The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26

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 | Such suggestions as these are wide | ly read and permit imposters who | conceive it an opportunity to fool a
 lot of guileless people by pretending | that they are Christ. Until they are | exposed they upset the whole country
 with their pretentions and inf1ict un-
 told harm upon those they deceive
 To date the curiosity of those who | have been speculating on the identity | of the mysterious young woman. who under the name of Marion Ouinby, ] has been learning how to operate an ] aeroplane on the field at Mineola out l side the city for several weeks past
 has not been satisfied. Dressed in
 bloomers and automobile goggles the | young woman who has the physique l of Diana, has been in daily at
 tendance on the field trying out one
 of the Curtiss machines in the opera
 tion which she has become quite adept. AS she takes her seat in the
 machine she has to run the gauntlet l of dozens of photographers who in ! sist upon snapping her over and over | again. The name Quinby is admit 1 tedly fictitious. There is a strong I suspicion that the young woman who
 is not more than twenty-one or two years of age is a member of one of the fashionable families of the city | Island. She rides to and from the aviation grounds in an automobile and has up to this time succeeded in pre- | venting her identity from becoming | known.
 The host of former admires in and about the city of F. Harrington Foote. once one of the most promising of the younger grand opera singers were surprised to learn this week that he has been charity patient in the City Hospital on the Island" for the
 last four weeks. suffering from a ner- Vous breakdown. Foote is a son of the late General Foote and a brother | of the late Colonel Harrington Foote, both of the British Army. Twenty five years ago he sang with Patti and the other great grand opera stars of
 that day at Covent Garden. He earn ed $500 week and was riding along ! on the crest of a wave of prosperity that he thought would never end. Coming to America he continued his | successful career for a number of
 years He was a prodigal spender and never saved a dollar of all he
 earned. High living eventually im-
 paired his voice and from grand opera he passed into comic opera and from
 that into the moving picture field. His
 last engagement was in connection
 with the latter, his salary being. but SIV d. week. 10 CIllS HIS brother, Col onel Foote, added another s10 a week until the latter's death a few months ago. Since that time, the singer has
 been on the verge of starvation. The fact that he was down and out and
 an Innate of a city hospital was un-
 known to any of his former friends until the other day. Steps are be- ing made to have him given extra treatment with the hope that with
 care and wholesome nouriShment he can pull himself together again. In the meantime while his wife who is in destitute condition is being taken
 care of.
 It is regarded as a foregone con-
 clusion that the sisters of Walter
 Duryea, the young millionaire who left
 the bulk of his estate of $1,50O,O0O to
 Eleanor Peregrine, his attentive Ca
 nadian nurse for twelve years, will
 contest his will. The sisters made a
 vigorous fight against their fathers
 will when they found out that he had made more generous provision in
 it for his son than he did for them.
 Young Duryea two years before the death of his father had broken his back while diving and it was believ- ed by physicians could not long sur- vive In the litigation of the will contest, the sisters tried to show that the elder Duryea was an incorrigible ul uHhdIu anu uOI CdpdDl0 OI Lldk1nS a will. Young Duryea defended the testamentary capacity of his father and won the case. Since then he and his sisters have had nothing in common, seldom seeing each other.
 During the whole twelve years of his illness, Miss Peregrine was his con- stant companion and friend, his con fident and nurse. The Duryeas will probably not object to her receiving the special bequest of s50,000 he pro- vided for sher in the will but 1t is now generally accepted that they will op- pose her being made the beneficiary Of the deceased's home and the resi- | due of the estate, which is worth $1,- 900, 900 or more. The good fortune that has come to Miss Peregrine has called to mind the success that has attended the ministrations along sim- | liar lines of other nurses in New York within the last few years. A little | more than twelve months ago. young | western nurse who has been attend l ing Mrs. Morganthau, the wife of a wealthy merchant of this city for nine years, received a present of $50,- 900 from the woman's husband when l her patient died. Six months ago | another nurse a southern woman-in | the family of wealthy banker was given $75,00O for her devotion to her patient. These frequent instances of the opportunities of the nursing field, | have of late greatly stimulated the applications for admission to the va rious nursing schools attached to the city hospitals. In addition to those who have come into money through | this vocation, more than fifty nurses in the city within the last eighteen months have married physicians and | prosperous business men.
 LAW think it aw cold deal jes so, aw mighty cold deal' said Jack John- son, the heavyweight black champion of the world when the Supreme Court this week handed down a decision awarding s1,000 damages to Cartaeno Sciarrino, an Italian sculptor who made bust of the negro on his order some time ago. When the master piece was finished Johnson took ex- ception to some of it's features and J refused to pay, although he had ap- | proved of 1t up to the time the sculp. tor had begun the finishing touches on 1t. The Italian insisted that he had carried out the instructions of |