The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-27

| good turn, he being largely InstrG- l mental in securing lnIs assig nIneHt Loi l ner.
 l She has many friends in this city | who will be glad to know that si.e k | now on duty Tn Chicago as d Govern
 ment Inspector, engaged in the task ! of unearthing Chicago divorces, that
 IS to say, Investigating, for statistical | purposes, the many thousand divorces which have been granted. i. in Cook l County Illinois, curing the past | twenty years.
 The following article from The Chi I cago Examiner, describe> the charac-
 ter of work these experts are doing: Thirty expert statisticians from I the Department of Commerce and l Labor in Washing ton began in Chi- cago yesterday the work of investI- geting every one of the many thous-
 ands ef divorces that have been grant ed in Cook County during the past twenty years
 The files of the County Courts were placed at their dispossl These files,
 many of them telling stories of mat rimonial infelicity that have lain for gotten under the dust for years, were placed in the hands of Oscar M Pond, the statistician in charge. He turned
 them over to his assistants, whom he divided into three squads.
 Most of the assistants are women, and they went to work with a will at
 the task of resurrecting the details of the divorce trials that changed so much domestic history in this county.
 Neat little printed slips were furn- ished to each inspector. As she ran her eye over the files in each case, she gleaned the data wanted for the gov ernment records. This data she trans ferred to her slip.
 When the work Is completed the government will have full record of each divorce granted. This record will include history of the following facts:
 The state or country in which the marriage occurred; the date of the mar riaFe; the date of separation; the date of filing divorce petition; whether the husband or the wife was the libeIlant; whether notice was served personally. or by publication; whether the case was contested; whether the decree was granted; the date of the decree; the number of years the parties were mar ried; the cause Of the divorce; whether intemperanee was direct or an in- direct cause; whether the divorce was absolute or limited: the number os children the parties had, and the num- Der of children that were affected by
  ed and whether 1t was granted; the oc- cupation of the husband and the wife and the residence of the libelee.
 "It will be good news to many per- sons whose names lie entombed In tho county archives in which are the re- cords of the divorce courts that no names are to he made public. The in- vestigators simply want the facts in each case. The names do rot concern them.
 "Ali the divorces will be investigated. The famous Leslie Garter divorce case. perhaps the most sensational ever tried in these courts. will be gone into as will cases as recent as the Jerome Eriis divorce case. the Lawrence Heyworth and the Sidney Love cases.
 ""The work will consume a Ions time MT. Pond said last night Tt has not been done for twenty years In 1888 the department of labor gather ed similar statistics. The work has not been done since. Our work Is increas- ed in difficulty by the fact that all the court files are not kept fin one piaca When we shall have completed our work, we are to turn over the results | to the department of commerce and l labor in Washington. The statistics | suppose, will be used to guide Iegis- | ation cn the divorce evil. The work is | country wide. and before we are | through we shall have the essential | 'acts about every divorce that has been | granted in the last twenty years.
 "."The work in Chicago will take SD ong that have wired my wife to come | to make her home here for ome time.'"