The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-13
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 191D. by the National News Service. N. Y.)

New York. Oct 1S-Society generally
 approves of the action of Miss Helena
 otallo, the twenty year old daughter
 Of Edmund K. Stallo, and granddaugh-
 ter of the late Alexander Mcdonald of
 the Standard Oil Co.,. who broke her
 engagement to Nils Florman, good
 iooklng SWede, on discovering that his | Iatner was at one time a rubber"
 Tn Turkish bath establishment and
 ms step-mother, a professional mas
 seuse Ever since Miss Stallo and her sister Laura inherited $50 GOO 900 from
 their grandfather, they have been re- I garded as among the most desirable
 catcnes' among the younger heiress- l es of the country
 In addition to their great wealth, they are both extremely good looking I ana cultured, a trinity of virtues, not | always found in one combination. | More surprising than the announce | Hent or the termination of the cou- | ple'S engagement is the fact-brought to ngnt as result of it-that Flor man has been an intimate friend of | Col. John Jacob Astor for more than year and was guest on the latter's | steam yacht 'tNoma'' last summer | ana spring. The Swede, who is only l "A years old, has distinct milits : bearing and has been received in the
 
 port On the supposition that he was Tn some way related to the Royal fam fly of Sweden, F1orman, who is high " educated and suggests in his man. | ner and department all that he was said to be, presented letters from the other side commenting hinn to the consideration of we'll known Ameri- cans. On the strength of which every door in town was open to him.
 He however denies that he tried to deceive his fiance. He says he told her everything and that she was sat- isfied. Her grandfather, like Andrew Carnegie. believed that a girl should marry for love and love alone and ac- eording to Florman she said this would be her only guide in marrying. ideas and Florman thinks prevailed upon her to dismiss him. While they were visiting New Foundland, the Swede received brief note advising him Of her altered decisionG
 Society, which has been much piqued by the predilection of some of it's daughters for chauffeurs, coachmen and riding teachers for husbands ap- plauds her courage, though the father of the young woman, who is married to the divorced wife of Dan Hanna of Cleveland is said to not approve He rather fancied Florman and was pre- pairing to buy him a partnership in large mercantile firm in this city. ! Florman, who is plentifiully supplied l with money and is maintaining an eX- 1 pensiye establishment at one of the | fashionable Fifth avenue hotels, has ! taken his rejection much to heart. The 1 decision of Miss Stallo however is be- lieved to be final
 While the Duke of the Abruzzi is 1 off fighting the Turks and trying to | make Tripoli a chatelaine of Italy. l William F. Hit, his Yankee rival ap- i pears to have gotten the inside track | on him in the affections of Miss Kath- | crime ElkinS. the pretty daughter of | the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins. | Hit returned from England with Miss ] Elkins and her mother the other day : and according to his fellow passengers never left the young woman out of his sight. Though the wireless kept the ships passengers informed of the heroic deeds of the Duke the. willy Billy is accused of keeping Miss FL kins so busy that she never had a chance. to look at the reports. Some how or other their fellow messengers. figure Hit was afraid the news might serve to revive the interest of the young woman in the dashing young nobleman who was reported to have asked her to be his bride a little more than year ago
 The attention Showered upon her by !. Hit gave many of the passengers the i impression that the couple were en- gagged. = Reporters who sought out the | young man when the ship arrived here to put the direct question to him, found that he had eluded them Miss Elkins declined to affirm or deny the report and the members of her family only smiled. However there is good ground for believing that Hit who has been sorely smitten with the charms of Miss Elkins for more than a year has won out in his suit and that formal announcement of their engagement will be forthcoming short 1y
 Former President Roosevelt's advice concerning children as community and national asset is being needed by New York, according to the latest ! statistics prepared by the sponsors of the Municipal Budget Exhibition now being held here for the educa ton of taxpayers, By the figures shown at the exhibit a baby is born in the city every four minutes throughout the year, with a death every seven min uteS and marriage every eleven min utes. From this it will be seen that the<babieS have decidedly the best of it. As ~dissected into zones, the rec ord discloses, a maximum of births among the tenements of the congested East Side of the city and minimum in the fashionable residential sections T II LII avenue ana the aputting streets. wherein the so-called 400 resides stands at the bottom of the list many blocks showing no birth at all during the year as compared to 100 births in some of the blocks occupied by the poor. iE The element which contributes most to the city's steadily advancing growth E are those of foreign birth, with the E first generation of native daughters second and the so-called American type last and least. If it were not for the fertility of it's foreign born New York would make little anual development i E But as a large percentage of the 700,- )00 to 100000 emigrants who pass trough her gates every year stay here IS ts prestige as the most rapidly grow ng American City is certain to re- main unchallenged for some years to .ome.
 In spite of the repeated warnings ltv posted in stateroomS and elsewhere V m the trans-Atlantic liners, passeng- ITS continue to fall an easy prey to gamblers who it is es- imated clean up $500000 a season on B heir operations. Realizing that he lad been trimmed" after he. had est $500 playing dice with two sharp ITS, a wealthy importer on the incom- ng liner Deutschland, the other day U ost his temper and gave one of them ; !, drubbing he will not soon forget. ;,