The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-22
GOTHAM GOSSIP
tRy Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)

tRy Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)
 New York, Dec 22-Somewhere on the broad Atlantic seeking a friendly asylum on the more hospitable shores of Europe, Is one baron Christian van MotZ, debOnnair, sOldiery look ing man, with an omniverOuS appe- tite for the American dollar For mer State Senator William H. Rey- holds, a millionaire real estate opera tor, thinks the baron scented trouble and fled before the police had an op- portunity to interview him. Van Motz is described here as one of the most finished imposters who has within recent years endeavored to break the wealthy families of New York, with his fanciful tales of cas- ties in "the fatherland'' and pictures que stories of thrilling achievements bravely performed.
 Early in October the smooth tongued heart breaker returned to this country on the Minnehaska With the wife of Senator Reynolds and their seventeen year-oId daughter. On the way over he ingratiated himself, with his en- gazing manners into the good opinion of the mother and avaied himself of the opportunity to. make violent love
 
 tentions shOwered upon her by the supposed nobleman, the girl was visib- y pleased. But when the slip arrived and the Senator learned of the ripen- ing attachment between his daughter and the knightly one with the broad mustachio and dulcet voice, he had van Motz looked up.' The looking up was not to the advantage of the suitor, who on learning that Reynolds had threatened to tether him with a Jig stick, disappeared from town. The investigation aside from disclosing the eact that he was a spurious baron, showed that he had spent three weeks
 Il jail here some years ago for with holding $170 received from ethe pawn Marcus Denison Russell, the widow of Captain Russell of Col Roosevelt s Rough Riders" The widow had taken a deep fancy to the baron. He had proposed marriage. to her and 1t Is said had been accepted.
 Tn a financial emergency, the widow turned over to him a jewe,ed pin to hypothecate for her.
 What hurt the widow more than his retention of most of the money thus realized was the fact that he used it with which to lay siege, to the hand of Onita Concord. a rich and beauti- full Spaniard, then stopping in 1uxur- ouS dpdTCIHeHtS dl tie WdluuIl-AS- toria.
 On fearing of his duplicity. the wid- oW caused him to be arrested while supping tea with his Castilian amorita in the dining room of the hotel. Af- ter his release from the jail he de- c,ared he would marry the Spanish woman. but he dropped out of sight he made known his identity on the Minnehaska to the Reynolds.
 Another romance" in which gay baron with a hankering for wife with fortune, figured prominently in the news of the week. This was the twilight romance of the Baroness piled this week to local courts for an order to compel her sisters to turn over to her securities to the value of $500, 900. The Baroness was a Miss Ewen and at the age of 56 fell desper- ately. in love with the baron, who when not serving time in prison in expiation of certain offences against Der. These things were not dfscov- cred by his cooing bride until long after they had -eloped to Florida. Counsel for her sisters who resist the delivery to her of the securities she demands, on the ground that she may turn them over to the baron to squan- der, told how the nobleman got $45,OOO from her in cash while on their honeymoon at Palm Beach.
 He would have gotten more, say the lawyers, had they not lured the baron out on a motor boat trip and while he was thus preoccupied prevailed up- on the baroness to sign a trust deed, whereby her sisters were made the custodian of her fortune. This deed cho fn G0 that she can control her own patri- mony. The court reserved decision.
 Mrs. Jackson Gourard's much dis cussed turkey trot'' dance, which caused some good people hereabouts to declaim that the world was sailing under full canvas for perdition, is a nerves, compared to the new variation of ''the grizzly bear'' waltz now com ing into vogue with society Among those who condemned the turkey trot" when Mrs. Gourard (nee Amy Crocker of San Francisco tried to popularize it, that lterpischorean freak is now classed as harmless and sinless as the minuet and the two-step.
 Who invented the Grizzly Bear" does not appear, but there is a we'll authenticated report going the rounds that a. smart matron of the 's4O0' is its author. It's reception by that class of society, which diverts itself n monkey dinners, pajama dances and such other >eccentricfties and abnor- ma'ties as excite the fancy of the men, tally and ethicadly twisted, has been more than cordial. As it's name inn plies,r the grizzly bear'' predisposes those who dance it to a closer ar- .rangement of the persons and more friendly communion of interest that is considered good form, except on park benches ana the enfolding gloom of the beaches on a moonless night. It's popu arity to date has been large " confined to those who are partial to the extraordinary and indifferent to criticism. The more it is discussed and agitated as something to be es- chewed by those who hope to meet Peter one of these days with clean vouchers at the pearly gate, the more certain is the round table, element of society, which regards the sugges- ton of naughtiness as something of a distinction to be coveted, to make it its great fetich of the season. This will not, however, stay the protests and grumblings of those who regard thes wide publicity given to such feats as inSmicaI to the public morals and in violation of law. But as long as the dances complained of are strictly private and given only for the deIec- tation and benefit of the favored few invited to participate in them, they cannot be interfered with
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