| OCR Text |
Show t!ait7hcce n t RICTT I E s iiZs I :;h;.l'.r::.blb r.iRst . chadtic:c , 3, OOO0 0Q6O030 0000 0GeOCOG3Q 2;i::s.ciiaL)vic::,s amazikg expenditures. - - . cf O ' ft 'i Bought eight grand pianos la one day and rave them away to her 1 friends. . (J) ) nought diamond rlrrs by the tray when they took her fancy. 0 ' Hal a Jeweier travel 12,400 miles to gret her a particular kind of ring. 0 0 for which she paid tOOO. 0 0 Solid gold ornaments prevail everywhere In her home, which la fur- 0 nished in barbaric splendor, q 0 Gave her husband a Christmas surprise by having the house en- (v tlrely renovated and refurnished In one night while he was at the ft 0 atr. 0 Have her cook a costly sealskin Jacket. s q . 0 Took twelve young society girls to Europe, showered luxuriea and r) costly presents upon them. 0 Would go shopping in a cotume made entirely of sealskin. ' house she decided to take a bath, and I saw another tostance of her eccentricity. eccentri-city. After a maid had undressed her and she had entered the tub, one of the queer impulse seized her. and she rang a bell. The servant who answered found her seated on the edge of the tub. - " 'Send Mary, Kate, Bessie and Frances Fran-ces to me,' . she ordered. When they came she calmly ordered one, to prepare pre-pare lunch, to another she ordered that a lawyer be called, a third was .told to order a peculiar kind of soap, and a' fourth was directed to have a well-known well-known Cleveland Jeweler send for inspection in-spection a tray of Jewels. Gowned in Sealskin. "After lunch she asked me to go shopping shop-ping with her. Gowned In a complete suit of sealskin she created a sensation In. the shopping district. I noticed that many well dressed women turned sharp- " ly and avoided her when they could. However, If they were of the best social so-cial standing In Cleveland and Mrs. Chadwlck saw them first, she would run up before. they could get away, shake them warmly by the hand and gush: 'I'm so glad to see you, dear! You must I call upon me.' The woman greeted would respond politely, make some commonplace com-monplace remark and then hurry away, looking embarrassed. "New York hotel life had the greatest great-est fascination for Mrs. Chadwlck and she did not confine her visits to any one of the hotels. Sometimes she went to the Holland, sometimes to the Waldorf or the Savqy. All the hotel clerks a Fifth avenue know her and have 1 W-spected W-spected her whims." -j- "Her vanities, carelessness and utter disregard for money were well illustrated illus-trated by her purchase at Kirkpat-rlck's. Kirkpat-rlck's. In this city, of a ring, set with beautiful gems, for which she paid $14,-000, $14,-000, and a necklace of pearl for $40,000. When they arrived they pleased her exceedingly ex-ceedingly and, although it was in the morning, she dressed in a Parisian gown, costing several thousand dollars, with a long train. NEW YORK. Dec. 8. Here Is a story of. the inner life of Mrs. Chadwlck. the Cleveland woman the magnitude of whose debts is attracting so; much' attention, at-tention, told by a woman who was In her employ for more than a year and who left her service a month ago: "The remarkable eccentricities and bl-sarre bl-sarre Ideas of Mrs. Chadwlck, the profligate pro-fligate way In 'which she throws away money, not as If she hadl millions, but as If her wealth were hundreds of millions; mil-lions; her . extraordinary "freakish viewpoint of life, her' hobbies and whims, Which must be ridden and gratified, have never ceased to amaze me, although I have been her servant, friend and confidante for-more than a year now. Never has an hour passed during our acquaintance when she has not surprised me by some odd action, although al-though I know her as well as one woman wo-man can another and have spent months analyzing her queer personality. Met Her Through an Agency. "One day I went to an employment agency which furnishes servants to fashionable families, and was told that the wealthy Mrs. Chtdwick of Cleveland wanted a maid, and that I was to meet her at one of the most exclusive of the Fifth avenue hotels. " 'She is an excellent woman to work for,' said the manager to me as I left the agency, 'and showers money right and left among the servants that she likes. If she don't like you she will so Inform you when you meet her. Don't mind if you find Mrs. Chadwlck a trifle eccentric' It was with mingled feel-lr- i of curiosity. Interest and a secret fe-r that I walked Ifto the hotel and asked to have a card lent to Mrs. Chad-wick's Chad-wick's room. " 'Mrs. Chadwlck is not in the city,' the clerk answered. " 'Not in New Yorkr I gasped. The clerk saw my consternation and I told him my Emission. " Oh. I will come back again.' I an- Amazed Hotel Xttning-Hoom. "Putting the ring on her finger, the necklace about her neck, she swept Into one of the dining-rooms of the hotel so amazing a figure that the women at the tables could only gasp and stare. With her was a nurse whom she insisted should accompany her In full uniform to the table. "It all seemed a matter of course, to the vain woman, and she ate with unconcern, un-concern, but secretly pleased that she had created an Impression upon the other oth-er women In the room. The poor nurse was so uncomfortable during the ordeal that she could not eat. "On the very next day the manager of the hotel came up to Mrs. Chad-wlck's Chad-wlck's rooms and asked her If she had not lost some Jewels. 