New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19

from a STAT Correspondent Of Tho Tribunel
Rome. Sept 4.-Thirty miles from
here, at Caprarola, ancient palace OF
Cardinal of the House of Farnese, Mrs.
Florence Baldwin, of Boston and New
port, mother of the three beautiful
Deacon sisters and leading American
hostess in the imperial city, is working
with native Italian village women to
succor soldiers at tho front Fro labor
atory in her luxurious castle Six
thousand sterilized masks for pro-
lection against poison gas fumes went
forth to the trenches last month.
These sturdy, good-nstured women
most Of them left destitute since hus-
bands and sons responded to the fiery
appeal of Gabrielle d'Annunzio-call
their benefactor the Lady Of Capraro-
la" Like peasants through all the cen
turtles. in time Of distress they are de-
pendent upon the lord Of the manor;
but in this instance. the lord OF the
manor Ia q woman with broad sympa-
thies. To the wives and daughters OF
Caprarola the word Laboratory" means
a comfortable place where they make
up raw materials into garments for the
Red Cross and are paid more than the
market rate of wages for the work
OF the tragic story Of Mrs. Bald
wins former husband, the late Edward
Parker Deacon, OF Boston, who died in
an asylum after killing a Frenchman in
his wife's apartments at Cannes, the
women Of Caprarola know nothing. or
the three Deacon girls, known in Eu-
rome and America for their beauty, the
members Of Mrs. Baldwin's sewing
class know only Miss Edith Deacon.
For the Youngest of the daughters,
named at her coming-out party by the
late Admiral Fighting Bob" Evans as
the mascot Of the Atlantic feet, Is IN
seclusion with her mother in the old
Cardinals castle.
Now a Social Recluse.
Boston and Newport society have sell
dom seen her since the death OF her
fiance, George Lee Peabody, In the
Baltimore Hospital, in February, 1911.
When the war began she offered her
services as a nurse at the American
Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly, France.
Broken in health from overwork, she
went to the United States for brief
visit at Newport this summer, and then
returned to Italy.
OF the other two sisters, the Prin-
cess Albert Radziwill, of Poland, form
erlV Miss Dorothy Deacon, is noted for
l nk N
saw, London and Rome society. Two
years ago she entered a skating ball on
the roof of one of London's great no.
tells in an ancient Roman chariot
drawn by two horses, a lion and a
leopard. Miss Gladys Deacon is known
in London, where she has opened a
house of her own as an American bach
elor girl whose feminine independence
amazes her friends at court.
Mrs. Baldwin has been living in the
castle at Caprarola since she leased
her apartment in the Borghese palace
to ex-Ambassador Leishman. She has
spent large sums of money TO make the
castle comfortable, artistic and as mod
ern as possible. II is three hours
journey by motor from Rome.
The village consists of one long
street leading up hill that is steep and
long; so straight up in the air It seems
to 90 that one wonders how a motor
ever ascends 1t. Except for little cleo
trio lights hung in iron feur-de-lys,
the village has retained all its ancient
and crude simplicity. IL is almost i'm
possible for two vehicles to pass in the
narrow, crowded streets, always filed
with children, animals and gossip.
When an auto speeds up the crowded