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/ IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA HA . SUNDAY. DECEMBER 14, 101rt. F lorence Schenck, Talk of Two Continents, Dying j]fj]"[[]|| |j|j[j [IF Set Out at 17 to‘See Life/at 24 She Has.andQuits MIN 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. RHEUMATISM My New Drafts are Relieving Thousands in Every Stage of This Cruel Disease Without Medicine. 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If' not. simply wTite me so. and they aost you nothing. I take your word—I leave It all to you. You can see that I couldn't have such i unbounded faith in my Drafts If I did not feel I positive that they . not you. My valuable Illustrated l»>ok on Rheumatism comes Free with the Trial Draft*. Address Frederick Over. Dept. ML50, Jackson, Michigan. Send To day. i Frederick Dyer 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. 80 Whitehall Street THE GEM 80 Whitehall Street 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. Atlanta’* Greatest Store for better grade Christmas Jewelry at Popular Prices. Solid Gold Sale Below we show but a partial list of the greatest solid Gold Jewelry values we have ever had the good fortune to offer you. Only nine shopping days till Christmas. SOLID GOLD SCARF PINS I $1.00 $1.00 $1.60 $1.50 $2.00 $1.25 SOLID GOLD BEAUTY PINS Some set with pearls and some hand-engraved. ZSB SI 00 nee nai- $1.50 per pair. 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