South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-01
WORK Of BUREAU
GOES ON THE SAME
Proprietor of Matrimonial
Agency Dies, But Matches
Are Still Made.
by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

by Gotham n nicISerbOCker.
NEW YORK. Mar. 1.-Fritz Pods
zus is dead. but his soul goes march
Ing on. The world would not know
how TO get along without his Ia
nous international matrimonial bu-
reau. and II won't have 10 try.
Just across the way from the fash
ionabIe Apthorp apartments on
West End av.. owned by William
Waldorf Astor, a house still bears
the unique sign: Matrimonial
News"
The man who joined ten thousand
pairs OF loving hearts. but never
married himself was the owner OF
this building. as Mr. AstOr's Amcri-
can agents found when they unsuc-
cessfully attempted 10 have the sign
declared a nuisance by the courts.
The house is now the home Of the
New Hope club. or officially, the
Nuevo Esperanto. According 10 those
in charge former clients Of Herr
stitution have joined together 10 fur
ther his splendid work. John AL
bertus Acknowledged that the mantle
and sceptre Of King Fritz had des-
Cended upon him Some who OBJ
tain husbands and wives pay as
much as $3.50 each but we never
charge more than the service is
worth" ne declared.
II the whole city were as densely
populated as the most congested
block. according TO Tenement House
Commissioner John J. Murphy, New
York would hold $50. 900 people.
The most cOngested block is that
bounded by East 18TH, East 113th,
First and Second avs. Here 1856
persons live. or more than 1000 TO
in eacre.
There was curious discussion
when the women's City club were
formed recently. II had TO do with
smoking
Perhaps you will imagine from this
that a proposal was made and COM
batted TO bar tobacco from the dain-
tv quarters on the eighteenth floor
% the Vanderbilt hotel
on. no, not for an instant. Smok-
ing was taken for granted as il is
in many other women's clubs now.
But certain Of the founders
thought there ought 70 be at least
one room where a mo smoking
sign hung. 1t was urged that some
women who don't like smoke-even
that puFfed from the throats of 9TH
ers. Concession should be made TO
thef TOld fashioned prejudice.
But the measure didn't go through
such n protest was raised that the
project was given mp. In fact the
house committee decided thele
would be absolutely no rules.
So the fair debaters of pure milk,
tenements and prison reform may
and dO-puff their gold tipped Turk
ish pills" in the crimson and ma
hogany dining room. the mauve rest
room and all theOther delicately fur
uished apartments of the club.
Or. David Allyn Gorton. who at the
aye OF eighty years became the
father Of twins. called the "eugenic
twins because Of the parents devo-
ton TO the science of human breed
ing. has just died In Brooklyn.
He WAS eighty-foUr years old. and
80 he did not carry out the promise
made on his last birthday, that ne
would live to be 100.
Half century before the birth Of
the famous twins. who are now
strong and healthy. DR. GOrtOn
studied and translated the theories
Of a German scientist. DIT SiXt En-
furt. on the determination OF sex in
children lie became convinced that
he cCIld regulate matters of sex as
scientifically as the horticulturist
plays with the polarization of the
flowers.
The Brooklyn doctors translation
Of Erfurt's book was published in
pamphlet form. but not permitted
20 circulate in the mails.
Sharing Or Gorton's enthusiasm
for eugenfcs and believing i'm his
theories was his literary secretary.
Miss Bertha Rehbcin. They finally
decided TO marry and try out the
theories in practice. DIR. Gorton's
bride was fifty-three years old, well
past the age when women is popular
ly suppose dto cease child-bearing.
This was in 1911. In April OF the
following year the twins were born.
The couple had decided 10 produce
p hoy. They did better and became
the proud parents of both "A boy and
p girl The children were sickly ut
first. rs is often the case in multi
PIE births. but soon prospered under
Or. Gorton's skilled hand.
DIT. Gorton was a vegetarian. He
vas the Oldest and best known med
zeal practitioner in Brooklyn and
81. orked eighteen hours daily right
up 10 a few days before his death.
nc was the founder OF the E,ugenic
society.