El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-29
STILL PEOPLE
PAY To MARRY
Marriage Bureau in New
York Works Well; Euge-
mic Twins; Women Smoke.

New York, Feb. 29.-Fritz Podszus
is dead but his soul goes marching on
The world would not know how to get
along without his famous international
matrimonial bureau, and it won't have
to try.
Just across the way from the FASH
ionable Apthorp apartments on West
End avenue, owned by William Wal
dOrf Aston, a house still bears the
unique sign: Matrimonial News"
The man who Joined ten thousand
pairs of loving hearts. but never mar
ried himself. was the owner Of this
building, as Nj. Astor's American
agents found when they unsuccessfullv
attempted to have the sign declared a
nuisance by the courts
The house is now the home of the
New Hope club, or officially, the Nuevo
Esperanza. According to those in
charge. former clients of Her Podszus
Paris York institution
have joined together to further his
work John Albertus acknowledged that
the mantle and sceptre of King Fritz
had descended upon him. Some who
obtain husbands and wives pay as much
as $50 each, but we never charge more
than the service is worth" he de-
clared.
II the whole city were as densely
populated as the most congested block,
according to tenement house commits
sioEer John J. Murphy, New York
would hold $50. coo $40 people The most
congested flock is that bounded by
East 18TH, East 11ath. First and Sec
ond avenues Here 1855 persons live,
or more then 1OOe to the acre.
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There was cLrious discussion when
the Won't rs City club was formed re-
Gently. Il had Il &C with smoking.
Perhaps you will imagine from this
Il noda
batted to bar tobacco from the dainty
quarters On the eighteenth floor Of the
Vanderbilt hotei.
Oh, no, no, not for an instant. Smok-
ing was taken for granted, as it is in
many other women's clubs now.
But certain of the founders thought
there ought to be at least one room
where a "nO smoking" sign should
hang 1t was urged that some women
didn't like smcke-even that puffed
from the tht oats Of others Concession
SHOULD be made to their old fashioned
prejudice.
Rut the measure didn't go through.
Such a protest was laised that the pro-
Ject was given ~ In fact the house
committee decided there would be alb
sOlutely no rules.
So the fair cobaters Of pure milk.
tencments aud prisCn reform may
and do-putf their geld tipped Turkish
pills" in the crimson and mahogany
dining room, the raauve rest room and
all the other deIioately furnished apart
ments CT the club
Dr.. David Allyn Gorton, who at the
age Of 80 years became the father OF
twins, called the "eugenic twins be-
cause Of the parents devotion to the
science Of human breeding, has just
He was 81 years old. and so did not
carry out the promise. made on his last
birthday, that he would live to be l0o.
Half a century before the birth of the
famous twins. who are now strong and
healthy, DIR. Gorton studied and trans
lated the theories Of a German scien-
fist, DR.. Sixt Erfurt, on the determine
ton of sex in children. He became con-
WINGED that he could regulate matters
OF sex as scientifically as the hortl-
cultUrist plays with the pollenlzatoh
Of the flowers
The Brooklyn doctors translation OF
Erfurt's book was published in pamph-
let form, but was not permitted TO cir
culate in the mails.
Sharing DR.. Gorton's enthusiasm for
eugenics and believing in his theories
was his literary secretary, Miss Bertha
Rehbein. They finally decided TO mar
~ and try out the theories in practice
Dr. GortOn's bride was 90 years old,
well past the age when woman is pop
ularlv supposed to cease collaborating.
This was in 1911. In April of the fol-
lowing year twins were born. The cou-
pie had decided TO produce BOY. Ihey
did better and became the proud par
ents Of both a boy and girl The chill
dren were sickly at first, as is often the
case in multiple births. but soon pros
pered under Dr. Gortons skilled hand
DR. GOrtOn was q vegetarian. He was
the Oldest and best known medical
practitioner in Brooklyn and worked S
hours daily right up to a few days be-
fore his death. he was the founder
Of the Eugenic society.