The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-03-06
RENO IS COMING BACK
Real Estate Dealers and Cafe
Managers Rejoice When Six
Month Clause Is Restored

by legislative act. approved last week
by Governor Boyle, are the halcyon
days to return to Reno. The so-called
easy divorce" law is already virtually
in effect again. Business men are pre-
pairing to entertain as Of yore wealthy
visitors who are willing to spend six gsy
months in Reno for the sake Of freedom
from marriage bonds.
Reno celebrated its rejuvenation as
the "easy divorce" Mecca OF the United
States in highly exhilarating style. IL
was the elimination of . theatrical fight.
carried out to the accompaniment oil
demonstrations Of q popular demand for
the re-enactment of the six-months
residence requirement.. On n occa-
sion virtually all Of Reno that could get
away went to Carson City to impress
the Legislators.
Referendum action on the bill IL
| looked for at the next general election,
or sooner. The Governor will press q
| bill providing for referendum elections
within three months
Divorce opponents also talk OF start
| ing a recall election after the required
six months Of Office holding has expired
in June. and putting the referendum
| question mp at the same time. which
would comply. they insist, with the
present law on referendum elections.
II was a little more han a year ago
that another law put Reno out Of the
divorce business. and the once gay and
prosperous city was not long in feeling
the real sting of the blow. That law ex-
tended the period of required residence
IN the State for divorce from six months
to q year.
Divorces were as easy to get as ever
10 Nevada under the new law, bat it
was such q wesrisome wait. And East.
ern visitors in . hurry for marital free
dom did not like to wait.
One Joy After Another
Time was, it was recalled. when one
could spend six breezy months in Reno
and scarcely count the days. There
were mountain trails to explore on horse
back or afoot; there were mountain trout
streams to explore with rod and reel.
The hotels were good; the restaurants
were even better.
There is the big town theatre where
On oon.ai1na ana oaplA aon roa1 ofao
notables, dropped in for a night to break
the tedium of the long jump from Chi.
cago to San Francisco and to pick up
the several thousand dollars at % a seat.
There were taxicabs and trolley cars and
fashionable shops and a big university,
to say nothing of very lively society.
Six months of that. and in the intoxi-
eating air of the peaks of the Sierra Ne
vadas? Poufl Alloy and nothing else !
But ali, how different the past year
or so To be sure. the mountain trails
and the mountain streams are here and
the taxicabs are here. But the trolley
cars don't run so often as they used to,
and the taxicabs finger lonesomely
around on naked corners while their
drivers gaze with retrospective eyes at
cafe doors that once upon q time. swung
open, meant at least two-always two,
never one-proftable fares.
Lawyers Feel Pinch
When an orthodox Legislature set Its
mind on furnishing Nevada's name 30
that all the world might see its face in
it. the slipping movement began. Shop.
keepers who had an inside tip on what
was in store sold out, we'll and wisely,
in advance.
Hardest hit of all were the lawyers.
Many at once sought other fields; others
kept their offices open in the hope that
something would stem the tide of re.
form at the last moment. Physicians
and dentists, co-reapers of the bountiful
harvest of Eastern money. did the same.
Lawyers fees in Reno used to be on a
sliding scale. Divoro cost little or
individually mach-dependinR on
the wealth and social prominence Of the
client.
The anti-divorce law was passed for
Nevada, which in this case meant Reno,
at the urging Of the reform element. by
. legislative vote Of 80 to l.
Reno's six months divorce law was
adopted in the early SOS, but the quick
separation industry didn't come into in
ternational renown until 10 years ago,
when an English earl was granted a di-
vorce by Judge Ben +. Curler. There
was general divorce business appar.
emit. however, until several years later,
when Mrs. Lillian Corey. wife of Will
liam Ellis Corey. the steel magnate,