The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-05
SIR HIRAM MAXIM. GREAT
GUN-MAKER. Is IS TODAY.

4 down-cast Yankee of Puritan an
reStry who has found fame and Tor
tune in the mother country IS olr
Hiram Stevens Maxim, who was porn
N the State of Maine seventy-tnree
ears ago TO-DAY. Feb. 5, IS4O. The
.-reat sun-rlaker- was educated in the
Village school at Sangersville, his ma
-.ixee town, and at an early age secur-
"a employment in a machine SHOP he
frsr manifested his inventive genius
IN Woodworking at his uncle's shops
In Fitch burg Mass He next entered
the shop of a maker of instruments
and later secured employment IN the
Yards of a ship builder, assiduousiy m
restiEating the materials and process
IS involved in his daily toll In 1877
he turned to electrical engineering,
and three years later toured Europe,
studying everything of an electrical
nature His exhibits at the Paris ex-
hibition in 1881 won for him the
medal of chevalier of the Legion OF
Honor. a high distinction to be con-
ferred on q young foreigner. He set
tied IN England thirty years ago, and
soon devoted himself to gun-lnaking.
ne was kniEh1ed twelve years ago or
late years he has devoted much time
70 study OF aviation Not long ago
sir Hiram expressed the opinion that
the aeroplane VIII within a few years
become commercially practicable lie
also declared that the guns on battle
ships Srin gradually be increased In
size, and that, twepty-ineh gun IS
fx no means an i'm possibility The
1srrest guns as vet proposed are the
rifteen-inch ones for the new German
Observation-Disclosures, which will throw
shells weighing 1850 pounds
4 descendant of signer of the Dec
iaration of Independence who has lfv-
ed up to the fame of his ancestry is
simeon Eben Baldwin. who began his
second term as governor of Connec-
rfcut last month Gov Baldwin was
horn in New Haven rseventy-three
Years ago to-day graduated from
vsle ana studied law at Yale and Har-
ward. Roger Sherman was Gov
F3aldwin's signing forefather, and
many of his descendants besides the
Nutmeg State governor have beer
prominent in American pupi1c NE
Gov Baldwin was for some years {
professor at Yale, and was chief JUS
tice of the Connecticut Supreme Cour
before he was elected governor on the
Democratic ticket In his recent mes
sage to the lawmakers he recommend
ed municipal suffrage for taNpay1nt
women, and advocated the direc
election of United States senator's. HI
also urged the legislature to reQues
Connecticut senators to support Grea
RritaiR-s desire to refer the Hay
T9auncefote treaty TO the Hague tri
n4n4l LOT 0cO4SAOA Dc ~ -eS -
The Panama canal
Nahlon Pitney, associate justice o
the United States Supreme Court, vii
receive the congrat uIations of his col
leagues to-days ozH his hfty1Gfthz birth
6aye Judge Pitney was born in Nor
ristown. y J. educated at Princeton
and began the practice of law in hi
native town thirty-one years ago H
.eDresented a New Jersey district i
two Congresses. was president of tn
New jersey Senate. associate justice {
the state Supreme Court and chance
Tor Of New JerseyS5befoFe Presider
Taft elevated him to the supreme tn
bunal of the republic As cl1ancello
Judge Pitney made several decision
that brought him into disfavor wit
organized labor. but their protests di
not prevent President Taft from Pre-
rnntinE him to the Supreme Court.