The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-30
GOTHAM GOSSIP
fBy Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910, by the National News Service. N. Y.)

New York, June 30-McDougall AL ley, which of late years has become the centre of an interesting colony of artists, sculptors and Iiterateurs feels much relieved over the forcible eX- pulsion the other day of a professional fmasher," who it is claimed sanoys1 Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and other young women who maintain studios in the quarters. The ogler pretended that he was an artist and several months ago rented an atelier in one of the old fashioned buildings in the alley. AS far as known he did conn paratively little work with the brush or the palette, spending most of his time. looking out of the window and flirting at the women as they strolled Sy.
 sWhat encouraged him to believe his attentions were welcome to Mrs. Whit rley, who is the wife of the Captain df the American polo team, engaged ih the recent international match with England daughter of the late Cor rlelius Vanderbilt and cousin of the Duchess of Marlborough, is difficult tp imagine She paid little heed to Ter annoyer until he became offensive lY pressing in his efforts to enlist her approval
 Several of the artists in the alley, observing her discomfiture, laid in wait for tha masher one afternoon this week and when he appeared one of them proceeded to tell him some things he apparently did not like. Re- senting the criticism of his actions. the masher struck his interrogator and in second the two were at it like two bull dogs. Others joined in the fight and gave the maSher drubblng he will not soon forget. The last seen of him he was seeking asylum in a doorway around the corner, disfigured and messed up as if he had been turn ed over by a steam roller. No at- tempt was made to follow him be- yond the alley but he was told that if he 'ever returned there the dose would be administered all over again. It is not believed he will show up again. At last accounts he had taken a train for the country where 1t is regarded as likely he will spend the summer in peaceful meditation.
 With the summary dismissal by the Supreme Court this week of the suits brought by Aurel Batonyi the profess sional whip against J. Frank Work, and a number of other society and sporting men, whom he charged with alternating the affections of his wife, Mrs. Fannie Burke-Roche Batonyi, probably the last has been heard of the strange marital romance of the handsome looking ] Hungarian who worked himself into the good graces of local society. Mrs. Batonyi, who under the. decree of divorce granted . her a year7ago has resumed her for mer name of Burke-Roche, was daughter of Frank Work, the million aire banker who died here several months ago and the divorced wife of James Boothby Burke-Roche, younger brother of the Earl of Fermoy. Her marriage to -Batonyi which was kept -o< hn- fo tlnr~ to disinherit her and-the whip believes this induced her to leave him. While this undoubtedly exerted powerful and perhaps controlling influence with her, it is no secret that she keenly felt the unpleasant criticism to which she was subjected at the hands of society when it learned of her clan destine marriage to the horseman.
 Whatever part the various defen- dants in his suits for alienation of affection may have played in the sep aration of Batonyi and his wife. it is generally believed-by society thatj they acted solely in the interest of the wifes father, who was more bitter against the second husband of his daughter than he was against Burke Roche, which is saying much. While elated over the dissolution of the Batonyi marriage, which he consider ed a blur on the family's good name, Work. to the last was tpJmented by the fear that his daughterTwould ul- timately patch up her troHbles with James Boothby Burke-Roehe and re- marry him. To prevent this his will provided that she or her two sons by Burke-Roche must never. visit Eng land. Through the waiver of her sis ter. Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt this clause has not been enforced and the divorcee may go where .she wills with out suffering any impairment of her fDs1 trial his suits against the defendants caused the court to order them re- l moved from the calendar. Counsel for l the whip declared that he was i'll in | Europe but this protest was of nol avail. S3
 Accustomed to being hoaxed every1 now and then by reports of new found | fortunes, New York has not quiteH made up it's mind how to regard the8 story of Mrs. Charles s. Sigourney3 the wife of a former we'll knownH horseman who claims that she has in herited an estate of $11 100000 ini Wales. Fl
 Sigourney was once in comfortablet circumstances but went broke somaJ years ago and of late has been driv Fl ing a water wagon. In the palmM days of race horses here he was a ia. 1niliar figure on the big tracks bull | he lost his fortune. The lstatementl of his wife oncerning her large inher- itance and her further announcement that the House of Lords last Septem- Der conferred on her the right to be known in the future as the Right Hon. Lady Bessie Walding Hall by virtue Of titles into which she comes with the moneyhas excited much surprise sineel no intimation of her good luck had previously reached her from England. The fact that she is packing up the few personal belongings that she re- house she has occupied for several sailing for Wales to formally take support her assertion that she has cence- concerning the history of the and the source from which it comes has served to whet the cu- riosity of New York and add to the 
 Paulin Hall the former comic opera favorite failed this week to have her husband George B. Mcclellan, the play broker and manager, of this city and London adjudged in contempt of court week allowance ordered for the SUD- been living in the English capital for several years and being out of the ju- risdiction of the New York courts has been remiss in his payments. Several months ago he arranged to come here