Morning Appeal

What the Gossips Say Caused Oliver Belmont to Leave His Bride in Paris.

New York, Sept. 6.—Acutely fashionable society has barely reassembled in town before it is racked in its indolent mind by the divorce of the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. This son of August Belmont is a brother of Congressman Perry Belmont. The Perry is put into the name of all the boys because it denotes their proud descent on the mother's side from the famous Commodore Perry. The family is not excelled as to high position in the regard, both admiring and cynical, of those who contemplate the imitation aristocracy of New York. Mrs. Belmont is by long odds the most powerful matron, not excepting any of the Astors. The son's bride of only two years ago was a noted beauty. The legal separation has been made secretly at Newport, the Court agreeing to the proposition of all the lawyers concerned that the evidence be sealed from public view. A bulky envelope holds the depositions; but it is not thought that these tell the story of the brief wedlock, since desertion and non-support were the nominal grounds on which the Court acted. The husband yielded his little child to the mother, and settled on her an income of ten thousand a year for life. They went to Europe for a honeymoon, and at the end of three months were at Paris where they parted company for good and all. The cause is now said to involve no criminality on the part of either. The tale, as told in Fifth avenue, is that the husband wished to take his wife to see some of the Parisian things that are customarily visited by American tourists in a spirit of escapade—such as Garden Mabille and the boulevard music halls. Mrs. Belmont deemed this an impropriety and declined to go. He insisted; she refused obedience; he went alone, leaving her a solitaire all night, and she locked him out when he came home in the morning. Then he declared that he would never see her again, nor has he, in spite of relatives and friends to compromise the quarrel. This is the account just now accepted in their circle of society, though there are a few doubters who say that it probably passes in lieu of a truer and harsher narrative.