The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-31
". ). BISHOP
 WOULD MARRY MRS. VALENTINE
Reported as Saying That Ills
 Wife Should Divorce Him
Woman He Would Wed Ayers She Will Become His Wife if Chance Affords-Living on Marsh Shore Long Island Annoyed by Anonymous Let terS
New York Wokd.)

Most unusual is the pre0icament in which William D. Bishop. retired capi- yachtsman and clubman of New York and Bridgeport, Conn.,, finds himself
 Nearly six years ago Mrs~Bishop and his wife separated anicably without a divorce, and MT. Bishop settled mill lion dollars on his wife and their two children, Miss Natalie and William D. Bishop, third. Now MT. Bishop has fallen in love-something that seemed remote possibility to him ae the time of the separation-with Mrs. Pauline Valentine, beautiful widow who, coming on adverse times, ran a mani cure parlor in lower Fifth avenue, Manhattan. Whether he met the fair widow in the manicure parlor or not neither he nor she will say, but MT. Bishop says he wishes to marry the widow and the widow says but for the existing Mrs. Bishop she would most willingly marry MT. Bishop.
 Mrs. Bishop is silent. She resides with her daughter and her son, a Yale student. at No. 179 Courtland street, Bridgeport. She was Miss Susie Washburne of Chicago Her brother, Charles E. Washburne, a noted Illin- ois lawyer, supervised the drawing of the separation papers of the Bishops. Bishop. a pioneer railroad builder in New England. The family became the heaviest stockholders in the New Ha- ven Railroad. William D. Bishop. the first, gave all his children, large for tunes years before his death and be- queathed them millions more The present William D. Bishop Is mem Der of the Reform. New York Yacht, University. Yale and Transportation clubs of this city; Is a Scroll and Key'' man, and a lawyer. He abandoned his residence in Connecticut immediately after the separation.
 STATEMENT BY BISHOP.
 'aThere Is absolutely nothing to con- ceal in my past domestic relations" said MT. Bishop yesterday. But, on the other hand, there have been sew eral busybodies of the most despicable of all types@anonyInous letter writers who have been pesterfng me with scandalous letters. I think it ie just to all concerned that to set gossip at rest my plans for the future should be understood.
 'T want to marry Mrs. Valentine: She is the only woman in the world that want and the only ohe I have wanted for a long time. I cannot marry her until Mrs. Bishop has di- vorced me. fully expected her to do so long ago. If the thought had come to me at the time of the possi- bifity of such a situation coming up as now confronts me I would have in sisted on a divorce instead of a sep aration. I did not think then that I would ever want to marry again.
 Women are strange-at least Mrs. Bishop in her present attitude is most strange. Why should she want to hold me to a tie that means nothing to either of us. positively nothing? She could at any time divorce me and ap- parently she will not. I am quite help less unless go to Reno. but Mrs. Bishop would have no difficulty in free ing herself from me. I know of no religious or ethical scruples which she may entertain against divorce"
 This statement was made by MT. Bishop at the Miter, summer place between Glen Head and Cliff Side on the north shore of Long Island, near Glen Cove, which he gave to Mrs. Val entine about a year ago and where, with others, he fS her guest.
 WHAT MRS. VALENTINE SAYS.
 Mrs. Valentine said to a World re- porter:
 '.I am ready to do anything to make MT. Bishop happy. He has said that he wants to marry me, and I am cer- tainly willing to marry him should the obstacle ever be moved which now stands in our way. It is so hopefessly an obstacle, tool There are no grounds of which I know that would warrant MrS. blSIOp SulI1S IOT d ulNOiSC AA~ANO" 7" York State Perhaps 1t would not be so difficult in Connecticut. Mir. Bish- op was most generous in his settle ment on leaving his wife. She could not have loved him then or she would have tried to keep him. Surely she has not suddenly discovered that she loves him and cannot give him up."
 Mrs. Bishops home in Bridgeport was closed. when a World reporter called there yesterday. With her daughter she is at a Massachusetts SeaShOre resort.