Mrs. Conger not There

Sara Pike Conger

We gladly republish from the New York Journal the following self-explanatory letter of Mrs. Sara Pike Conger, and, on behalf of Mrs. Conger, with whose estimable life and character we are well enough acquainted to speak intelligently, we herewith express our appreciation of the act of the proprietor of the Journal in publishing a correction of the aspersion in question as well as its friendly apology.

No one of Mrs. Conger's many thousands of friends would, for a moment, believe her guilty of the act insinuated.

Boston, Mass., June 28.

Editor Evening Journal:—My attention has been called to an article appearing in your issue of June 26, entitled, "Americans the Looters," wherein it is charged that a party composed of the Belgian and Italian Ambassadors, Lady McDonald, and the Secretary of the British Legation, visited the palace on a pass issued by General Chaffee. There were others—Americans—with the party. Also that while in the palace Sir Claude McDonald said: "Members of the party wished to break open a storeroom. My secretary protested, saying General Chaffee would object. The breaking open was continued, and, to show their disapproval, the two Ambassadors and Lady McDonald left the party."

The article thus concludes: "Sir Claude refused to discuss the report that it was the wife of the American Minister who had caused the storeroom to be broken open."

This is a subtle and most unfair way of charging me with looting, or at least of leaving as the only fair inference that I was the person who caused the storeroom to be broken open.

This charge is absolutely false. I was not of the party, knew nothing whatever of the affair, and was not in the remotest degree responsible for it.

Moreover, it was well known to all at the legations that I was conscientiously opposed to looting in any form. I ask you to do me the justice of publishing this correction, and that you give it prominence in your newspaper.

Sara Pike Conger.

The Evening Journal gladly prints Mrs. Conger's letter. The insinuation in the article referred to did Mrs. Conger a great injustice.

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