Show Reno As a Mecca i 1 for the I 1 i DIVORCE DECREE WHilE YOU W j Breaking of Marital Chains Is I's Isan r an Industry of the I M J It A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CITY I I It Presents Presents Claims of Climate I i Scenery a and d Town I I t Attractions I t From the Chicago Dally Daily Journal t Reno Nev May U Verr Very Very appropriately Reno the ne new divorce I center centor of tho the United States has a past A AI I J f colony of ot emigrants from the state of ot otI I matrimony finds Its chief chic amusement 1 In reading tho the easy eay divorce laws of It I Ithe the sliver silver state te and In giving thanks t that the legislature Just adjourned did I 1 f not repeal them As e the successor of ot Sioux Falls S.D. SD S S. D D. In the divorce business Reno lleno pro pro- I Its claims of or climate scenery and I town attractions attraction It la Js today the me- me mei i of or Nevada l' a groat great state geographically geo- geo I graphically Renos Reno's population wavers I f between and OOOO exclusive of ot those who become citizens between I marriages Reno lies at the confluence of ot two I t rich valleys surrounded by an amS' amS amphitheater am am- l S' S of ot snow-capped snow mountains To ro the tho west only a a. tow few miles away S lies IJes tho the Sierra Nevada Ne ran range o tho the last natural barrier between Nevada Novada and California Reno Is only ten hours' hours ride from San Francisco Running through the tho heart ot of tho the town Is tho the river a n. turbulent but beautiful beautiful beau beau- mountain stream and the tho on only 1 I I river or of or any consequence In the state j Scenically as well as otherwise Reno Renola la s by far tar the most beautiful and doi deI desirable de do- I residence cSt city In tho the state Reno ReDO is still wide open Nevada NtH Is Js 1 tho the last state or territory In tho the Union 4 I to permit gambling under sufferance of ot the law and Reno has more than I her er share of ot gambling establishments I The music of ot their mechanical pianos I j 4 their orchestras and anel music boxes ma may II Iho I Ibo I bo ho heard on the main thoroughfares b by day and their extensive displays I o n J electric lights make maleo tho tim whole town radiant through all the hours of ot dark dark- ness neBS Renos Reno's White Wa Way In fn proportion proper proper- I tion to tho the size of ot tho the place Is III the tho most brilliant of ot any city In the United S States The Tho money derived from the gaming licenses has enabled c the tho city council to conduct municipal improvements on ona ona ona a large largo scale and the tho streets are arc splendidly splendidly paved Nevadas Nevada's legislature Just adjourned however er passed a law prohibiting I gambling after afler October 1 I 1910 and anel Kono tono will lose this source of ot revenue re I from then on e. e About Divorces Divorce The legislature also took up tho the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of at divorces Governor DIckerson having sent in a message advocating the repeal of or the present lax laws lawson lawson on that subject Tho The matter was argued ar ar- ar- ar gued and novel no arguments were ad ad- Following 1 is the one put forward forward for tor ward by by W. W H. H Schnitzer of ot Reno fleno who kes a specialty of divorces S. S I l Implies domestic happiness P r.- r. F I m tranquility Where this element clement is lacking and parties cannot live H In harmon harmony and agree marriage Is hI a living liv liv- ing irig lie He and a a. farce tarco Untold thousands of ot marriages here and abroad exist In name only Failure to procure procuro tho the desired relief relict at tile the court house ox- ox I cent unon certain almost n nn proofs forces a premium upon perjur per per- jur jury and tho the New York courts can show records of ot thousands of ot cases reeking with perjury subornation of ot perjury perJur and collusion In order to bring cases within tile the restricted requirement require require- menta ment of ot Its ila puritanical statutes The Tho solution of ot the social cancer which forces two human beings to a n. life of misery sorrow and shame S I caused by hasty mistake at Its I tion la is humane divorce laws laws laws-laws laws I f that will enable the good women to toI I become legally separated from the tho brute the tho drunkard the felon Celon and the shiftless and unfeeling husband S. S who ho will fail Call to Provide his wife and i 1 1 child with tho the necessaries of life I Nevada law Is Just Is humane and 1 extends its generous generou arm even unto t the tho stranger without our gate Where i human frailty has erred through haste t let equity rectify as far tal as possible by i I a dissolution of tho the unholy marital tie I I 1 that holds two suffering Buttering beings toce