The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-15

Dak0ta.
 The Jewish festival of succoth or the Feast of the Tabernac1es begins at sunset this evening, and Hebrews throttehout the world will engage in a general observance of the holiday, which is a continuation of the har- vest festival Of ancient Palestine. Or@ thodox followers Of the faith of Moses mark the day by recftfng prayers and eating their meals in booths erected on roofs of tenements or in back yards
 These temporary structures are deco rated with fruits, flowers, twigs and
 sar1ands of leaves, symbolic Of the harvest season, while the interior walls of the booth bear family and religious pictures.
 suceotf falls on the fifteenth of the month Tfsi1rf, corresponding this year
 with the f1fteenth-sfxteenth of October fn the GFegorfan calendar. It was on this date that the farmers of the old
 Jewish nation gathered to celebrate the conclusion of the to11sonne task of harvesting. The character of the feast
 is essentially agricultural, but, as the vast majority Of Jews are now gath- ! cred in cities and towns, the holiday has gradually gained a fationalistfc significance. The booths now com Tnernorate the tents or nuts in which the 1sfae1ftes dwe1t during their forty years Of wandering in the wilderness; but in the decorations Of the booths the commercial and industrial Jews of today pay a tribute to their agricu1- tura1 ancestors. The Jews now main tain a national farm school in Penn
 sy1vanfa, and a pilgrimage is made to this institution every year on Succoth by prominent J6ws. Tn New York, Chicago and other American cities,
 movement has been started to turn the poorer Jews of the Ghetto into F5 11d q v
 some success. Plans are under con- sideratiorl to establish agricultural col onfes of Hebrews in various sections, as well as in Palestine. In the latter country farming operations are now carried on on large scale. American Jews have imported this year large quantities of the osrog, a fine speci- men of the lime, which is now grown by the Palestine eo1onists. The oft11o- dox say their Suecoth players with the osr6g in one hand and the 1u1ay, 8 .braneh of palm and myrtle, in the other.
 sueeoth i1laugurates the last of the series of Jewish Autumn holidays,
 which will close on October 24tfi with the observance of sin1ehas Torah, or rejoicing with the law.
 When the Republican was establish ed in Springfield, Mass, in the first quarter Of the nineteenth century the name Of Samuel BoWIes appeared at the top of the editorial column as edi- tor and publisher; and when the Re- publican, in its long career, entered the first quarter of tic twentieth cen tury, the name Of Samuel Bow1es still occupied the same place. Samuel Bow1es and the Springfield Repu6liean have come to be synonymous.
 The third Samuel BowIes to occupy the editorial chair of Sprfnghe1d's fla
 nous newspaper was born in the vest ern Massachusetts metropolis sixty two years ago today, Oct. 19, 1851. He was educated in public and private schools in America and Europe, and took a special two-yeaT course at. Yale. It was just forty years, ago that he joined the editorial staff of his fath- CTS newspaper Alter two years ne transferred his activities to the busf- ness department as manager. Fol lowing the death of Samuel B6w1es IT., in 1878, 1ae became editef-in" "eHief and publisher and soon demonstrated his ability te maintain the high journal 1 istio standards established by his fath- er and grandfather. Under his diree- l tidn. the Republican became one Of Am6riea's most influential journals, l and its editorial expFessions of epin | ion have always been widely quoted. 1
 tTHe SprinEhe1d Republican was es- tai5lished as a weekly journal in 1924 | by Samuel BeWles [. The second 1 Samuel Bowles was born in 1876, and l grew tlp in his fathers Printing office. The feundef Of the Republican died 1 .n 1851. and his sen assumed full charge | with inc result that the Republican | came to be generally regarded as the 1 ableet and most influential paper pub | itsfed in d small city on the contih- l ent. The second Samuel B6wies was & fereeful, fluent writer, and the au- thor ef several books. but his fame | rests prfneipa1ly on his editorials, in | which he ably advocated such meas ures as the abolition Of negro slavery, | th esuppresEien Of the secession move l ment, free trade, universal suffrage, | and other reforms Tn 1S7s the paper became independent in politics, and supported Horace Greeley for the pres ideney.
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