The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

Collector of the Port Loeb has dis covered that since he got after the professional 'smugglers who have been getting goods past the custom lines by means of double bottomed and so called sleeper trunks, there has been ~ noticeable increase of the foreign mails coming here.
 An investigation into the character of the mail, recently instituted indi- cates that an extensive and apparent ly organized system of smuggling IS being employed to defraud the gov ernment by means of the parcels post, as well as through the ordinary mail. Valuble laces, jewels and trinketS are being brought in through his channel, some of the packages being represented as non-dutiable goods and others grossly undervalued. In the hope of checking the new practice, by which it is estimated the government has been deprived of large revenues, the Collector has given orders for a closer scrutiny of all mail matter coming to this port
 Through the untimely death last week of former Mayor Smith Ely, the Key. pr. J. H. H. Jowett, the famous English divine. now pastor of the fashionable Fifth Avenu Presbyterian Church, this city, will lose the $100,O00 he was promised in the spring for the eldDOrdt1On or the cHdrlIy WOTh ol liio congregation. Dating back to the days of Dr. John Halls pastorate, the church has engaged in extensive char ities among the poor of the city. 1m- pressed with the good that had been done in this field, MT. Ely offered to give the church $10O,O0O if it would raise an additional $400,O00 and agree to expend only the interest on the to- tai fund of half million. pr. Jowett. who attended the recent coronation of King George as his. special guest, was very enthusiastic over the prospect of raising the extra money, substan- tial portion of which had already Mr. Ely, officials of the church be- lieve that. the contingent gift of the former Mayor cannot now be collect ed and that the congregation will have to look elsewhere for 1t.
 After a chase from Alabama, dur ing which he spared neither money nor personal comfort, John Wilson of Birmingham is on his way home to- day with his eloping daughter, Der tha. eighteen years old, who had run away from home and married John Beale, twenty years old.
 The steamship Uranium was about man rushed aboard and Sprang at young man standing by the side of a pretty girl. Officers of the ship prevented violence.
 He told who he was, then spoke a few words to the girl, who burst into tears, then dutifully consented to leave the ship with him. Beale went away alone in a taxicab.
 The young couple had arrived here yesterday morning on the Rio Grande, of the Mallory Line, going directly to the Uranium. Soon afterward Will son, who had hastened by rail from Alabama, appeared at the Clyde Line pier. He found where his daughter and her husband had gone, and tried to charter tug to head them off. He was unsuccessful so taxied to the Battery and chartered the deep sea sightseeing boat Halcyon for his chase, arriving in the dock just in time to spoil the honeymoon voyage.
 Wilson took his daughter to the Sa- vannah line pier and sailed with her for Savannah, whence they returned to Birmingham. Meanwhile the bridegroom is supposed to be still in New York.