The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-13
Following the statement made the

Following the statement made the l other day by a government agent that l fully 275,000 men and women in this l city are addicted to the opium habit, | by the discovery of the names Of a
 number of prominent persons in books
 seized in raided 'hop joint in the Chinese quarter. The names are be- Iieved to be those of patrons of the
 resort. Among them are a number of distinguished members of the "4O0. who made the rail will refuse to di-
 vulge their identity. The joint' had a Chinese laundry as blind.
 The Chinese owner of the laundry 1 ing behind his coat and the key to a l chest shaped like an ironing board. By the time the federal agents re- turned after a futile hunt for the guard in the joint-had opened the ironing board" and found hundreds of shells of opium, worth at least $4.0o0. From this laundry Norwood and his men visited chop suey restaurant at No. 240 Manhattan avenue. AL though they discovered no opium, Nor wood saw a little girl run from back room. Her name and address will be Siven to the Children's Society to-day.
 Richard A. Canfeld. the. gambling Vanderbilt lost $500, 900 in few nights sitting in his palatia1 house of chance opposite Delmonico's, and whose memorable fight with then Dis trict Attorney Jerome cost him close to $500 O00 is to-day threatened with a suit for $50,000 for alleged alienation.
 Martin Edward Hannon, graduate of Dartmouth College. 1910 and noted tie more than a year ago married Can fields youngest daughter, Grace. is to sue him. He will charge, he said, that the gambling king induced his wife to leave him, taking with them their f1ve-months-o1d son Peter. Mrs. Han non, it was reported is residing in short time ago she would sue her ath- Ietic-husband for divorce, charging i'm compatibility of temper.
 Unlike most cases of this kind says Hannon, "it is not too much
 nother-in-law' but too much father in-law,' If Dick Canfield had kept away from his house I wouldn't be alone now. He dominated my wife was no trouble whatsoever between us until Garfield came into our home.''
 fore leaving town said: ''I never want to see my husband again. am through with him for good. We could never get along. My only hope grow up to forget his father. If I have my way he will never see him or hear hts name. would never mar ry again. When you burn your fin
 
 a lesson, haven't you? Well, was burned.''
 The upset between the couple has called to mind anew the hard luck that has of late followed the marriages of the children of New York's so-called gambling kings. Within the last few wears. both of the daughters of ftAl'' Adams, one time policy king have be- sought the courts to free them from the matrimonial yoke and Adams him self, though worth millions and apoa- rently happy, killed himself. The break in the CanfieId-Hannon romance, has led those who are superstitious about the i'll luck of gamblers in ev- erything outside of their profession, to shrug their shoulders and say: ''too bad, but then it couldn't be helped
 Ascribing most of the domestic snarls into which couples get involved to the improvidence and lack of appre- citation of the value of a dollar shown by the average young woman of the city, George W. Perkins, former part ner of J. Pierpont Morgan this week 5a1 4A he