The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-27
GOTHAM GOSSIP

(Ry Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910 l by the National News Service. N. Y!) New York. March 27-Deserted by | those who once esteemed it a privilege to bask in the radiance of her spark ling personality, when she was In the | zenith of her fame as a beauty, and had the high flyers of the world al her feet, the ''Baroness'' Blanc has got dOWn To running a. moving picture show on upper Broadway. From the little glass widowed niche where she sits in graven calm, phlegmatically reaching out for the nickels with { hand that once flashed with a for tune of gems, this middle-aged, se- date-looking woman can look back through vista of realities that would try the imagination of our greates romanticists to invent.
 For fifteen years she was the mos conspicuous queen of hearts in Amer tca- She was four times married tc men of great wealth, and there were forty others in her train who sough her hand and poured theft fortunes il @ golden stream at her feet. Sh taught Fred D. Youngling, son of thu millionaire brewer, the art of "goin
 
 Younglings died penniless, the son il the prison ward of Bellevue two year: ago last Septen1ber. his death beins due to acute alcoholism. It was no only in America that the Baroness was famous for her beauty, he clothes. her splendid equipages anf her thrilling escapades. Twenty years ago the newspapers of Europe gav' her more space than any crowne, head, publishing. and republishin. thrilling accounts of her three months tourney to Nice, Paris and Londo with the Grand Duke Alexis of Russi; and Prince George of Greece In he train. Her chaperone was the Prin cess Sl1obeHoff.z The two beautie regal splendor The Baroness" re turned to America with some memor able souvenirs of this Journey, anon them a royal decoration studded will diamonds and emeralds that the Gran Dhke had conferred upon her.
 In London the Baroness attracted the attention of the late King Edward and for a while was popular wit Lady Brooke, Lady De Gray and Lad! Mary Mills, in the then Prince O Wales set. The Baroness was sai6 to have helped Freddie Gebhar6 Berry Wall Porter Ashe and A. L Walcott to get rid of their fortunes They moved in her set and it Waf said that you could trace the move ments of the Baroness set by the odor of burning money. J. Walder Kirk, King of the Dudes. once as pired to the hand of the Baroness but their romance failed to terminatt in marriage.
 Upton Sinclair, who lays claims tc inspiring former President Roosevelt with the necessity of the Pure Food bill. through his exposure of the con ditions .in the Beef Trusts Packing town, is on the trail of the doctors trust'', which he described as a graft ing organization of humbugs. Hi \phillipic on the shortcomings of tn medical profession was delivered the other evening at a meeting of the Lib eral Club, at which the question What Is the Matter With the Doc tor'', was the subject of discussion.
 Sinclair said he spent $15 900 in three years on physicians and drugs in ar effort to get cured of dyspepsia an6 finally had to invent a system of phy sical culture in order to get back his health. Now, he said, his boy swims in a Jersey creek when there's snow on the banks, and isn't even chilled Drug companies. Sinclair charged have an enormous corruption fund and doctors get it. He showed the audience checks which he said prom inent member of the New York County Medical Society had accepted for pushing along a certain remedy One optician. it was alleged by Sin clair. paid $40,o00 to $50,00O in graft to doctors and clinics.
 Samuel Hopkins Adams said doctors are too meek. Woods Hutchinson added that the public is almost crazy to be operated on. Replying to MT. Sinclair's graft charges, pr. Robert T. Morris, one of the speakers, said:
 ''I do not deny that there is graft among the medical profession, but it of physicians. The system is to blame, as MT. Sinclair has told you. But I want to say in all seriousness that the finding of the cause for case of dyspepsia is not so easy as Mir Sinclair would have you think And, also seriously it should not cost less than $500 to get a thorough and correct diagnosis of the average case.''
 Arrested as a vagrant, a well-dress- ed reffned-looking woman who refus- ed to give any information concern ing herself and who was found wan dering aimlessly about the streets the other afternoon, was discovered. on e%dInlndllOu,l to De d WdlKlng IruSL company. Secreted about her, the police found $30,OO0 in government bonds, bank books showing deposits of 900 and SIS in cash, the whole ag- gresating a fortune of more than S50.- 0OO- For a time the guileless police man who picked her up thought she was Hetty Green, who has for many years made it habit to carry securi- ties, notes and cash valued at hun dreds of thousands of dollars collected after banking hours. The woman, however, lacked many years of the matured age of the worlds richest matron and a good deal of her sturdy mind Subsequently relatives called for the wanderer and took her away without intimating her identity. There -s..4....