'Not that I know Of,' she answered. " 'Are not these yoursT the manager asked, taking from his pocket the necklace neck-lace and ring which madame had worn in the dlnlrg-room. She gazed at the X54.000 worth of Jewelry without a spark of emotion and said languidly: "Yes, I believe that they are mine,' Put Her Gems in Slippers. "Amazed at such unconcern, the managed man-aged bowed himself out Mrs. Chadwlck Chad-wlck had surprised him at last. "Inquiry developed the fact that while Mrs. Chadwlck was taking a bath she had pushed her silk stockings into her slippers. In these stockings she had placed the Jewels before she disrobed. "One of the maids, not noticing, ths contents of the slippers, placed the yto the hallway for the boy to polish, v ' No Bed-Heads Around Her. "Her first Impressions In hiring servants ser-vants are often embarrassing and humiliating hu-miliating to the girls and men that apply ap-ply to her for situations. I remember that once she had 'phoned an employment employ-ment agency for a maid. They sent up a beautiful girl with a great mass of Mrs. Leslie Carter hair. " I don't want you. said Mrs. Chadwlck Chad-wlck upon seeing her. "Another girl was seat up. She also had Titian tresses. " 'Go away. Get out of my Plght,' screamed Mrs. Chadwlck when she saw her. 'And tell' the 'manager of your agency not to send me any more redheaded, red-headed, girls. I won't have them around.'- "I stood her whims and eccentricities until I grew tired, and a month ago left her service. Certainly there is not another an-other woman like her In the country." swered. 'Mrs. Chadwlck was probably delayed and will be back in the city tomorrow." to-morrow." Girl Pound Boom Beady. , " 'Oh, you are the maid. Tour room is No. 738. Will you go right up? "Tour room has been ordered by Mrs. Chadwlck,' the, clerk astonished me by saying. "Her Instructions are that you shall go there, eat at the hotel, have all your wants satisfied, and that you are to wait for her.' "Seeing that I still stood gasping and amazed, he remarked, 'Mrs. Chadwlck will pay all your bills.' "I found that the room reserved for me was one of the finest In the hotel, and I lived for several days on the best the hotel afforded. As the days went by I began to grow nervous, and when a week passed I went to see the clerk of the hotel again and explained my fears. " 'Oh, that's all right.' he answered, with a smile. 'Just you wait. Run up all the bills you want. Mrs. Chadwlck will be here, and Just enjoy yourself.' "Three weeks went by, and finally Mrs. Chadwlck came. Had Eyes of Hypnotist. "What I saw was a very nervous woman, wo-man, of no special beauty of face, excepting ex-cepting the eyes, which were brilliant and hypnotic almost. She was dressed" In the most magnificent garments that I ever saw, but with too much extravagance extrava-gance and too little taste, I thought. I was nervous. I'll admit, and thought that she would reprimand me, for running run-ning up a three w eeks' bill at the swagger swag-ger hotel. Instead of returning to the employment agency. I did manage to say something in apology for my conduct, con-duct, but she Interrupted me abruptly. " 'None of that,' said she. 'I'm paying, the bills. What In thunder do you cre how much they cost, ehT "After walking about the room nervously ner-vously for a few minutes she turned and suddenly said: She Sent Call for Three Cabs. " 'We are to leave for Cleveland In ten minutes. Telephone for a cab. Better make It two cabs, and we can take our pick. While you are about it make it three cabs. There may be a black or gray horse. I won't ride behind one of these. I only ride behind bay horses.' "I did as she requested. "The cab and the horse suited her. and after she had paid the bills we were Eoon on our way to a railroad depot. " 'You did not make the trip here Just to employ a servant, did you, madamer I asked her. " 'Yes. w hat of that? she asked. "To welcome Mrs. Chadwlck on her return all the servants were awaiting her. "The servants were of all kinds, sev- j eral of them I noticed being nurses, garbed In the whitest cf linen and look-" ing Immaculate and fetching. With a port of Joyous hysteria she ran up t the women servants and throwing her arms about each fhe first hugged and then kissed them. Then she walked up to the men and shook them heartily by the hand. She expressed her Joy at seeing see-ing them alL ' Her Home Was Like Palace. "The Inside of the house stupefied me by the magnificence. There were Persian Per-sian rooms with silk rugs that must have cost thousands of dollars; there were paintings of the masters: there were rooms fitted In the style of Louis XIV.; Turkish,' Egyptian and rooms of all kinds. "As I followed this queer woman through all of these magnificent apartments apart-ments she would'frown at an expensive pair of lace curtains or at a divan, and, ringing for servants, she would say: 'I am tired of this or that. Throw It out, give It away get rid of It in sbrre manner. You can have it if you want it. Go down to So-and-So's and order something some-thing that costs more In its place.' No surprif was expressed by the servants. They had heard such orders 'oft before. They pimply did as she told them. "After a cursory inspection of the |
