The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-24
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

His Serene Highness Prince Louis
 Alexander of Battenberg, First Sea
 Lord of the British Admiralty, will be- | gin his sixtieth year of life to-day. The | distinguished Admiral, although not l royal in the strictest sense of the | word, is related by blood and mar l riage with nearly every important
 reigning family of Europe. He was 1 born at Gratz, Austria, May "A, 1854, l the eldest son of Prince Alexander | of Hesse, and married his cousin, Princess Victoria, daughter of Louis l w, Grand Duke of Hesse, by whom 1 he has had two sons and two daugh- l ters. Prince Louis was naturalized
 as British subject and entered the
 Royal Navy as a cadet at the age of I fourteen.
 The First Sea Lord has often been described as the most popular com
 mander in the Royal Navy" and as a natural consequence he has numerous | nicknames among the tars, including '"Batt," "rL. B. and Lulu" Although of exalted rank, Prince Louis has | worked his way up on his own merits, for s'pull'' is unknown in the British navy. He has the reeputation of be- ing the best tactician in the service. He saw active service as a. lieutenant
 on the Inconstant during the Egyptian
 war.
 The Princes hobbies are printing and nuisrnatics. His collection of coins is a fine one, and what he doesn't know about the topographic art IS scarcely worth knowing. The First Sea Lord has paid several visits td' Canadian ports, and is also well known in New York. One of Prince Louis brothers, Prince Alexander, renounced his rank as a prince of Bulgaria to wed an ac- tress. Another brother, Prince Hen ry, married the youngest daughter of nIvn nd haPaY0a the f4fh- CT of Queen Victoria of Spain. The youngest of the brothers, Francis Jo- seph, is a son-in-1aw of the King of Montenegro. Prince Louis is also brother-fn-1aw of the Czarina of Rus sia and of Princess Henry of Prussia.
 Most distinguished of American sculptors is George Grey Barnard, who will celebrate today the hftieth an niversary of his birth at Bellefonte, Pa He was the son of a Presbyter- ian minister, and his youth was spent in Pennsylvania. Chicago, Iowa and Michigan. From his youth he mani tested an artistic temperament, and hated school and all the dull and pro- saic routine imposed on children. and especially on the offspring of clergy men, He liked the open. and as lad was skilled in taxiderny. "A dreamer, always dreamer" he has described himself, and yet it is a mat ter of record that he was a dreamer who know how to use his fists, and was able to defend himself against scoffing lads who jeered at his 'queer-
 ness His art education was com menced at the Chicago Art Institute, where he spent a year on his savings of less than a hundred dollars, often going without food. Later he saved a few hundreds more and went to Paris, where he laid the foundation of SA.1a1 1a$ groups at the Pennsylvania State Cap itaI, which aroused the wrath of the disciples of "prudery and pantalettes, are his best known works. Recently MT. Barnard purchased the ruins of an European twelfth century abbey and is shipping them to the United States.
 Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, the cele- brated English dramatist, will pass his f1fty-eighth milestone to-day. He be- gan his stage career as an actor at the age of nineteen, but in 1881 left the boards to devote himself to dramatic authorship. Since then he has writ ten some two-score plays, nearly all successful. Personally Sir Arthur is smooth-shaven, bald, affab1e, alert, a witty conversationalist, and an ardent disciple of Lady Nicotine, with a pref Serence for Virginia tobacco. Recent |
 
 agers to permit srn oking in theatres, but his proposal was rejected.
 The first of the four great bridges that now span the East River at New York, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, was opened to traffic thirty l years ago to-day, May "A, 1883. It 1 was commenced in 1870, and, when completed, was considered one of the 1 engineering wonders of the world. It l embraced a massive stone tower on 1 each shore, four steel wire cables, six ] teen inches in diameter, and a, series of stout steel suspenders to hold the framework of the bridge. The river l span between towers is 1,5e5 feet long, and the total length of the bridge, | with extensions, is 7,5S0 feet About l 125,OO0 surface cars now cross the | bridge each month, in addition to the | constant procession of elevated rail | way trains. The total cost of the l bridge to date has been $22,4OO,000. | The second East River bridge known | as the Williamsburg, was opened in 1 1903, and cost $23,10O,O0O. The Greensboro bridge, commenced in 1901 and completed in 1909, cost $17,-