The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-11
AGNES LAUT, AZ TO-DAY, Is A
PANAMA CANAL AUTHORITY.

Those who have read recent maya
zine articles dealing with the COM
n1ercia1 benefits that will follow the
opening of the Panama Canal. signed
by A. c. Laut, have probably formed
an exalted opinion or the ability of the
author. Probably few readers know
that A. G.. Laut is q. woman, yet such
is the case. The first initial stands
for Agnes and she, was born in Onra-
rio forty-two years ago to-day, Feb.
IL, 1871. Che came of family
prominent in Canadian affairs. her
grandfather having been a distinguish
ed educator, the principal of Queens
University. Miss Laut was taken to
Winnipeg and in her childhood and
her youth was spent in the little from
tier city that has now become me-
tropo1fs. She entered Manitoba Uni
versity, but was forced to leave in her
junior year on account of i'll health.
Miss Laut was twenty-four when she
began her Journalistic career as an
editorial writer on the Winnipeg Free
Press The depth and breadth of her
editorial utterances attracted attention
all over America and in England, and
the name A G. Laut soon appeared
above articles in the leading
magazines and weeklies of the Do
minion, New York and London. Her
first book. Lords of the North" ap-
peared in 1900, and was followed in
1902 by tHeralds of Empire and
The Story of the Trapper Since
then Miss Laut has written several
other volumes, including "Pathfinders
of the West and Vikings of the Pa
cif1c.'' OF late years she has made
her home in New York, but has spent
much time in travel. Her series Of
articles on the Panama canal were
based. on f1rst-hand information gain
ed by extensive travel and interviews
with prominent men in Canada and
the Pacific Coast States.
John Francis Fitzgerald. called
Honey Fitz'' for short, who is by way
of being mayor of Boston town, will
round out a ha1f-century of life to-
day. The chief executive of the Hub
of the Universe was horn in the city
of beans and culture on Feb. IL, 1853
He entered politics by way of the Bos-
ton Common Council in 1892 soon
went to the Massachusetts Senate, af-
terward was member of three Con-
crosses, and in 1906 was elected may
or. Since he hung his hat in the City
Hall Of st. Boto1ph's town. no news
hungry reporter has ever been sent
away unsatisfed, and as result
Honey Fftz'' is probably the worlds
best advertised mayor, with the pos
sib1e exception of Mayor Gaynor, who
is being press-agented by DR.. Park
hurst.
Poor little Pu=yi, the youthful ex-
Emperor of China,.wi1l celebrate a sad
seventh birthday to-day. Sad is his
fate, for recent dispatch pictures
him as all but deserted with nobody
to attend to his wants except a-dozen
or two physicians, thirty or fifty nurs-
es and a few hundred eunuchs- Most
of his imperial relatives have fed.
Pu-yi is described as 'ta dull, Hstless
child and is kept practically a pris-
oner in the great palace. Not long
ago he suffered an attack of whooping
cough, from which he has not entire.
ly recovered. <Pu-yi was born on Feb.
IL, 1906, and assumed the name of
Hsuan-tung following the death of the
late Emperor.
Frederick Rene Coudert, leading
light of the American bar and son of
the distinguished lawyer of the same
name, is forty-two today. He is the
president of the American Highways
Protective Society, which has lately
been making an exhaustive investiga-
ton of the causes of casualties in the
streets Of American cities, with a view
to the general adoption of improved
-,