The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-05
THE HUMAN PROCESSION


 Russia's s1ittle white mother" un- .happiest of all the women who sit upon a throne, will pass her forty-hrst milestone to-day. The Czarina, who was Princess Alix of Hesse before her marriage to the ''great white Czar'' in 1894, was the daughter Of Louis ", Grand Duke of Hesse, and Alice Maud Mary, third child of Queen Victoria At Sch1oss Fried berg, her girlhood home in Hesse, the Czarina was affectiona.tely called Princess Sunshine," owing to her happy and carefree disposition. As the mistress of a dozen imperial pal an English writer ''the most pathetic royal figure in the world Her faii- ure to present a male heir to her lord and master was long a source of grief but, since the birth of little Alexis in 1904, that source of sorrow has been replaced by fear that he will fall a victim to the Nihilists.
 The Czarina is the mother of four daughters, and the oldest, Princess Olga, is now in her eighteenth year. The choice of a husband for the charming Olga is now receiving much attention in Russian diplomatic cir cIes,, where the young lady is consid- cred only as a matrimonial pawn in the gameSof diplomacy. The Czarina is said to be pathetica1ly eager for an English alliance for her daughter, and the Prince of Wales, who will be nine teen this month, has often been men toned. Such a. match would doubt lesn be welcomed by the advisers of the Russian emperor, but it has been intimated that King George and Queen Mary are opposed to a Roman off alliance, because of the Czarina's B unhappy illness" The Czarina, in her hope for an English alliance, has a friend at the English court in the person of Queen Mother Alexandra, who is immensely fond of the Prin- cess Olga.
 The Empress Alexandra Feodorov- na-the names given her on her ad- mission to the Greek Church-bears little resemblance to the Princess Altx of Hesse. Her face is drawn, tenses anxious. her manner nervous and at times distraught,. and she has lost the rounded and graceful figure of her youth.
 Dr. Richard Cockburn Maclaurin. president of Massachusetts Tech 9 technology, will celebrate his forty third birthday to-day. The youth full educator is a native of Lindean, Scotland, and is still British subject, although he recently took out first papers and announced his intention Of becoming a subject of Uncle Sam. President Maclaurin's youth was spent on the down under" side of the world, in New Zealand. After com p1eting his education at Cambridge University he returned to New Zea- land, and for several years was pro- lessor of mathematics and later dean of the law faculty of New. Zealand University. He came to America in 1907 to adopt the chair of rnathenati- cal physics at Columbia, and in 1909 assumed the presidency of Massachu- setts Institute of Technology The great scientific institution is flourish ing as never before under the direc- ton of the men from New Zealand and has been the recipient of many gifts, including $2.50o, 900 from a mys- terious 'Mr. smith, and $75o,o from Col. T. Coleman du Pont
 Mortimer l.. Schiff, banker and son of a distinguished banker, is thirty six to-day. MT. SchtR studied rail roading in the United States and Can ada and banking methods in London and Hamburg before beginning his ac- tive financial career thirteen years ago. He is prominent in Jewish charities, as we'll as being a power in the railroad and banking world.