The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-05
NEW ENGLAND LETTER
BY r. G. Larsen.

BY r. G. Larsen.
of the victim Of the Win
throp dress suit case mystery estab-
lished, at least
Scores of Homes two Boston homes
have been plunged
Feared in grief, but tits
safe to estimate
News OF Iragedy that in more than
a hundred others
there has come feeling of relief. These
are the homes from which girl members
are missing, and DEVELOPMENTS of the
past week have shown that the number
is very much greater than might be
supposed. One Of the first acts Of the
police after the discovery Of the. torso
in the dress suit case in the harbor of
Winthrop month or so ago. was to !.
to secure the names Of all missing girls.
Fully 1000 policemen were engaged in
this work at one time. They did not
have much success Scores who were
unable to explain the absence Of rela-
tives or friends refrained from giving
the police information. The disappear
ance of Susie Geary, or Ethel Durrell,
as she was known on the stage, was not
tives refused to advertise the girl
shame, until they had some reason to
believe that it was her body that had
been found. During the first few days
after the discovery, dozen young
women reported missing were exploited
in the newspapers, and at least one
young man was sentenced to term in
prison, for altho the girl with. whose
disappearance his name had been con-
police had learned so much about the
case that they were practically obliged
to act.
The revelations of the past week in
regard to the morals of young girls on
the stage, and their familiarity with
the methods Of illegal practitioners has
stirred New England to greater de-
gree than any murder mystery we have
had to solve, in years. In. Boston there
here from the farms and smaller cities
/ and towns of all the New England
states. Hundreds of them for one rea-
son or another fail to keep up CORE
spondence with those at home. Since
! the dress suit case containing the torso
was found it is certain that hundreds
| of fathers. and mothers have been anx-
| iously making inquiries, and hundreds
of girls have been impelled to answer
stances they mightsn not have replied to
| ~ VII T. d, i
! Saturday night will see the end Of
one of the warmest political campaigns
ever waged in Massachusetts,, and pre-
| - 49,. dictions are freely
| Reciprocity as = made that Henry
'-'.- NJ Whitney will
Chief Issue be elected lieuten
| ant governor, ever
in the Bay State if the democrats
i fail to elect Gen
eral Charles W. Bartlett, the candidate
for governor The issue has narrowed
down until Mr.. Whitney and Senate,
Henry Cabot Lodge have become the
;. central figures. Mr.. Whitney, a leade:
Of the advocates Of reciprocity, hal
,, been holding meetings in all parts 0:
the state and they ARE being ATTENDED
Lodge is looked upon as the representa-
tive of the high tariff wing Of the re
:, publican party, and even Mr.. Draper
the republican candidate for lieutenan
governor and the high tariff advocate
against whom Mr.. Whitney decided t
: make the fight. has dropped into tn
background. Unablesto stand the at
tacks which have fbesnamade upon him
Senator Lodge hlfs hasSSslaoWn evidences o
> bitter inethe denhnei tion of.his or
ponentsssss or a asgSWeek Mr. Daborn
In derWr ed
I .torial ICON sto the Boston Herald
has been }Keeping Mr.. Lodge busy dc
nying ,tKatg ghe: :Wfot GA let ter to- the IA t
e ejJohn Hay some time previous sfp%th
$ negotiation of the & Hay Bond treafy
$ Senator Lodge has always claimed TIA
e he was not consulted in connectlon a, Wlt Wal {
! treaty. but Mr. NHowes and several otl
:. ers claim that Mr. Hay showed thel
: a letter written. by the senator whlc
e convinces them that he had been col
t suited. and that Mr.. Hay, wien SHOW
: ING it, had exclaimed, 'What can yo
e do with man like thatq
Senator Lodge says8the letter, II
: existed. was lie and q forgery, an
|. he has been reiterating this Tor "a wee
or more. He also furnished l.lsl ls't, the DEM
/, clared that the 10000 republicans WI
J. signed the reciprocity petition wei
It IA ssive-centers,,' - because the Chamber {
a Commerce committee.of 100 paid cen
o for every name secured. Now gre:
IL placards call upon the signers of I'll
It petition to resent this insult by votiI
g for Bartlett and Whitney. The republ
can leaders who a week, or more az
were poking fun at the democratlc q
vertising methods, were this Wet
OBLIGED to follow suit, and great poste
:. with the pictures Of General Guild al
- MI. Draper are now as prominent
the billboards Of the state as those
Bartlett and Whitney. ~, -.
,g Here in Boston the municipal flg
y "a continues to grow warmer. Democrat
I, party leaders like Colonel CASTOR, e
al pN1 u ':'.'E.. &. ~. = "a mayor MattheN
y, Graft Scandal and @e KIN y'
y. 9t57@'E@ = -c5; 5>1iii Quincy have CO.
sh .Ec- is Likely bined to: be:
e as - r @Lomasney s cane
es to Stir Boston date, and as the
.. -, - 74.. IL leaders are su
tn posed to represent corporations such
n, the Boston Elevated and other pow
oil full influences, they have succeeded l
lis enlisting on behalf of Fitzgerald
ce number Of local leaders who had p7
sh viously declared for Donovan. Iom'
ney has begun war on the men W
a. deserted him, which promises to res1
CHI in one of the biggest scandals Bost
CHI has had since the famous team1 I'M
he frauds Several wears ago about $sO
es 900 was appropriated for the purpt
ss, Of cleansing the Fenway IN Bost'
nd from which; an odor arose which ma
.es life unbearable in the fashionable Ba
ur Bay section Althossthe work. IS I