The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-08
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips, Copyright 1911. by the National News Service. N. Y.)


 by the National News Service. N. Y.) New York, July S-Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's statement that her double Teddy Gerard. the pretty Broadway show girl. has been causing her trou- ble by masquerading here and abroad under her name, has brought upon the wife of Harry Thaw, the murderer of StaE6ord White, the bitter criticism of the rfalto. Gables from Paris this week credited the latter with being responsible for a disagreement be- tween E. R. Thomas and his wife. Following the first and second Thaw pany of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Since the conviction of Charles w. Morse, his former associate in bank trans actions here, now in the Atlanta Jall the young millionaire has been living abroad. Mrs. Thaw denies that she has been on the other side of the Atlantic with him and blaanes the Gerard girl for impersonating her. With the evident intention of clear ing herself with the Thaw family which is keeping her liberally sup piled with money. the wife of Stan ford Whites slayer, this week told some hitherto unknown secrets con- cerning the friendship of Thomas for her double, which is expected to stir up a big row between the snow glfl and her husband, which it is said along the rialtO was not aware of the predilection of the banker for his wife.
 The reported trouble between NhOm- as and his wife-which by the way he denies-hAs revived interest in his spectacular career here for many years. He has generally been credit ed with backing up Mabel Gilman Tn the musical show The Mocking eBdrd before that songbird met and captivat- aJ a, lie O President of the Steel Trust for love of whom he subsequently, divorced his first wife. that he might marry her. At this time Thomas and his wife were occupying the s10,O00 regal suite in the St. Regis hotel and cutting big swath in society. His banking troubles with Morse during the 1907 panic are said to have greatly em- bittered him against New York and induced him to abandon his home here.
 Trouble is already foreshadowed for the city authorities as the result of Police Commissioner Waldo's ap- pointment of Samuel J. Battle, a ne- gro to the municipal police force. It is the first time so far as the city records show that a member of Bat ties race has held such a position, although there were two colored men
 
 time of that citys consolidation with the metropolis under the Greater New York charter. One of these men is still on the force but he has been segregated as far as possible from the white policemen, who have con- sistently> refused to associate with him.
 If the new Commissioner insists up- on Battle sleeping in the same sta tion house dornitory with the white policemen, while in reserve and oth- erwise fraternizing with him 1t is clear from the present temper of the patrolmen that there wiu be breakers ahead for the authorities. 1t will take all of the judicial tact of Mayor Gay nor to handle the situation, which is recognized by every one as extremely delicate.
 Should the negro survive his ap- prenticeship period. it is generally ac- to tread and that he will be kept to the strict spirit as we'll as the letter of the departments rules, which experience has shown to be a hard thing for the man who patrols the sidewalk to do.
 Before sailing for his home in In- dia, the other day, Baba Bharita Hindoo seer who has been on a tour of observation in America. ridiculed the great solicitude of Americans for the spiritual welfare of the Eastern heather, for whose salvation $20, 000- 900 year is sent abroad. Baba us- ed to work on a newspaper in the same town in the East where Kipling gathered the local color for some of his "best sellers and he is now en- gagged in writing a book which he modestly predicts will eclipse in pop ular interest the epic of the author of Kim and in a way be an answer to it. Incidentally he ayers he has in preparation another book to be called '"The Letters of a Heather in which he handles conditions in this country without gloves.
 @'The $20,000,000 that your churches annually send to the East for mis- sionary purposes is entirely lost" he said. "It is like sending coal to New Castle. All of the heatalens in the world live in the West anyway; none of them five in the East.
 Tine need of your country is for missionary work at home and not among our people of the East
 christianity in your land has lost it's interpreters. It is not Christian ity at all; it is churchanity and it is not based upon humanity. Your best preachers are not Christpns. They are machine-made products of theo- logical seminaries.
 Our Hindpo teachers teach the doc- trines of Christ as Christ lived. They improve any Christian In his own faith. While I have not made any attempt to teach in this country there are some 5000 persons here now, who accept our faith. Your ten command ments as taught by your people are nothing but childish prattle. Civilized people do not need to be told that they shall not steal We Hindoos are taught that at the breasts of our mothers
 Whether based On actual facts or suggested by spirit of revenge for some fancied slight, there is no deny arrived immigrants detained by the port authorities at the infectious dis ease hospitals on Swinburne and Hoffman Islands for observation, dis, closed by the State investigation of the conditions existing there has caused a big stir in the last week. | The testimony of some of the witness es examined to the effect that it | was the custom to wash sick babies l in the same tubs and with the same water used in washing dead babies | and that children suffering from meas les, scarlet fever and smallpox were all kept in the same wards, although | denied by those in charge of the | health stations on the islands has made deep impression.
 All of the patients on the two isl- | ands were newly landed immigrants |