The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-28
THE HUMAN PROCESSION


 birthday today. Mime. Navarro ap- pears to grow younger and more beau tiruI as time goes by,'' declares a re- cent London dispatch, which adds that she will probably visit America with in a few months. Miss Anderson re- tired from the stage some twenty three years ago, when she married Antonio F. de Navarro, a celebrated scholar and 8 world-famous authority on pewter. She has son of sew enteen. who is described as 'an en- thus1ast on Back, Beethoven and foot ball.
 Mrs. Navarro is a member of the board of governors of the Shakespeare Memorial theatre at Stratfordzon- Avon, and she was largely responsi- ble for arranging the coming Ameri- can tour of the Stratford-on-Avon players. The company will begin their American invasion in Montreal early in October, according to present
 ~ns, and the route takes them to the Pacific coast and return, covering the chief cities of Canada and the United States, as far south as New Orleans. Mrs Navarro Is a Shakespeare en- thVFiast, and her first trip to England, now her home, was made as a pilgrim to the Stratford shrine.
 The gifted actress was born in Sac ramento, Cal, July 2s, 1859. Her mother was of German descent, and her father an Englfshman. The fam fly moved to Louisville, Ky, when Mary was less than a year old, and the father entered the Confederate army, dying at Mobile, Ala, just half a century ago. The widow married Dr. Hamilton Griffin, of Louisville, Shakespearean scholar, and he care fully fostered the natural histrionic gifts of his step daughter. Under the instruction of Charlotte Cushman and T7N1 priest, Miss Anderson was fitted for stage career, and at sixteen played Juliet at a trial matinee in a Louis vile theater. Her success won en- gagernents with stock companies in Louisville, St. Louis and other cities, Mccullough to San Francisco, and with John T. Ford, of Baltimore, in a tQur of the south. Her New York debut was made in 1877. Galatea, one of her greatest roles, she played the first time in Troy, N. F.. in 1881, and the following year in New York. Thir- ty years ago she made her London bow in Parthenia, and played a continu- ous season of ten months, winning great social and artistic success. She retired from the stage, owing to ill., ness, in 1889, and resisted all induce ments offered her to return. Her married life with MT. Navarro has
  is immensely popular in English so- ciety, and notables from King George and Queen Mary down delight to hon or California's fair and gifted native daughter"
 Of the fifty or sixty thousand orig inaI BabyIonian antiquities in the Sem tic section of the University of Penn sylvanias museum, far the greater part were contributed by Prof. Herman Volrath HiIprecht, the eminent Assy- riologist and authority in cuneiforn research Herr Prof. Hilprecht was born hfty-four years ago today in Germany, and has been curator of the Semitic section of the 'rPennsy'' museum for over quarter of a century. He has been the chief of numerous expeditions Tor scientific exploration to Nfppur, Baby lor1ia, Asia Minor and Syria, and many of his finds have been of great pop ular and scientific interest.
 Remarkable, if true, was the case Of Thomas Cam, an EngIishman who is alleged to have lived from the reign of Richard ". to that of Elizabeth dying at the ripe old age of POT. Yet Thomas Cams record has been sur passed by the ''OId Lady, of Thread needle street. who, hale and hearty, celebrated her 21sth birthday yester- day.
 This venerable ':oId lady, has known many vicissitudes in her long career. The tongue of islander has banded her name about, and she has been attacked by mobs who accused her of every fnfany. She has had her knightIy defenders, too, as firmly convinced of her virtue as others have been of her viciousness. Now, in her old age, she is all but universally hon. ored and admired, and all the world seeks her favor and would bask in her smile, while her frown causes millions to tremble in fear. She is rich beyond the dreams of Rockefeller, and her power extends to every land.
 The '"O1d Lady of Threadneedle Street, it may be explained, is the popular name for the Bank of Eng land, which was chartered on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1894. Will liam Patterson, Scotchman, was the father of the +'old lady" The bank was projected to meet the difficulties experienced by William III. in rais- ing supplies for the war against France. While the bank has always confined itself to it's legitimate func- tiorls of finance, the charter gave to 1t several unusual privileges among them that of selling beer without a license. If she wished, the "old lady, could open a tavern in ThreadneedIe SITS6Is anu assume the role or par maid of a public house.
 The Bank of England was not a1- ways the powerful institution it has now become. Only two years after its organization there was a run on the bank, and its notes were at 20 per cent. discount. In 1745 there was an ot!zsr run, and in 1780, during the Gordon riots, Q mob attacked the "old lady'' and soldiers had to defend her against the wrath of the populace. In 1836 the ''o1d lady" lost over $1,750s- 900 by FauntIeroy's forgeries. Half a century ago a quantity of bank paper was stolen from the makers and used in making counterfeit notes, but the cuIprits were soon detected.
 . That department of the United States now presided over by Will liam Jennings Bryan was established 124 years ago. That other eminent Democrat. Thomas Jefferson, was the kt