker er estate she passed passed her girlhood t I o Under the thc ter terms s of ith rs r's she could could not get get p possession n of t the tiie le- le principal Ip l of t the e Restate estate Until h her twenty first birthday she had an income of 60 a y year yar ar from the ago age of or 21 to 26 th the income was OO and ancl since th then It has haS h cn a around l o l her er fathers father's death the value o of the estate estate es- es tate has grown front to 0 r.- r. Jt It was in that S she lie ire was was prominent in ip inI Chicago society soci ty the i son on of the late llo H H. it itY I Spaulding he was was- wasa a Y Yale Yalo Je S la Ia f former play player L' L and a member df f sonic some som of Chicago's gos go's most exclusive dubs clubs The wedding ceremony ny to took l l place lace at tho the girls girl's at Harbor Point and of socially socially elite cUte attended the brilliant ceremony Immediately Immediately Immediately Im Im- mediately afterward the young couple couple cou cou- J le left on a honeymoon trip that took tool them around the world Since then the two vo spent much time abroad Spaulding was a lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant in tho the American army during the tho World Yord war wm after arter the war they made mads their home principally in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago although they maintained the magnificent Barker mansion here HAVE NO CHILDREN Some time ago rumors were current current current cur cur- rent among their friends here and in Chicago that tha t there were dl differences and disagreements between the two but these were believed tO lavo been settled satisfactorily and the filing of the tle he divorce p petition came as a surprise eyen even to close acquaintances They have no children Mrs Spaulding's father lather during his lifetime was known for lor his philanthropy philanthropy phil phil- and and Mrs Spaulding followed followed followed fol fol- lowed in his footsteps giving large sums to various projects hero here and elsewhere Three years ellS a ago o her benefactors f tors won von won her the papal decoration decoration deco deco- ration of Matro Matra of or tho the Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre