The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-23

Beachey and twenty or thirty other
 aViators from the Wright and Curtis
 schools for America.
 Convinced that the public wants to
 see something more than the custom
 ary repetition of altitude flying, vol
 blaming, spiral dips and the other aer-
 ial stunts with which they are now fa-
 miliar, the Committee of Arrange
 ments is devising a series of novelties
 for the meet, which while furnishing the essential thrill will at the same time demonstrate the utility of the
 aeroplane for other than purely exhi-
 bition purposes.
 Of the novelties promised, interest is largely centred upon three of them.
 One of the "stunts'-that of trans portating mail by aeroplane from a Brooklyn sub-post office to the aero
 drome, nineteen miles distant-has
 been sanctioned by Postmaster Gen.
 as an epoch making achievement For
 another of the stunts, K. M Turner,
 President of the General Acoustic Company, member of the club, has
 provided an unused building at Jama1-
 ca, on the outskirts of the city ana
 offered a prize for the aerial marks
 man who makes the best showing in bombarding it while in flight.
 Officials of the department of the
 East on Governors Island, as well
 as those at the local forts and the Brooklyn Navy Yard are keenly in-
 terested in the results of this feat,
 which they think will be very helpful
 to them in determining its offensive
 value as a feature of future wars. The third feature of interest will be
 the delivery of afternoon newspapers
 hot off the presses in Park Row to
 the aerodrome, twenty-two miles
 away. By the end of the week, the
 fo hA oJaI aIo tA
 nounce al number of other novelties, never before attempted on this sideao of the world, which will add to the pres
 tige of American aviation.
 New York woke up the other day
 to learn that it pays out annually in hat tips to hotel and restaurant keep CTS the imposing sum of $1,OOO,00O year. This is exclusive of tips to
 walters, chambermaids and other su
 pernumeraries who perform one ser vice or another for patrons. A lo7 cal statiStician estimated that it costs every daily frequenter of these estab-
 hshments an average of $125 a year to
 have his $3 derby Or straw hat cared for temporarily pending the comp1e- ton of his meal AS the gratuities are usually from to 10 cents each time, few suspected that it attained to this enormous amount in twelve months. This discovery of the enormous sum paid out annually by natives and vis- itors for checking their hats came about through an effort of conces- sionaire in one of the hotels to pre- vent the proprietor from ouSting him from his stand. In the argument on the action, figures were produced in- dicating the big fortune squandered every year by the public in this way. The hotels and restaurants lease out the privilege to the highest bidder. The income of the waldorf Astoria from this source alone is $2O,000 year and the lAstor, Plaza and Knicker- booker about $15,0O0 each. Between the hat tips and commissions on bus mess done by the taxicab companies operating from their doors, these ho- tels enjoy an income in many inStan- ces as high as $90,0O0 year.
 Indications are already plenty that New York has awakened to its spend thrift habits and will henceforth be more sparing than heretofore in it's tips to hat checkers. { As a result of the exposure of the income from this source derived by the restaurant and hotels number of patrons refused to check their hats and insisted upon ta7 king them to their tables with them. This the hotels, in order to swell their ! tips, have heretofore declined to al- 1 low. Clashes between managers and patrons were reported in several pla- ces and much similar trouble is look l ed for m the next couple of weeks. : Inquiry is being made by the author ities for the relatives and next of kin of picturesque old character Alexander Alexander, who died here the other day of exposure. Tn the latter years of his life, Alexan- der claimed that he had a brother in London, who was worth a million or more. Occasionally he wrote to this | brother and received remittances from him. For twenty-five years he had done no work and spent all his time fishing. He had a boat in Gravesend Bay and in all sorts of weather used in the trough of the sea he angled l for hours alone, miles away from land. | On his return his catch was distrib- | uted among the poor of the city, to whom he had given hundreds of tons Of the choicest blue and weakflsh, bass and other denizens of the deep.
 The curious old man was well read and was familiar with all the Eng fish and some of the Latin classics.
 He was particularly partial to fish 1 ing in stormy weather, especially when l a blizzard was sweeping the Hook | and driving ships into the harbor for protection from the wind and sleet | LII ctl1 Oio VI 0hh AOuAAA HI IOOlll the public administrator found some | papers which 1t is hoped will help lo- cate his family connections on the other side.f Typographical Union No. | 6 of which the lone fisherman had l been member for more than 30 years buried him.
 Emma Flames, the grand opera di- va who reached here the other day from Paris with Emilio de Gorgoza, 1 her new husband, was much perturb- ed by the reports cajbled from that l city while she was en route across l the seas, to the effect that the Roman 1 church authorities have instituted an | into the history of the | previous marriage of herself and her husband Both, it will be recalled, 1 have been married before and each has a ticket of divorce. Julian Story the artist was the first husband of | the prima donna and the wife of de | Gorgoza was a native of one of the | western states. The action of the l church in solemnizing the wedding of | Mme Flames and de Gorgoza caused | some surprise here and resulted in | the sending of a protest to the eccles- | iastical authorities of Paris, by some l one who conceived that a blunder had l been committed. The two singers | look upon the challenge of their right | to marry as spite work inspired by | persons who had more than a senti- |
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