Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — MADE PRISONER BY HEALTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MADE PRISONER BY HEALTH.

Mra. Ea<e Has to Be Guarded Arainat the Mendicant*. Mrs. Russell Sage has been obliged to abandon temporarily her New York City house and remain in strict seclusion her Long Island home —striven to shelter by the army of mendicants besetting her, as well as the throngs of the merely curious, anxious to gaze upon one of the richest women in the world. Personally she is inaccessible to acquaintance and stranger alike; only a few of her most intimate friends break through the human cordon with which she has surrounded herself. Nearly all her mail goes to her town house in New York, where it is looked after by a corps of secretaries. Not even personal communications reach

het. Cablegrams, telegrams, special delivery letters, all are intercepted. At her country home any one seeking an audience with her must run a long gauntlet of guards, and in the end, nine times out of ten, will never see her. Secretaries form the outer bulwark of the wall of defense. Getting past them, one encounters her lawyers, her physicians, and even her clergyman, all of whom unite in shielding her from visitors who might prove importunate. Personal freedom she enjoys but little. It is said that she has come to suspect/wen a num-

ber of old friends of mercenary motives, and that not a few have proved themselves mere fortune seekers. In the seclusion of her country home she lives the life of a recluse, virtually seldom going beyond the gates. Great wealth has brought its disadvantages as well as its opportunities.

MRS. RUSSELL SAGE.