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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA HA . SUNDAY. DECEMBER 14, 101rt.
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Endeavor
Government
Induce Patients to Take
Treatment at Home.
WEST RESENTS THE INFLUX
Public Health Service Aims to
Aid Both the Victims and
Other Travelers.
Alfred Vanderbilt Said to Have
Forced His Horse Trainer to
Give Up the Woman.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Drastic
regulation of the transportation of
victims of tuberculosis from State to
State is con temple ted by the Federal
Govermfient as a result of an investi-
ygation now being conducted by the
> Public Health Service.
The move will have the effect of
curtailing to a great extent the mi
gration of tuberculosis patients to the
dry climate of the West and South
west. The service will puncture the
belief that a dry climate is necessary
to the cure of the disease.
Already the investigation has dis
closed that Chicago harbors more
transient consumptives than any other
city in the country. Because It is
the greatest railway center in the
country ahd the gateway of the West
thousands of victims of the white
plague pass through it annually seek
ing a salubrious climate.
Change Cars in Chicago.
These sufferers change cars in Chi
cago, stopping a few hours in a rail- 1
road station generally. The condi
tions under which these patients j
spend this waiting interval in Chi
cago nave been investigated during
the last fortnight by agents of the
Public Health Service. The investi
gators also counted the number of
sufferers arriving and departing on
all the lines.
From Chicago the agents have pro
ceeded to the Southwest, investigat
ing the conditions under which pa
tients travel and mingle with healthy
passengers.
The findings of the investigators
will be embodied in a report setting
forth exactly what danger the travel
ing public runs of infection from tu
berculosis passengers. It also will
lay down a set of regulations for pre
venting consumptives from coming
Into contact with healthy passengers
tvoth on trains and In railway sta
tions.
The demand for the investigation
came originally from California. Ari
zona. New Mexico, Colorado and oth
er Western States Which have been
endeavoring for years to stem the
tide of tubercular Immigrants.
Sufferers Unwelcome.
In many Western communities
“lungers,” as they commonly • are
known there, constitute a large part
of the population. They are re
garded as undesirable citizens by the
natives, who complain that the suf
ferers are a menace to public health.
There is good ground for stating
that the report of the health service
will recommend transportation regu
lations which will tend to curtail the
migration of consumptives.
It is suggested that such regula
tions might prohibit a consumptive
from going far from his home un
less he could give satisfactory assur
a pee that he would not become a
public charge.
But the main point the report will
make is that it is unnecessary for
consumptives to seek the arid region
in order to be cured. The national
health officers take the position that
such a migration furnishes the pa
tient no treatment that can not be
procured at home.
Chicago Mayor Says
Free Lunch Must Go
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Free lunch in
saloons and the practice of “treating”
ought to be done away with, in the
opinion of Mayor Harrison. The
combination of the two, he said, often
induces a man to drink more than he
ought.
At the last meeting of the Council
an order was passed directing the
corporation counsel to draft an or
dinance prohibiting the “setting up”
of free lunch in saloons.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Miss Flor
ence Rosser Schenck, the Virginia
beauty who in seven years has run
the whole course of the life that bub
bles, is dying to-day in Miss Alston’s
Sanitarium, No. 26 West Sixty-first
street.
She has been operated upon for a
tumor under her heart, and the end
of a career that was so rapid that
even Broadway had to breathe in
short gasps in order to keep up with
it is expected at any moment.
Miss Schenck is now Just 24 year a
old. Her career began when she was
17.
In Norfolk she lived in the house of
her father, Dr. Powhatan S. Schenck.
formerly a surgeon in the United
States navy and one of the foremost
medical men in the Virginia city. Her
grandfather was a Governor of Vir-
Misa Florence
Schenk as she
looked at 17,
when she was
called the ‘ pret
tiest girl in Vir
ginia,’ and, be
low, Miss Schenk
to-day, after
seven vears.
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ginia, and she had many admirers
among the social set of Norfolk. She
was then a perfect blonde, slender of
figure, with clear-cut features, big
blue eyes and a wealth of beautiful
golden hair. She was talked of as
“the most beautiful girl in Virginia,”
and she was.
Then Alfred Vanderbilt’s private
car, the Wayfarer, arrived in Norfolk
for the horse show. • With it came
Charles S. Wilson, trainer for the
Vanderbilt stable of equine aristo
crats. The pair met.
When the Wayfarer left Norfolk,
according to the story told by the
beauty at the time, she went with it.
She wanted to see life, and she said
Wilson promised to show it to her.
Whether he did or not is another
question. At any rate, she has seen it
now, and, having seen it all, she is
about to give it up.
After her arrival in New York the
news of the day began to sizzle with
the doings of the little Virginia beau
ty. The reports of her extravagances,
her late suppers and her entertain
ments were sensational reading.
Marriage Rumor Denied.
