Show THE AERIE OF SMUGGLED GLORY IA keag 41 7 4 C Z 11 boston mass maps aus aug 26 should tha charges against mrs jack gardner prove true the villa in the back bay kil strict will be come famous as the ahnie of erne crne of the greatest smugglers the country nas ilas ever known tho present incident which involves mrs alm chadbourne of chicago according to reports is only one of many many times previously lias has mrs jack gardner defended herself against aln smuggling accusations by the government although never before in the form of a deliberate secretive plot such as tho the present one nothing has hag been presented so far only ciri um urn evidence but this points strongly to the validity of the charges it seems in the present case that mrs airs chadbourne in order to accommodate a friend undertook the bring indof the smuggled articles consist ing of famous paintings and tapestries to her chicago home to later be shipped to the palatial residence of mrs gardner previous to this mrs gardner has relied upon a technicality of law which admits nit art collections free of duty where the same are intended for public exhibition she has claimed that he her ho home I 1 no was a public art gallery aaa ana that the paintings I 1 furnished furnis hoj for this should bo be admitted without duty it became evident to tw tae authorities in washington that thai mrs gardner was importing these art pieces for her own use and avoiding tho the law under a technicality the rase case was taken up with leslie M shaw then head of the treasury de apartment part ment A careful investigation was vas made and it was ascertained that mrs irs gardner was charging 3 admission and only opening her home iome two or three days a month at this exorbitant price and thor only to such nuch people as she thought best af len lei the investigation she received a statement that she must either open her homo home as a regular art exhibit at a reasonable price to the public generally or else pay the duty she opened her home the home itself is on one of the most moist unique in america A certain palatial residence in italy having struck mrs gardners gardeners Gard ners fancy she purchased it and imported it to america stone by stone aej had bad it reconstructed net nat only an exact duplicate hut but really the same kaino house in the back bay district of boston it is one of the czir cu tor for tho the sightseer ahil it has cost over halt half a million dollars this ip IF one example of her eccentricity |