The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-17
APOSTLE Of FREE
LOVE AND A MOB

NEW YORK, September 4-The "a.-
tistic Temperament" eollided tonight
with ''publie deeency," when Ferdi-
nand Pinney Earle, the artist, reach
ing Monroe after having shipped his
wife and child to Europe in order that
he may marry his ''soul's affinity"
who is said to be Miss Sophie Kittner
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, lashed 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 a narrow
escape from being mobbed by a crowd
of unsympathetie 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
artist millionaire fled from
the Hoboken dock of the Hamburg
| Amar;aap COmnan,- JoJ,;Dr 4ba bIovua
and the hard words that were aimed
at him by the crowd of dock laborers
who knew nothing of the longings of
the temperamental nature or the
emancipation of love-" and who are
so crude as to have nothing but con-
tempt for a 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
coward.
On the deck of the outgoing Rynaam
stood slender little woman in gray,
Earle's wife, holding by one chubby
hand sturdy little round-faeed two
year -old-Earle 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
kerehief futtering bravely
Earle's cynical view of the domestic
tragedy was shown when he said to
one of the reporters:
81 eouldn' t get this much advertis-
ing in five years work, ordinarily" he
said. ''Of course, 1 am at the mercy of
the public press, so far as notOriety is
concerned. 1t 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. L shall sell my
home in Monroe if L get a good offer
for it. Otherwise, expect to keep 1t.
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
town that is full of divorced people
and scandal mongers. 1t 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 visibiy worried lest some
of his disapproviug neighbors might
attempt violence, as there had been
talk of tar and feathers for the apostle
of freedom of 1--we. He affected great
solicitude for the safety of the dis
carded wife, saying to the station
agent:
81 hope there will 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 a re-
porter: Z
81 am perfectly amieable to it ALL I
am going away willingly, SO my hus-
band may marry the woman he now
loves. | am trying with a pa
: thetic little smile-''to see the funny
side of it. am going direct to my old
home in Paris. My father or some
other relative, no doubt, will meet me
when 1 land on the other side.
"I accept the sacrifcial role in which
my husband has placed me. 1 shall
leave my husband with his freedom
and the woman he has chosen for my
place. L shall try to teach my son to
forget. l hope some day to be able to
forget, too. In remuneration there is
pain, but also there is happiness. L
feel now the pain. Perhaps 1 may find
the happiness later.
"For Mr.. Earle / have no eensure,
only sorrow. For my successor, the
future Mrs. Earle, have only the most
charitable feelings. / give my husband
over to her because it is his desire. I
leave them both to fuller realization
Of what all this means to me-a real
ization which must come when tbev