The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-16
APOSTLE Of FREE
LOVE AND A MOB
F. P. Earle, Millionaire Artist.
Would Wed Souls
Affinity

tistic temperament eollided tonigh
with "public decency,' when Ferdi
nand Pinney Earle, the artist, reach
ing Monroe after having shipped hii
wife and child to Europe in order thai
he may marry his souls affinity
who is said to be Miss Sophie Kittnel
of Bethlehem, Pa, fell into the wait
ing and welcoming arms of the mob
The mob, composed exclusively OF
Earle's neighbors and former friends
dragged him from his carriage, which
they overturned, trailing him in the
mud, dashed him with horsewhip and
might have responded to the repeated
suggestions that rope be secured had
not the Mayor of the village and the
Chief of Police recalled them to their
senses. He gave Earle safe conduct
to his home.
In the afternoon Earle had narrow
escape from being mobbed by a crowd
OF unsympathetic longshoremen while
he was waiting on the Hamburg
American pier in Hoboken to wave
farewell to the wife and infant son.
Five minutes before the liner left
with his wife and his baby aboard the
Observation-Disclosures fed from
the Hoboken dock of the Hamburg
American Company, lodging the blows
at him by the crowd of dock laborers
who knew nothing of the longings of
the temperamental nature or the
emancipation of loye,' and who are
so crude as to have nothing but con-
tempt for man who would trade wives
at the promptings of his artistic soul.
Indeed, if he had not been genius,
one might have said that he ran like
a coward.
On the deck of the outgoing Ryndam
stood slender little woman in gray,
Earle's wife, holding by one chubby
hand sturdy little round-faced two
year old-Earle IS child. The discarded
wife was smiling gamely through the
tear marks on her face. To the re-
porters who waved a farewell to her
she waved back, her little white hand
kerchief futtering bravely.
Earle's cynical view of the domestic
tragedy was shown when he said to
one of the reporters:
CT couldn It get this much advertis-
ing in five years work, ordinarily, - he
said. "Of course, I am at the mercy of
the public press, so far as notoriety is
concerned. It is not worrying me.
/" Neither is the talk of my fellow
townsmen causing me any anxiety. Ii
they want to try to tar and feather
me let them go ahead. ] shall sell my
home in Monroe if / get good offer
for it. Otherwise, I expect to keep it.
81 shan t do anything or write for
a while, - he added "But am through
with the town of Monroe The idea of
such feeling existing against me in a
town that is full of divorced people
and scandal mongers. It irritates me.
Nearly every man and woman in the
town of Monroe had assembled at the
railway station to witness the de-
parture of the Earle party, and the
artist was visibly worried lest some
Of his disappearing neighbors might
attempt violence, as there had been
talk of tar and feathers for the apostle |
If freedom of love. He affected great |
solieitude for the safety of the dis
carded wife, saying to the station |
agent:
81 hope there viii be no disturb
ance, for her sake.
Arrived at the pier, Mrs. Earle |
stopped at the gangplank of the
Ryndam long enough to say to re-
porter: ok
81 am perfectly amicable to it all. l
nm going away willingly, so my hus-
band may marry the woman he now
loves. L am trying this with pa
.hetie little smile-'Eto see the funny
side of it. I am going direct to my old |
nome in Paris. My father or some
other relative, no doubt, will meet me
when l land on the other side.
81 accept the sacrifeial role in which |
ny husband has placed me. [ shall
cave my husband with his freedom
md the woman he has chosen for my /
,lace. I shall try to teach my son to /
orget. l hope some day to be able to
orget, too. In remuneration there IS
,ain, but also there is happiness.
eel now the pain. Perhaps l may find
he happiness later.
''For Mr.. Earle / have no censure,
,nly sorrow. For my successor, the
uture Mrs Earle. have only the most /
charitable feelings. I give my husband |
ver to her because it is his desire. l
cave them both to a fuller realization
# what all this means to me-a real /
cation which must come when they |
hall have felt the weight of public |