New-York tribune., 1906-04-11
OLIVE LOGAN IN COURT.
FACES NEED IN OLD AGE.
Knoum as Author and Actress Years
Ago-Husband Her Office Boz.

Mrs Olive Logan whose name was well known
thirty years ago author. lecturer and
tress. q white haired old woman appeared
before Magistrate Cornell yesterday morning to
beg his assistance IN forcing her husband, a.
man twenty-odd years younger than herself, to
support her. she was destitute.
AT the morning session Mrs. Logan, feeble
faint from the want Of proper nourishment and
almost totally deaf. tottered to the bridge and
asked the magistrate for summons for her
husband, charging him with habitual drunken
ness and non-support. Owing to the woman's
deafness the magistrate could learn but little
OF her history. but her faultless English struck
the magistrate and slowly the remembrance OF
Olive Logan came back to him.
A summons issued and served upon her
husband. James O'Neill Logan. a watchman at
Ellis Island. forty-hve years old. at their home.
No. 2.56S Seventh ave.
Logan dtd not appear in court at the after
noon session. and. learning from Mrs. Logan
that her husband was at home intoxicated, the
magistrate sent a court officer after him, and
Logan placed under arrest and taken to
court His condition was such that after he had
been turned to a probation officer who
found that he had $40 coming to him from the
government at Ellis Island, Magistrate Cornell
decided to hold him over night, give him
chance TO sober up and arraign him in court
this morning
Magistrate Cornell tried to learn more par
ticulars from the aged wife. His questions had
to be shouted to her through trumpet,
and loudly as to interfere with the decorum
OF the court proceedings. The magistrate then
had the patrolman duty the bridge take
her to the corridor leading to the magistrates
chambers and ask the questions there. Finish
ing a list of questions the bridge officer would
return with the answers to the magistrate, and
9TH to oeIy In &c hov ooIa
story learned
Mrs Logan said that for the last two years
her husband had been drinking heavily, and that
all his wages had gone TO saloons. Things had
been steadily growing worse and a day or two
ago she had been served with a dispossess writ.
She said that her husband had failed Of late to
contribute to her support at all and that in con-
sequence they were in debt right and left and
had no money for food Unable through the in
flrnities of age to do any more writing she was
unable TO help herself and had applied TO the
court as a last resort. She said her husband
had good government place on Ellis Island.
She said he often reached home after being paid
without any salary.
Mrs Logan was poorly dressed in garments
that had been the style years ago. They were
made of excellent material, but were threadbare
and shabby.
Mrs. Logan during the height of the late Au-
gustin Days success as a theatrical manager
was one of his proteges. He schooIed her as an
actress. She was also playwright and wrote
for DAILY the play Surf or Life at Long Branch"
success.
Olive Logan was born in EInlira, n Y. April
p, 1888, and was educated at the Methodist Fe-
male Seminary and the Academy of the Sacred
Heart, in Cincinnati Early in life she developed
a talent for literary work and public life. and
became a successful lecturer. When thirty
three she married William Writ Skies who was
appointed United States Consul TO Cardiff
Wales, by President Grant, and died IN London
eleven years after their marriage.
Besides being lecturer Mrs. Logan became
successful actress under Augustin DAILY. keep
ing much of her time in travel abroad She
a frequent contributor to both American
and foreign journals In 1851 she wrote Pho
tographs OF Paris Life; in 1865, Chateau
1871. THE Mimic World, and in 1872. Get
Thee Behind Me, Satan" Her PLAYS were
Surf; or. Life at Long Branch: dramatiza-
ton of Willie Collinss "Armadale" and a met
rical translation Of Francois Coppees la Pas
SAINT" produced in 1887 at the Princess Theatre,
London
Speaking Of her marriage to Logan who took
her name when they were married, a royal
grant being issued 10 permit him to do so, Mrs.
Logan said they We're married in London in
1892, when she was ffty-three years old
When she was in London doing literary work
and serving as art critic and musical corre-
spondent for number of American newspapers
she hired Logan as office boy. When he grew
older she made him her secretary. She said
that when she decided to come to America she
Rather than be separated, they decided to be
married despite the differences in their ages.
Speaking of their early married life, Mrs.
Logan said that the first ten years were "A
dream Of happiness. love him STILL, she con-
tinued. and know he loves me. Drink has
caused it all"
JACOB Rns OPERATED ON.