toy to- to the y ce gether 1 Tho The divorce law was not repealed There arc aro beautiful mountain and amI valley drives with which the resident divorcees l divert divort themselves numerous hot n t springs s situated In picturesque 10 lo- y near b by trout fishing and deer deor S t f hunting are sports most roost available and Otto ono need not pass a n. dull hour If It ho lie hof i. i f hays havn the tho least inclination for outdoor f sports portA Street car lines run for miles h. h on the tho east cast and south couth sides Ides of ot the tho elt city and ono one of them Is to he ho extended this year car to tho the famous Lake Tahoe 19 miles away a away a bOd body of water which I has been pronounced by William Jan Jo J J. yan Th-yan o an J to ho the superior of or any in m Switzerland t Cost COAt of Living Moderate I Considering that Reno fleno Is la situated at atS S tho the gateway to tho Nevada Navada mines that the men who bring q their families to Nevada establish them In neno fleno while they them themselves solves taro faro Into the tho rougher and coarser existence of f mining camp Ufe life and that therefore a r demand has been suddenly created for tor bouses rooms and apartments which steady teady building operations havo have been ns AS yet et unable quite to cope copo with Reno Bone 1 IB is not so BO very ery expensive a n. place to live In To a tho the prices would appear tho the very ery acme of or atlon tine Ono can get Jet room and board In tho the best hotel In tho the city for tor a month an anel can range as high as S to 10 lO a month de dependent on ones one In the tho matter of or apartment apart apart- ment ments monts There Ther la Is a n. splendid apartment house with i. i all the le m dern Improvements in which ono one may rent two rooms and kitchenette for tor 50 a month or three and a a. a kitchenette for tor 80 30 SO For Tor an 1 additional tI l expenditure of ot 30 a month for tOr board ono one can live U well In such quarters Life Lite In private boardIng boardIng board- board Ing houses or rented residence willi will i cost COlt accordingly In tho the matter Of t eatables Reno teno is well provided pro It Is surrounded by the richest kind of ot pasturage o and farming land and fresh tresh eggs and rich milk butter buttor and cream arc always avail avail- able Tho The best but potatoes and anI tho the best I beef bet In the world arc aro to bo ho found In Nevada Th The adjacent mountain streams and lakes lakeR arc aro teeming with the finest Onest kind of trout California lying Just JURt to tho the west west supplies green vegetables all an the year round at about the same Himo cost winter or summer The i bay of San Francisco furnishes s sea pea fish Osh at nt moderate rates Nevada Ne Itself provides pro- pro vides a constant and plentiful supply of ot duck ducIc venison and other othor kinds of game California fruits arrive c dally daily during luring the season Benson and tho the people of ot Reno fleno have havo been boon eating strawberries strawberries- S not mot the hothouse variety variety for for tho the last lut month The water supply IR Ia from mountain creeks the purest in tho the world and the theair nil air is If healthful and l In Invigorating beIn being beng be be- ing In ng alwa always cool In the tho summer n nights bitter blUer the and nd never ne In tn winter Inter During greater grenter part of oC tho the winter the tho Inhabitants Inhabitants inhabitants tants move about without overcoat and the tho snowfall never ne amounts amount to lo more DIore than a fow tow Inches now and then thon Where Spi rt Lust Stand It l Is In this earthly paradise that legalized gambling l legalized prize prizefighting prizefighting O fighting and orco ma mado onsy o-ealY o are aro making their last stand It mn may readily readi readi- ly h be bo Judged that the tho society Is a n. plc plc- i tur one For the sociologist tho the novelist nox tho the student of or character it la is a 0 a.- a. panorama I Ir h J I r f t tr t it i- i TI J I h t ff 4 i J d tf J MRS ms AV I c. c Wife Ire of t the President of the Ilic I. I United ill tod States Mates Steel Corporation nho iio M his bile divorce from hit hiM first lu iu IW- IW of ot never ceasing Int Interest lest or ever ever- increasing inci delight Women of beauty and wit men of oC energy and IId cleverness grafters ot lea of e men remittance men men without a country country coun coun- tr try men without a a. homo home slip sUp Into Reno Heno snake make a meteoric flight athwart the local horizon and fleet awa away again The divorce Industry has contributed the greatest quota of oC remarkable names The flu flu-at divorcee of ot any tame fume I was Mrs rs William Ell Ellis la Core Corey who came caine here to get ct her freedom and In Incidentally Incidentally In- In to permit her spouse to