The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-06

, Iong1ngS OF the women passengers.
At that moment the big whistle of
La Savoie, which was getting ready to
leave, began footing. Miss Proper
| looked longingly at the liner and said !:
For two pins I'd get on that boat
and go back to France.
But she didn't.
New York men are brutes. L have
been here only five weeks, but not
once during that time have I been
out at night without having some
man insult me. If this happened in
the South a lynching would result"
This was the statement made in the
Flower Hospital to-day by Miss Ger
trude Williams, a pretty twentyyear-
old southern girl, who punched a
masher and had him arrested when
he spoke to her in Broadway.
81 come from Birmingham, Ala,
Miss Williams said, land in my home
city l always found the men to be
gentlemen. I had heard that New
York men were just as gallant and
chivalrous. This, however, I find to
! be a sham. I have seen none of
stead l have been continually insult
ed
Miss Williams is suffering from
hysteria, but it is said she will be abIe
to go back home in day or two.
FOR the second time DaDy boy
has been born to Mrs. Edith Govern
| try, wife of the Hon Henry Govern
| try, third son of the Earl of Coven-
| try, and has upset a pending litigation
over deed of trust made by Mrs.
Coventry, wherein she conveyed prop
| erty valued at about $1,000,000.
Once before, about a year ago, when
| a son was born to Mrs. Coventry. the
case had to be heard over because
| the baby had certain rights in the
| litigation, and a guardian ad Item
was appointed to represent his inter
| ests. And now Justice Blanchard has
| given permission again to have the
complaint amended so as to include
| Cecil Henry Coventry, the latest baby,
| who was born on March q. So now
| there will have to be another hearing
| of the proceedings because of the in
terest of the newest and youngest of
! the parties at interest
| Mrs. Coventry is the daughter of
| Lawrence Kip, and the granddaughter
| of Pierre Dorinard. She was for
merly the wife of Richard S. McCree-
ry, from whom she obtained a di-
vorce. A son was born of that mar
| riage. Two months before she mar
| ried Coventry, in 1907, she executed
a trust-deed including about $1,000
| 900 worth of property to three trus-
tees, from which she was to have the
! income. Coventry was to have no
! control over the trust
The Chinese government has begun
| the erection at Pekin of a modern en-
| craving plant, to cost 100000.
! American architects planned the
| building and Shewan Tones and
| Company of New York were award
| ed the controct to install the me-
chanical plant. This firms first ship
ment is en- route to China to-day
This move on the part of China 20
| establish a modern engraving and
! printing plant is thought to be the
| beginning of an entire change in the
! monetary system of the Government.
| The loan of S50,0OO,OOO by the Nor
| gan firm to China is believed to have
direct bearing on the new pant. as
| part of the loan was to be used 20
! establish reform in currency.
| At present the Chinese money sys-
| tenn is about as hard to understand
as Chinese writing. Coins vary in
value according to the part of the
Empire they are found in Tt is to
| establish a currency standard that
| the change is proposed.
Uncle Sam has decided to give
smugglers whose goods have been
| conf1scated a chance to buy back
| from the Government the property
| taken from them. and on Friday. the
wonderful Russian sable coat of Mrs
| Robert Manages Corwin Hill will be
hers again-if she has the price
This wonderful coat cost $8.685,and