The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-15

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a failure and the various states formed
Independent republics of their own
Many attempts have been made tic
revive the Central American Union
but, owing to petty jealousies, al
| have failed. Within the last few
years large parts of Central America
have been developed by American and
European capital, and the governments
of some of the countries are now prac-
tically controlled by these corpora
| TONS
His friends-and he has friends, like
a sailor has wives, in every port-ca1l
they seldom know where he is "at. -
| The handsome, after a manner of
speaking, author and special writer
celebrated his fortieth birthdap yes
terday. He was born in Oneida, N. Y,
| which was also the birthplace of his
| brother Wallace, who is known to
fame as Hashimura Togo, the ready
| Ietter-writer. Brother Bill makes his
home in Washington Square, New
! York, but he is never at home He
travels thousands of miles every year,
and it is alleged that he has covered
more territory in the course of his lit-
erary pi1grimages than any other mag
azine writer.
Like his brother Wallace, VIII Irwin
began his career a writer on the
San Francisco newspapers. Having
worked his way up to Sunday editor,
| he left San Francisco in 1904 to begin
! again as reporter in New York on
the Sun. In 1906 he became manag-
ing editor of McC1ure's Magazine, and
| later joined the staff of Golfers and
sions.
Mr. Irwin's first volume, stamford
Stories,'' written in collaboration with
G. K. Field, was published in 1900.
tfThe Reign of Queen Isyl," and The
Picaroons,' written with Ge1ett Bur
CESS, the chap who never saw pur-
pie COW, came out in 1903. Warrior
the Untamed'' and many other books
have since appeared and have added
| greatly to his fame and shekels. His
| last newspaper story was the long
range editing of the Geographic &C
counts of the San Francisco disaster.
That calamity inspired him to write
THE City That VAS a requiem for
the beloved city where he had spent
his youth. AS literature THE City
! That Was" is perhaps Mr.. Twins
masterpiece but his loving epitaph,
in the light of subsequent events,
| seems to have been "a little too pre-
vious.' The corpse has refused to
stay dead Incidentally, and in con-
clusion, Mr. Twins full and complete
name is William Hennory Irwin.
Alice Stone Blackwell. the abIest
movement, was born in East Orange,
N. J., 1fty-six years ago, the daugh-
ter of Henry and Lucy Stone Black
we'll Both her mother and father. a.
well as several other members of the
famous family, were pioneers in the
suffrage cause. In her youth Miss
Blackwell assisted her parents in con-
Quoting the Woman's Journal, Of Bos-
ton, and for forty years her pen has
been used to further the feminist
movement. She has also taken
deep interest in the Armenians, and
has written a volume of Armenian
POEMS She is also the author of
''Songs of Grief and Gladness." from
the Yiddish, and other books. While
she does not believe in violent meth
DDS, Miss Blackwell has pointed out
that in 1892 when the British Parlia-
ment held up a measure for extending
the franchise to men, there was wide
spread rioting and bloodshed- The
castle at Nottingham, and the GUS
tom house, three prisons, and forty
two private dwellings in Bristol Swere
burned by the enraged rioters, which
leads Miss Blackwell to observe that
when the male of the species goes
on the warpath for the right of suff-
than the female" Miss Blackwell's
home is in Dorchester. Mass.
Charles Dana Gibson, the famous
illustrator, was born in Roxbury,
Mass, forty-six years ago today. His
first check for a drawing was for the
sum of four dollars. He now has an
income of considerably over $4,000 a
year.
Two eminent ex-presidents. William
Howard Taft and Porfirio Diaz, will
he he n birthday
gratulations today. Prof. Taft, who
passes his ffty-sixth milestone, has
been enjoying a pleasant summer in
Canada and has greatly increased his
batting average as golfer since he
threw off the cares of state and re-
turned to the ranks. Mr.. Taft, how
ever, did not leave his country be-
cause of any desire of his countrynen
to be rid of him, as was the case with
Porfirio Diaz, the grfzz1ed old Span
ish-Indian statesman. and despot who
will today celebrate his eighty-third
anniversary. After ruling Mexico for
over thirty years, Diaz is spending his
old age in Europe, an exile from his
native land. He has had whatever
melancholy satisfaction he may be
able to derive from the fact that
Mexico has gone from bad to worse.
and he has lived to see his successor
in office overthrown and assassinated,
in accordance with the pleasant GUS
tom of the country. And he has seen
his nephew, Feliz Diaz, who was care
fully educated under his supervision,
triumph over his enemies and again
put the name Of Dfaz on the front
page of the newspapers. Since leav-
ing his country for what Mexicans at
the time considered the country 8
good, General Diaz has lived principal
ly in France, and he has recently TAX
en- up his residence in magnificent
villa at RiarritZ He has SDent money
freely in Europe, and it is alleged that
he has several millions safely invest
ed. Mr.. Taft, on the contrary, left
tbe White House financially poorer