Then she and Wilson w r ent abroad,
and about the same time it was an
nounced that she and the Vanderbilt
trainer had been secretly married be
fore she left Norfolk. This rumor
was denied by the wife of Wilson,
who was living in Orange, N. J. The
reports from Uondon of the beauty's
doings also created a stir in New
York. Then Wilson and the girl came
back on the same boat, and the city
was treated to a fresh sensation every
hour for several days. The girl said
Wilson had married her in England,
and that he deserted her at the steam
ship dock here when she had but a
half dollar in her purse. She said he
had beaten her and she exhibited
bruises. Then newspaper men came
to her rescue and provided her wdth
money with which to take a room in
an uptown hotel. About the same time
the father and mother of the girl dis
owned her and refused positively to
come to her aid. Then Wilson went
to Newport, and the woman who said
she was his wife entered the chorus of
a Broadway musical comedy.
Once Miss Schenck entered suit
against Wilson for breach of prom
ise. Then she announced she would
sue him for a divorce, and then she
went abroad again.
“What’s the Use?”
She was next heard of in Paris,
where her excesses brought her into
the limelight once more. Twice she
was arrested for disputes with cab
men, and then she began to crave
those things which follow in the wake
of a woman who has lived with her
emotions always in the high gear.
Friends tried to make her reform and
sent her to sanitariums, but she did
not appreciate the attention, escap
ing from each of the hospitals where
she was sent. She always reverted to
her old ways, and, w’hen asked why
she didn't behave, would reply:
“What’s the use, anyway? My
family doesn’t want me, though God
knows I would crawl back to my
mother anu father on my hands and
knees If they would receive me. No
body cares for me. I’ll just go on the
best I can. and the finish—well, it’ll
be the finish, that’s all.”
Ill in Paris.
While she was in Paris penniless,
she became desperately ill, and it was
believed she might die. She asked
that her mother and father be noti
fied. She wanted to be forgiven. But
the parents, still living in the quiet
Virginia city, refused to even ask if
there was anything they could do to
ease her pain. She had brought dis
grace to their name, they said, and
they were done with her forever. She
was cvS one dead to them.
Again she met Wilson in Paris, and
again there was a disagreement, and
they parted. It was said at the time
that Vanderbilt told Wilson he would
have to rid himself of Miss Schenck.
It was believed, however,,he came to
her aid financially.
Being left alone in London, friend
less and practically without money,
again she attempted to kill herself
with chloral, after writing a letter to
Wilson, in which she said that in all
the world he was for her the one ob
ject of her life.
She was in ill health from the ex
cesses she had committed when some
new friends assisted her to get trans
portation back to New York in the
second cabin. That was last year.
Seven Rapid Years.
During the Madison Square Horse
Show just over another chapter In the
tangled romance was written when
Wilson, who was exhibiting Vander
bilt’s horses, was served with papers
in an action begun in the Supreme
Court here for $50,000 damages. Her
attorneys made it clear that she was
not suing for breach of promise, but
for'breach of contract, fraud and de
ceit.
She set forth in the papers that at
the time she married the Vanderbilt
trainer she believed he had divorced
his first wife, who was Elizabeth
Ainge, but she later learned that the
decree had not been made final, so the
horseman might have been arrested
for bigamy. Attached to the com
plaint was a certified copy of a cer
tificate of marriage. As Wilson has
denied the marriage many times, this
paper, the lawyers decided, was to
play a leading part in the suit.
The suit has not come up for trial
yet, and it is probable that it never
will, now that the complainant is
hovering at the door of death—a young
woman about to end her life in its
prime because of seven years of rapid
living.
Legless Man Leaps to
Tree, Escaping Bull
BIG LAUREL, W. VA., Dec. 13 —
Will Everettf-of this town, despite the
fact that he is legless, is one of the
crack shots of the town hunt club.
While out with his brother shooting
squirrels they got into an inclosure in
which a bull was grazing. Will asked
John to help him to tr.e middle of the
pasture. They heard a roar, and
turned to see the bull charging.
John ran for his gun. He picked
it up, and turning, ran toward his
brother. His brother was gone. The
bull was shaking its head and bellow
ing. John finally saw his brother on
the limb of a tree twelve feet above
the ground.
“I just saw that bull come and got
’ ere, that’s all,” said Will in explain
ing his leap.
Ml LAW
Discusses Child Labor Question
Ably Before Social Study
Club of Anniston.
ANNISTON, ALA., Deo. 13.—Thom-
[ as Scott Roberts, secretary-treasurer
| of the Adelaide Cotton Mills of this
city and a member of the child labor
committee of the Alabama Cottm
Mills’ Association, made a strong ar-
■ gument In defent of the mill owners
j in an address before the Euphtan
Club, a local association for the study
of sociological and economic ques
tions.
Referring to the disparaging com
parison recently made with reference
to the child labor situation in Ala
bama and Massachusetts, to the dis
credit of Alabama. Mr. Roberts said
that the difference would be equalized
if it was understood that there is a
considerable difference in the business
of the tw'o States. Massachusetts, he
said, now r is turning out the finished
product, and .lost of its operatives
are thereby weavers, while Alabama
is manufacturing the crude product,
which calls for child spinners.
Quotes Federal Report.
The speaker quoted t length front
the book of Major Thom Robinson
Dorman, compiled from his report to
the national Government, and also
quoted from the report of Dr. W. H.