marr marry Mabelle Oilman Here It wa wn t Edward Sothern and Virginia Harned tried to bid each other adieu aleu and hereIt here here- hereIt In-I In It was that Nat Goodwin obtained the tile freedom from tram Maxine Elliott that permitted per per- pcr-I pcr him to take talce one more whirl at atma ma matrimony tn mon Y Miss lIss H divorce suit was dismissed dismissed dis dis- missed on some t technical ground but It Is reported she will try again For a n long time lime the unhappily mated used to get et married to their affinities here hero within a few tew minutes n after Her the decree of oC divorce was pronounced A Justice of ot the peace generally tied tho the knot not But Hut after the tho divorce mill got more moro popular divorcees began to have ha the tho knot tied lied b by a cl clergyman Rev He C. C I. I L. L Mears of or the Con Congregational re church here casU easily holds the belt for tar pei performing forming t such uch marriages Full Fully 80 SO SOper per por cent of or tile the marriages o of recently divorced persons were performed by him Reno Is 18 thriving on two things on on the tho divorce trade and on being the metropolis of ot a state with In In- In J habitants Nevada Is growing rapidly and In a few tew years Reno will probably feel teel that she can afford to drop the business of severing se the eva l' Nevada would not have the out outside world believe that all Is easy sailing of oC tho the divorce seeker on tho the contrary the tho law Is specific In this tills regard reg-ard For Tor Instance to be begin ln action for fat divorce one of the following grounds outside those in Ii an any state must be specified in the complaint t Willful desertion at an any time lime of ot either cither party part or the tho other for the tile pe period period pe- pe C of oC one year yel Convicted of ot felony telony or infamous of ot- ot fence Habitual drunkenness contracted since marriage o. o of at either party vart which shall such party part from contributing contributing con con- his or her share sharo to the supPO support support sup sup- PO port of tho I e mildly family t I nf nt MI tn I Neglect of the tho husband tar for the pe period period pe- pe nod o of one year eal to lo provide the common nece necessaries of ot life lire when such ne neglect I Is not the tile result of ot poverty on the part of ot the husband which ho lo could not avoid avald b bv by ordinary Industry Staling on nn Cruelty In the hands of ot a skilled attorney It ItIs ItIs itis Is not so o difficult as It seems to es establish establish es- es h one or practically all of ot th these so grounds rounds with ordinary diligence For istance the tho Supreme court of or the state stale In de defining cruelty cruelly as a ground for divorce dl di- di vorce has hns ruled that It consists of ot acts that not on only I affect the tile health of ot the party but such uch as I even affect tho the comfort com corn fort tort and peace of mind What may wound the mental feeling ma may bo po e admitted admitted admitted ad ad- oven even thou though h It be unaccompanied led with bodily Injury either cither actual or menaced If It austerity of or temper tem tern per petulance of manner rudeness of langua language n. n a want of civil cl attention occasional sallies of passion do threaten threat threat- I en bodily harm thO they thoy do o amount to le legal al cr cruelty lt in Nevada ala r 1 ThO rne law requires under section 22 of ot th the tho marriage and divorce act that the tue plaintiff must reside In tho the state at least six months before the tho beginning begin begin- ning of ot an action It Is 18 hero that tho the statue Is given a liberal translation for Cor it does not necessarily mean that one o-no must reside hero here continuously durIng during during dur dur- ing those six months All Alt that Is necessary necessary essary Is tOT for one to come como here bore rent renta a room or a cottage va pay for tor It for tor six months and tell toll some somo ono one that ho Intends to live lI here Once of crt twice within the tho following half hatt year he ho can como come tIers here If he feels like It otherwise e he c can n drop off ort In Reno fleno on th the morning of ot the tue da day his hla case caso is set ct for tor hearing and b by the tile aid of nf a n. skilled attorney witnesses can bo ho produced who Wilo will swear that the tho plaintiff has been a resident for tor the required period Perjury PerJur Is thus not committed for tor under tho the law tho the person person per son did establish a homo home her here Another way vay to facilitate the matter is for the tile plaintiff to quietly arrange with the defendant to have havo tho the papers served upon the tho defendant somewhere In this This accomplished even een evena eena a six months' months residence Is not required f. f |