Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.

llri. .1. Coleman Drayton and Her Notorious Conduct —I* Socially Ilnnlßhnd. Scandal in “high society” is verv com inon these days. Tho papers had not yet exhausted their stock of dis-

gustlng storios anent William K. Vanderbilt's domestic troubles, when there came the announcement tnat J. Colemun Drayton had sued for divorce f i om his wife, who is an Astor. This Drayton scandal is not altogether new. Newspaper readors will romember that there wus much talk about it two years ago,

when the conduct of Mrs. Drayton with Hi Alsop Borrowo, over In Paris, led to vory amusing talki about duels, etc. The matter was finally permitted to die, but last week ugly stories were revived when Drayton filed his suit for divorce in a New Jersey court. His wife answers this with countercharges of infidelity. Charlotte Augusta Drayton is a daughter of William Astor, of tho family of which John Jacob Astor was the founder. Some fourteen years ago she married .T. Coleman Drayton, a gentle* man of education, refinement, studious und quie - habits, and good position. She became the mother of four children, was a loader in society, and had everything in the way of tho luxuries of life that heart could desire. Yet she accepted, if the allegations of her husband be trie, tho attentions of Hallett Alsop Borrowe, a good-for-nothing young man about town, and for yoars carried on with him an affair which lacked oven the grace of discretion and concealment. After the expose and the scandal, whl h finally resulted in world-wide notoriety, she had tho assurance to try to force herself back into tho social circles from which talk occasioned by her conduct had drivon her. But society—vain, frivolous, phar saioal though it be — refused to receive hor. and she has been forced to fly to Europe.

MRS. J. C. DRAYTON.