The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-03
THEY NAY REST EASY
Patients Were Not Photograph
ed While Taking Water
Cures at the Sanitarium.


The institution known as the Water
Cure Sanitarium in West Hoboken on the
brow of the hill overlooking Thirteenth
street, Hoboken, appears destined to en-
JOY notoriety for the peculiar actions
OF those in charge of it, If not for the
fame OF its cures. Last winter DR.. Geo.
Meyer, It's director, was arrested on the
complaint of some of the people living
near the Sanitarium, who alleged that the
doctor wandered about his water cure re-
sort clothed only in atmosphere and pos
sibly small towel. Other peculiar per-
formances were charged to the doctor
control of the sanitarium. 1t passed into
the hands of a company known as the
Palisade sanitarium Company. who are
doing business at DR.. Meyers old stand.
When the company was organized
Frederick Wolfheimer. water cure en-
thnssast from Germany, was made man
ager Things went along swimmingly at
the water cure hotel until Tuesday when
DR.. Meyer and George Scllorn, of No. s52
New York avenue, appeared before Re-
corder McDonough In Hoboken and swore
out warrant for the arrest of Wolf
heimer on a charge of circulating indie
cent pictures among the people of the
Heights.
Schom and Meyer said they had been
to see Prosecutor Winfield and the latter
told them to make the complaint before
Recorder McDonough.
1t was the general impression that these
improper pictures represented young
women who had undergone treatment at
the sanitarium. This is not the case.
Schom, who is the man who claims to
have seen the pictures IN Wolfheimer's
possession, says that Wolfheimer simply
developed the pictures from plates brought
from New York city, and then showed
them to people living on the Heights and
in West Hoboken.
Everybody concerned in this picture ex-
posure is keeping quiet and out OF the
way. Yesterday morning neither DR..
Meyer nor Wolfheimer could be found.
At the Sanitarium everything looked de-
serted. A woman, who seemed TO be the
only occupant of the place said that
Wolfheimer had moved to New York on
Monday. He had evidently scented a rat
and made his escape in time.
At DIR. Meyers house it was said that
the former head of the Sanitarium was
attending a patient.
Schorn was seen last night and he
explained the matter as follows:-"Whe
Woifheimer was taken into the Water
Cure Comp5ny he promised to get veal
thy shareholders into the scheme but
failed to DC SO. Instead II was. found
business. He was either an agent for
q photographer or had business of his
own, for | was employed at the saIli-
tographs from plates. They We're pho
tograpls Of nude women. They were not
photographs of patients at the Sanitari-
photographed. any of the inmates al
though he may. | do not say he did /
have B; seen WollfheimeF showing these ..s
to whom l will not say | don't care
to mention the names of those In the
Palisade Company
On the strength of the testimony offer
ed by Schorn a warrant was issued on
Tuesday for Wolfheimers arrest. but
the bird had already flown.
1t will be a deep relief to many resi-
dents Of the Heights and West Hoboken,
who have been patients at the Sanitari-
UNI, to know that they have not been
photographed while undergoing treat
DR.. Meyer has been put in charge of the
sanitarium by the company. He was
seen this morning He said
I4dSt July sun litG Sdtllldtulfll 10 tliS
company for $4,000. Wolfheimer was
made managing secretary with the under
standing that he was to get $4,000 sub
scribed toward the stock. He got
salary of sl2 per week. He kept proms-
ing from week to week to furnish the
$4,000 but it failed to appear. In all he
took $500 out of the sanitarium and never
schorn and I discovered that Wolfheimer
was making and selling lewd pictures,
both on the Heights and in West Hobo
ken. He charged as high as s. for some
of them. / managed to seize about two
dozen of them when Wolfheimer was
away. They were very indecent Re-
corder McDonough of Hoboken now has
them. l consulted Lawyer Weller of Ho-
boken first and he saw Prosecutor Win
field. Under his instructions we went be-
fore Recorder McDonough and swore out
the warrant for Wolfheimer and turned
over the pictures to the Recorder. Wolf
heimer must have heard that I had the
pictures for on Monday he moved out
He went to New York. think The
Palisade Sanitarium Company has en-
gagged me to manage the place and will
open I'D again next MondaYn