The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-17

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complained Actress, a Mental and Phys
Teal Wreck from Drink and Morphine.
Evelyn Granville Also Victim.
NEW YORK. March l6.-Pearl Ey-
tlnge. the once beautiful actress. bril-
liant conversatlonalist and raconteur.
author. poet and bohemian, is again
hospital patient. and again the hos
pltal blotter bears the record, al
cohollc and morphine poisoning"
This time the versatile and beautiful
woman, the first OF the shapely women
TO make u realistic appearance as lzh,
the celebrated model In The Clemen-
ceau Case" and Who created so much
sensation a few years ago, Is In Belle
Vue Hospital where she Is confined In
the alcoholic ward for women. II Is
declared that she now shows symptoms
OF insanity, and II Is feared that the
stimulnnts and drugs to which she has
been addicted have so permeated her
system with their deadly strength that
N she again RECEIVERS bodily strength
and VIgor her mind will never be re-
stored to It's usual condition.
Miss Eytinge was taken from her
home. at No. 200 East FOrty.eIghth
street. on Thursday night to Flower
Hospital. She remained there until
Friday afternoon, when she developed
symptoms of insanity, and became the
victim of decisions 10 such an extent
that the Flower Hospital physicians
/ called an ambulance and had her taken
to Bellevue, in order that her sanity
might be inquired into She wore only
her bath robe when taken TO Flower
Hospital. and in the same gown she
was transferred to Bellevue.
In the same ward Is confined Evelyn
Granville. probably in the days OF her
vogue the prcttiest woman ever seen IN
broadway. but now beEated and iaded'
a face and figure that would be shun-
ned by the men who once worshiped at
her shrine. The Granville and Pearl
Evelyn knew each other in the days
when Bohemians and rich clubmen and
men about town made their respective
houses places OF coveted rendezvous.
The women occupy cells close to each
other. Either or both may leave the
ward for the mOrgue or the madhouSe.
A sight OF Ward 81. the woman's al.
cohollc ward, would have made Pearl
Eytinge shudder and reel with faint
ness q decade Of years ago.
II Is q rectangular-shaped pTlck pa
ylllon two stories high. On the upper
floor are the patients cells. all open
ing In u long, narrow hallway, which
extends the whole length OF the Dulia-
Ing. AT one end OF the hallway Is the
Kitchen where the cooking for the pa
tlents Is done by women who are under
sentence to the workhouse, All the wo-
men in the place. those who have
known refinement and culture and
those who never knew any life but the
life OF the slums. eat from the same
long wooden table In the kitchen. with
wooden benches as scatS.) Opposite
the kitchen is a bathroom. At the 9TH
ar end OF the hallway Is n large room.
the furniture OF which is wooden
benches Here the patients who are
well enough TO leave their cells must
gather every morning for inspection by
the physicians.
II is an awful gathering place TO one
whose natural instincts are refined.
There Is usually wait Of Several hours
before the physicians arrive. Each
hour seems IKE n week in such com
many and with such surroundings, and
when the physician comes he treats
the unfortunate patients as II they
were lcper1S.
When u patient arrives she is strip
ped and plunged into Il bath. ser
clothes are taken and tabled for iden-
tlhcation. The attendants are conva-
descent patients. Most OF them are
from the lowest classes and almost
brutes. After the bath the patient Is
locked in cell, the exact counterpart
OF n cell In the Tombs. There is ut
Tie wInedow near the top, through
which the only cheering sight in the
place. little ray Of sunshine. peeps
at early morn. Every sound IN
the place pcnetrates each cell. The
cursing and swearing. bowling and
disappearing, and the rawlings Of the
violent patients make the lullabies by
which the unfortunate occupants OF
the cells are rocked to sleep.
"The awakening Is horrible hell.
once wrote Pearl EtylRGe In describing
the eects Of morphine. In Ward "a,
RelIeyuC. Pearl nwOkc yesterday morn
ing. Perhaps she realized the run
meaning OF her words.
II was only on February last that
Pearl EytInge was discharged from
Flower Hospital cured. She had been
a patient ihcre since january anu
a few days after her recovery she
wrote:
the present bad condition OF my intel.
Icct TO dwell upon the pleasures OF
poison, but / shall endeavOr to say
something about II, partly as per-
sonnl vindIcation, but principally to
show how crhcmcral is such pleasure.
The Insiduous seduction OF morphine
admits OF no comparison as to It's re-
suits save. perhaps, the gradual down
fall OF once pure girl.
what is IT'S effects? Dreamsi AZ
the cruel steel Of the needle passes
through the soft Ouswhitc arm held out
10 receive IL. II slow, aensH0as. hall
drowsincss steals over the brain. All
things assume an attractive Blamor:
Beautiful music and cxqulsltely tinted
clouds dominate che personality, ana
one seems to be passivcly plcnsed' in.
actively receptive. calmly conscious OF
cnortlcgs ccstncy. That dainty little
eilstenlnR needle In It's purple velvet
case possesses for It's slaves all the
charms Of Il lover
Miss EytInge IL the author OF several
published novels, most OF them Of an
crrntlc nature, and Of several poems.
some OF which reveal the possession o!
much talent.