The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-20
GOTHAM GOSSIP

GUIHAm GUNNu
(By Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910,
by the National News Service, N. V
New York, Feb. 20.
Blase New York, where nothing I'M
der the sun is supposed to be new, is
being treated this week to an exhibit
of rubber raising that threatens to
eclipse in popular interest anything
seen here in many vars.
Since the days of the old Crystal Pal
ace, half century ago, Gotham has
had its fancy surfeited with exhibit
lions of every kind from the stuffed
skin of the horse on which Sheridan
made his famous journey Of sixteen
miles to Winchester, to the replica
recently shown in one of the big
stores of the drawing room in the
French Chateau, of william Ellis
Corey, retired president Of the Steel
Trust, and the Matching of turtle
eggs while you wait. Largest indi-
world, New York, however, has new
er seen rubber depicted In the grow
ing.
The picture of the tropical forest has
native framework and an atmos-
phere OF realism that carries the OBJ
server into the jungle and in fancy
brings him into intimate touch with
the manners and customs Of the abort
CINE in the pursuit Of the industry.
he and his ancestors have followed
for untold centuries. The native ar
rayed in his scant costume is seen
tapping the trees, with his odd shap-
ed knives, gathering gum from the in
cisfons made by them and curing it
over the forest fire before he takes
it into camp.
In imagination you can smell the
sweet scent Of the orchid and other
tropical fora and see the playful lit
tie It'll monkey cavorting among the
interlacing branches. Smart society
men and women are daily visitors to
the exhibit, which Is held under the
auspices Of one Of the largest manu-
facturers in the east The great pop
ularity Of the automobile in New York,
where it is computed $100,O0O,O00 is in
vested in machines has made the
show the vogue among all classes. The
exhibit will be continued for several
weeks yet.
Bah! They have discovered him.
Not DR.. Cook. but Paul Sunshine
Paul, the tall, handsome, godlike cav
alier, hypnotizer of princesses, who
provided Elinor Glyn with the model
for her hero. Paul. in Three
Weeks They found him stopping
the other day at a modest Broadway
hotel and he admitted his identity.
He's only twenty-four now and con-
fesses that he was in Lucerne at the
time the incidents which the English
novelist has woven into the boldest
romance of recent years are said to
have occurred. Pressed for an ans
wer he affirmed that he met the Rus
sian princess there as told in the
sode Of some sort between them. He
was under twenty-one then and it was
innocent. very innocent, he naive1y
adds. Elinor Glyn was his friend, he
vouchsafed-a dear, sweet, lovely
in proof of it he showed
his interviewer a trunkful of embroi-
dered pillows, gold-headed cane,
handkerchiefs.a and lot of other things
with which the titan haired writer
had plighted her abiding friendship
for the smooth shaven young man
whose real name is Paul Sonnerschien.
He is a Bohemian and a member of a
prominent family Of Prague. But
there the romantic interest In the
youth ends. What is he doing here?
brand Of Bohemian hops to American
brewers. And then he smiles bland
ly as if expecting his interrogators to
accept his statement at it's face vail
ue. Elinor Glyn is here also, but
then that is another story. A COIN
that's all, he suggests. as he
that his interests are else
where. pointing to a bundle of per-
fumed letters postmarked from cities
abroad, lying on his dresser.
Working ten to twelve hours a day,
for the organization of the
big trust company through which his
Hetty Green, the worlds rich
est woman, is in future to finance the
different enterprises in which she is
seems to agree with Col
onel Edward H. r. Green, her rotund
son from Texas. Between breaths
the Colonel, who has been spending
the last ten years or more in Texas,
developing his railroad and oil prop
critics in the Lone Star State. finds
time to put in a good word for San
Francisco for the Panama Exposition.
His friends regard him as the big
gest booster the Pacific coast city
has in New York. Thrust out into the