The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-20
GOTHAM GOSSIP
By Francis Phillips, Copyright, 1910,
 by the National News Service,

By Francis Phillips, Copyright, 1910, by the National News Service, New York, Jan. 20.-Society exper- fenced something of a rift in its cpl glottis this week over the discovery that the Haymerket. for years one Tenderloin,> is owned by Dr. Oliver Livingston Jones, the present head of one of the most prominent families in town. The Jones trace their an- cestry back before the Revolution.
 Mrs. Jones is Colonial Dame, a Daughter of the Revolution, and elig- iible for admission to every patriotic
 s1-iety irs -1.S East, as is her husband. They have a fine city residence on one of the fashionable uptown streets and Spring Harbor, l.. I. They move in
 the best society and until recently
 entertained lavishly. Coincident with the discovery of the ownership of the Haymarket, which has been clouded l in mystery for many years. comes the suggestion that there may be som is
 connection between that fact and the burning of the country home or the wealthy physician on August 25th, 1899. On the evening of the fire a strange woman got Dr. Jones on the telephone at the Cold Spring house l of the Haymarket. 'If you are" she said, my spirit shall always pursue you"
 Before the physician could ascer- tain her name she rang off. The mes sage was interpreted by him as an i'll omen and he worried over it for hours until he could not stand the strain any longer and left the house. Servants, who were sent out to hunt for him, found him long after mit- night in a dazed condition, wandering aimlessly about in the woods. AS they were returning with him, the cupola of the Jones mansion,in which a lamp had been left burning as a guide to. him Tn the event: of his re- turning alone, burst into flames. Be- reach the scene the building, with it's art treasures, was burned to Che ground. Since that time the physician
 has been an invalid and has not been seen by any except few Of his more intimate frieends and relatives. The story of the strange telephone mes sage. has been kept a secret and came out only the other day when an ex- animation of some old records re- vealed the ownership of the Haymar-
 ket. The author of the message is
 believed to be victim of the life
 conspicuous for many years and ito
 have sought vengeance on it's owner
 in this singular manner. In its long career the lease of the Haymarket
 has been held by different persons who have steadfastly refused to give any one the name of the owner of the property. At various times it has been said on good authority that the lease was worth half a million a year to those who operated the hall under it.
 hn of hn 9nfiO nf William F. Jaeger, wealthy man, for the annulment of his marriage to, Ida A. Jaeger, his pretty wife. this week before Justice Blanchard in the Supreme Court, an attendant called out the name of George F. Edmonds as a witness in the case. From one of the rear seats arose a burly negro, who explained that that was his name. He was called to the stand and in response to the questions or had been married to the attractive looking defendant and had lived with her for a year. His testimony sent the woman into mysteries. Subse- quently she was placed on the stand and admitted that what the negro animation she tainted tnd had to be carried out of the court. At the time she married Jaeger the evidence showed she had not been divorced H.. his first intimation that his wife had been married before she met him through testimony given some months ago in the United States Court, where she was calleld to testify in another action. The revelation shocked him as we'll as the friends of the couple, who had pretty home and enjoyed the society of a select set in their home neighborhood. In defending her action, the wife pleaded that her former husband was dead. Until the process servers found Edmonds and served him with the order directing his appearance in the Supreme Court in Jaeger's annulment action, the second husband did not learn that husband No. 1 was negro.
 Andrew Carnegie, who joined Col. Roosevelt in promulgating the simpli
 fled spelling propaganda, planes the prejudices "of the old fogies" con- nected with the big institutions of the country for the perpetuation of the present confusing orthography of the nation. The Laird of Skibo Castle sympathizes with the girl students of Wellesley who were recently publicly criticised for their use of phonetic spelling. The rebuke administered to the students brought forth a state ment from the Iron Master, in which he says:
 These young ladies were no doubt taught first that though was pro- nounced tho, with spelling in brack- cts to give the accommodations; phys ics,' pronounced fisiks; taught pro- nounced taut, etc. Having become accustomed to this natural way, no wonder it is difficult for them to spell these words as they are still printed. They are to be compli- mented upon this, and if they con tinue their spelling as taut to pro- nounce, they will soon improve our language.
 "A leading institution recently had before it the adoption of simplified spelling of its reports, which are sent out to other societies turnout the world. Three of the directors, very old but eminent men, were strongly opposed thereto until they heard the reasons for the change, when one said: oh, we admit you have all the arguments and we have only our prejudices.' The resolution was car- ried.
 When The Tale of a Tub was printed spite was printed ''spighte.' We have changed that We don't yet spell bright b-r-i-t-e or slight s-l-i-t-e, etc, though we shall soon. | The useless 'gh's' are at least doomed
 'Oniv this morning I learned that the Modern Language Association ot
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