Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
BISHOP HARE is
TO FIGHT DIVORCE

The excursion to South Dakota for a d.
vorce made by Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr,
and her subsequent remarriage has further
enraged the Right Rev. w. H. Hare OF
Sioux Falls, Episcopal bishop for South Da-
kota and it will be held up to the state leg
islature this winter as an example of the
disregard for law upon which the divorce
industry thrives.
Bishop Hare is directing his efforts to Sc
cure strong lobby for divorce reform. He
wants law forbidding divorce except for
extreme causes; preventing persons emf
grating to another state to find a new cause
for divorce; making It unlawful for other
than an open court trial; preventing the de-
cree from taking effect for one year after
1t Is granted, for, he says, Delay NAV
prlng new evidence and a better heart or
at any rate, expose the man and cool hts
passion"
Bishop on Warpath.
Besides the speed shown in getting the
last Blaine divorce and the affidavit that
permanent residence was to be South Da-
kota, Bishop Hare will point to the second
marriage, so repugnant to his church and
to the fact that this is the second wife of
the same man who in the past few years
Dakota 80 "'1'i
1t was Bishop Hare who lobbied the old
three months residence law out of exist
ence, aroused as he was at that time bv
lne famous Baroness de Steurs divorce
case, ana her marriage an hour after the
decree was signed to Count Elliot ZhroW-
SKI who had posed as her cousin and adj
wiser ana had taken in the bishop to his
.dstihg embarrassment and almost a run
ture In the congregation of the EpisconaI
Cathedral at Sioux Falls
Mrs john Jacob Astor, through The solicit
t .aIion OF leading Episcopalians, had con-
IN ha h1,iI,1
dral and 1t was named ST. Augusta Catbe-
oral for her Baroness de Steurs. being n
niece of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, at once
evnced great interest in the work of tho
Episcopal congregation. She and Count
ZproWski We're regular attendants and lin
eral checks were given weekly. to the de-
iight OF the deep-in-debt organization.
Refuses 1000 Window.
But the enthusiastic baroness wanted to
DO still more She would have made a 81 900
memorial window for the edifice She con-
suited Bishop Hare, and it was agreed The
window was ordered and had arrived wait
Ing in the basement of the cathedral for q
convenient tine to install and dedicate IL.
when, with stunning suddenness Raroness
de Steurs was granted divorce and
within the hour became the wife of Count
Zbrowski. H't'
While the Episcopal church frowns on
divorce, 1t admits the justice of n under
certain circumstances, but remarriage and
with this apparent generalization whiIa
another mans wife, is absolutely dis
countenanced.
Bishop Hare refused to accept the me-.
moral window and ordered its removal
from the church. Members of the faith less
nrm in their adherence to the tenets of the
church tried to dissuade him. To no avail.
however, and for time a split in the con-
gregation was imminent
But no $1,000 memorial to the Unusual IA
cilities for getting easy divorce In South
Dakota was ever allowed to adorn St Au
gusta s Cathedral. in which Bishop Hare
missionary bishop to go among the Dakota
INDIANS, and he has seen his church grow
from handful of red men on the plains to
great organization graced by an ornate
and capacious cathedral. =,
BISHOP Hare looks upon the present d.
vorce laws as the disgrace of South Da-
no.a; ana MS declining years would hold
greater JOY could he succeed this winter
as ne FULLY expects to do. In getting radical
enactments on the subject of divorce