The evening world., 1903-12-22
Agonizing Problem Mrs. Elbrdge
Gerry Snow, Jr., Is Facing
Through Stern Decree of d.
vorce Court.
ONE CHILD FOR HER,
OTHER FOR FATHER.
She Has the Choice, and if She
Fails to Make 1t on Time Mr..
Snow May Take Either Of the
Children Away from Her.

SSoFSF WaS u young mother placed
N such q trying position as that in
which Mrs. Elbridge Gerry Snow. jr..
hnds herself to-day. In the straignten-
Ing out Of her marital troubles she has
brought I'D a problem beside which all
her other troubles seam as nothing.
In a little over three months she ha.
got to choose between her little son.
Elbridge Gerry. and her winsome. curly
haired little girl. Dorothy Violet. That
Is the stern decree OF a stern court to
which Mrs. Snow, in her distress over
her domestic troubles. rushed for re-
lease Young. beautiful and rich. this
young mother sits to-day in her ,splen-
did apartments IN la Rochelle. at No.
81 West se%verty-ffth street. with her
children playing at her feet and won
ders II 1t was worth while.
She has brought into her life an even
greater misery than that which she
was enduring before. and there is only
one way out of it-a way which cannot
even be considered. a reconciliation
with her husband. after all that has
passed, is not possible, say the friends
of both, yet in no other way is this
crisis in her life to be overcome.
Says the order OF the unsentimentai
court:
Order of the Court.
Mrs. Snow may have one OF the chil-
dren. her husband the other. Mrs.
Snow has until March 5. 1904. to choose
which child she shall keep. II she does
not choose by that time. Mr.. Snow
may. on March z. 1904. take which child
he pleases, leaving the other to the
mother. Either parent may see the
shild It yields two or three times q week.
n once a month may have the child
from Friday until Monday. In the event
of the death of either parent the surviv-
ing parent shall nave both children.
Mrs. Snow is allowed $3.50 a month and
$500 counsel fees. Either party may
marry after March g."
The Snow children are very beautiful,
very sweet in disposition. are tremen-
dously popular in "a Roche and
closely resemble their mother. Mrs.
6now idolizes them. Night and day for
months she has kept them close by her
FOR . her husband would take them
from her. Through court after court
Mr.. Snow has been fighting for the pos
session Of the children and has been as
consistently combatted by the mother.
The emlssaaries OF Mr.. Snow have
lowered about La Rochelle day and
night, but have never been able to get
neal the woman or her children.
Mrs. Snow could fight her husband.
she could fight his lawyers and their
process servers, but now she has a fight
which she has got to face and 1t is q
losing fight for hei. because she must
give up one of the children. There Is
absolutely no lodging the Issue. One
must 30. But which one?
Mother AImoH Tainted.
Mrs. Snow had come home from
downtown. her arms full of Christ
mas toys for her babies. when the
s Sheer had ID t a bis G0 d6il fea'h 6oroi hsT.
Elbridse. She almost tainted when the
true purport Of that order came across
to-day, But sick as she is she has
both children In the room with her and
watches them, Mt play every moment.
"A mother. placed in such a position.
forced to choose whether she would or
not. might be expected to keep her little
girl, Some of Mrs. Shows friends think
that this will be the ultimate result of
the situation so terrible for n mother.
Others. knowing her love for the little
boy, do not believe that she will ever
There is a cruel ingenuity in that
order of the Court. AS though Justice
Truax appreciated the difficulties which
the mother would and could
not make so grim a choice, he gives the
father the privilege. AZ the end of two
days of grace. to enter the mothers
home and help himself to his choice OF
the children. There is no doubt that
Mr.. Snow will avail himself of this
privilege II his wife forces him to II.
for hc is desperately anxious to get HIS
children from their mother.
stormy Married Life.
The married liz OF the Shows
has been a stormy one. A crisis
was reached n vcar ago When Mrs.
Snow was out all night in an automo-
bile between this city and Lakewood.
She and her husband separated. Mrs.
Snow began a suit for divorce. Mr..
Snow countered with mother suit. and
a referee was called upon to straighten
the Situation. 1t was his Solomonic idea
10 give. each parent a child, a recon-
n%.endation which tho court acted upon.
%emenilng II as shUwn~in the ruling Just
handed down.
Mrs. Snow will not see anybody to-
LAY She will not say what she IL going
to do. No one knows the storm that ia
raging in her mothers heart. Mean
while her husband sits grlmly ut his
desk, waiting for March 3 to come
around and fully determined as to his
course on March ! IL thu mothers
choice has not spared him.