The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-24
ELECT SHUN THE
DIVORCE COLONY
On the Theory That ut Gives
the Town a Bad
Name"

Reno. New, April 23.-The Reno divorce
colony is made up of persons famous in
song and comic opera, the miilionaire's
Wife, the waitress, the broken-hearted,
the frivolous How they live, how much
it costs them, how they amuse them
selves, what their problems are, make
interesting reading.
None of the best families have any
thing to do with them. They have given
Keno bad name she doesn't deserve at
all. The law ought to be changed" That
is what the substantial citizen says.
The divorce colony is made up for the
most part Of the incest, quietest ladies
you could find anywhere" says another.
They have been shamefully maligned.
II you were not told of the existence of
the colony you would never know of its
presence any other way"
Colony Numbers About 200.
How many are there in the colony?"
one asks. Estimates range all the way
from 80 to 800 The best informed say
there are about 200 in Reno in quest Of
freedom.
1T is hard to tell" one hears. .be-
cause so many persons live here without
anyone suspecting their designs until
their suits are filed. Then there Is a
large number of working persons who
have come to Reno to secure a divorce.
out you never hear of the Interior motive
until the suit is ready for hearing"
1t is safe to name 200 as a conserva-
tive number as 162 DEGREES were granted
asst year, for the calendar shows that
there has been no falling off this year.
Who is here?" one asks He is told
that Mrs Smith Hollis McKim's time OF
residence is almost up, as that of the
wife OF Judge Coyne. Virginia Harmed,
wife of Edward Sothern, is late arrival
and James Gardner Gayley, the Pitts
nurg steeimaker is lingering here, al
though his decree was granted recently
Mrs. George Brodthage, wife of the lead
Ing pastor OF the Lutheran church In
Washington, has filed her suit Mrs. J.
H. Moore, wife Of a wealthy lumber deal
er of Chicago, is here seeking freedom
Mrs. David Dowsett, 10 years of age,
wants divorce, and Mrs. David Well.
wife OF a Judge, who left hi mon her we'd
ding trip, desires TO get rid of him.
Last year in the colony were Mrs Anna
Barton. wife of Frank Barton. the silver
ware manufacturer; Mrs. Henry Foster
| Spies Kip, Mrs. Keith Donaldson. Mrs.
Elihu B. Frost, Mrs. L. H. Caldwell, Mrs
! Clyde Day and Mrs. r. NJ France, a no
table gathering, the echoes of whose do
ing in Reno have not yet entirely died
down.
Getting back to Mrs. McKim. Her
father is Isaac z. Emerson Of Baltimore,
the promo settler king" She had a
/ long list of social successes before she
| forsook them all for the colony 1t has
been rumored she IS to marry Alfred
| Gwynne Vanderbilt when free to marry
| anybody.
Mrs. McKim has a little apartment of
| five rooms in a white frame house In
which there are three other apartments
Of the same kind. Her parlor is a pretty
room, with gay cretonne curtains and
wicker furniture and a wood fire snap
| ping in the CRATE, a very simple setting
for fashionable beauty. There are
| three immense lunches of pink roses In
the room, a sheaf of Easter lilies IN
a silver vase and a bunch Of red and
| white carnations.
On the walls are the portraits of well.
known New Workers and on a square
| table are photographs In polished silver
! frames. On the piano is the same ARA,
| and heaped on the couch is a stock OF
| letters from the morning mail. On tn,
| desk a pile of kilograms and periodical !.
are strewn about The maid pulls tn.
portieres together and sweeps the din
ing room briskly, and afterward Lfrs
McKim appears. She Is arrayed In al
elaborate klmono OF black silk heavil,
Embroidered in pink and blue chrysan
| themums. her hair dressed in the lates