The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-18
Author Of The Jungle in
New York; Wife in Michi-
gan SanatOrium.
FIRE RACKED HER NERVES
Novelist Said to Have Been
Servant at The Breakers in
Newport to Get Material for
New Story. Denies Dis.
guise, but Admits Visit.

POINT PLEASANT. Oct. 1s.-There
whereabouts of Mrs. Upton B. Sinclair,
wife of The socialist and novelist, au-
thor of THE Jungle" and exposure Of
Packingtown secrets. Her continued
absence from the Sinclair cottage at
West Point Pleasant has given rise to
rumors, one of which is that h may
never return here.
Mr.. Sinelair's home on the shores
of the Manasquan River is in charge
of his secretary, Miss Edith Summers,
who also looks after the novelist's o.
year-old son, David, when MI. Sim
clair is away. Mrs. Sinclair's aunt, Mrs.
Man, has a cottage near that of Sin
clair, but has not taken any position
of authority at the Sinclair home dur
ing the absence of Mrs. Sinclair.
A man who lives at Belmar, and who
visited the Sinclair cottage yesterday,
inquired where Mr.. Sinclair was So
journing and was told he was in a
sanatorium, somewhere out West, hav-
ing been taken there, it was explained,
on account of an attack of appended
tbs.
A reporter who called at the Sinclair
home was informed. by Miss Summers
that Mrs. Sinclair is an inmate of a
sanatorium at Battle Creek. She mad
suffered a nervous breakdown, the sec
rotary said, at the time of the destruc-
ton by fire, on March 16 last, of He'll
con Hall. the home of the Socialistic
colony at Englewood, founded by Sin
clair. Miss Summers said she did not
know when Mrs. Sinclair would return.
General sympathy is expressed here
for the wife of the novelist. After the
burning of Helicon Hall, Sinclair and
his wife, their son, n the secretary
moved to West Point Pleasant, and
rented a secluded cottage. 1t took the
villages some time to learn the iden-
tity of the Sinelairs. After that every
member of the little household was re-
garded with uriou interest. They
were poets who kept mostly to them
selves, Sinclair spending much time in
boating and fishing.
The ticket agent at the Point Pleas
ant railroad station said that Mrs. Sin
clair left here in company with her
father, who had made the arrange
ments for her departure. No one was
found who could give any ~verihcation
to a rumor that differences a arisen
between Mrs. Sinclair and her husband.
Mr.. Sinclair left here in the second
week In August for the Adirondacks,
where he cap1ped for three weeks.
After that he was for a week a guest
at a house party at John Martins sum
mer home at Hurricane, N. Y.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Upton Sinclair
was at his mothers apartments at the
southwest corner of Broadway and
Ninety-second street today. He denied,
through his mother, that he had i'm
p~ersonated a servant at the Breakers,
in Newport. as reported. He was in
Newport recently, he said, and visited
the home of Mrs. Vanderbilt, but not
in disguise.
Recently he was IN Newport, it is
said, working as a servant at The
Breakers, the home of Mrs. Vanderbilt,
and so obtained material for a new
novel.
When an inquiry was made as to the
condition of the novelist's wife his
mother said: "She is in a sanatorium in
Michigan. She was terribly shocked by
the Helicon Hall fire, and has never
been the same since. Anyway, her con-
dition does not interest the public"