Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-11

Looking back upon a life spent largely
in the service of his adopted country, Ed
ward Young Ph.D., formerly chief of the
bureau of statistics of the census office
and for eleven years United States con-
sui at Windsor, Nova Scotia, is today
celebrating his ninety third birthday an
niversary.
At 400 A street southeast. where Dr.
Young is now living with his daughter,
Miss Annie Young, the veteran was seen
Yesterday afternoon by a reporter of The
Evening Star In spite of his more than
four score years and ten, DR.. Young does
not look the nonogenarian. Though slight
ly stopped, his carriage is firm and aier''
his voice clear and strong, his eyesight
good-in short. he does not look day
more than seventy, and even many men
who have reached seventy fail to carry
their years as lightly as DR.. Young car
rieS his. =.
II is partly to abstinence from alcoholic
drinks and tobacco that DR.. Young at
tributes the light weight the years have
put upon him. He says that he has never
broken his rule against touching mtoHi :
Giants and even at dinner in the car S
palace of Tsarkoe-Selo, when the health
of the Russian, emperor was proposed, ne
left the champagne in ms glass I'M
touched. terrificaliy scandanzlnS Ger
man who sat next him and who, for some
mysterious reason, asked IL LII. 1ouiiS
were d vegetarian.
A Gift From the Gar.
But the car could not have been great
ly Mortified himself at the failure to drink
his health, for not long after DIR. Young
returned to America the Russian minister
took to Hamilton Fish, then Secretary of
State a magnificent diamond ring, gift
from the ear to the man who abstained
from the imperial champagne. Tine ring,
which DR.. Young has taken from safe
deposit vault over his birthday annlver-
Sary is huge affair. In the center Is a
blue-enameled disc, almost as large as a
1O-cent piece, and around it are eight
Ilarge diamonds, the stones of necessity
being of unusual size to have only eight
surround the blue center. On the enamel
is the letter "A in filagree, set with
small diamonds. and underneath the CA
the Roman characters III, for Alexander
the second. the car who freed the serfs.
DR.. Young was born in Nova Scotia, De-
| cember IL, 1914. in settlement which
had been made by New EnglanderS, who
| had been invited to Acadia in 1850 after
| the French set,---s had been deported. In
| 1885 DIR. Young came to the United States
going first to Ohio, but moving on the
| next year to Indiana, where he cast his
| iliSl NOtt HOi IiN III " oiiihN', id'iiNi vi
| Gen. Lew Wallace, for governor. He aisC
| voted that same year for William Henry
| Harrison for President, but Gen. Harm
son was not elected that year.
First Visit to Washington.
/ His first visit to Washington was made
| in February, 1889, the journey from In
diana being made on horseback. Tit
young traveller heard Clay. Webster ant
Calhoun speak in the Senate, and Listened
to a former President, John Quincy Ad
ans, in the House. After that he returned
| to Nova Scotia, when he made a voyag
to the West Indies. A few years later h.
went to Boston. and then came on Il
| Philadelphia, where for a number o
| years he compiled and published book
dealing with the statistics of commerce
and manufacture, visiting the leading