The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-20

| ventilation of the case here Last l week Mrs. Guernsey Curran, that was, | married Walworth Pierce, of Boston. l Before her first marriage she was
 Marie Burr Harmon and was consid- 1 cred one of the most attractive of the younger society matronS of the | city. What effect the marriage of FL
 sic Postley Curran to Guernsey Cur
 ran will have on the couples relations l With the bridegrOom'S family, which
 seemed to feel keenly the divorce se-
 cured by the present bride from Ross | Amber Curran, is a matter of much
 speculation here. The situation creat-
 ed by this second marriage of the
 former Elise Postley into the family
 is rather unique, and society here is
 afraid may lead to a division of the I family and their friends.
 The friends of the Rev. Dr. Newell
 Dwight Hills, of Plymouth church,
 were much surprised to learn this
 week that he had been made a defen-
 dant in a suit involving s2O, ,0o0, ,000, fl- | ed against him in Victoria, B. C., al- leging fraud and misrepresentation in
 coal land deals there. The fact that 1 the clergyman was interested in land | speculation in that section of the
 world was unknown to his parishion- | CTS. Plymouth church Is the old
 stronghold of the late Henry Ward | Beecher and has enrolled among it's | active members some of the wealthi- l est and most prominent men and
 women in the city. There is ground
 for believing that the clergyman was used as dummy in the transaction | by some of his well-to-do acquaint- 1 ances about the city and that he had
 no share in any profits from the deal | in question:
 | Dr. Hillis is charged with having procured options on 10000 acres of coal l c nc 0ofn nY, O T-ny aC n a
 tion that he was acting for Leigh s. | J. Hunt, well-known capitalist. It is | asserted he did not represent Leigh Hunt or others but obtained the options | to endeavor to sell them and ultimate | ly made a deal with James Moore, of | Seattle, for the Western Steel Corpo- | ration, in which the coal lands figure
 as assets and are valued by the cor poration at $20 900, 900.
 Dr. Hills is reported to have recent | ly endeavored to procure capital in London and Paris for the development
 of the property.
 | In the old days 1t used to be the rid | ing school teacher who was the dread of the solicitous mother with pretty, | susceptible, not over sensible daugh- | ter, but recent events In and about Gotham indicate that the chauffeur has traEsplanted him as a soft-pedal | love artist. Within the last twelve
 months twelve of the chu-chu car nav | igatcrs have enthroned themselves in | the hearts of their wealthy employers daughters and made off with them,
 as tS bold knights of old were accus- toned to do. Attention to this new danger was again directed this week | when Mrs. Margaret Madison, a veal | thy widow, applied to the Supreme Court for power to bring an action to l annul the marriage of her fifteen year-old daughter. Anna, to her chauf feur on April 26th last. The court promptly acquiesced in the application and expressed surprise that chauf- l feur should be so foolhardy as to sub- | jecu himself to the prospect of going | to jail for twenty years for abduction | for marrying minor. On the day when the wedding took place. the youthful bride persuaded her mother i to let the chauffeur take her and some gir! friends, out for a ride. Getting possession of the car in this way, the couple went to the suburbs and were married. A few days later the mother of the girl learned of it and dismissed the bridegroom. who. fear ing punishment for what he had done,
 has disappeared from the city. In all of the other cases of a like char acter that have occurred in the last
 twelve months. the brides were much older But in this case, as well as. the others the brides only explanation for her silly act was that "she thought she was in love- Supreme Court Justice Giegrich who
 has presided at probably more actions for divorce than any jurist in the country. took issue yesterday with the statement of Rev. Dr. Tallmadge that each year were due to the temptations thrust in the way of a husband or wife during the summer vacation per iod. In the opinion of the clergy
 man. there was more significance than simple merriment in the song, My
 Wife's in the Country; Hooray." and Away. the Mice Will Play With
 the wife in the country. the dominic said hubby. in his loneliness. is prone to do indiscreet things, while the wife. on the other hand. tempor arily freed from the restraining influ- ence of her husband, will take liber- ties which she would not think of do- ing in other seasons of the year.
 "Infide!ity is not a matter of the seasons said the Justice. "A man or a woman who is bad at heart does not have to have the opportunity of the freedom of summer resort or any other form of temporary separation. They make the opportunities.
 'sThere are no temptations at a l summer resort or anywhere else for clean minded woman who loves her home and her husband
 'I suppose" he said thoughtfully, | "that have presided at as many di- vorce cases as any Judge in the coun- | try, and with a few exceptions that l whole storyslay in the fact that eith- | CT the man had tired of the woman l or the woman of the man. They were | rnismated.' |
 Professor Harry Thurston Peck for | many years holder of the chair of | English Literature at Columbia Uni ] versity. shared the interest of the | courts this week with Professor H. c. | Rudy, tutor of languages at the Col | lege of the City of New York. Pro lessor Peck, it will be recalled, was sued last autoumn by Esther Quinn | newspaper writer, for breach of | promise. Subsequently he was dis ! missed from the university because of | the disagreeable notoriety caused by | the suit Now he is suing Professor Nicholas Murray Butler, president of l the university, for damages for defa- | nation of character in connection with | his dismissal In the Supreme Court, | the other day, Professor Peck, who has announced his intention of fighting | the breach of promise suit to a fin | ish asked through counsel to have the l action dismissed on the ground that l the attorneys for Miss Quinn had not | rlaced the case on the calendar or | made any move to have if hrou oht fO |