The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-08

two years sentence for cashing worth
 less checks. Hall and the show girl
 were spending their, honeymoon in
 London, when the bridegroom who was
 considerable of a dandy here and
 abroad, was arrested on a cablegram
 from this side charging him with
 giving a valueless draft for an auto
 mobile. He had the auto with
 him at the time and was preparing
 to embark on an extensive trip through the continent. Subsequently the ac-
 tress learned that he was legally the husband of another at the time he married her. Wife NO. 1 has since secured a divorce from him and her
 successor is anxious to follow suit, as Hall will be- released on August 11th
 and she is afraid he will leave this Jurisdiction at once. In his palmy
 days neither Berry Wall. Freddie Geb-
 hard or any of the other young blades
 of the town had anything on Hall for
 sartorial adornments. He blew mon
 ey as if it grew overnight in his back
 mysterious about his antecedents
 which he was averse to explaining
 and which gave rise to the suspicion
 in some quarters that he was the
 scapegoat son of some foreign noble
 man.
 There was much perturbed and
 very petite little blonde insurrecto
 aboard the steamer St. Paul when it
 arrived the other day, in the person
 of the Countess Beatrice van Bylandt,
 wife of the resident Dutch Peace Com
 missioner at The Hague. The Coun- tess is an adept at inhaling cigarette
 fumes-she vows it is really exhilar- ating to her. Some one aboard the ship as it approached the Quarantine station inside the Narrows told her that she could not indulge her pet fancy in the United States. Her eyes flashed and struggling >her shoulders she declared that if there was such a prescription on cigarette smoking by women she would take the first ship back to the other side as she really could not abandon the habit. As the ship news reporter clambered over the side of the St. Paul with the Customs Inspectors, she asked them about the reported embargo and felt immensely relieved when assured that Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs Mich olas Longworth and other American women had become addicted to the weed The Countess is on her way to the Pacific Coast where she expects to spend the best part of the summer
 Keenly sensitive of the unpleasant publicity that has attended both him. self and his daughter, the fetching Mrs. Scott Mckim. in their domestic | D.. timore millionaire drug manufacturer proposes that his forthcoming marriage | to Mrs. Anne Preston Mccormick | shall not furnish the newspapers with | additional material for exploiting him. | Early in the week it was announced l that he had arranged to have the we'd | ding ceremony on an auxiliary brig in l the middle of the Hudson River just | beyond the New York city limits | This plan appealed to Gotham as rath-] CT romantic and as sure to stir the | public curiosity if nothing else did | but it was quickly abandoned when the newspapers learned of it. When and where the marriage will ultimate ly be held is mystery, but there is a suspicion that it will eventually | be solemnized in the way originally intended. Only in this way can the bridegroom, who is paying his first wife, whom he recently divorced, s25,- OOO a year alimony, secure the pri- vacy he desires. The notoriety achieved in connection with his di- vorce and that of his daughter, whose name continues to be associated with that of Alfred G. Vanderbilt, in spite of her frequent repudiation of the story that she is soon to marry him, has secured the millionaire on the news papers and if it is possible they will laern nothing concerning his second venture into the matrimonial field
 The mystery of the sudden return of John D. Rockefeller from his Cleveland home to his estate at Pc. cantico Hills at Tarrytown has been solved. Various reasons have been ascribed for his trip east one that he desired to personally select a new home for his son, John D. Jr., and another that he had some surveying for a new road to supervise at the