The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Personal Odds and Ends
 from the Weeks News

from the Weeks News Gen. Goiran, the new French minis ter of war; represented the govern ment yesterday at the start of the Paris to Rome aeroplane flight. It was his first official duty. He suc- ceeded M. BerteauX, who was killed by an aeroplane a week ago Sunday Gen. Goiran was born in Nice. thir- teen years before its tion by France. When he grew up he de- c1ded to be Frenchman. His broth CT accepted Italian citizenship instead, and became 8 general in the army of that country.
 Henry Crosby Emery, chairman of the Tariff Board, who is in England collecting facts regarding various in- dustr1es, was only twenty-seven years old when called from Bowdoin Col lege to Yale to take the chair of polit- ical economy in 1900, and he was known as the youngest Eli professor. MT Emery has the reputation of be- ing rabid tariff reformer He stud fed economics at several institutions before he began to teach it.
 B. w. B. Brown, lawyer and poli- tician, was known for years as the ''big boy" of Fifth Avenue When BroWn was eleven years old he was five feet and ten inches tall and weigh ed almost as. much as he does to-day. Pedestrians along the avenue would look at him every morning as he trot- ted along to school in care of his nurse.
 You know, Brown" said one of his friends to him recently, with self advertising personality like that, you don't deserve any credit for the suc- cess have had in nn1ifioc
 In the midst of the exodus of Amer jeans for the coronat tion in London, it is refreshing to find one who looks upon such ceremonies from the view point that IS supposed to be typically a number of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, who are wanted to testify before the Con- sressional committee which is investi- gating the affairs of the Steel Trust, have intimated that their address for the next two months will be London, England, somebody asked Norman B. Ream how it was that he had not crossed the ocean with his associates.
 What for?" said Ream, who is a big man and wears Loyal Legion button.
 Why. to see the coronation"
 Well. why do I want to see a cor
 
 ing than coronation."
 Thomas Lloyd, a thriving cotton mill owner of North Carolina died the oth- CT day at his home in Chapel Hill, Orange County. Until a few years which was a particularly noticeable fact because Chapel Hill had been the home of the State university for more than a century. On one occasion Lloyd, who was among the few Re- publicans in Orange County, wished to have one of his two brothers nam ed as postmaster. He did not care which, so long as the office was taken by a member of the family. and he visited the university president to get testimonial for use in Washington. The college man expressed. as tactful- ly as possible his doubts about the educational qualifications of the two aspirants.
 Yes" said Lloyd, mary one of 'em ain't fitten fur the job. but airy one of 'em has got son that air.
 ALloyd got the postmastership, and a son did the work.
 D. Clarence Gfbboney, for years a leader in the fight against bossism in the Quaker city, has reappeared in new capacity, this time as chief coun- sel to the Pennsylvania State Grange. The post was offered to Gibboney by William T. Creasey of Columbia, mas ter granger, and promptly accepted. Gibboney and Creasey are old friends The sixty thousand grangers do nc exhaust Gibboneys political possibil- ities of the arrangement" There are two hundred thousand farms in Penn sylvania and as Representative Ail- man, secretary of the State Grange, pointed out the other day, there is r1n of Grange to grow both as farmers or ganization and as a factor in Penn- sylvania politics.
 Thomas L. Lewis, once president of the United Mine Workers of Ameri- ca, has gone 'back to the mines" with a vengeance. He can pick coal and put in eight hard hours a day as well as ever. ''I never felt better in my life" he said the other day. "Of course I am a little sore after not hav- ing done any hard physical labor for fifteen years, but things will come to me as easy as ever in a few days" Lewis went back to hard day labor last week, after having held office in the miners organization for fourteen years. My work as a miner is cer- tainly easier than my work as presi- dent of the miners" said Lewis. "As president I worked fifteen hours a day. I D. days work is done, and I can pick coal as we'll to-day as I could fifteen years ago.
 William Stuart Reyburn, son of Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia, has been elected by the Republicans to suc- ceed the late Joel Cook in Congress from the Second District. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, representing the Tenth District, which comprises the Fifteenth Ward. He is following in the foot steps of his father, who represented the same territory in the State Legis- lature and in the national House of Representatives. Reyburn is twenty seven years old He was born in Philadelphia on December IT, 1883. Af- ter taking a course in Hill School Pottstown, Pa., he entered Yale, be- ing graduated in 1904. He studied law at the George Washington University He was elected to the House of Rep- resentatives in 190S and reelected last November. He has been twice around the world, and has made a study of political economy.
 Augustus Owsley Stanley chairman of