The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-09

ported here, William Waldorf Aston,
worth of New York real estate to a
| trust company for the benefit of his
son, Waldorf and other members of
| the family. In this way he can pre-
vent the collection of the inheritance
tax on his estate in England at his
| death and albert any attempt to inn
pose such a tax here. Astor is now
a full fledged British subject and
under the laws of the United King
dom his executors can be compelled
to pay to the government several mil
lion dollars on his death, as they
might have to do also in New York,
of which his son and grandchildren
are still legally citizens, though not
living here. His plan to avoid such
contingency was foreshadowed the
other day when he decided his half
interest in the Waldorf-Astoria no
and Trust Co. in trust for his son
any issue he may leave or to his
younger brother Colonel John Jacob
Aston, in the event of none of Wal
dorf AstorS sons surviving This de-
cision is accepted as permanently dis
posing OF the rumors. revived every
now and again that William Waldorf
Aston, who has been a widower for
many years, cherishes an ambition
to marry again. His distribution of
his property at this time Is regarded
as insuring a more conspicuous posi-
ton than they have heretofore occu-
pied in the English social world for
Waldorf Aston, his son and the lat
ter's wife, who was Miss Mamie
Langhorne, one of the beautiful Lang
horne sisters. One of the latter it
will be recalled is the wife of Chas.
Dana Gibson, the artist.
Major General Daniel E. Sickles, the
last of the surviving corps comman-
ders on the Union side in the Civil
War, who lost a leg at the battle of
Gettysburg, told the other evening
an interesting story of the faith OF
President Lincoln in the efficacy of
prayer. which tends to rerute those
who have held that the martyred
The story related to a Sunday visit
of the President to himself in the
hospital in Washington to which the
General had been carried with one
chance in five hundred to live, after
a bullet at Gettysburg had shattered
his right leg.
"Sickles, I couldn't help coming to
see you as soon as 1 heard of your
arrival President Lincoln said ''1
want to tell you how pleased I am
with the victory at Gettysburg. |
hadn't a doubt our army would win, |
but L am full of gratitude just the
same ''Why did you think we
would VIM sfckles asked. "well, I |
will tell you replied the President. |
in a hushed voice, 'but you mustn't |
noise it abroad; I wouldn't have any,
thing said of it. When 1 realized |
that if we lost on Northern soil, Eng |
land would probably intervene-and |
be lost, 1 went to my bedroom, lock-
ed myself in, so that might be alone |
with God, and fell on my knees. |
never prayed so fervently for anything |
in my life as for victory for our army |
at Gettysburg. AS prayed a feeling
of peace came over me and I rose
sure of victory, for / knew that God |
had answered. Yes to me and would
be with us on the field. "Now, I am
In prophetic mood. The doctors say
you have one chance in five hundred
to recover. I say you will get over
this trouble, that you twill outlive
the war and will be able to serve
MY left hand was next to him. Gen.
Sickles said last night as he finished
the story. HE folded it in both of
his as he babe me good-by and good
cheer. That was the last time 1 ever
saw him alive
When the news reaches him that
he was held up here as a horrible
example" by suffragan Bishop Burch
Of the Protestant Episcopal diocese
Of this city, George Bernard Shaw.
hhe English poet and critic is expect
I'd to sit up and take notice. 1t was
not because Of his frequently reiter-
ated criticism of things On this side
made to him as an undesirable type
Of a citizen but because of his cynical
attitude with respect to the church
and dogmatic theology generally. Adj