RENO'S DIVORCE MILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1837, 25 August 1913, Page 7

RENO'S DIVORCE MILL.

THE END AT LAST. Bono's divorce mils, which' for years under Novadau law have ground out deorees in great abundance and with unfailing regularity, must soon slaw down. There is a new law, to becomo operative on Decembor 21, bringing Nevada in most essentials into lino with tlio other States as regards divorce, and thereafter the familiar song, "I'm on my way to Reno," will bo less popular. Whilo Reno's ohief industry is threatened, t3ie end is not yet, writes the Now York, correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." People who seek a release from matrimony under tlio now Nevadan law must lire within tlio Stato ait least 12 months, and the "bogus domicile," hitherto common, will not bo acceptable to Nevadan jurists. By "bogus domicile" is meant the practice of a fashionable lady arriving ait R-eno ono' day with a servant and heaps of baggage,'remaining a week or two, enjoying society amongst the divorce colony, and then rmddcnly migrating with the object of not returning for another six months, iv!hcn the case is set down for hearing. Henceforth to secure a Reno dcorco ono must actually live within the State for a year. It was still possible, however, to take advantage of tlio old law as late as June 30, and this account-cd for the proat rusli to Reno in the last week of Juno. Aspirants to matrimonial freedom «vt Reno were more munorous than at any provioirs period of Reno's chequered Jdstory. During tlio entiro month of June, and especially the last week, the throng of newcomers in Reno experienced great difficulty in securing apartments, aa all'the hotels and boardingjhouses wero crowded. To celebrate tiio- passing of the old regime the divorco colony held high jinks at tlio Oirby Hall, terminating wMi a crand ball at which the Tango, Turkey, Trot, and other terpsidiorean eccentricities wero danced'..