Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1911 — Club Woman Fears Typhoid infection Through Servants [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Club Woman Fears Typhoid infection Through Servants

Who forced an investigation of the typhoid epidemic at the fashionable Colony club of New Yprk, .of which she is a director. Hight cases of fever were reported to health authorities, all the victims beipg waiters. t Mrs. Harriman, according to report, caused an investigation to ascertain whether some conspiracy existed to infect the employes with the germs and thereby, club members. The affair is shrouded in mystery and reports 6f the investigation are being watched for by the smart-set members of the club. w

days they' delighted In each other’s company and openly comported themselves as a betrothed pair. The same year however, which witnessed the high tide of their joy, also saw its ebb. The scheme of elevating Princess Eliza to royal rank was declared impossible, and from the Russian side the suggestion was even put forward of a marriage between Prince William and a Princess of the house of Wiemar. Still, the faith of the young couple in each other appeared unbroken, when in 1826 Prince William again visited his sweetheart while ou his way to Russia. , “Yesterday” the Princess, “William was here, and we lived short, sweet hours together. Today, there are already many miles between us.” ' This was in January. In the summer Of the same year the final cataetrophey occured which forever dashed the hopes of the youpg people. Both the prince, fhd his father the king, wrote to the Raziwell family, “What moments of joy I have lived in these five years despite the bitter hours which thsy brought me What is there in life that I have not tasted. It is enough- Now I turn mj heart to those from whom it can never be tom away. He says that he has to thank me for the peace of his soul. I feel that I could cry aloud the consolation which this message brings me.” Prince William had been obliged by what be considered his duty to .the future of the state to desert the girl Of his heart, and In February, 1829, his engagement to Princess Augusta von Weimar was announced. Yet once more, however, the Prince visited Princess Eliza. Her mother thus described the Scene: “He arrived at 12 o’clock on June 3. I went to meet him. His emotion was so visible and so Intense that I, too, lost my self control, and it- was with feelings of the greatest distress that I took him to my room where Eliza was waiting. I was sorely afraid of the effect which the meeting would have upon both of them. Yet, as God willed it so it happened. His love strengthened Eliza’s heart She Is now convinced that William fulfilled the King’s wish out of bis strict sense of duty. She is quieter than before and her sorrow has been softened. She knows that it was stem necessity and his father's will which Intervened and not any inconsistency of heart on hfs part.” Princess Eliza did not live long after the marriage of William to Princess Augusta of Weimar. One night, as she sat at dinner with the royal pair, she was overtaken by Internal hemmoerage and fell Into an illness from wllich she never recovered. She was taken by her family to those same forests where William years ago first declared his love, and there she died.

Mrs. Borden Harriman.