The evening times., 1896-09-15
Separation of George Parsons
Lathrop and His Wife.
SHE'LL FOUND A HOSPITAL
Nathaniel HawthOrne's Daughter
Rose Trying to Establish Home
for Cancer Patients-Her Husband
Declares He Is Anxious to Help
Her as Far Us He Can

The couutry-particularly as Mrs. Lathrop
Is the daughter OF Natiianiei Hawthorne-
have not been the happy pair that nearly all
of even their most intimate friends have
supposed them to be.
Mrs. Lalhrop is now thinking of devoting
the rest OF her life and fortune to founcing
a cancer hospital. and tothat end has been
until recently a nurse for several months
III the Cancer Hospital, at lO6th street ahd
Central Park west. wearing the nurses
carb. eating at the coinnion table, subject
TO all OF the strict hospital rules She mas
not lived with her husband for about
year, although some correspondence mas
pissed between them. and there Is IL nope
that mutual Observation-Disclosures may be
cleared away.
Nearly five years ago Mr.. and Mrs. La
throp created comment all over the country
by leaving the Unitarian faith OF their New
England fathers. and joining the Roman
Catholic church, for which both have since
manifested the zeal OF converts. III Is saiu
that this membership i'll the Roman Catho-
lie church. which discounteGances diVorcc,
was all that at one time prevented Mrs-
Iathrop from applying to the courts Tor
separation.
ntsAGREEp ON SEVERAL POINTS.
Neither Mr.. Lathrop nor his wife Will
.,,ya for nublication any OF the reasons for
their unhappy situation, further than that
they did not agree on the extent 10 WHICH
Mrs. Lathrop should devote herself To this
unexpected cancer hospital idea or hers
II appears, however, that the extent to
| which a man can use stiInulants win per
tect propriety was also a subject for dis
cussioD.
IL was on the 5th OF August that Mrs.
Latiirop completed three months term
or observation ut the New York Cancer
Hospital Central Park West and io6th
street. Obtaining in May the consent or
Dr. W. 7 Bull, vice presideDtoi tie ias'i-
tuition and one OF its consulting surgeons,
she entered the chronic ward, and for
| twelve weeks acted as minor assistant to
the attendants.
IL may be that the loss little while
| ago or Mr.. and Mrs. Lathrop's cnly child
a boy. turned Mrs. Lathrop's heart to-
| ward works OF charity. She felt the ar
Fiction keenIy. as did also Mr.. LatIr5p.
| She entered or contemplated entering a
| convent near Montreal, it is said.
Perhaps the sight OF a sufferer from
| cancer supplied the suggestion upon which
| SHE acted. At all events, she applied 10
Dr. Bull for permission 10 live for awhile
| in the cancer hospital. II was the poor
| she wished TO help. and IL was in the chronic
| ward, where the poor live out III cir lives,
that she took her post Of observation.
FREE CANCER HOSPITAL.
| Mrs. Lathrop may have had in her mind
before she entered the hospital the estab-
1 - it,Sf for at r.
ment Of the cancero1s poor, II 50. her ex-
perience in the chronic ward strengthened
| her conviction OF her duty.
She criticised pretty freely. and when her
promised three months were up her term
| was not extended.
When her intention of entering the hos
pital was made known to her husband. he
made visit OF inspection to the institu-
ton. While there Mrs. Lathrop made no
secret Of her identity. She spoke OF her
father. a nd OF tlle articles for magazine and
newspapers she had written about him, his
works and their family. With her husband
she maintained corresponds
Since Mrs. Lathrop emerged from the hos
pital she has been living with friends near
Fifth avenue, not far from her husband S
quarters. at No. East Seventeenth street.
now she is in Boston to see a sick friend.
For two or three weeks Mrs Lathrop has
been looking for house, preferably in that
wide region known by the generic name OF
1.-The slums''-for house suitable for use as
her free cancer hospital 1t is understood
that she has had the advice OF DR.. Bull and
his approval OF her plans.
HE WANTS TO COOPERATE.
MIR. Lathrop said yesterday that he was
disposed to cooperate as far as possible
with Mrs. Lathrop in her charitable work
| That, lie insisted, had beer his attituC-, al
along, and there was a possibility that
matters would he arranged in some way
mutually agreeable.
Asevidence of the place in his heart which
Mrs. Lathrop holds, her picture and that
of their dead child stands on the maute
next Our Lady of Perpetual Help and the
head of the Christ
| 1t is said, however, on the authority oil
one Of Mrs. Lathrop's most intimate friends
that the lady not only regards the separation
| as permanent and final, but has carefully
| evaded her husbands efforts to get within
| speaking distance OF her, 1t is reported that
she took pains to leave at the hospital NJ
| address by which her husband was able to
trace her after She left it. She is acting with
the consent and approval of the father who
has been her spiritual adviser since sht
was received into the Catholic Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lathrop had beautiful
home in New London, filled with treasures
of art and literature, and it often sheltered
the bearers of famous Games. They wer
hospitable people, though Mrs. Lathropneve
was SO fond of society and of entertaining
as her husband. They moved to New Len
don from Concord, Mass, where they hat
gone to live soon after their marriage. Mr.
Latilrop is a member of the Thames Club
the "swel" social organization of New
London. He was at one time president o
the club. He is also memter OF tE
Players, Authors, and Reform Clubs o
this city and of the Sons of the Revolution
WAS A BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
Rose Hawthorne was born in Lennox
Mass. on May2 1887. Soon after Nathan
iel Hawthorne died, in 1864, Mrs. Haw
thorpe took Rose to live with her in Dres
den, SaXcny, where Julian, the only son
joined them in 1869, having left Harvardir
1868 without taking his degree with hi
class, which was graduated that year.
: Mrs. Lathrop's latest literary work ha
: been some articles on her father Tor tn
! Atlantic Monthly, which presently viii b.
published in book form. Her verse fuI
nishes a better key to her life than he
prose. She has that sense ef the super
natural which was left out of her brother
, | makeup. Her rhymes turn suddenly an