| Show h I r THE LONELIEST L ONI T MAN MA N IN CHICAGO CM CA OO OOn l n 11 t Chicago III Ili March 0 Marshall Field I time the richest man In ht the West the merchant prince of oC Chicago owner of oC miles of land and blocks of ot houses and antI of ot nn no army arm of ot cm em Is the loneliest man In the tho groat city says as a 11 a Cincinnati Enquirer special cial At Al 07 bowed With the tho weight of ot years anti ond business cares his hIli hair whitened and anti his step beginning to fal Cal falter tel ter he lie Is nil oil but deserted by II his ills chit chil children dren with not one ono of oC his ids kin 1 to be the tho I staff of ot his hla fading liCe Ilfe Last week his Ills daughter Field l lold who was aaa IR the tho wife trite Ite of oC Arthur Tree son of or Lambert Lombert Tree former United States minister to St Petersburg was legally separated from her husband and null their only child a boy bor was placed In III the custody of ot the father All Chi Chicago cago eo o remembers the time wed wedding wedding ding on ell Now New Years Day a 1891 It was a n royal function und amid Its splendor served as u II basis for tOl gossip for many ninny days LEADS A BUTTERFLY BUTTI LIFE It was whispered at the tho time that Ethel Field not only brought to her husband a n dower of or but that as os a at wedding ng gift from the father of ot the received n a certified check for tor Ethel Field was known us liS one of at the gayest Hapst and most dashing of ot the Ih gay fa and mind dashing Prairie Avee AP pet set In which she had been reared It Is 18 now a 1 popular belief heller In Iii Chicago that Arthur Arlhur Tree would hardly forego friends friend frequented no entertainments and seldom sought contact with his kind IlInd or social version diversion III outside of or his Ills hison own on doors dams Latterly he has gone HOlle In lu somewhat for golf golt and seemed to find In exercise upon the links his hits only real roal amusement limit Hut Ms Lila real zest In iii life lire recently has lias been b en devotion to b his enormous mercantile tile lice Interests Interest I er morning at aJ 3 9 when he lie Is In Chicago he would enter hula his hl retail store stole which occupies almost nn nu entire city elt block Klock and there himself In business for tor two hours horns All the details of or the enormous business of this store were ut at his fingers lingers end enL At 11 ho he walked dally from his lila re reo tall store to the wholesale store the building n a magnificent rim specimen oc oe occupying city block Here ele ho he spend spends the remainder of ot tile the lie business day superintending the conduct of ot a n business whose volume is la an all annually Then he drives drUes homo home alone dines alone and anti reads alone except for fur forthe forthe the company of ot his hla IllS HIS CASH CASIO AN ODD ONE It II IK doubtful If It nn an man of ot f Marshall Fields I wealth mid enormous Interests lends leads such mich n a solitary secluded life lICe al III almost most deserted by b his children for tor the thega gay ga world of ot society and dependent t for companionship on those whose services are arc bought Nought with money alone Mr Field line lino hind hall white hair for tor 30 SO years yearn earH Now at 67 07 although hale has line shoulders stoop heavily Ho lie walks walka slow slowly slowly ly IY anti to be he aging At too the present time tine ho Is In Monterey Cat Cal avoiding the Chicago spring which has no pity on age und and Infirmity What Marshall Meld Field proposes to 0 do with his hi manifold millions Is a n subject upon which gossip Is never nover Idle Of tho the Immense fortune he has built up since Cyrus H McCormick came caine to the res rescue ro rescue cue of or Field 1 Lester Co who were practically ruined the day da after atter the great greot lire of 1871 1671 not one penny penn may go goto goto goto to the son ROn nut IU daughter who have havo so 80 many years lived apart from their father Some Saute colossal plan of charity charlt Is believed by many to he be contemplated bv by the lonely millionaire One Ono day da Just after the time Worlds Fair I r he wrote a sin single pie gle Ie cheek check for OO and founded the Field I Columbian Museum now occupy occur lug Ins the magnificent Building of Fine Arne i f which tho the adorn adornment adornment adornment ment of the Fair limit Jut aside from this Marshall Fields public have Jaw born hO few and far between Even those whose who p dose close business affiliations with the great millionaire are such as aM asto asto to 10 Rive glue thorn thom same somo license to 10 guess what his plans plan may be IJ do not lIot even Pen venture to tn lint hint hint they ore are sufficiently In to hi hits his confidence to be he aware of ot othis his intentions lie H Il lies has no confidants Ills His life Is almost reclusive To aman amass money scents rooms the only on I occupation his hits now new no craws craves and he 11 will In lu nil all probability continue his hiM present lone lonely lonely ly Iy almost childless existence until It ItI itis l I is ended by hy death a prospective pro to half of ot a I fortune whit h many IMn persons believe blIp I amounts to i OO If It his hi marital had been binn at lit all agreeable J charge advanced advani i In iii the Ihl divorce was and no i iwas was Willi made by b the ilip wife Their child I a Ibar aboy boy bar was vas awarded to the father The Trees have ha long lone lon lived hived In III Lease Ington England I where also alII reside Mar Marshall Marshall Ir shall Field Jr and his hili wire wife For lor years almost t no communication ha has been held between this son ion and daugh daughter ter of ot the American merchant Cro JIu anal onel their father Cather During the last year Ir Tree and antI his hh wife wire and young Field all nil of whom belong to the Countess of ot set net t have ha not spoken to each aeh other though In almost t nightly nIght contact at social functions Mil m FIELDS LONELY LIFE LIlE Mrs Marshall Field died two years farS ago abroad and ond was burled on the continent SInce then the life lite of ot the desolate old od moan man inns lias been one of lute Jute loneliness s 8 He lie If breakfasted ted and dined In solitary state In his hi magnificent cent tent Av At Ave received nc no ao |
