The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-17

on which the "400'' is keenly sensitive
An examination of the statistics Of
the Board of Health for the years 1903
and 1910 discloses the surprising fact
that in the former year there were
but seven births and last year but
the Washington Arch to the upper
end of Central Park While the fig
ures do not accord with the statement
Of the authoress, who quoting New
York physician as her authority, de-
clared that there had not been a sin
they emphasize 1.-The existence of a
condition of steri1ity never before sus-
pected by the city itself, In contrast
with the poor showing made by the
patricians of New York, the Board Of
Health points with pride to other sec
lions of the city where the bogie Of
race suicide has not yet stalked. A
single block-14Oth Street-had 147 ba-
bies in 1909 and 154 in 1910. Officials
offer various explanations in extenua-
ton of the fashionable folk of Fifth
Avenue. DR.. w. H. Gilfoy, Registrar
Of Vital Statistics says:
1T is the experience of the depart
ment that children come most rapidly
to young people. Now the people who
live in the fashionable parts of Fifth
Avenue are, of course, rich. This i'm
plies that they are most of them not
young. Riches usually come late in
life. And that. rather than disincli-
nation, accounts to US for the low
birth rate among them. Then, being
wealthy, they spend only a part Of
their lives in their Fifth Avenue
homes. A third of the time they are
likely to be abroad and more than a
third they are in country homes"
Continuing her mysterious silence
respecting her reported marriage to
Sig. Gaspari, which set the gossips of
San Francisco wagging on the occa-
sion of her recent unpleasant expert
ence with the Board of Health vaccin-
ators of the Golden Gate, Nine. En-
ma Calve the prima donna, whose
Carmen enthralled the musical world
for many years, is an enigma to her
host of friends and admirers here. She
and Gaspari have separate apartments
at the Plaza and appear to be devoted
to each other. The diva avoids every
body and never ventures out unless
heavily yelled. She refuses to see
any but her most intimate friends and
it is said declines to satisfy their GU
riosity concerning her present conju-
gal status quo. Her Discrimination to
affirm or specifically deny her marriage
to Gaspar convinces everybody that
she is married to him, however firmly
she may refuse to discuss it.
Society was deeply interested this
week in a report that Mrs. Vada Van
Valkenbergh, the s10000,00 widow of
William Hayes Chapman and her lat
est husband, Phillip Van Valkenbergh
have decided to forget their past diff
ferences and intend to discontinue the
action recently instituted for absolute
divorce by the wife. Van Valken-
bergh and the widow were married af-
ter a brief steamship romance but
lived together but a short time. Soon
after their marriage, Mrs. Van VAL
kenbergh began to receive mysterious
telephone calls from an unknown wo-
man who threatened her with personal
violence. She consulted her lawyer
and hired detectives to hunt down the
woman but never succeeded in estab-
fishing her identity. 1t was reported
to-day that the young heiress had met
her husband quite accidentally in the
Ritz Carlton a few days ago and that
friends induced them to settle their
differences. AS a result of the meet
ing, which lasted two hours, it was
stated that Mrs. Van Valkenbergh had
directed a withdrawal of her action
for divorce.
With the assembling of the new Con-
gress next month it is reported here
that there is a strong proba bility that
the recent inauguration by the West
ern Union of it's new day letter. SER
vice will be made the subject of in
quiry At hearing two years ago
before a special committee of Congress
which had under consideration a bill
intended to force the telegraph COM
panies to carry the filing time on all
interstate messages, officials of the !
Western Union protested that such a |
law if enacted would confiscate the |
annual dividends of the corporation |
If it's profits would be absorbed by the |
compulsory carrying of the three or |
four letters required to designate the |
filing time on messages paying the |
maximum day rate. it's present abil- |
ity to carry at night 80 words for the |
usual day price of ten and so words |
for the customary rate of fifteen by |
its new day letter service raises the |
question of whether it was in error