The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-19

Fad-Gift for Cardinal
 Farley - Gossip of Old
 Gotham.
 (By Francis Phillips, Copyright 1912,
 by the National News Service, N. Y0
 New York, Feb 19-Enrico Caruso ! the worlds greatest tenor and demi- god of music lovers has had his re- venge at last. Patrick J. Cain, the l unsympathetic policeman, who five
 years ago arrested him for batting a ] strange woman on the back in the | monkey house in Central Park, was | this week retired on a pension. There l fore the singer is happy. Ever since i the unpleasant episode which for a | time seriously interfered with his i popularity, Caruso has figuratively Nbeen looking for an opportunity to ! straighten out accounts with the blue 1 coat, who before a big crowd in the | him away to the police station with no | more ceremony than if he were an | the City Magistrate before whom | Cain arraigned him at the time and | who fined the tenor $10 for his indis- | erection is dead. Cain complained that
 friends of the operatic favorite tried l to get something on him." but he was ever on the alert and contrived
 to keep outsof trouble, despite the fre- | quent threats made to him that he | would be broke."
 Ever since the incident, .Caruso has | given the monkey house a wide berth. | Every time he thinks of his experi-
 ence there, he says, it gives him the | shudders.
 Me lay my hands on a strange
 woman-bah'' he exclaims. How ridi-
 culous." With which his friends of i course agree. Cain was retired on his
 Ina md v-f11 hnnRnfnr4h ~aRaiVa | a pension of $500 year as long as he lives. This is about one third the | amount said to be received by Caru- ! so for each performance he sings. The l friends of the policeman say that | when he arrested the tenor upon the complaint of the woman, he did not
 know the identity of the alleged of
 fender, so that he could have no per
 sonal malice in what he did. Com i plaints from women visitors, to the menagerie that well dressed men who
 were in the habit of insulting them
 had been sent to the police and at the
 time of Caruso's call there detectives
 were on the lookout for the men. The
 mystery as to the identity of the
 woman who caused the arrest of the singer has never been cleared up. She
 gave a fictitious name and address
 when making her complaint against him and on learning the name of the
 prisoner became so alarmed over the ensuing notoriety that she never ap- peared in court to press the case, leav- ing the policeman to stand the brunt of the row provoked.
 | I only did what I thought was my duty said the policeman last week on retiring. 'I hold no grudge against Caruso and never did. In arresting him. acted as every policeman would have to do under the circumstances. If he has a grievance against me, it's up to him, not me" No news receiv- ed by him in long time so cheered
 the tenor more than that announcing the stepping down of Cain, whom he | held to be unduly officious.
 Since the wary and wicked old bene- diets who masquerade as single men to ensnare the trusting little moths,
 have vetoed the plan to make them wear a badge of Identification, it is ] now proposed to accomplish the end sought by having the bachelors de- note their estate by an insignia. But just as everything begins to as- sume a hopeful aspect along comes the suggestion that the bachelors need as much protection from married
 women of unsettled habits as the bachelors, no one took into account This has rather involved the situa- tion, especially the suggestion comes from Mrs William Grant Brown, president of the Federal tion of Women's Clubs, who is held to know whereof she speaks. So that in some | circles there is a disposition to call it a draw, with honors evenly divided Tn proposing to eSLdDl1Sn a line of de- | markation between the merry bene- diets, with a penchant for straying in to forbidden fields and the guileless bachelors, no noe took into account seemingly that there are almost asI many married female flirts in Gotham
 as there are male temptors. This does not include the ever widening circle of motherly spinsters who wear wedding rings that they have no right to.
 q think men need every bit as
 much protection from women as wom- do from men," said Mrs. Brown the other day in discussing the proposed innovation. Just consider, the havoc l that would be wrought in the ranks of the unmarried men if each had to wear label positively inviting the attention of the marauding female You know that Thackeray says some where that any woman unless she has a positive hump, can marry anNl man she pleases. Of course his greati safeguard is the fact that some oth, l CT woman may have married him Probably one reason why the mod. ern man wears such plain and in- conspicuous clothes is that, like cer. | tain insects, he has found it wisest l to be unobtruSiVe and not attract at- tention The effect would be aItogeth- CT spoiled if he had to sport some | glittering badge or button that fair ly proclaimed him "uncaught" to all | the word.''
 Dissenting in many respects from the views of Mrs. Brown, on the ques- tion of marking the bachelors. Miss Mary Coleman. well known woman lawyer added this to the discussion: "A man would have twenty excuses for evading such a law if adopted
 He'd come into court and swear that his button or badge had been stolen or that his valet had mislaid it or
 that he'd forgotten to take it out of
 the suit of clothes that had gone to
 the cleaners. The distinguishing
 mark, I'd suggest for bachelors would I EEN N W M H W