The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-04
BUSY MAN WHO
HAS DONE THINGS
BROUGHToN BRANDENBURG. THE
Ex-FOOTBALL PLAYER. IF
A Feat of Research on the italian I'M
migrant Much Light Thrown on
Criminal Bands-His Studio Work
shop on Fifth Avenue, New York.
The Critic

Miss Mary Heard sends me the fol
lowing interesting account Of Mr..
Broughton Brandenburg and his work:
An Ohioan by birth, he began writing
Tor the western papers as mere boy,
and when family financial reverses came
ne left college and went from "the
Before. he was 20 he was known all over
the middle west as football player,
political writer and sportsman. Then
the Spanish American war broke out,
and, organizing his own syndicate of
papers, he, went to Cuba to represent
them, and in the battle at Ell Caney won
M Wh ana assignment to General
Whee!ef,s headquarters with the topo-
cry IN caring for wounded of the Eighth
United States infantry under fire. -
i;nd eJ and broken by fever at the
end or the war, he entered Princeton in
an endeavor to complete his college
WORK, put the following year found him
gong TO sea IN an effort to shake off
that subtroplcal fever which cost more
! ~ IN the campaign than did the Span
lsh bullets, The outbreak of the Boer
YORK World at the Cape, but he was in
4ured at the very outset Of the conflict
1t was at this time that he took up seri-
ously the studies by actual experience
OF the life of the seafaring man in
steamships of today, which he later in
co1Porated in 1.-The Deep Sea Sailor.'
Ills best known feat Of research, and
one which shows his daring, thoro and
vigorous methods, was when he took his
young wife from her uptown home in
New York into a tiny italian tenement
room for long months in order to study
the language, manners, customs, needs,
and points of view Of the immigrants.
When equipped, they went in the steer
age to Naples, lived in southern Eu-
rope among the peasants, came back in
the steerage, and passed thru Ellis
ceive even their intimate friends. Then
he wrote "Imported Americans, - which
threw an entirely new light on the i'm
migration question. He found himself
alone in his field Of intimate search for
the true underlying principles of the
great, social problem, and pursuing it
hardly, exposing himself among Grim
astounding data presented in "Our I'm
ported Criminals, - which appeared Sc
rally in Collier s and which is to be
published in book form this fall. AS
one result of his studies, he found him
self recognized as the leading author
lty on immigration today, and by main
tanning large corps Of correspondents
both at home and abroad keeps himself
supplied with facts instead of theories
and automatically doctored statistics.
In the past six months Mr.. Branden-
burg has written important articles on
the Chinese awakening, the works at
Gibraltar, modern military machinery,
Central American archaeology, the de-
velopment of western Canada, the
Hoffman engine discovery, Newfound-
land and Labrador life, etc, with fic~
tion stories of the circus, the sea, the
Philippines, etc., sandwiched in to EN-
phasize his versatility When at home
in New York, he and his wife have a
studio workshop in Fifth avenue in the
seething center Of metropolitan life.
and there I found him going over his
escaped from Koenigsberg was likely
to be a brother of suspicious man
in Pittsburg, whom Washington off.
cial had telegraphed about.