The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1901-04-30
HOW A STATE LAW ROSE OUT
OF FLAGLER'S LIFE TRAGEDY
Insane Wife Waits at
NightfalI for Million
aires Coming---FIor-
ida Legislature Frees
Him from Bonds.
ITS GETTING so DARK I'M SURE
MY HUSBAND MUST RE HERE ~
A FEW MINUTES IF YOl''l.I WAIT =

ut s GETTING so DARK I'M SURE
MY HUSBAND MUST RE HERE ~
A FEW MINUTES IF You'll. WAIT :
Every niSh,. when the vIcasan,v.llc
lights shine down the BEDFORD road. n
middIe.agcd woman dresses herself
carefully. tics n bit OF cloth over her
snow white hair. and waits and waits
at the window OF luxurious room
for her husband. She IS ~. VIE u
Henry N. F!aglcr. one o, the Standard
OIL kings. Legally to separate aim
from the white haired wife who awaits
him. the Legislature and Governor Of
florida are said 10 have passed the
new law making insanity cause FOR d.
vorce.
For Henry Flng,cr. besides being
New York millionaire. Is me wealsh!'rt
mnn In Florida. ais touch uron Things
governmental IL powerful. And MS
m!ddlc-ageA wife is hopclcssy mad.
For two years Mrs r'iaglcr has been
confnc,i Il; D-. carlos Macdonald
plcasanivil!e sani;ar!um. The ncT la".
aEains; which hnit Florida IS standing
up N dcnunciation, provides :or the
legal separation %. man and wife four
ytJlrs after either shall hay. been pro-
nnunccd incurably insane.
When 10 these faces there Is added
the report that beautiful Southern
woman and society leader * upon III"
nnnuimeni OF his marriage 10 become
the wife 81 Mr.. Facler. there Is finished
the on lin. OF on" OF IN" sndac-t stories
the new Flocida las = likely I" reveal
/, is story ,ha, began in !'h!laasl-
phia. where Il was romance. thai
shifted to a pall,,nl hone AZ "" 80
Firth avenue. where T. wa ilrsi an
idyl ana then aimos, tragedy. and
whose sequel !, llk"!% 10 be- lifelong
solitude and madness fnr The one
Lives In Luxury.
Mrs Ida Furlcr is easily "a mos,
suxurious!y kept !nsin" patient In Nc"
York. Her suite in the ranstnrum tEn
attendants say, m. been !urai' h"d
with nil the comfort and Tho ciegance
OF her former homes ii.- war1Toh
ard her table are carefully selected an
every we,!m o. Acr poor crazch b'a!n Isl
Era,!Aed as promptly as wcr" Ter tastes
observed by hcs husband in ~" DAY
OF her home If.
TiiIs is DONE AT y TOTAL. COST
HER EXAMINAT!o% AID COMMIT
And the stor! o, -" mad woman vr
lives Ike n princess ard ipg w"Gsy ~
ture a Legislature has made a "a" j.
this:
Ida Shrouds she Ma and pretty Ida
Shrouds they called her In lh-Ut"iphat
She was the daughter ~ an kp.scli.ttt
Clergyman. and she was Drought Up
with all the restrictions knowa Ia q
Quaker City r.ctury. and possibly he
cause che was pretty. possibly becaus
she Ind money In h"F own right. ~"
restrictions palied aud tn. clergyman
daughter ran away and presently h,
came pretty Ida Shronds. the nctr,s~
Maybe down In 2" Old fnlaGrlgA.n
fec.ory they know the story .: thc l"o
years she was gone Maybe thee
some faded letters that tell nf thu gil!
ish tr.umphs and the mai m.ar.ncss and
perhaps the failure iAut made .cs con.
back home.
Only out there II IN. sanitarium. on"
Of the old names. or a line -: some IN
venue role. or a stage direction nonol-
Ous.y repeated. sometimes Efrysss it'
lip. OF the insane woman ANA reveals
something OF her bret stage career.