Show F f cwi RICH YOUTH HAS PACE picturesque career of young man with plenty of money what has happened to frank snowden ridgely brown son of maryland former governor who Is now facing a suit for divorce with many charges of cruelty york give an average american boy with NEW out the restraining influx ence of a mother a year at the age of 14 and a million when he reaches his majority and what will be bis future this Is the story ot such a boy whose young wile Is about to hale him into the divorce court at the ten der age of 24 as related by the sun day world this boy has faced many charges homicide among them but it Is extremely doubtful if he has ever passed through an ordeal so als tasteful as that which awaits him when he answers to the many charges of cruelty brutality and infidelity his pretty girl wife mentions in her bill of particulars frank snowden ridgely brown son ot maryland s former governor Is the unhappy youth who has sacrificed his brief and once happy married career 0 the baltimore american in his beautifully appointed stanhope with coachman at his side and footman seated on the rumble ills horses brandy and soda wore blue ribbons and frank was justly proud of his turnout the millionaire reporter was told to accompany another and humbler reporter on his rounds through baltimore s east side but when he saw that his intended to drive through the ghetto in his beautiful equipage the mere re porter balked and told frank to meet him at a designated police station as the street cars were good enough for his the policemen in the station houses visited that day by frank and his mentor still possess souvenirs of franks first day as a reporter tor he scattered golden gifts with a lavish hand champagne for G A R veterans that evening frank was assigned to cover a banquet given by a local efah on the altar of pleasure young frank as he Is familiarly called in baltimore has been pleasure bent since he was a boy of ten and his pleasures more often than not have been purchased at terrific cost lie has had his fling and when a boy of 17 he was blase and so satiated with the eay etlea of the old world that he cast about tor new sensations and new fields to conquer life for him even then was one mad whirl and what he did not know about the but life worth knowing at ostend he was the petted darling of women of title and otherwise and it was a prank that he played on one of these while in her bath house at this gay resort that made it necessary for his father to spirit him out of france and back to baltimore the coy abhorred books and rarely studied lie had the choice of any university in america or europe it he would but say the word but instead be preferred to run wild do as he pleased and give little if any atten alon to the studies prescribed for him by the tutors his father engaged tor him started work as a reporter about his aither and his elster may brown who later married gordon II a new york lawyer and since his death married alfred choso whoso former wife had eloped with benchley Benc bley one of alfred Q stable managers planned a return trip to europe frank was engaged in paying ardent court to a baltimore girl at that time and his father told him it he did not accompany him to europe be would have to go to work fine said frank nothing could better suit my purpose at dinner the same evening he announced that he had joined the reportorial staff of the baltimore american franks ad vent into journalism will long bo remembered in and to this day the soubriquet of millionaire re porter clings to him when prank reported tor his first laya work he drove un to the office GAR post deer was the only tipple for the veterans whereupon frank invited everybody to have champagne with him accordingly a dozen cases were ordered by the croesus scribe the hotel proprietor later sued to recover the price of the champagne As a tipster to his city editor on the gay dog doings of baltimore society frank had no equal so disconcerting did these tips prove that friends of the brown family in the inner circle of baltimore society cabled to brown pere to suggest some other field of en deavor tor his youthful son and this he did franks journalistic career while was quite as meteoric as every other that be has since launched out upon it was just three years ago that young frank saw and met miss mabel michael of baltimore the two families do not move in the same set and there was opposition from both sides the browns bad always moved in that social circle which was known far and near as the brass band while the michaels in every respect the social equals of the browns belonged to a more conservative ele ment franks courtship was brief and ardent serious opposition from both sides but served to fan the flame and when frank proposed to mabel that they elope she with some hesitation consented eloped in touring car just before midnight on october 23 frank and his fiancee ret by appointment his touring car was in readiness and was geared up to its highest speed frank was attended by one of bis many chums while miss mary gilsmer accompanied miss michael the party bundled into the automobile and frank instructed bis chauffeur to cut out for new york and get there as soon as possible arriving in this city they went to the astorca where frank bad spent much time in the handsome suite of apartments bla father used to maintain there the year round frank was anxious to have rev henry M warren the hotel chaplain marry him and finding that mr warren was then living in west monety fourth street frank his fiancee and their at tend ants repaired to sir warrens home and thero the ceremony was performed their marriage came as a great surprise to their respective families but the young pair was soon installed in a beautifully appointed home and many predicted that mabel would make her young husband more con lve but her charges against him do not confirm athla hope ills wife says he never settled down in fact he became gayer than ever after his marriage it that bad been possible