The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-17
GOTHAM GOSSIP
tEy Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910, by the National News Service. N. Y.)

by the National News Service. N. Y.)
 New York, June 17-New York was much interested this week in the ca bled report from London, that Anthony J. Drexel had purchased a large steam yacht. on which he proposes to enter. tain during the coronation review off Spfthead. The announcement is talk en to mean that he plans to make an ostentatious showing at the naval Inaneuvres in honor of King George. Although he has for years maintained an expensive establishment in London, which is now his home, the American millionaire, whose wealth is estimated at S100O.000 has a reputation of be- ing very close. When he was over here to attend the marriage of his son, J. Anthony Drexel to Marjorie Gould, sister of Lady Decies and daughter of Mir. and Mrs. George Gould, he went about town frothing at the mouth. because he was charged $50 at the Waldorf-Astoria for a few eggs and a couple of dollars for a piece of toast Again when his daugh- ter married Lord Maidstone, and he had to stop at one of the New YorR hotels for a week or two, he ran around calling everybody thieves and highwaymen, because he had to pay s2.5o for single chop and forty cents for a cup of coffee for breakfast. AS he was sailing back for London, he gathered the ship news reporters about him on the deck of the steamer and delivered a phillipic of New York ho- tel prices that is stil ringing in the ears of Oscar at the Waldorf and other maitre d'hotels. against whom it was directed. Possibly the announcement last week that Mrs. Drexel intended applying for divorce has some rela- tion to his decision to join in the Spit head ceremonies on a scale commen- fo yuif wealth friends suspect that he may have been actuated by spite" against his bet ter half who if she goes to the review at all, will have to go as the guest or some friend. In such an event Tony his intimates call him, will be in a position with his yacht "to lord it over'' his spouse. What if any sense of chagrin this will awaken within her is of course matter of idle specula- tion. It is not improbable however, that through the gallantry of her son. in-law. Lord Maidstone, who is highly thought of by King George, she may see the review from better point or vantage than Drexel with all his yacht and costly entourage.
 Mrs. Heaton Owsley. sister of May or Carter Harrison of Chicago, return ing from Europe the other day said New York was as unsafe a pasturage for nice young person to stray about unchaperoned as Paris. Mrs. Owsley is very sensitive about criticism Of her native city and resents the ire quent reference by New Workers to Chicago as place where a man and his pochetbook is in danger of being beguiled from the path of virtue. Ev- erytime she comes to Gotham she says she hears the same strictures on 1llf- nois' citadel of culture, beef, and corn. and 1t makes her mad. Such misrepre- sentations concerning Chicago. she de- clared with vehemence, came with lit tie grace from New York, which she averred is more naughty than Paris ever ventured to be. It may have no Dead Rat' and Moulin Rouge" but 1t has other resorts she affirmed that make those world famous establish ments resemble a guild room in a quiet country church While it was not apparent to which particular places she referred here, she left it to be inferred that she had been doing somes lumming about New York and knew whereof she spoke.
 The shooting the other afternoon of w. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, by two women who, he claims. tried to blackmail him, has served to emphasize anew a practice that is be- coming more and more common among the wealthy men of Gotham. When the wounded man was taken to the Roose- welt hospital, search of his clothes disclosed the fact that he did not have a cent of money with him, A few weeks ago. Allan Ryan, President of the Aero club and son of Thomas F. Ryan, the multi millionaire head of the Traction Trust and the directing genius of the Tobacco Trust, was ar rested in New Jersey for speeding his auto and when arraigned before a To- cal Justice of the Peace found him. self similarly situated. Not long ago. T PiPrDOnt Morgan fn hpi r in the same fix Whether it is con- ceit with them or simply a matter of convenience, it is nevertheless a fact that few millionaires nowadays consider it essential when journeying around New York to carry cash with them. Wherever they go their mark err is good for all they order, so that there is rarely any excuse for burden ing themselves with Uncle Sams~ long green. AS they invariably travel about town in their machines they never find themselves in need of car fare. In city where money is the common fetich of all men and the open sesame to that which poor and rich alike covet the aversion of the plutocrat to having it around his hard for the man who hungers for that which his wealthy brother eschews as nuisance, to understand
 1nrOugn the dpp11cat1On TOT his turalization papers in the Naturaliza- tion Bureau of the United States Cir cult court, this week, it became known that Col. Theodore Roosevelt's new secretary Frank Harper, is not an American citizen. The young man apoiogized for not making his appli- cation sooner and explained to the of ficials in charge that he would have done so, but for tho fact that the for mer President has been keeping him so busy that he has not had time to r ake the journey to the Court House lie is 27 years of age and was born in Birmingham, England. When he ap- peared at the Naturalization Bureau. he got into line with a on-descript horde of Russians, Poles and Italians, prepared to wait his turn with the rest of them. Some one in the build, ing recognized him and had him brought into one of the inner offices where his papers were issued without delay, SO that he could return to his duties. Col. Roosevelt was waiting for him when he got back and proceeded to dictate a trunk full of correspond, ence to him that made amends for the time he lost.
 There is one article on the revised schedule of dutiab1e articles that trav- cling Americans, returning from abroad this summer, will be unable tn smuggle past the custom lines. Desnita the stringent repuIatiODs if is