Show THIS WEEK dy by lemuel F par parson NEW YORK oberlin M carter eighty one years epars old again op appeals to the supreme court in his incessant fight of 39 years for re admission to the capt carter army y and d the again again seeks voiding of the vindication court martial verdict which sent him to prison for fraud powerful influence has backed the former cap captain tain 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 he hid had been in charge of river and harbor reclamation at savannah handsome gifted of a distinguished family captain carter was second in scholarship only to robert E lee in all the history of west point A newspaper abc acc account t of f march 1889 reveals him at savannah just before the turn of his fortunes captain carter was an exceedingly popular man in club circles and among his numerous female acquaintances quain he was polished in his manner exceedingly cordial to all and ran toward the rapid set he was a very fashionable dresser he generally appeared in three or four suits of clothes daily and never failed to don changed his his evening suit S suits U its four for dinner in the times a day morning S he wore his business suit but by lunch time he appeared i in his bicy ccle suit after taking a spin about the principal streets of vannac for a couple of hours he be next appeared in his driving suit late in the afternoon he would appear in his riding suit in the yachting season he was far in the lead of other followers of the water he had seven distinct ways of shaking hands the quick change record or the handshaking hand shaking or something upped him to the job of helping man the teacups at the american embassy in london As he prepared to leave savannah there were routs assemblies fetes and army blow outs to honor him on his departure seeing him oi off at the boat was commander E gillette a salty weather beaten old sea dog captain carters gush of affection affect io n embarrassed barr assed him the captain insisted that the commander make use of lis his house the old commander was inclined to suspect overgenerous over generous persons he pondered the co commander m manders s captains conduct suspicions and then went to are aroused the office frice 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 there ile he kept on exploring he reported to the war office that had been spent tor for nothing more than marks on paper 0 4 0 THE HE courts awarded to mrs matthew astor wilks daughter of hetty green the entire estate of her brother the late col edward H R green estimated as between and this with a similar amount inherited from her mother and the fortune bequeathed by her husband makes her according to all current estimates the richest woman in the world she is much like her mother six ty six years old she lives in an un pr pretentious e tent ious house on electric hill in greenwich conn with a few servants and a ten year old collie cole dog named prince as did her mother in her later years and like her mother she does her own marketing driving to town every day or tw two in a small car the late matthew astor wilks was a great grandson of john jacob astor aster when they hetty gives were married in advice to 1909 in her moth bridegroom D j n els r s nat flat in hobo ken hetty y green g was quoted by the newspapers as sayin saying g to the groom matthew you are sixty five years old and you I 1 have the gout some day my girl is going to have a day I 1 want to 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 not but a day for twenty seven sevan years she has lived in the house near greenwich her husband died in 1926 her for I 1 j tune consists of many blocks of real estate in st louis boston and new york and railroad and other securities she has no box at the 0 opera p era assumes no grandeur of the reigning dowager and lets greenwich highest per capita wealth in america run i itself without her aid her i pation in public affairs consists mainly of her annual contribution to the the greenwich Fir emens association 0 news features feature service |