The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-21
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
by the National News Service,
y. Y.)
New York.

New 1Ork. Jan. Il.
The four-masted ship Dirigio to-
q 13S-day voyage from San Francis
CO. Captain Chapman said the trip
had been the most monotonous one
he had ever made since he first sail
Not a sail was sighted, nor the smoke
stack of a steamer seen from the time
the Dirigio left the Golden Gate on
August %, until she passed through
the Narrows on Saturday afternoon
Big sailing ships are rare arrivals
in New York Harbor, and when the
Dirigio, which is the first craft of its
kind constructed from steel in Amer
lea, showed her graceful spars and
white hull in the upper bay she at
tracted considerable attention.
Of the Publicity Bureau of the Re-
publican State Committee and one of
the counsel for the Sugar Trust,
sprung surprise on his fellow mem
bers Of the Lotos Club the other day
by marrying Jessie Belknap Weiss, the
divorced wife Of William p. Weiss, at
one time New York broker of prom
inence. Mrs. Hutchinson is a daugh-
ter of Augustus Belknap, former prin-
cipal owner of the street car sys-
tenn of San Antonio, Texas. Some
time ago Weiss, her first husband met
with financial reverses and she was
obliged to support herself. This
Jared on her and she decided that
q divorce would be welcome. This
was granted few weeks ago at Re-
no, Nevada, where she was subse-
Quently Joined by Hutchinson, who
promptly made her his wife. Hutch
inson is a DIVORCE, also, having CIV
en- his first wife, now the spouse of
Thomas F. Gilroy. Jr., son of a for
mer Mayor Of this city, an opportun-
ity to free herself from him some
years ago. Since then he has been
living at the Lotos Club and had Civ
en- his intimate friends to understand
grass widowhood.
The confession of Thomas A. Edi-
son. the wizard. that he framed up"
after his own ideas a good part of the
press dispatches he received over the
wire when he was a newspaper tele-
graph operator at Louisville many
years ago, has caused quite a stir
among the old guard of telegraphers
in this city. By his belated admis
sion the wizard has cleared up mys-
terry that had long puzzled many of
ces that attended the publication in
the paper for which he received des.
patches, of an announcement to the
effect that John NJ. Bolts had been
elected United States Senator by the
Virginia Legislature. The day fol-
found to be hoax. Edison's con-
fession that the wire became clouded
after he had received the name of
Bolts and so faxed the rest of the
story, has solved the much discussed
question of how the mistake came
to be made. Edison and his old
friend Patrick B. Delany. inventor of
the Teiepost automatic telegraph, had
the record among operators in the
old days for taking down from twen-
ty to thirty words behind the wire.
Those who knew of Edison's remark
aable capacity for memorizing mes
sages as they were licked over the
line were inclined to ascribe the Bolts
to q lapse due to some
distraction in the Office, but never sus-
pected that it was pure invention un-
til the sage of Menlo Park admitted
it this week.
Following the experience of her sis
ter Victoria, who ran away with the
family coachman many years ago,
Miss Guila Morisini, daughter of the
ner of Jay Gould, this week startled
her friends by marrying former po-
liceman. At the death of her father
two years ago the bride inherited
most of the fortune of 100000 he
leIt, 1ncluQ1ng the DedutlIul family
estate at Riverdale, UP to the time
of the death of the elder Morisini, his
daughter was credited with being the
best dressed woman in New York, her
and milliners' bills am
bunting to $4,000 year. She Is
a beautiful looking woman Of the
italian type and had many admirers,
but turned a deaf ear to all Of them
until the policeman, william M. Wer-
ner, stopped her four-in-hand from
getting beyond her control one day
on the speedway. Her brother Clio
vanni, married Miss Bond. a great
great grand niece of George Washing
ton. His sisters marriage to Werner
came as a complete surprise TO So
ciety, which had made up it's mind
that because Of the unhappy expert
ence of her sister. she would remain
single. In order to make himself
eligible to become the husband of the
heiress, Werner divorced his first
wife, and as a preliminary to taking
full charge of her estate became SUI
Of the property, posi-
ton he held up to this week.