The San Francisco call., 1897-05-17
Sad Condition of Yvonne
Carlton, a Stranded
Actress.
She Failed to Get a Situation
and Had Not Eaten Any.
thing for Days.
The Actors and Actresses Relief
Fund Society Will Give Her
Proper Care.

Yvonne Carlton, a stranded actress, Is
in a padded cell in the Receiving Hospl-
tai, her unfortunate condition being prl'
marily due to nervous prostration caused
by worry and want,
About / o'clock yesterday morning DR..
Bunneu was summoned from his Office to
90 to the Florence House, on Ellis and
Powell streets, as a lady was suffering
from hysteria. The lady was Mrs. Carl
ton. He found her in a violently hysterl-
cal condition, shrieking for her baby that
she declared had been burned TO death.
She had arrived at the Florence House
only Jew hours before and had gone to
the room assigned her, telling the clerk
she would register later. By some means,
while undressing, her long golden hair
had caught fire from an open gasjet in
her room and she rushed out shrieking
for help.
AS she apparently had neither friends
nor money Dr.. Bunnell summoned the
ambulance and had her taken to the Re-
ceiving Hospital. During the night she
became so violent that she had to be put
IL a padded cell.
Very little was known about her until
yesterday when Louis 1mhaus, stage
manager at the Grand Opera-house and
president of the Actors and Actresses Re-
lief Fund Society, who had learned of her
condition, calleu at the hospital to see her.
He arranged to have her sent to theGerman
Hospital to-day, where II is expected tina t
she will, with proper attention, be all
r,gat again mentally in few days.
Mrs. Carlton was a member OF the I'M
perial Operatc Comedy Company. of
which Linere and Stringer were managers
They played in British Columbia and the
Puget Sound country and got stranded in
Sacramento.
Mrs. Carlton had a child 3years of age
that travelled with her, but during fire in
Seattle the child was burned to death.
Alter arriving her from Sacramento she
endeavored to get an engagement in one
OF the local theaters, but failed.
Then she tried to get employment in
some of the stores, but again failed, and
as a last resource she endeavored to OBJ
tain employment in some private family
but failure again met her.
She had been stopping at hotel on
hearny street, and Saturday night when
WAS unable to meet ii, being penniless.
She Il ad to leave the hotel and went to the
Florence House.
She had not eaten anything for three days
aud in her weakened condition mentally
and physically, when her hair caught fire
she thought OF the death of her baby and
she became mentally unbalanced.
She was able to talk intelligently yester-
day afternoon and gave brief sketch of
her life. She said she was adopted by a
wealthy couple IN the East, who gave her
n splendid education. Shortly after grad
uating from college she married, but after
a brief experience of married life she and
her husband separated through the inter-
ference of her mother-in-law, ana she
came west with her baby, securing an en-
gagemenI with theatrical company.
When her adopted parents learned that
she had chosen the stage they disowned
her, and she was left to fight the battle Of
life herself. Yvonne Carlton is her stage
name and she iealously guards the secret
OF her true name.