The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02

| stolen from it's ancient repository hal | strengthened the belief of art connois CUTS here that he has been for year,
 what is colloquially known as "a sof
 mark for resourceful and unscru-
 pulous art thieves. This suspicion
 which Is getting to be something of 2 conviction with New Workers, is re.
 garded as being all the more surpris
 ing because of the fact that most o1
 his purchases are made through ex.
 perts Of wide experience who migh,
 be expected to protect him from inn
 posters. What he paid for the Ascol
 cope stolen from the Ascoli cathedral
 in Italy which he returned to the
 Italian government when he learned
 that it had been purloined from its
 resting place for centuries, is not
 known but in view of his known will
 ingness to pay high prices for rare
 works of art 1t is believed to have
 cost him s50,000 or more. It is not SUD-
 posed he paid so much for the head oi
 St. Martin stolen from one of the ru-
 ral communes of France, surrendered
 by him some days ago to the French
 Ambassador in London on discovery
 that 1t had been distracted from its
 abiding place by thieves. Friends of
 the f1nancier would not be surprised
 if his magnificent art gallery adjoin-
 ing his home in this city, where re-
 pose paintings, sculptory and antiques
 worth $1G000,OO0 will be found, when
 it is dispersed at his death to shel-
 ter a large number of the stolen
 treasures of old world castles and
 churches. that have been missing for years. Up to the present only the
 personal friends of the banker have been permitted to- enter the gallery
 and so little is known of it's contents
 by the outside world that the extent of the frauds practiced on. its. owner may not be known for years. Unusu- ally astute and shrewd in money matters, the fact that the banker. with all his experience as an art collector, is still vulnerable to the representa- tation of smooth tongued agents with something good to sell, is difficult to believe, were it not for the frequent confession of it by MT. Morgan him. self.
 Dorothy Whitney, the youngest daughter of the late William c. Whit ney, Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Cleveland and sister of Harry Payne Whitney, who was a member of the All America team which won the information polo championship from England two years ago. is the latest acquisition of the suffragette She has been resisting their opportunities to make common cause with them for more than a year but is understood to have finally yielded to the earnest and persistent solicitations of Mrs. Clarence Mackay, who has been highly successful to date in enlisting the interest of New York's society women in the move ment As evidence that her solicitude for the welfare of the cause under she has now enrolled. is not entirely perfunctory, Miss Whitney is reported to have contributed $1,000 toward the fund of $1O000O being raised among the suffragettes to accelerate senti- ment among the members of the New York state legislature next year. The legislature now in session refused to approve of the bill introduced at the instigation of the SuffragetteS giving them a voice in the government of the state and the leaders of the propogan- da have concluded to embark on an extensive educational campaign, pre- lirninary to renewing the fight next wear. To this end they will endeaver to have candidates nominated for of flee in the fall pledge themselves to work for the bill they propose present. ing. In the event of their failure to get such a promise from the nomi- nee they will undertake to defeat him at the polls by making an exhaustive campaign aginst him.
 Although it is costing New York al bout s5O,000 a year to inspect and reg ulate the taxi-cab service of the city, from residents of the city as well as visitors who report the ov- erworking of the motors and gross overcharges. continue to pour in on the municipal authorities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year are filched out of the pockets of patrons. who have no remedy except to go to a station house and fight it out in the courts, which involves waste of time and money
 Most of the excess fare goes into the rockets of the chauffeurs who have facility of making the meters on their taxis do about as they please. There is hardly a day that some resentful passenger does not as- sau1t his taxi driver for overcharg ing him. F. Augustus Heintze, the one time Copper King found this sort of revenge rather expensive this week when a jury in the Supreme Court awarded a chaffeur who had overcharged him $2, a verdict of s375 damages for injuries he claimed the stalwart mining man inflicted upon him by way of reprisal. Heintze cheerfuIIy paid the judgment, assert ing that the licking he gave the fel- low was worth that much in satisfac- tion to him. The chauffeurs seem to regard this form of petty thieving as "honest graft and contrive to flour ish in spite of the citys more or less less-efficient system of 
 Agents of the Czar, acting in CO., opera tion with the local police have been active for the last week in the Russian colony on the East side where they think the jeweled neck lace, stolen recently from the Car ina, is being concealed. Advices from St. Petersburg indicated that the thief had fled with his loot to the United States and was in hiding in this city where there are now about half a. mill