The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-09
DIVORCE BY CLIMATE.
HUSBAND AND WIFE SEPARATED
BY STRANGE CONDITIONS.


a Coast Climate, the Other Lung
Disease Which Means Death in ANY
But High Attitudes.
From. the Nelc York World
New York, April with any heart
disease one could not live in Colorado; with
anv lung disease. one might be able to live
in Colorado only"
Such was the sentence Of death or separa-
ton pronounced by DR.. Ipomis of this city,
one of the worlds best known specialists in
diseases of the heart aud lungs. A story of
marvellous interest and of startling realism
finds its climax in that sentence. pronounced
bv a court of medicine. For the law courts
have as yet failed to recognize divorce by
climate"
The facts Of the strange case which culmi-
mates in the lifelong separation of two
loving hearts. about which the golden chain
Of matrimony has been cast, are these:
Edgar l.. Wyncoop was until year ago
one of New Ravens wealthiest and most
highly esteemed citizens. Inheriting an
ample fortune from his parents. he took a
thorough course at Yale college and was
graduated with honor. A physique not natu-
rally robust prevented him from indulging
10 any great extent in athletic sports and
exercises, but no attention was at that time
attracted to what provedito be the seeds of
pulmonary disease already developing in
his frame. Leaving college young Wynn
coop went into no profession or business.
His means rendered such a course unneces-
sary, anG he had the tastes of q man Of
elegant leisure, the habits of a scholar as
we'll as a man of the world. Related by
birth to some of the most distinguished FAM
lies in Connecticut, he soon took a promi-
nent position in New Haven society.
Mr.. Wyncoop's attentions to one of the
bellies of New Haven society were suddenly
interrupted by the announcement on high
medical authority that he would have to 20
west for his health. Up to that time no.
body in his large circle of friends and ac-
quaintances had suspected that his health
was in any way less secure than that of his
associates Something of a social sensation
was the result of the announcement Could
there be any other reason than bis health for
Mr.. Wyncoop's apparently abrupt resolve
to leave the associations of lifetime!
Surely not pecuuiary reasons; that much
was certain. He was trustee for no estates
and had the management of nobody's for
tune but his own. The young woman to
whom he had begun to show attentions
which might, it was supposed, result in a
marriage, was in every way lovely and
worthy. No, there could he nothing but
his health.
In june, 1888. Wyncoop went to COL
orado. travelled through the mountains dur
ing the summer and in the autumn settled
down TO residence at Colorado Springs.
The permanent colony of invalids Thereon
rather of persons who would have been in
valids had they resided anywhere else
soon fou1d him an agreeable addition to
their ranks. He and young Greville Hanna
ford, an English younger son whose brother
had ranch up in North Park, established
an intimacy, and made long shooting and
fishing excursions into the MOUNTAINS. On
one occasion they assembled Pixies Peak and
remained on the summit all night Mr..
Wyncoop's health seemed thoroughly re-
stored. The disease processes in his lungs
seemed permanently arrested. and the past
ravages of the pulmonary bacillus seemed
healed.
A lively correspondence had been kept up
with his friends in New Haven and in May,
1889, it was decided that he had been suf-
ficeEtly restored to health to warrant his
return east When he got back everybody
was surprised at his robust appearance, and
congratulated him on his complete restora-
ton to health. Wyncoop re-entered with
new zest on the social pleasures and dissipa-
tons of which he had grown so fond before
his departure.
His courtship of Miss Garrison was re-
newed. She was the daughter of one of
New Ravens Oldest merchants and a charm
ing girl. They were married last July and
set up house of their own, beautifully fur
nished, nest in which the most fasridious
turtle doves would find no difficulty in COO
ing. AS a married couple and lavish enter
tanners their accession to society was highly
priced.
But the curse was working. By Sep
TENDER the continued dampness and dense
ness of the atmosphere of New Haven, a
city which suffered with the whole North
Atlantic coast from the unusual atmos-
pheric co nditions of last summer, had again
set III action the processes of disease in Mr..
Wyncoop's lungs. 1t became evident that
he could ill survive winter in New Eng
land.
Then the doctors issued the first OF their
dread DEGREES: Break up your establish
ment, sell your furniture or ship it to Colo
RADIO Springs and bid farewell to the home
of your childhood and manhood. Death
will speedily ensue if you try to maintain
residence on the Atlantic coast, where the
changes of temperature are 50 rapid. 1t is
Colorado or death with you"
The journey to Colorado Springs was
finally made. Mr.. and Mrs. Wyncoop
reached there in October and were received
with open arms Her husbands former
arenas now became 1rlenQS OF them Doth.
They looked about them, found another
house to their liking and again began the
WORK of building up home. The choicest
of their household belongings in the east
were shipped out to them, and they soon mad
the pleasure of receiving their friends in one
of the most handsomely appointed mansions
In the colony.
Soon it was noticed that Mrs. Wyncoop's
cheeks began to pale AMI her manner lost
its animation. She was the victim of unac-
countable fits of depression, aud her condi-
ton gave her husband great alarm. The
best medical advice was taken, with this
result:
The doctors issued another death SEN
tence, the exact antithesis of the first. "Mrs.
Wyncoop." said they, you have an affec-
ton of the heart which was and would con-
unue latent during residence on the ATTAIN
TIC coast. Further stay in this highly rari-
ned atmosphere means certain and speedy
death for you. You must go back to New
haven. You must live by the seashore
where the air is least FAIRFIELD" Mrs. Wyn-
coop, heartbroken, bade her husband what
they both deemed an eternal adieu and went
pack to New Haven.
Now here was and is something hitherto
u, uh heard of-an absolute divorce by climate.
Inc wife cannot live in Colorado or i'll any
mountainous country; the husband can live
nowhere else. "What is meat to one is the
oOners poison" Neither the law nor the
courts recog nize such a condition of things