Oates, State Mill and Prison Inspec
tor, to the effect that the condition
of the children working In the mills,
as a rule, is better than that from
which they came. He also quoted Dr.
Oate9 as saying that thj Alabama law
is full of loopholes, but that there
have been but two cases for violation
i of the law in this State, "r condition
! which can not be applied to any oth^r
j law on the statutes.” he said.
Mr. Roberts also denied that the
work in the mills is injurious to the
health of the workers, citing a recent
statement to the effect that the lint in
the mills has a tendency to prevent
I the spread of tuberculosis instead of
j contributing to that disease.
Favors Physical Test.
He favors a physical test as well
as an age limit for the regulation o?
' child labor and special training in this
i work in the event Alabama adopts
j compulsory education.
At a 1r,f er date Mrs. Murdock, of
Birmingham, will be invited to nd-
! dress the club in regard to tr.e efforts
that are being made to improve Ala
bama’s child labor law and to make
i the law apply to other institutions .is
! strongly as It applies to cotton mills.
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Traveler Remarks Striking Con
trasts to Home Customs, and
Says Labor Rules Country.
Agent in 15 Calls
Finds Only Bad Luek
HAMMOND. IND., Dec. 13 — Scot*.
Shattuck, of Brazil, Ind., an insurance
collector, asserts this story is the rec
ord of hard luck tales. He made fifteen
calls recently and not pne collection.
He found, on his first call, the hus
band sick In bed: second call, the wife
and family sick In bed, with the hus
band caring for them: third, the hus
band had just lost th/ee flngel'S in an
accident; fourth, crape on door; fifth,
the stork had just come; sixth, child
lost an eye in an accident; seventh,
child dying from infantile paralysis;
ninth, man had just cropped a barrel
of oil on his foot.
Stattuck reached the tenth home in
time to help carry the husband into
the house from an ambulance.
To Search Mines for
Bones of Missing Men
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 13 Finding of a
skeleton of a man in an abandoned mine
in the vicinity of Arcadla-Coalburg, in
the western part of Jefferson County
this week, has aroused much interest in
a report that in several other abandoned
mines skeletons of men, who have been
missing for years, may be found.
A search is being made in several
mines. Coroner Spain has possession
of the skeleton found this week and
every efTort is being made to get some
clew that might lead to identification.
In two portions of the mining section of
the State the report is that murders
were committed and bodies never re
covered.
NEW YORK. Dec. 13.—"There are
too many people—there are too many
that are working hard to earn a liv
ing. Your big buildings are impres
sive, but when I look at their banks
of windows, I see only the swarms
inside that are toiling away, shut in.
It Is not pleasant to think of so many
people having to work so hard to
make a living.’’
That Is an impression of New York
from an antipodul standpoint, and it
came yesterday from Mrs. F. J. Ray
nor, of Auckland, who is at the Wol
cott. Mrs. Rayner’s husband is a big
landowner In New Zealand.
“People don’t have to work so hard
in New Zealand,” continued Mrs. Ray-
ner. “Why, I have to give my laund
ress a whole hour off at noon, and if
she works a bit after 5 o'clock in the
afternoon the factory inspector comes
around and fines me.
Odd New Zealand Laws.
“I have lived In New Zealand thir
teen years, and have found some of
the laws that a Labor government has
given us rather odd when one is used
to customs in another country. For
Instance, if this hotel were in New
Zealand and I were entertaining some
friends, they would all have to be out
of the building by lu p. m. On Sun
days a person who is not staying in
a hotel is not allow’ed to take a meal
in the building, nor is it lawful for
him to pay a call upon anybody in it.
I suppose these restrictions were im
posed originallv as a means of help
ing regulate the liquor traffic. You
see. at every election we vote on the
subject of prohibition. It comes up
every time.
Women Vote There.
“Do the women take advantage of
the right of suffrage? Well, the ma
jority do. You see, we have had the
right to vote down there so long that
now we don’t think anything much of
it—about as much, I fancy, as the
average man. The wife usually votes
the same way as her husband, and as
for the unmarried—why, personal in
fluence counts a lot.
“Do you know, I ate New Zealand
butter almost all the way to New
York. All the hotels and the trains
of the Canadian Pacific Railway serve
it, and I found it tasted Just as sweet
in Wlnnepeg as in Auckland. We
shipped 13,000,000 pounds last year to
Canada alone. You people have lost
all the freight and passenger-carrying
business between the Pacific coast and
New Zealand through the laws your
Congress has made which put the
Spreckles line out of business.
“Since the new tariff came to be as
sured of adoption, there have been a
great many Americans in New Zea
land buying up wool. This has had
an immediate effect upon the price of
land, sending it up. Land for dairying
purposes ordinarily runs as high as
$15 ’an acre, while Improved and
fenced sheep-raising stations go as
high as $55 an acre.
I don’t suppose it is generally
known here that New Zealand Is be
lieved to have the oldest vegetation of
any part of th * world. Our kauri trees
are said to be from 6,000 to 8,000 years
old.: They grow from.200 to 250 feet
high, and are of the same diameter at
the top as at the bottom. They look
like the columns In Egyptian temples.
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