ills chosen companions were as gay as himself although few it any of them had the funds to squander that frank ever had at corn mand his escapades became more daring each day and the governor as he la still called was compelled to admonish and intercede more than once accused of killing child this boys passion and he was never satisfied unless he was bowling through baltimore s ten at top speed his arrest was of almost dally occurrence and when baltimore awoke about eighteen months ago to be told that franks car had killed a negro child the night previous the I 1 told you BOS got busy it was not openly charged that franks car had killed the boy but the newspapers hinted so strongly at the identity of the driver and owner of the car that within 24 bouis the trail led to franks door and he was arrested and formally accused of run ning over the little and then running away without the for mallte of stopping to ascertain the seriousness of the injuries inflicted the parents of the dead child received 10 to drop the case against frank this frightened frank for awhile and he did not break into print again until his friend lester bresee who had figured in almost all of franks escapades was committed to mount hope a asylum for the insane and inebriates lester had been going the pace for several years and when his mind gave way none was surprised frank sore ly missed his chum and often motored out to the beautiful retreat on charles street avenue to spend an hour with him in the course of one of these visits lester complained of bis en forced confinement and begged frank to devise some means of effecting his release ive tried that already said frank but the courts won t stand tor it so I 1 guess the only thing I 1 can do Is to kidnap you go as far as you like said lester but for clods sake get me out of here I 1 haven t had a drink for a month chum from asylum the next day lester wh le out tor bla afternoon airing in the hospital tt or tooling hla coach and four than of playing roles upon the stage no matter how inconspicuous they were perhaps it was the inconspicuous ness of these roles that induced frank after a try at a part in cyrano de berjerac bergerac Ber gerac to abandon the stage as a profession ills deeply htiu at this venture and she did all she could to dissuade him when he told her that he wanted to be an actor this she says brought down his wrath upon her pretty and youthful bead and from then on trouble came thick and fast for her wife tella of midnight orgies it is the alleged midnight orgies at her home that mrs brown most hit terly complained of in her bill tor dt vorce frank and his tenderloin friends she declares would wander into the house at all hours of the night and from then until the gray dawn make night hideous for her and her neighbors it was impossible for her she declares to make her escape from the house as frank would insist upon her presiding at the table and serving him and his guests with whatever their fancy dictated despite the of the hour then too sirs brown asserts thit I 1 frank preferred her to be at the head of the table during these bacchanalian feasts inasmuch as she made a good target for his ribald jests or the plats or glasses he chose to hurl at her sometimes according to mrs brown 3 complaint the glasses were empty but more often they contained chain for frank was ever jealous of his reputation as a wine opener and he would never for a moment have it thought among tenderloin friends that anything else but champagne graced his table or his bathtub for that matter another sport of which her husband was passionately fond mrs brown charges had to do with a most all laynous looking and savage bulldog which Is ever at frank s heels mrs brown asserts that when frank was especially deep in bis cups he would set the dog on her for some reason mrs brown declares tha dog entertained a violent dislike tor her and was only too glad to do his masters bidding finally driven from her home it was the dog episode that preyed to be the parting of the ways while in a drunken frenzy frank it is charged in the complaint set tho dog on his wife and it attacked her so savagely that she fled in her night clothes and never returned that was last january and since then she vows frank has not contributed a cent toward her support and this in the face of his alfes statement that he had torn and cut up all her hat gowns lingerie and pretty boots aal slippers just prior to having the bull dog charge her mrs brown says it ta lack of homo influence that is responsible for her grounds eluded the keeper climbed over the high fence and dropped into franks waiting car frank was at the wheel and he let it out and in in hour or two was beyond the alon of the maryland courts and oace more it became necessity necess iry for brown pere to get busy and square things for frank meanwhile franks affairs at homo had been going from bad to worse his wife says she was left much to herself for frank was so busy with bis other friends and associates that he had little or no time to devote to his girl bride franks gay friends of both sexes were ever welcomed at the youthful browns home that Is by frink among these his wife says were many actors and actresses and then it was that frank conceived the idea that he would like to enter upon a stage career he joined the stock company con ducted in baltimore by george fawcett and was given small parts the verdict of frank s many friends after witnessing several performances in which be appeared was that he was tar more capable of steering au husband s waywardness and she further a owa that the governor 9 mainly responsible for this she de dares that he has alienated franks affections and now she Is suing the governor for heart balm to the tune of in the mean time frank Is ing on his merry way with ample funds at his command and with the prospect of sharing with his sister the several million dollars GOT brown Is said to possess young frank has a lively future ahead of him will he reform ask his wife |