The sun., 1907-08-04

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Virginia into Esperanto and Is one Of
the editors Of the Young Esperdntist DIR.
IssnArd edlts the SUiss Hvpv.
The Germans are inclined to he cool
TO zamenhofs language. but there are
many Esperantists Of international note
In that country. Jean Borel In Berlin is
the editor Of the German Esperdntist and
a large publisher Of books relating to the
AFFAIR. l.. Y. Meier Of Munich and DIR.
J Mybs Of Hamburg are others. The first
German Esperantist pioneers are now
dead; they were l.. Einstein Of Nuremberg
and W. II. Trompeter OF Schalke.
| Among the Russians Anton Grabowski
and Alexander Dombrovski have done
considerable translsting. the latter having
| given birth to an original mathematical
treatise in Esperanto entitled Concern
ing Kind Of Curved Line" DIR. Asnes
rs the editor Of the Russian Esperdnfist
Some other Russian and Polish Espe-
Iantsts are DIR. Casimir Bein. who trans
lates over the nom de plume Of "Kabe";
Leopold Blumenthal. +. Avilov. DIR. 0s-
trowski and Alexis Brzostowski. IL is
just as easy to pronounce these names in
Esperanto as In the liquid tongue Of Siberia
! Hungary contains one OF the smartes.
| Esperantsts in Europe-Paul de Lengyel
He has written an agricultural calendar
in the universal language and evolves in
/, genious puzzles in Esperanto; squares.
diamonds, charades. REFUSES and acrostics.
With De Lengyel Esperanto seems to be as
pliable as syrup. sugar and sand in the
hands Of Coney Island candy puller.
In the Balkans Messrs. Oreshkow' and
Atanasow are prominent. There are some
Bulgarian Esperantists. Jonko Davidof
is Silistran professor who has written
The Evolution of Esperanto And in
Athens. Greece. DIR. Dragoumis sprinkles
his native salt into his Esperanto writings.
The best known Esperantist in Sweden
is DR.. p. Ahlberg. editor OF Into Esperanto.
P. Nylen is a Swede with big mustache
and an inclination to indulge in humorous
book reviews. ALI johnson is a young
Norwegian Esperanto propagandist who
looks like an American college boy.
Bordighera. in Italy, contains gray
haired woman Esperantist named Rosa
Junck. a professor OF languages. DR..
Rafaelo Bagnulo is the young editor Of
Brothers and Sisters in Esperdnto, the
journalistic medium Of the language in
Naples.
Spain ia very friendly. Senor A. Lopez
Villaneuva has compiled dictionaries and
a text book for his countrymen; Capt. v.
IngIads is the editor Of the Spanish Sun.
and Senior Ricardo Codorniu has founded
an Esperanto society in Murcia. Portugal
has not manifested much interest in Es-
peranto, though the Portuguese in Brazil
are enthusiastic.
Prof. F. vilareal in Lima. Peru; Dr.
Vargas in Mexico. A. p. Beauchemin in
Montreal, Canada; j. Cook in Duffel. Bel
gium. who is the editor Of the Belgium Bell;
Luis L. Sepuveda Cuadra in Santiago.
Chile; DR.. Gustavus Busustil in Malta. Tn
Thorsteinsson in Reyk iavik Iceland; Fred
erick Skeel-Giorling in Aalborg, Denmark.
and turbaned gentleman OF the name Of
Adinaraia Chettier in Chi Damburan.
Hindoostan. are some other Esperantists
known to fame.
where do we stand?' Answer Not in the
front ranks Of Esperanto. We inhabitants
OF Usono-the new Esperanto word for the
citizens Of the United States OF North
America. the adjective is usona-have not
distinguished ourselves yet
In Seattle. Wash. lives the first man who
translated DR.. Zamenhof's grammar into
the English language, and he added some
admirable explanatory comment, To wit.
r. H. Geoghegan. but he is an Englishman
! by birth. No real American has yet pub
lished between covers the translation Of any
national classic into Esperanto. yet here is
a line Of books. from Emersons Essays to
Mark Twain's tom Sawyer" patiently
waiting to join Shakespeare. Oliver Gold
smith. Charles Dickens Moliere. Cervantes
and the Grimm brothers on the Esperanto
shelves. Many Americans. especially New
Workers. seem to regard Esperanto only as
| an ideal movement and are apparently
waiting for its practicablity to be more
obvious.
However. we have two Esperanto papers,
the American Espsrdnio Journal in Boston.
L'Amerikd Esperantisto in Oklahoma City
| The former is edited by J. F. Twombly, who
has done q great deal TO >spread the Ian
guage here, and by Dr. William Gray NOVEL;,
the assistant secretary Of the American
Esperanto Association. +. o. Baker edits
the Oklahoma Esperanto organ.
There are thirty afiiliated organizations
! in this country. with membership Of
perhaps 800 in the aggregate. The liSelest
is the one in Philadelphia. whose president.
/ Prof. A. NJ. Grillon. has founded dinner
| club of twenty members who speak nothing
but Esperanto from soup to cigars. lie
represents US at SaInpTiuBe III august, as
| he did at Geneva last year.
DIR. Max Talmey. an oculist and language
expert, is the president OF the New York
society. and the author of Practical and
Theoretical Esperanto" Some ardent
Yankee Esperantists are DIR. ID. o. s. Lowell
of Boston, Mass; Prof. viles Of the Ohio
State University and Stephen W. Travis of
Tenafiy, n. j.
Recently. as one learns from the American
! Esperanto journal, two Filpinos joined the
beginners class Of the Ohio State Univer-
sty Club. One Of them scampered through
| fifteen exercises the first evening and forth
with began to address the instructor in
Esperanto Truly. this was putting il all
over the professor in earnest
GRtNN tROF FINDIiNLANGJ ACES.