The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-12
JAMES CREELMAN, 5S TODAY,
 IS A NATIVE OF DOMINION

Many sons of Canada have crossed
 the border to seek fame and fortune in the American metropolis, but few
 have been more successful in their
 quest than James Creelman, editor, war corresp ondent and now president
 of the New York Municipal Civil Ser vice Commission. In the latter capa-
 city MT. Creelman has recently in vestigated the police systems of Eng
 land, France and Switzerland, and has are models of efficiency po1fteness and honestly. compared with those of
 New York. although receiving less somewhat discredfted finest
 MT. Creelman will celebrate his fifty-third birthday today, having been He was educated in the Canadian public schools and at Talmage's Day Theological College. Deciding upon a York, and soon had the big town eating from his hand. James Gordon Bennett took liking to the young Canadian. and when MT. Bennett likes a man he likes him very much. MT. CreeIman found himself steadily boosted up the Herald ladder, and in cessive stages of reporter, correspond ent and editorial writer, and was made editor of the London edition of the New York Herald. A year later found him in Paris, editing the edi- ton of the Herald published in the City of Light, and an international HEuTG Tn nGWSpap01QOn1. lie return ed to New York to take charge of Bennetts Evening Telegram, but in 1893 went back to London as British editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine.
 In 1894 MT. Creelman transferred allegiance from MT. Bennett to MT. Pulitzer, going to Japan as war cor respondent for the New York World, and three years later, when William Randolph Hearst was offering fabu1- ous salaries to all the best newspaper men of New York, MT. Creelman join M In the Hearst livery he .tcovered'' the Greco-Turkish war, the Spanish n1erican difficulty in Cuba, and the Philippine insurreetion. In Cuba he and was shot and all but nnortally wounded after he had received the ant at El Caney.
 For time Mr. Creelman had charge of the editorial page and later New @ YoTh Journai Sp9nGnt Then h,n return er rne ed to the World, and for six years was a special and editorial writer on the the aa1fn-; Pplitzer Raper Next he 59ined zine. MT. Creelman is now Mayor Gaynor's right hand man and a staunch friend and defender of the
 During his varied and versatile career MT. Creelman has visited near ly all the countries on the map, and has interviewed Tolstoi, Kossuth, Pope Leo XIII, President Faure of France. Diaz. King George of Greece. H. M. Stanley, Bismarck, and a host of other notab1es. He has written several books, including Eagle Blood and "On the Great Highway His work as journalist has been fruitful of l many reforms. The United States | immigration laws, the New York har- Dor Regulations and many other bene- | fcient measures followed newspaper crusades conducted by MT. Creelman. | At present he is engaged in the big gest battle of his career-the at tempted purification of the New York police force. Admitting the existence of many abuses in the present system | MT. Creelman does not consider the job at all hopeless, and declares that 1 the force in it's entirety is much bet ter and more efficient than it's repu- tation. The Beckers are few, he as- serts and are gradually being elimi- l mated