The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-17


 Elaborate preparations are being
 made for the reception of General Booth the aged head of the Salva- tion Army, who before submitting to the operation. which is to determine whether he shall become totally blind or recover his sight, has announced | his intention of coming to the United States. on what he expects will be his | last visit to this side of the Atlantic. Bramwell Booth, his son, who will | succeed him as the head of the Army l on his death, will accompany. There is something pathetic in the devotion | of the latter for his father, who IS | totally blind in one eye and can haro- | ly see out of the other This solicl- | tude is all the more touching because I the younger man is himself afflicted | with a defect of hearing which makes l it necessary for him to carry an ac- I cousticon with him wherever he goes, | so that he can transact business Tor | the Venera ble chief of the army, Whlch has reclaimed more human derelicts | than any institution on earth.
 Realizing that he has but few years of life left to him at best the General wants to review his faithful | followers on the American continent and give them his parting injunction. Starting in a tent in an abandoned | cemetery in the Whitechapel section of London, the organization is now | firmly established in every civilized | country on earth. maintains its own i banks, it's own factories for making | the clothes of it's members and the | instruments of it's musicians.
 Denouncing her as "The Diaz" of the Pen and Brush Club. because of the strangle hold she has held on the | Presidency of that organization for twelve years, fourteen of the members af oI, n reelection of Mrs. Ernest Thompson | Seton, this week resigned in a body. i All of the fourteen are women Writ l CTS and resented the disposition of
 Mrs. Thompson-Seto to perpetuate herself in the Presidency. Another grievance of the insurrectos was that as President she disregarded the pri- mary purpose and function of the club and devoted most of her time to the promotion of it's social features, 1g- | noring almost entirely the work Of | the members.
 Before seeding the insurrectos tried l to pass resolution disqualifying her from holding office again, but her friends rallied around her and defeat ed it. The fourteen have organized a new club after their own ideas and as a precaution against a repetition of the trouble that started the revolu- tion in the Pen and Brush Club have arranged their constitution so that no President shall serve longer than three months and shall be ineligible for reelection.
 But thirty-five years old, Margaret M. Fauser, admits to having married five different men since her sixteenth
 birthday. In the Supreme Court this
 week she applied for a separation from Hubby No. 5. Gustave Fauser,
 the artist. Her widely diversified ex- perience in the matrimonial field, has | had more than one thrill. Walter E. Kountze the womans third husband
 shot her three times and killed John E. Walsh, a wealthy Pittsburgh con- tractor in 1908 when he found the two of them together. Subsequently she divorced Kountze and married
 Charles Miller of Pittsburgh, who di-
 vorced her after living with her but two months. William Anderson Of
 Topeka, Kansas was Husband, No. |; l and Dr. William Wheeler of Kansas City, Husband No. 2. Except in the case of Anderson and Fauser, the first of whom lived with her two years and the latter four years. her hus-
 bands have lasted but a few months.
 Three out of the five allowed her to divorce them. Fauser, husband No. 5
 claimed that the woman, who is un-
 commonly attractive, is insane. To
 offset this charge, she voluntarily sub-
 mitted to an examination recently by
 alienists, who declared her sane. Trou-
 ble between the couple reached an
 acute stage a few months ago, when
 the woman accused the artist of being
 too fond of her daughter by her first
 husband. The young girl, who is nine teen, is now in a convent. Decision
 on the. application of the wife for S400 a month alimony was reserved by the court.
 The conviction of former Assistant District Attorney Daniel O'Reilly for protecting group of bond thieves and helping them secure a reward of s5,-
 900 for the return of the stolen se-
 curities has raised the squestion in
 many quarters: What is the matter
 with the New York bar? O'Reilly is
 the tenth prominent lawyer to be con-
 victed- in the last few years and one of the hundred disbarred for malprac
 tice. Of the others, Abe Hummel, convicted of suboTnation of perjury in
 connection with the divorce suit of
 Clementine Dodge Morse, the present
 wife of Charles w. Morse, former Ice
 King, now in the federal jail at At
 lanta, against her first husband; Carl
 Fisher-Hansen husband of Elsie Bro-
 kaw and brother-in-law of W. Gould
 Brokaw, convicted of. subornation of
 perjury in a blackmail case against
 Pittsburg millionaire and Colonel Am
 mon, counsel for '52O per cent. Mill
 ler'' were the best known.
 O'Reilly received $40,O00 from Harry
 Thaw for assisting in his defense in
 the trial sof the young millionaire for
 murdering Stanford White, but it is
 said by his friends gambled it away
 in few months. Of the quarter of
 a million dollars he is reputed to have
 earned in a few years, most of it is
 said to have been frittered away in
 the same way. Ever since the first
 Thaw trial there has been an impress aon among his fellow members of the
 bar and a good part of the laity, that
 the slayer of White owes the fact that
 he was not convicted and electrocuted
 to O'Reilly who is given the credit of
 working up the sensational criminal
 assault charge of Evelyn Nesbitt
 Thaw against White, which proved to
 be the bulwark of the defence and un-
 questionably swayed the jury in be-
 half of the defendant Although
 grateful to him for what he had done
 for Thaw, the latter's family it has
 been common rumor for year or
 more has become very much embitter-
 ed toward him of late because of his subsequent friendship for Thaw's young wife, who has not been as de- voted to the young murderer since
 his incarceration in the Matteawan ASy he orin,inal insane