The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-16

tent Of marked attentions from the late Duke de Chaulnes, who after ward married Miss Theodore Shonts, daughter of the New York traction magnate. The lady in the case asked them to put their affection to the test of the sword, and Alba and de Chau1- nes fought a duel. Several years ago Alba made a heiress- hunting trip to America. and courted the hand and fortune of Miss Mathildo Townsend but was refused.
 Thomas Fortune Ryan. possessor of an immense fortune which New York straphangers daily help to swell, was born in Nelson County, Va, sixty-two years ago today. He began his ca reer as a dry goods clerk in Baltirnore, married the daughter of the s'boss'' and at twenty-one invaded Wall street as a broker in which pursuit he was financed by his father-in-law- In association with William C. Whitney he began picking up street railway and gas franchises in New York Chi cago and other cities, and as side line sreorganized" various southern railways. Ohio and West Virginia coal properties, and other industries These activities made Of him a multi millionaire, and one of the powers of the street when but a few years before he had been an awkward, un+ educated farmer lad in the Blue Ridge district. All of which teaches us that by honesty application and industry anyone may acquire wealth. Or does iS7
 Dr.. James Roscoe Day. chancellor of Syracuse University. doctor Of di- Unity, defender of MT. Rockefeller. MT. Archbold and Standard Oil, and chief of the Anti-R Roeseveltians was l- RF-- -s--A today. He was Methodist minister prior to going to Syracuse as chancel- Tor in 1894.
 The first general demand for Pa ctf1c railway was voiced in an inter state convention held in St. Louis sixty-four years ago today, when the the continent was unanimously enders- ed. The scheme was suggested three years earlier by Asa Whitney. but att tracted little attention until the gold rapid accumulation of wealth on the Pacific coast. Shortly after the St. Louis convention. Senator Thomas H. Benton introduced a bill into the U. S. Congress providing for prelinin ary steps in such an undertaking. In cif1c railroad by the mayor of St Louis but it was not until 1853 that four ex- petitions were dispatched to survey as many proposed routes These Sur veys cost s, ,00O, GOO, but nothing more was done until 1862, when Congress, in the midst of civil war, provided for. 1 subsidies to begin the work. It was just half century ago that actual construction commenced. There were two companies, the Union Pacific, working westward, and the Central Pa- cif1c, proceeding eastward from Cali fornia. The road was completed in 1862.
 The worlds largest monument has been erected to commemorate the cen- tenary of the battle of the nations, 2, which commenced at Lenpsic one hun dred years ago today, and which re- suited in complete. victory for the allies over Napoleon. This memorable | struggle, called by Germans the great Volkerschlacht, precipitated the downfall of the Man of Destiny, and was his last important battle, until Waterloo.
 The VolkerschIacht monument which will be unveiled day after to- morrow in the presence of all the irl- perial and royal families of Germany has been erected by popular subscrip- ton of German patriots. It towers to height of 345 feet, or forty feet high