Show pittsburg men of wealth unequaled in furnishing sensations for the lovers of scandal allurements or painted stage beauties fatal to domestic peace and harmony new york now that the crime ot murder has been added to the eccel trie doings of the dozen or more pitts burg millionaires it Is probable that the limit of their capacity tor sensa has been reached remarkable divorces remarriages breaches of promise alimony and chorus girls have hitherto been or flanary features of their lives they to have become rich so suddenly that they have lost their heads never before however has any one of them been accused of murder years before harry thaw ever heard dt evelyn nesbit or stanford white he was eccentric to the verge of arazi ness he was known as a cigarette fiend a heavy absinthe drinker an ad direr of chorus girls and a reckless spendthrift he gave dinners costing tens of thousands of dollars and like the general run of pittsburg million alres he always had one or more at fairs on hand with women of the toot lights it is a strange fact that chorus girls and actresses seem to appeal to the pittsburg millionaire past all power of resistance four of them who have made new york their home during the past few years and whose wealth amounts to 50 in the aagre gate have become infatuated with stage beauties more or less widely known throughout the country according to the world of that city three of them have married ac tresses and the infatuation of the fourth tor a beauty of the footlight is being used against him in divorce pro although harry thaw was probably the wildest among the pitts high rollers who have sowed in the wild winds of the tenderloin young hart mckee was almost as well known but in a different way forgot marital obligations his father E sellers mckee a mul tl millionaire glass manufacturer of pittsburg supplied him with practical ly limitless funds with which the young man preceded to cut a wide dewath he was handsome dapper and with the red and white corn of a healthy girl soon after leaving college he married a miss sut ton from whom he separated a year or two afterward giving her outright in lieu of alimony in mrs mckee s allegations against her husband she testified that he was not with her much during the two years of their married life and that he became more neglectful as time pro ceedee finally mrs mckee left him owing to his entire neglect she made affidavit that he cut off her per bonal allowance and household allow ance and put at the head of the house hold a butler who was objectionable and very insolent and over whom she had no control he was given the money to pay the servants and was empowered to hire and discharge them mrs mckee protested but was told that she had no power to discharge him mckee became acquainted with mrs genevieve Genev leve phipps the wife of law rence phipps another pittsburg mil leonaire llo then living in denver me kee and mrs phipps were frequently seen together and an estrangement sprang up between mr phipps and his wife the breach gradually widened and mr phipps brought suit for dl vorce naming hart mckee as respondent pittsburg society was disrupted by the news and the me kee and phipps factions waxed bitter in their denunciations his children following the return of mrs phipps to this country her two little 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 st it d that when the divorce proceedings were over mrs phipps would mariy hart mckee but in the meantime th it eccentric young man had become u thrilled ed with mrs hugh tevis who a few years previous had been and widowed within six weeks mrs tevis and mr mcbee sailed away to europe on the same steamer and shortly afterward were marrie things were rather dull in the pitts burg colony for awhile until mr phipps went out to denver where tbs divorce case was brewing mrs phipps began a contest for ehg possession of the children but event bally terms were reached under which a divorce was granted on the ground of desertion then almost before their friends had ceased talking about thel lae mr and mrs phipps made up and it Is said they will be re married this seems to have finished the calendar of sensations as far as the phipps and mckee millionaires are concerned another pittsburg millionaire who had a varied and noteworthy career was james king clarke known to his friends as jamie young clarke inherited a part of the millions of his father charles J clarke of pittsburg he 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 As related by clarke in the suit tor divorce which began a month later upon their arrival in this city he left his bride in his room with mr kellog while he went downstairs to look after 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 left his bride mrs clarke afterward sued for and obtained a divorce after which she be came the wife of L whitehead of erie pa mr dark then married a miss Ka therme of st augustine thus closing another chapter of pittsburg millionaire sensa career of A R peacock mr alexander rowland peacock la another smoky city candidate for fame mr peacock Is worth many mil lions of dollars when he came to new york he evidently made up bis mind to live up to the traditions and habits of the lively Pitts burgers who had preceded him to perpetuate hia name he had a 17 peacock made of genuine diamonds sapphires and emeralds and gave it to his wife he also had a peacock put on the livery of his servants they tell how when mrs carnegie was buying her wedding trousseau in this city years ago she was waited upon by a handsome young sale an to whom she told her secret I 1 m to be married too confessed the young woman that Is my in tended over there mr peacock a scotch name said the future mrs carnegie where does he come froma from ma am replied the salesgirl andrew carnegie learned about the incident and in due time the brought peacock to pittsburg and made the floorwalker a millionaire at the waldorf one morning mr peacock was discovered scribbling on a sheet of paper in the writing room A friend asked him what he was doing oh my wife at breakfast now insisted that I 1 was worth 10 I 1 think it is only she Is usually right but I 1 can t find the other 3 this morning married mother s maid john alston moorhead Is one ot the latest he was a heavy man on the yale football team and also pulled in the crew he never did anything else to deserve particular distinction only a few weeks ago he eloped with hia mothers french maid they have not been entirely forgiven yet but it Is understood that john alston Is being treated in a new ork sanitarium his father paying the bills and it Is said the little french maid Is crying her way back to sunny france well paid it cash can make it good but with her foolish little heart broken more recently the limelight of noto nety has been turned upon W E corey one of the best known of the carnegie group of pittsburg million harry K thaw the only one of gay crowd that has essayed novel sensation of murder but all have sought in startling manner to dissipate their easily earned millions boorey s lund exploits some time afterward mr corey gave mr schwab a Lu cullian beast the costliest wines the daintiest hot house fruits and the rarest flowers were lib brally provided the waiters wore colonial costumes with powdered wigs and the souvenirs were silver card cases previous to this however mr corey had emulated other pittsburg rich men by figuring in a tw imming party of which miss maybelle oilman an actress was a member the party took place at the pittsburg luin there were hot birds and cold bottles and some very pretty exhibitions of plain and fancy swimming at this party an infatuation tor miss oilman Is said to have sprung up on the part of the millionaire an es tran gement took place between mr and mrs corey supposedly on account of miss oilman and at present mrs corey Is in the west where she Is re siding with a view to securing a dl vorce during the course of business in pittsburg andrew carnegie trang formed holbson D packer from a poor man into a millionaire mr packer did not miss his chance to get before the public mrs mary I 1 vetter armed it Is said with love letters pre pared to sue mr packer for tor breach of promise there were many pledges of affection in the shape of jewelry contemporaneously with the thaw murder mrs scott hartje the wife of augustus hartje pittsburg millionaire paper manufacturer has begun suit against her husband for divorce mrs hartje says that her husband wore paper collars for years that he would buy a 1 horse over the telephone and the next minute refuse mrs hartje s request for three dollars tor a pair of shoes some of the charges of both mr and mrs harte cannot be printed here frank oaley nephew of john H oaley partner of col james mccuffey the millionaire oil producer of pitts burg distinguished himself by corn a burglary the suicide of young jones the only son of the millionaire steel alres he dawned upon new lierk several years ago on a special train con of one dining car tour sleeping cars and two baggage cars which car ried the entire office forces ot the na 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 man of pittsburg a few weeks ago fit tingly rounds out the record ot the young smoky city high rollers had lost his mind because of his loye tor first cousin a charming pitts burg girl he killed himself when she man led another this almost exhausts the crop ot pittsburg s gilded youths but there 1 a new crowd growing up they are as yet tn knickerbockers |