The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-04-05

wealthy; John T. has also gained we'll
stuffed pocketbook by his newspaper car
toons. Thus the newspaper has been used
By not few pretty welI-hnoWn brothers
either as a stepping stone 70 their ulti-
mate respective goals or as field for
their fixed endeavor.
From Bakery, 90 Stage.
From the bakery 10 the stage was the
leap made by the Coauelin brothers After
giving his sons what we would cali a
public school education, Coquelin pere put
them in baker coats, aprons and caps, and
taught them to knead, bake, and sell
bread. Just as the father was congrat-
ulating himself on the prospect that in
his old age he would have some one 10
look after the business for him, along
came Rachel to Boulogne. Constant Co
quelin witnessed one of her perform
ances, straightway became enamored Of
the stage, and after that the bread was
poorly kneaded, bakings were burned, and
customers lily served. while he studied
parts and dreamed of the day when he
would stride the boards-a star.
When !lis father at last became con-
WINGED that bakeshop was not Con-
stant's place in life. he sent him to Paris
with an annual allowance of $40 Here
he studied in the Conservatory. made bis
debut at twenty, and has been in pursuit
of his ideal. ever since. In 1864, four years
after his brother had made his bow.
the younger COquelin took the prize IN
comedy at the Conservatory, and shortly
after began his career as a comic star.
When his mind recently gave way-over
the outcome of love affair, it has been
said-he was probably Frances leading
comic actor He became struck
while an employee OF q railroad he hay-
Ing deserted the paternal bakery some
months previous.
American Brothers Who Won Fame.
The Benson brothers are among the
present-day well-known brothers who had
fathers as or more famous than them
| selves; the late Archbishop OF Canter-
bury called them sons. The two Car
fields. despite their own works are best
known as the sons OF a martyred Presi-
dent; Alphonso Tat was Grants Attor-
ney General. During civil war times
Mai Daniel McCook and Or. John Nc
Cock were famed as the fathers OF the
Fighting McCooks, and they fought
/ bravely themselves, Daniel being killed
in battle. L. Clarke Davis was a LEADING
newspaper editor years before the public
ever heard OF Richard Harding DAYS
/ me Their Of the elders was a minister
and school head with quite a reputation
/ in the East. The three Belmonts are still
/ spoken Of as the sons OF old August.
Marcus. father Of the Profs. Jastrow
/ was for more than three decades one OF
1 the renowned rabbs Of America. Meyer
( Guggenheim had made a fortune In the
mercantile business and discovered ths
! possibilities in smelling while he was
1 raising his family OF ten boys and girls
/ The father OF Elihu and the recently de
ceased Oren Root was as noted a mathe-
matician Ia his day at Hamilton College
+ as his son and namesalSe was In his Or
/ Leopold Damrosch was a musical kine
/ in New York from the early 10s till his
death In 1885, when Isis son Walter tool
up his work.
Wrote Novel "Dedo."
/ Besides being great churchmsn. tint
father OF the Bensons also had consider
able reputation as a literary man. Each