The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-03
MEN AND WOMEN
OF MUCH RENOWN

Lima AbarbaneN, who has won
nerited fame as a singer and actress
on both sides of the Atlantic, will be
the recipient of congratulations today
on her thirty-third birthday. She was
born in Berlin on Feb. 8, 1880, the
daughter of an orchestra conductor
She was only seven when she first
sang in public, and at sixteen she
made a hit as an actress in an Ibsen
drama produced at the New Theatre
in Berlin. She soon left the dramatic
for the operate stage, and at eighteen
had won the applause of the critical
audiences of the Royal Berlin Opera
House. While in Vienna she met Herr
Conreid, who engaged her for the
Metropolitan Opera House in New
York. Later she sang in Henry Saw
age productions, and recently appear
ed a star in an American operetta,
Miss Princess staged In New York.
Miss Abarbanen sings charmingly.
| dances adorab bly,, and is a much better
actress than many stars who can
neither sing nor dance.
One of the sprightliest men about
town in that dear old London is Lord
| Henry Francis Pelham Clinton Hope,
| the brother and heir of the Duke of
Newcastle, who will celebrate his for
| ty-seventh birthday today. Lord Fran
els has been much in the linelight by
| reason of his matrim onial entangle-
| mentS. His first wife, who was May
Yohe he divorced eleven years ago.
In 1904 he married the daughter of a
wealthy Australian banker, and form
er wife of Richard Owen. Last month
Lord Francis was the defendant in a
suit brought by commission agent
| who alleged that he had negotiated a
loan for His Lordship of S1,150,0
The money, it was explained, was to
pay outstanding debts amounting to a
round million dollars.
Samuel Morse FELTON,, president of
the Chicago Great Western and Pere
Marquette railways, was born in Phil
adeIpI,ia sixty years ago today. and
began rai1roading at the age of fifteen
as a. rodnnan on the Chester Creek
railway. He. earned the money with
cation at the Messaoh usetts Institute
! Of Technology. From that time on
his rise in the railroad world was
steady and rapid. At thirty-seven he
became a railway. president, at the
! head of the East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia railway Since then he has
served as president and receiver of a
mum Der of roads including the Louis
Vile Southern, Cincinnati, New Or
leans & Texas Pacific, the Chicago &
Alton and the Mexican Central.
Uncle JuQ HARMON, WHO recently
retired as governor of Ohio, will cele-
brate today his sixty-seventh birthday.
AS chief executive of the Buckeye
State, @'Uhc1e Jud" was the command
er of the Ohio National Guard, and he
is now in Europe for the purpose of
looking over the military forces of the
| effete Inenarchies, and comparing
them with the Ohio militia Gov.
Harmon considers the guards of his
native State to be the finest body of
soldiery in the world, and announced
that he didn't expect to find their
| equals on the other side. A year ago
| Uncle JUDI looked like a favorite in
the Presidential race, but, as H. Togo
would say, Now see what?"
Hudson Maxim, werld-famous as an
| inventor of explosives, was born in
Maine sixty years ago today, and be-
gan his business career as a printer
He also sold subscription books before
he attained fame as the inventor OF
smoke1ess powder, torpedoes, and