| Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I By Lemuel F. F Parton I II d I I 11 t yI NEW YORK Oberlin M M. Carter one eighty-one years old again appeals appeals ap ap- peals to the Supreme court In his incessant fight of at 39 years foe fOt readmission readmission re- re admission to the Capt Carter Barter army and the e Again Seeks Seek voiding of the Vindication martial court-martial verdict ver ver- verdict dict diet which sent him to prison for fraud Powerful influence has backed the former captain and his friends call him the American Dreyfus The case against him on charges of fraud Involving many millions was one of the notorious scandals of the McKinley administration lie He had been in charge of river and barbar harbor liar bar bor bar reclamation at Savannah Handsome gifted of a distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- family Captain Carter was second In scholarship only to Robert RobertE I E E. Lee In all nil the history of West Point A newspaper account of March 1889 reveals him at Savannah Savannah Savannah Savan Savan- nah Just before the turn of his fortunes fortunes fortunes for for- tunes Captain Carter was an exceedIngly exceedingly exceed exceed- I I popular man in club circles and among his num numerous rous female ac nc- qu He lIe was polished in his j manner exceedingly cordial to nilI all nil alland alland and ran toward the rapid set He lie lIe I was a very fashionable dresser He Ite gener generally lly appeared In three I or four suits of clothes daily and never failed tailed to don j tr- tr Changed His his evening suit I Suits Suils Four for dinner In the I Times a Day morning morin he wo wore e eI I his his bus business mess suit but by lunch time he appeared in his suit After Arter taking a spin about the principal streets of Savannah Savannah Savannah Sa Sa- vannah for a couple of hours he next appeared In his driving suit Late In the afternoon he ha would appear appear appear ap ap- pear in his riding suit In the yachting season he was far tar in the lead of other followers of the water lie He had bad seven distinct ways of shaking hands The quick quick change change record or the shaking hand or something upped him to the job of helping man man the teacups at the American embassy in London As he prepared to leave Savannah there were routs assemblies assemblies assemblies assem assem- blies fetes and army outs blow to honor him on his departure Seeing him off ofT at the llie boat was Commander E E. Gillette a salty weather-beaten weather old sea dog Captain Cap Cap- tain taro Carters Carter's gush of affection embarrassed em em- embarrassed him The captain insisted insist Insist- ed that the commander make use of his house The old commander was Inclined to suspect over generous persons He pondered the Commander a s captains captain's conduct conductS S Suspicions and then went to Are Aroused the office Of the engineering corps On a map he saw a retaining wall of masonry spotted up as having been built at a cost of Then he strolled down the river looking for the wall It wasn't there He kept on exploring He reported to the war office that had been spent for nothing more than marks on paper THE TIlE THE courts awarded to Mrs Mat Mat- MatI Matthew I thew Astor Wilks daughter of Hetty Green the entire estate of her brother the late CoL Edward H. H R R. Green estimated as between and This with witha a similar amount inherited from her mother and the fortune bequeathed by her husband makes her according accord ing to all current estimates the richest woman in the world She is much like her mother Six Six- six ty-six years old she lives in an unpretentious unpretentious un pretentious house on Electric hill in Greenwich Conn with a few servants and a year ten-year-old collie dog named Prince Prince Prince-as as did her ber mother moth moth- er in her later years And like her mother she does docs her r roo- roo ing driving to town ay or two in a small car car The late Matthew Astor Wilks was wasa a great-grandson great of John Jacob As- As rj tor When they Nett Hetty y Gives GIVe were married In Advice to 1909 in her ber moth moth- Bridegroom f ers er's flat fiat in Hobo ob Hoboken Hoboken Hobo Hobo- 0 ken Hetty Green was quoted by the newspapers assaying as assaying assaying saying to the groom Matthew you are sixty five years old and you have the gout Some day my girl is going to have a day I want tobe to tobe tobe be sure that she is marrying a man who will help her take care of her money She has managed nicely If her is bringing 3 per cent that's not but a day For twenty-seven twenty years she has lived In the house near Greenwich Her husband died in 1926 1928 Her for tor fortune tune consists of blocks of real estate in St. St Louis Boston and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and railroad and other ties She has no box at the opera assumes no grandeur of the reigning dowager and lets highest Greenwich G Greenwich highest per capita wealth in America run America run Itself without her ber aid Her participation participation participation pation in public affairs consists mainly of her annual contribution to the Greenwich s tin tion C e Consolidated News New Features Service |
