The Washington herald., 1915-03-21

tors, dentists, garage owners, liverymen,
theater owners and hotel and restaurant
proprletors began to store away money in
carloads. Hardly strange, then, that
they should have been sorry to see it all
go when the time came.
Other industries suffered severely with
the passing of the old order One Of
these was monopolized by a man who
made his living by ferreting out promi-
nent persons who hoped to get away with
a decree in secret and sending their
names to metropolitan newspapers. He
freQuented the restaurants and clubs, or
such of those as allowed him admission,
and by eavesdropping got word or two
which he always turned into money.
This ferret was not a newspaper man.
Though none ever pinned him down with
facts. it was known he made much BY
blackmail He could always be reached"
when there was money enough in sight,
and many a person of prominence kept
well known name out of the eastern
papers by literally greasing Mr.. Blanks
palm.
Among the temporary residents Of
Reno were Mrs. Margaret Emerson Nc
Kim, daughter of Isaac S. Emerson. mil
lionaire drug manufacturer of Baltimore,
and present wife of Alfred G. Vanderbilt:
James Gayley, the steel magnate. who
built handsome home in Reno, but
whose wife was granted a decree on her
cross-complaint; Virginia Harmed. wife
OF K. HI. Sothern, and Margaret Ellington,
wife of Daniel Frohman.
Edna Goodrich got a Reno divorce.
Nat Goodwin also got one of his DEGREES
in Reno. Mrs. Florence Jenkins, called
the most beautiful woman in Balti-
more was another on the list. Mrs.
Henry HUT, wife of the artist, was a
comparatively recent beneficiary of the
Nevada system. HUT once said his wife
was more beautiful than the Venus de
Milo"
R. NJ Burlington, known as Tho
father of the divorce colony" was rich,
but he got a job at selling tickets in a
moving picture theater in order to testify
he was in Reno in good faith-a little
formality the courts insisted on when the
industry was young He had regular en-
ployment all right, but he didn't hang
onto his job long after Judge Pike looked
favorably on his petition.
Mrs. McKim was in Reno at the time
Of the Jeffries-Johnson fight The ex-
element attendant upon that occasion
gripped her as it did thousands of Others
Great crowds assembled at the arena and
the bulletin boards in front of Reno
newspaper Offices held others.
Mrs. McKim. following the crowds,
made her way into the editorial rooms Of
thc hCNSpopci one ASKED 10
be put to work that she might feel her
self of some benefit to some one in that
day Of excitement and was assigned to
the task of acting as copy boy II became
her duty to snatch the story of the fight
round by round from the telegraph in.
strument and rush it to the linotype ma.
chimes.
1t was task that required speed, for.
no matter what station in life one oc.
cupies, all are on an equality in a news
paper Office when a race against time is
being made to beat rival in getting out
an extra. When the result OF the fight
was flashed over the wires Mrs McKim
shouted it to the linotype operator as she =
sped through the composing room. In
another minute the presses were grind.
ing out the extras. Mrs. McKim eager
ly grabbed copy and then collapsed
from sheer excitement.
Opponents of the new six months d.
vorce law say the fight Is not yet over.
Unquestionably thousands Of women.
who fought the measure from the start.
will organize for another political battle
to establish forever the one-year-resi.
dence clause.
But Reno knows what she wants, and
now that she has 1t she can be depended
upon to hold on to 1t. Is her message to
the matrimonially weary of the east, par
ticularly those that have plenty oe
monoV.