The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26
GOTHAM GOSSIP
tRy Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. K. Y.)

New York, May 26-Anibel Zelaya, nephew of the former President of the Republic of Nicaragua was much per turbed this week because of the dis covery that he had taken out license to wed the other day al the City Hall Zelaya was sued for breach of promise of marriage last year by ~>Sz-- G,CAeE maiden named Eliza b7fa s-ass Hero, who was awarded lunRVnept against him of S2000 by d Jury n 1fre supreme Court here. Since then he has been quietly practicing medicine in this city and little has been heard of his movements outside of the restaurants where Central Americans make their headquarters plan fresh revolutions in the Repub- lies south of Mexico. When the fact that he had taken out license to marry Senorita Cordoba, the daughter of a Cuban planter, became known the young physician vigorously denied that he had made any such application and intimated that some impersonator had assumed his name for the occa- sion. He admitted however, that he and Miss Cordoba were cordial friends and when approached she made a sim liar acknowledgment. Friends of Zelaya, explaining his denial declar- ed that he was afraid that some friends of Miss Hero, who felt aggrieved against him for discarding her, would try to interrupt his wedding if they became apprised of his plans before the ceremony took place. When and where the marriage will take place assuming that it has not already been solemniZed quietly in the suburbs of the city-no one pretends to know.
 Fire fighting by wealthy society women has become quite a vogue nowadays. Early in the week, Mrs. August Belmont, co-operated with a large force of her neighbors and their employees in extinguishing d big blaze at her country home on Long Island and by all accounts acquitted herself nobly. The blaze continued to glow we'll on into the night and 1t was long after midnight before she was able to throw aside the buckets with which she carried water to those who were bearing the brunt of the work of sub- jugating the flames. When 1t was all over. Mrs. Belmont, who was the beau tiful Eleanor Robson, the actress, of Merely Mary Ann fame, said she didn't mind the thrilling experience one bit and that the excitement as a. matter of fact was thoroughly exhili- lerating. Since her marriage to MT. Belmont, whose second wife she is, she has been one of the most attrac- tive and popular members of the fash ionable set in which her banker nus band has been a moving figure ever
  ty odd years. Mrs. c. c. Rumsey, who as Mary Hartman before her marr1- age was the favorite daughter of the late E. H. Hartman, the multi-mil- lionaire railroad magnet had an eX- perience not unlike that of Mrs. Bel mont at the Hartman estate at Ar den, a night or two later. Mrs. Rum sey is an athletic young woman and possesses a good deal of the organiz- ing genius of her father. When the fire broke out she quickly summoned two or three hundred of the hands ern- ployed on the estate and marshalling them into an improvised fire fighting company directed them in the work of fighting the flames until they put it out.
 The report which has been going the rounds of the country. imputing to Lillian Russell a plan to marry again has caused some of the statis- ticians along the Rialto to figure out how often she has been charged with cherishing the matrimonial notion since she divorced Perugfnni her third and last official husband The fnd- ings of this self constituted board of inquiry indicate that she has been re- ported as engaged to no less than five hundred swains, who were admit tedly more or less enamored of her perennial beauty, upon which time has indulgently left no apparent inn print. despite the fact that the song bird is fifty years old this year. For a long time, 1t was said the late Sec- retary of War, William c. Whitney, who was devoted to her. had in mind asking her to marry him.
 When he died, under what has re- peatedly been said since then to be mysterious circumstances, Jesse Lew insohn, who has a million or more that he doesn't need became the fa-
 Al Hno fr,1 accompanying her daily to the races and elsewhere about town whens she was at leisure. Whether the fair song bird passed him up or he heark- ened to the call of some one with less burden of years on her shoulders subsequently, married younger wo- man, following the example of his brother who married Edna May, the prima donna who graduating from the ranks of the chorus in New York, went to London as the leading woman in .aThe Belle of New York and cap tured the English capital. As one swain stepped down and out of her life another, equally as enthusiastic stepped up to the shrine and made his votive offering at the shrine, so that the diva has never lacked for the adoration she has felt was her due The road is said to be jarring on her nowadays and it is not unlike ly that she would marry if she could get the man who would look good enough to her to warrant her in be- Heving that she could keep him until Gabriel blows his mighty blast This time she wants her man for keeps-if she has him at all.
 Recent tabulations show that there are now more than twenty-five so- called cults in New York, practic ing various philosophical and relig ious rites of more or less mystic character. The suicide of Dr. W. R. C. Latson, in his handsome apartment in Riverside Drive the other day serv ed to redirect attention to the wide spread extension of these strange pro- pagandas which are daily drawing | away from the churches many mem- bers who find in their subleties and sophistries the spiritual excitement their senses demand. Latson was a | .'rnan-god'' in the estimation of many l of his disciples and exercised a mar velous control over those he attract | ed to him. pr. Julian P Thomas. one of his | friends, discussing his suicide the oth- | CT day expressed the conviction that l Latson really believed that he was l unusually endowed psychically and | that in killing himself he proposed to demonstrate that his soul could come back and inhabit another body. His | principal disciple Alta Marhevka. | who regarded him as a transplanted | da{tv really believed he cOuld do this