The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-05
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Rys Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. oyfthe National News Service. N. Y)

New York, Aug. EIn anticipation of
 he visit planned to her old home m
 his city by the Earl and Countess
 of Granard, their friends here are
 planning an elaborate series of pie
 turesQue entertainments for them.
 The Countess, as Miss Beatrice Mills.
 one of the pretty daughters of MT. and
 Mrs. Ogden Mills, and granddaughter
 of D. O. Mills, the San Francisco mul-
 -i-millionaire. was one of the most
 popular of the younger set in society
 prior to her marria ge to the Earl. In
 the past she has made many warm
 friends, so that the disposition of so-
 Gety to give the young couple a wei
 s-Erne that they will long remember
 has awakened widespread response in
 ss1e >@srt colony. Another reason
 for the uniform desire to make the
 forthcoming visit of the Earl and
 Countess suspicious is the fact that
 Turing Coronation week, the Earl ana
 Countess dispensed their hospitality
 lavishly to their friends from this
 side. This will thus afford them the
 opportunity their friends welcome to
 show their appreciation of these cour-
 tesies
 While it is not known how she Will
 view the suggestion, it is hinted that
 some of the friends of the Countess
 plan to invite her to take a. spin with
 them in the waters about Newport III one of the governments submarine
 boats, which have been maneuvering about there for some time. It IS
 whispered that it was to test out the experience and learn at first hand of its hazards and thrills, that Mrs. Rob ert Goelet, Alice Roosevelt LOngworth and several other fashionable matrons now at Newport, took a trip under sea in one of these flyers last week. IL is an experience they think the Countess should not miss, for or all the noval digressions of society at Americas summer social capitol, they aver there is none that affords the keen sense of collaboration and mental excitement that is provided by a trip under water in one of these craft Whether the visiting peeress will agree with the suggestion or not and make the journey or not, there vii be mol end of other odd and unusual diver tisements evolved for her entertain
 ment and amusement, which are eA- pected to please her and the Earl inn mensely, because of their novelty. The couple are expected to stay here until after the first of the month and pos sibly will take a trip to the Paclflc coast before their return to Eng land.
 The fighting spirit of Major Daniel F. Sfckles, last of the surviving corps commanders of the Union Army in the Civil War of 1861, has been arous- ed by the efforts of his daughter, Mrs. Eda Sickles Crackenthorpe, wife Of the secretary of the British Legation at Vienna, to enjoin him from giving away his estate to institutions ana philanthrophies in which he has Of late years been much interested. The aged soldier, who has passed his elgn- tieth birthday, is very bitter toward the members of his family from whom he has been apart for thirty years, and resents their interference in the of his assets. It has been suspected for some time by the friends of the General that, realizing that he had but a short time to live he plan ned to turn over practically every thing he owned to those charities and Institutions he intends shall benefit by his fortune. This would leave nothing for his heirs in the event Of his death. No effort has been made by the soldier to conceal the fact that this is exactly what he wants to do, for he knows that however skillfully he may devise his will, cutting his family off from inheriting his estate, it would be comparatively easy to break it. To prevent any such con- tingency he is doing, during the re maining years of his life, what he would want done after he had gone, if his plans could be carried out.
 The suit brought by his daughter to prohibit him from parting with any more of his property will be fought to the highest courts if necessary, the General says. AS he is remarkably keen in intellect, and it would be ex- tremely difficult to sustain any claim, such as is to be set up in this case, that he is not competent to admins ter his fortune, those friends whom he has rallied around him are confi- dent he will win. Mrs. Crackenthorpe is a child of the General by his first and only wife. to whom he was mar ried while United States Minister to Spain. The couple agreed to disagree when he left his post in Madrid to return to the United States, and have not lived together in thirty years. His wife, who was the daughter of a prominent Spaniard, remained in Spain with her two children who were brought up in their mothers country. Mrs. Sickles came to New York sev- eral years ago and at the time it was thought there would be a reconcilia tfon- However much the wife may have desired this, the General, who felt that he had a just grievance which nothing but eternity could ef- face, refused to listen to any SuggeS- tion looking to a peaceful adjustment of the trouble. He has lived alone all these years with his servants and says he proposes to spend the remain der of his life in the same environ ment.
 Members of the fashionable Meadow Brook Hunt Club learned today that several of their number have been cleverly imposed upon by a resource full mendicant known as the man with the yellow dog'' Although in- terest is not as keen as it was in June during the international match be- tween the club team representing Ail America and the All England team, the daily attendance there is quite large considering the summer wealth er-
 One Wall Street man was hit for $50 and several other members admit that they gave amounts from $5 to s25 All told, the man with the vel low dog must have cleaned up about s400 from the members
 His story about being an old ser want at the club who had been in capacitated by a horse mashing his foot, touched the heart and purse strings of the members and they con- tributed liberally. He was careful, however, to keep far enough away | from the clubhouse so that none of | the employees, who might have expos l sd him, ever saw him.
 NHiIa fine s.rnqn with tha veIIovv Il