The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-26
THE FARMER: JANUARY 26, 1911

l down Fifth Avenue and Broadway
 have never passed through Hymen's
 wicket or stepped down the aisle to
 the tune of wedding march. Accord
 ing to these iconoclasts it is a case
 of tit for tat, with the women fool
 ing the men with rings that they have
 no right to wear and the men de-
 ceiving the ladies by emitting the use
 of rings that they should wear.
 eff you are going to brand us be-
 fore all the world as something to
 be summed like a flea ridden dog or
 some other pestilential beast" ex-
 claimed a. sad hearted married man
 yesterday, put the clamps on the
 young men by pretending that they
 are married when they are not. Make
 it jail offense for both and I am sat- | isfied to abide the law
 l Hoot mon! Aye nae sac sich fool
 ishness aboot naething afore as aboot
 a weddin' ring.
 | Anent the oft advocated project for 1 the. production of grand opera in
 English on the same pretentious
 scale that it is given in French, Ital- ian and German, Alessandro Boncf l cherished dream of the American people can never be realized until we
 develop on this side of the Atlantic i native singers capable of singing the music.
 Tt is incredible to me-" he says.
 "that your ninety-odd millions of peo-
 pie should be without opera in the vernacular. In Italy, with half your
 population and inpnitely less of your
 most every city of importance. Why should you remain dependent upon foreigners for your operas?
 "Ah, my friend, there is one great ! obstacle that deters you. Where at | ~Ir f~~ r
 know you have your David Bisphams and others who are artists in articu- lation as we'll as in voice, but in four years of observation and listening to your singers I, a foreigner, have been
 appalled,, driven almost to despair,
 by my intellectual efforts to know what your singers in English are try ing to proclaim.
 "It Is that you need national con servatory to teach articulation as well as voice production. You have the voices-among the women especially beautiful voices. but where is the training? You are all in a hurry.
 You study eight months-a long time, yes?-and then you expect to be all things-lyrie. dramatic, emotional fed at the Rossin6 Conservatory in Pe- saro, the birthplace of the great com poser, studied hard with no prospect of immediate gain. The teaching was free. You lack such institutions here What are your immensely rich men, in all the other countries in the world combined, doing that they should neglect to establish such schools?" of the foreign population in certain sections of this city is furnished in a report just made public by Walter Laidlaw, Secretary of the Federation of Churches, which has recently been making a systematic canvass of the ndnon-church-going persons living on the island of Manhattan. Tn 122 blocks visited, with a total population of 312,042, he found that 65.75 per cent. were foreigners and but 34.25 per cent. Americans.
 In the densest populated of the blocks, in which 1,444a persons were found herdedy together in the 122 blocks. These figures are illuminat- ing in connection with the statemen migration authorities showing that 1,- 104.352 persons arrived in the Port of New York during the year ending December 31st laSt.s Of this vast number, 770,542 arrived in the steer age, the most of whom have elected to stay in the city and settle in the foreign quarters.
 s Rev. Stedwell Applegate, rector of the fashionable Methodist Episcopal Church at AsbLry Park, who was a witness in a divorce case tried in the Supreme Court to-day, was repri- | manded by Justice Blanchard. MT. Ap- | plegate testified that he had been ap- prised year ago that Edward Ben l nett, whom he married to Lena Wig l gins in September, 1908, had anoth CT | wife at the time, from whom he had | never been divorced.
 And you didn't report that to the | public prOsecutor?' asked Justice ! Blanchard.
 '.No,s sir,' replied the minister. q didn't think it any of my business"
 'tWeH, doctor,'' went on Justice | Blanchard, "don't you think it's about time you did report it? You owe it l to your country, to yourself and your church."
 Bennett married his first wife in 1889 and left her in 1902. When she | learned from Rev. MT. Applegate that | had married another woman. She subpoenaed MT. Applegate as her principal witness when the case was called to-day.
 Bennett did not defend the action and Justice Blanchard reserved de- cision.
 The Nemesis that has been follow Gould around in this and foreign countries for a number oil years, has roasted again, this time in my lady's jewel-casket. Messrs. Louis and Pierre Camille Cartier, jewellers of Paris, have sued Gould in the Supreme Court in New York, al- leging that he owes them $14,742.29 for jewelry that he purchased from them for his former wife, Katherine Clemmons Gould; also for repairing and resetting jewels belonging to her. Martin w. Littleton, acting as coun- sel for Gould. has obtained from Su preme Court Justice Golf an order to take the testimony of Gould in France. The suit has served to di- rect attention anew to the troubles of the ,Goulds.
 Plans have been drawn for what will be the tallest office building in the world when completed. It will stand on the west side of Broadway, occupying the entire block between street and Park, Place Itf, will be 750 feet high or about 50 feet higher than. the Metropolitan Tower and nearly 150 feet taller than the Singer Building. |,
 The new skyscraper, which will on- y be exceeded in height. in the world oy the Eiffel Towera, 9S5 feet, will i cost $12,000,000 or more. The land, 1 which has been acquired in the past | E