The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)

(Ry Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910, | by the National News Service. N. Y.) | New York, June By those who | pretend to know something of the fu- | ture plans of the port authorities, the government raid the other day on the fashionable dressmaking ablishment i of Lady Duff Gordan in search of | evidence of smuggling, is said to fore shadow the tightening of the customs | lines this summer. So many Ameri- cans have gone abroad with full pock- etbooks to attend King Georges coro- nation that the Federal authorities regard it as certain that the purchases abroad will be heavier than for many
 years past. Every woman who con- templates attending the London cere-
 monies will extend herself financially to make as ostentatious showing IS her means will permit. This will in- Volve a larger wardrobe than is Or- dinarily necessary on a European trip
 and a more lavish display of jewelry than is usually worn on continental
 journeys. Much of this will be bought
 on the other side and will be change able with heavy duty on the return of the voyagers to home shores. Des- pite the detection and exposure of large number of wealthy passengers
 last year in the act of trying to evade
 the port duties, Collector Loeb feels
 that the number of offenders this
 coming summer and fall will be
 equally as large if not more than us-
 ual and tax the vigilance of his in-
 spectors to the straining point The
 assertion that two of the employees
 in Lady Duff Gordan's shop which
 she conducts here under the name of
 Lucille, Limited.'' were Secret Ser
 vice agents in disguise is taken to
 mean that the Collector has enlisted
 the assistance of that branch of the
 government in carrying out his care
 fully organized program for breaking
 up the systematic smuggling of for- eign made goods by professional dress makers as well as by the travelling public. By those who can read through the lines it is interpreted to mean that the corps of Secret agents of the Treasury Department mingling ] with Americans abroad this year for the purpose of ascertaining the extent of their foreign purchases will be | materially strengthened. These agents | make it point to fraterntze with wealthy Americans when they can 1 and by winning their confidence have them admit what they have bought in the old Worlds fashionable centres. When this is not possible they follow them about and through the co-opera- tion of employees in the establish ments Americans most frequent get
 
 insisting that it will be harder than ever Ito smuggle through the ports of New York Collector Loeb admits that his men will not be able to intercept all of those who try to bring in du- tiable goods, especially jewelry. AL must be speculative, 1t Is the general impression of those who are familiar with the resourcefulness of some travellers in concealing valubles about their persons and luggage, that the smuggling of home bound passengers will approximate several millions be- fore the first of October.
 Chasing ducks down at Georgian Court, the out of town estate of Geo. Gould, whose daughter Vivien recent ly married Lord Decies, Is easier than chasing garters in Peacock Alley at the Waldorf-Astoria, according to the Bobby Beresford "Bob- by' has tried both and he knows. Since the marriage of his brother to Miss Gould in January, last, Bobby" has been making the Hotel his headquar- ters when in, town. Some of hisj friends have accused him of havinel aspirations and of using the Waldorf-Astoria as a base from which to besiege his amorita, but he vehemently denies engaging in any such enterprise or harboring any am- Dlt1On TOT nOnOrS along Such lines. He was standing at one end of Peacock Alley after dinner the other evening when he heard a woman behind him scream. Turning around he saw a handsomely gowned matron of the sunset type, her face suffused with a blush. She was corseted like an an- cient culprit in the pillory and dared not stoop if she willed. At her feet Bobby spied a pretty blue silk gar ter with a small jewel case attached, and instantly divining the secret of her discomforture and embarrassment, started after it. But others had mo- ticed it too and made a dash to inn pound it. In the scramble four stur- dy heads knocked together with a re- crash that echoed down the promenade and caused some of the valiant youths to recall their football lays Bobby reached out for the coveted trophy but one of the others got it first. When he looked around for it's owner she had vanished and the gallant swain was denied the grateful acknowledgements that he had as his reward for his cl1iv. airy.
 The discovery last week that J. Pierpont Morgan, for the second time within a little more than year