The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-29
MREDERROK PALMER, FAMOUS WAR CARRESPOND-
 ENT, IS 40 TO-DAY

1x91ereuer men ego marching away mm%er the flaznttng flags, keeping efssRp Ao the wild, grand music Of war; lalxru4gh the towns and across the DzaAaea down to the fields of bac1le' 60 dD and to die for the eternaT' ofooo- Ra,r& and racial hatred, there, in the kear of fzaa troops. and as close az the Eweraors win permit him to get Is to Ae found a Yankee newspap erman who answers to the name of Frederick RaRaaer That distinguished war cor hegponhsnt win celebrate his forueth tAfrfhday today, having been born In R7easzn4xE1le-what a name for 9 ERupvn for a war reporter to be born hns-on Jan. 29, 1ST3. Pleasantvtne, bx the way. is in Peunsylvania'-a 9tR4fsttc added for the information or Ignorant persons who probably didn't Know f&
 Nrr. Palmer was educated at Aneg- k1enw College, at Meadville, Pa, ac- huRred polish at European institutions kR 1sawnfng, and then set about the kas1< @ making a name for hinseir ma a newspaper writer. He didn't svaste any time, for at twenty-two he kwAs fhe London correspondent of kkznerarau papers. Two years later me boss called him Anto the office, mnTa him a ticket to Athens and told Rrfrn to sscover'' the Greek war. This Rsskznmant was carried out so suc-
 
 extreme youth, was hailed as one of Rhe greatest of war correspondents. when things had quieted down in Greene. MT. Palmer went to the Klon- eyaxe. fhens the scene Of much excite 1nenf and seonda afteBwardstft the Philippines, where ructions had brok- en loose. In 1900 he accompanied the relief expedition of the allies to Pek- ing His next step-if it can be called d step-was to tour the globe, by way of the Siberian railway. Returning to New York, he was dispatched at once to Central America, where revolu- ton was revoIuting. In 1903 he was back in the Near East, writing things about the Macedonian insurrection- Next Japan and Russia met in clash of arms and MT. Palmer hiked off for the scene of trouble, as the cor respondent of the London Times. His interesting book, With Kuroki in Manchuria," is a record of his obser- vations in that war. Before the first gun was fired in the Balkan war, MT. Palmer was the spots representing the. New York Times and Golfers Weekly, and from the first he was an eyewitness of the battles between the opposing armies
 Milton Barlow Ochs, one of three famous Jewish brothers who have ris- en from poverty to aff1uence and
 
 was born in Cincinnati forty-nine years ago today. MT. Ochs is the business head of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, which was recently purchased by Cyrus H. K. Curtis, while his elder brother. George Wash ington. Ochs, is editor and publisher of that publication. The Public Led ger was until last month the property of Adolph Ochs. the senior of the three brothers, who sold it in order to devote his entire time to the New York Times. Like Ado1ph, Milton B. Ochs began his newspaper career as B neWsboy in Knoxville, Tenn. When Adolph secured possession of the Chattanooga Times, Milton became vice-president and managing editor. He quit newspaper work for railroad ing in 1890, and for two years was general agent of the passenger de- partment of the Colorado Midland at Colorado Springs. Returning to his first love, he bought control of the Nashville American, and made it a. prosperous publication before it was consolidated with the Tennessean when MT. OShs went to Philadelphia. to assume the business management of the Public Ledger.