The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1906-11-28

may reach him at the asylum until
1t has been scrutinized. In this way
he manages to borrow $1O-this man
with an income of $4,000 year.
One day he does not return from his
daily walk. No. he has walked well
and far-he has taken a train to New
York from an obscure railway station
miles distant from White Plains.
where Bloomingdale now Is. By night
fall he is safe in Philadelphia.
And now what does he do?
Does he go into paroxysms of imao-
tent rage at those who incarcerated
him. as do many of the insane when
they escape? Does he try to kill
those whom he might imagine respen-
sible for his sufferings? Does he
break out In incoherent rawlings
against fancied evils?
Under Scientific Observation.
No. He goes straightaway to a san
itarium In Philadelphia. He states
his case calmly to the physician in
charge and asks to be put under
scientific observation. After six
months voluntary confinement there
tbs physicians there tell him that he
is perfectly sane and has always been
SO. He is not even now content. Hs
goes to another institution and goes
through the same voluntary process
all over again. Once more the physi-
clans tell Mr.. Chanler he is well bal
anced. Then suddenly he appears at
his old home. Merry Mills. Gotham.
Va. where he has stayed to this day.
master OF his ancestral estates.
Once safely home. this so-calIed
lunatic retained counsel. The matter
Of his sanity was brought up in the
Virginia courts and then and there
John Armstrong Chanlee was pro-
nounced sane and competent. But
the greater part of his fortune was
here in New York state, and here 1t
Is on record that John Armstrong
Chanler is hopeless lunatic. Should
he come here he would be deprived of
his liberty. And that is why he Is
suing in the United States court in
the hope Of winning back his inherI-
lance and his standing as a man of
sound mind.
And why was John Armstrong
Chanler. Columbia 's3. called insane ?
because. as the physicians said, he
had delusions-at least some of them
said so.
Those who committed him to q liy.
ing grave declared that he had Shakes.
peare's power. and could make himself
Napoleon by going into a trance. That
he was possessed of the power OF
graphic automatism" and had deyel-
oped his X-faculty-type of subcon-
sciousness-was taken as another evil
dence of insanity.
Yet some of the most prominent
psychological writer's discuss this X
| faculty In all seriousness and admit
that there Is such thing as graphic
automatism." And all of this is told
in remarkable book which Mr.. Chan.
Ter has Just published.
He calls 1t -Four Years Behind the
Bars of Bloomingdale; or, The Bank
ruptcy Law in New York" In It he is
extremely bitter toward his two broth
ers. William Astor Chanler and Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler.
Married to Ameiie Rives.
John Armstrong Chanler first came
into the public eye when he married
Amelie Rives. who wrote that bril-
! liant erotic THE Quick or the Dead. $
in which is told the old love of q
beautiful widow for her dead husband
and her newer love for another man in
the flesh. Jock Dering, the hero, was
1 hanler.
| Miss Rives was denounced ty some
persons as a rather imprudent writer
but that didn't keep her book, which
appeared in 1886. from having a ire
mendous sale. Her marriage to young
Mr.. Chanler only added to Its popular
ity. She was beautiful, cratic. i'm
petuous. Soon their friends came to
realize that there was nothing in
common between the grave, polished
rather mystic New Yorker and the will.
full. gifted Virginia girl.
There was a divorce, which the hus.
band did not contest. upon the grounds
of incompatability and the Mrs. Chan.
Ter that was married Prince Troubet.
skoi, whom she had met abroad.
THE more l know men the more !
admire dogs" is the way Mr.. Chanler