The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-09-08
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910.
by the National News Service. N. 70

| New York, Sept. S-Interest in the
social war which eliminated two
months ago in the sudden closing of
| the Hampstead hospital was revived
| this week by the institution of suits
| by Mrs. Oliver P. HI. Belmont mother
of the Duchess of Marlborough, to
foreclose three mortgages she holds
on the property. For several years,
Mrs. Belmont was the principal sup
port of the institution and enlisted
the interest of all her friends of the
fashionable social colony in and
around Hampstead in it's welfare.
While this interest continued the hos
pital prospered and did much good
work in it's special field of service.
After a while however some of the
society matrons interested in it be-
gan to think Mrs. Belmont was get
ting too much prestige out of 1T and
started in to devise ways of curtail-
ing her influence. AS might be ex-
pected this precipitated a big row ana
made two grouches where there was
but one smile before. With both sides
to the issue engaged in the strenuous
task of trying to undermine one an
other, it was inevitable that the in
stitution should suffer. firing of the
interminable pickering and quarreli-
ing, Mrs. Belmont withdrew her sup
port from the hospital in the early
spring and applied all her energies to
the development of a model farm for
women on her country estate. Com
cident with her withdrawal, the 1nstl-
tuition toppled about the heads OF the
surviving patrons, like house OF
cards and closed it's doors on june
list. The mortgages held by Mrs. BEL
unsatisfied at this time and she has
been unable to have them taken UP
to date. In this situation she con-
suited her attorney who has filed no.
tice of an action to foreclose the
liens. No effort will probably be
made to contest the suits and 1t is
expected that she will be able to pld
in the property for a nominal sum. In
the event Of this contingency, her
friends believe she will transform tho
place into home for her women
farmeretts, who seem to be thrlV-
ing beyond the most sanguine expec-
tations of their sponsor and are in
need of larger quarters than they now
have.
The German consulate here seems to
be much disturbed over the identity
of soldierly looking man of marked
Teutonic appearance who was married
in the City~hall, the other day, under
the name of Count Albert Harcel de
Passy." One Max Schlomangk, who
disported himself about the fashion,
able hotels and resorts of Europe as
"Count de Passy-Chiman." escaped
two weeks ago from a. German Jail In
which he was imprisoned for obtaining
certain military property by represent
ing himself as a French general. In
appearance and manner. the BRIDE
groom strikingly resembles the fugi-
tive and the inquiry of the German
Consul here has been directed to es-
tablishing the fact whether there 1s
anything more than a similarity in
looks and names between the two
men.
The escape of Schlemangk from Jail
was his second venture of that kind
in three months and the German au- |
thorities, regarding him as danger
GUS man to be at large, are anxious
to capture him. Schlemangk has had
an adventurous history for many |
York in full German uniform ana
volunteered for the Spanish-American |
war. Since then the dapper German |
has sometimes passed as General
Schlemangk'' the title being given |
him for some alleged connection with |
the American army in the Phillip
pines. Last April a man representing |
himself as the Count de Passy, a |
French general, took possession of |
the Schloss Stettinf1eld, near He'll |
bronn. He was arrested, but escaped |
in his pajamas, only to be recaptured |
in Berlin and returned.
On August 14th last he made his |
escape and is supposed to have en-
barked for America. Schlemangk told |
his jailers that they could not keep
him, so he was confined in a special |
cell and chained. In the morning he
was gone, and no representative OF |
the law in Germany has seen him |
since He left a polite note of regret |
that his personal affairs made 1t im-
possible for him to remain.
The bride of the recent wedding |
was Miss Laila Florence Alledorf, a
young Swedish girl. The "Count" and
his fiancee were married by Alder
man Frank Smith. The Count" gave1
his age as forty-two, his profession as
army engineer, his parents as Victor
L. de Passy and Minniev Ternone and
his New York residence as the Her
aid Square Hotel. He told the Alder