The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-15
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910.
 by the National News Service. N. Y.)

(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910.
 by the National News Service. N. Y.)
 New York, Sept. 15-Through the
 neglect of Scotland Yard to hunt up
 the first wife of Edward Trumbull Smith, the artist. who recently married Katherine Dreier, a society girl of this city, his prosecution On charge of bigamy it is expected will be drop
 ped. The family of the young woman are opposed to the institution of crim- inaI proceedings against the young man and have refused to cooperate with the authorities in, their express ed disposition to bring the case to the attention of the grand jury. At an early date Miss Dreier will apply to the civil courts for an annulment of the marriage and when that relief has been granted will be content to let, the case rest where it is.
 A horror of the unpleasant notoriety that would be sure to attend crim- inal trial of the artist is said to be
 responsible for the unwillingness of the bride and her family to join the District Attorney in bringing him to
 the bar to answer for his indiscretion.
 With the hope that the case might be
 prosecuted independent of the testi-' mony of Miss Dreier, a request to hunt |
 don, was communicated to Scotland Yard several weeks ago but to date nothing has been heard from that quarter concerning the matter. Wife
 No. 1 is said to be lNing near that
 city and is believed yto be still there, London on discovering that the artist
 had an undivorced wife. in the British
 cenitct. has induced her to go into seclusion. If the latter can be pre- vaiiEd sto come here to testify to her
 marriage the authorities will bear all
 her expenses back and forth. In the event of her failure, the District Att
 torney says he will endeavor to get
 certified copy of the English records
 of the first marriage and try to induce the clergyman who officiated to come over. Tn this way the marriage may , the principals and it may be possibleH to establish case against the artist that will warrant jury in bringing in a verdict against him.
 N But the difficulties that have to, date been interposed by the Dreier family and the influences exerted to circumvent the authorities in their an nonnced plans to push the case against
 the artist, strengthens the impression that ultimately nothing will be done in
 criminal way at all and that what
 ever atonement will be exacted of him
 will be supplied by the civil courts
 with his acquiescence
 sUnabashed by the attacks made up
 on him by the mucl1rakers and by his enemies in the financial world, J. Pier
 pont Morgan, the other night fled in
 dismay before an army of pesky mos
 quitoes His yacht, the Corsair, had
 been anchored for the night in the
 Hudson river off Riverside Drive. The
 financier had invited a number of
 prominent Wall street men for a con
 ference on board and after dinner the little group adjourned to the main deck
 to talk over the plans they had been
 invited to consider.
 Suddenly from off the port side of
 the boat came "a missing, buzzing sound
 that grew in volume as the members
 of the party puffed away on their
 black cigars Morgan siooked at his
 companiors and they at him, as if
 they were prepared to handle it. In a few seconds the scouts of the advanc-
 ing cavalcade rode up and lit on the
 noses and ears of the fnanciers Mir.
 Morgan has an extra sized nasal or
 gan and it seemed to become an espe-
 cial mark for the sappers of the raid- ing force. Unable to stand the bonn ibardment the owner of the yacht beck
 oned to his guests to follow him and beat a hastry retreat below decks. Once inside, the captain was ordered to raise his anchor and flee up the river. Twen- sty miles up stream, opposite Ardsley. the great craft came to a halt and stopped for, the night. There the con- ference was resumed without interfer-
 ence from mosquitoes. 't Probably to no one more than the relatives of the late Mrs Charles T, Yerks, was the return from London a f7 yfs cc <pf " rio of greater interest. What interested
 them most was not the fact that the ward of the late London and Chicago railroad magnet had given up her house in the British capital and re- joined her family on this side of the water but the fact that for the first time since the death of MT. Yerkes, she confessed to the wealth of jewels he had showered upon her in his life time. No individual returning to this country, so far as the Custom House records show, ever brought into this at a single time This was four times more than Mrs Yerkes, the beautiful wife of the multi-millionaire, ever owned and probably a good many times more than she ever suspected that her husband had given to his ward. There was never any love lost between the two women. To preserve the domestic amenities the railroad man made it a point never toS ex- change condolences between them. Thus he kept the ship of state on an even keel. The fact that Miss Grisby, who has been charged with trying to socially capitalize her friend ship for the governess of Princess Mary, saw fit to bring her jewels back to the United States is interpreted as indicative of her purpose to remain here for some time if not. permanently. Wherefore gossip has been busy spin ming a yarn to the effect that Queen Mary was offended by the pernicious activity of the friends and agents of Miss Grigsby in disseminating news paper stories for circulation in Ameri- l can publications, designed to give the l impression that the, attractive looking young American was on terms of cor dial intimacy with Her Majesty and
 was constantly in receipt of royal fa- vors in the matter of social conces-
 sions. Ever since the death of MT. Yerkes Miss Grigsby has spent prac-' tically all of her time abroad and
 some time since it. was reported she intended to make her home for good in London. Her sudden change of smind naturally has given rise to much