The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-07
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

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 If any one day of the year is enti- tied to be called 'tBarthquake Day.
 that tragic distinction belongs to to- 1 day, for many Of the worst seismic
 disturbances in history have occurred on the seventh day of June. The pre- d1ctfon of geologtsts that the recent trenor in Canada-greatly exaggerated though 1t was in some of the press dis patches-is to be accepted as a warn Ing of seVerer shocks to come, has created lively interest in the subject of 'Quakes. The North American con- l tinent has long been free from serious shake-ups of this cfaracter-for, of course, 1t is now generally understood that the San Francisco disaster of
 1908 was simply and solely fire. The deadly earthquake record of the
 seventh of June begins in 1887, when the city of Callao, Peru, was inun-
 dated by a tidal wave following a ser 1 les of 'Quakes, and thousands perished.
 A few years later, on June T, 1692, oc- cured the terrible Jamaica earth
 quake, by which the city of Port Roy al was utterly wiped out and all it's l houses and it's 5000 people were buried in water forty fathoms deep On June 2, 1z33, the town of Santiago, Gfuatamala, with it's inhabitants, was swallowed up. Forty thousand peo- pie lost their lives in the seismic dis aster at Kaschan, in northern Persia, 1 on June 2, 1755. Toore del Greco. in Italy, suffered severely from an earth quake and eruption Of Vesuvius on | June 2, 1794 On the same date in 1919 a series of earthquakes commence ed in India, continuing two weeks,
 and 2,000 were killed. Thousands per | tshed in Asia Minor on June and suc- 1 ceeding days in the year 1859, and in 1 1887 Java suffered from a series of l shocks that began on June and did
 not cease until the eleventh In Sicily there were several severe Temors on June and for ten days following in the year 1879.
 | by earthquakes. In the CalIao disas- l ter, first mentioned in the above list, l many ships were washed fer inland l and for years to come they were used 1 deprived of homes. One of the sfnis- ter jokes of the Port Royal earthquake was to carry a large sea-going vessel over the city and far inland, where | it was neatly deposited on the roof
 of three-story building. While 1t 1 is distinctly understood that there was no earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, something-possibly spooks-pIay ed a number of impish pranl1s. One of them was to force a beam through
 the walls of wooden dwelling until l it protruded far into the street! Hang 1 ing from the beam was large cage
 containing a parrot, and for several
 hours the bird remained suspended
 over the street, sQuaking angry pro- 1 tests to passersby.
 <~Tyhe spiritual father of all present
 day snobs is Beau Brumme1, the son | of a major donno, nephew of a con fectioner.''
 This statement is made in 8 new l book, s~The Philosophy of Snobbery,s' g l TUF7 oh ha 1qf a | in the society of Rome, Paris, London
 and other capitals, owing to it's truth full and accurate de1ineatfons of many
 prominent and snobbish European SO
 ciety leaders. Persons who are willing
 to admit the accusation of snobbery
 may celebrate the birthday of their l spiritual father'' today, for George 1 Bryan Brummel, commonly called
 Beau was born in London 135 years ago today It was his grandfa ther, cry shop in Bury street, and also let lodgings. Through the friendship of 1 the Prince of Wales "Beau''-a name early conferred upon him by deristve playnates-won social position, and an l inheritance of $150,000 enabled him to
 achieve his ambition to become an ar
 bitter of the elegancies.
 | The first international conference of the Young Mems Christian Association
  | ago today, with delegates present from
 England, Canada, the United States, and several countries of continental
 Europe. The Young Mems Christian l Association originated in an invita- l ton extended by George Williams a 1 London dry goods merchant, to his
 young men employees to meet In an up l per room of his store for a period of
 Bible study and prayer. This WAS in | 1844, only ten years before the move ment so started b1ossomed into 8
 world congress. The meetings were so
 successful that larger and better quar-
 ters were secured and other young
 men were invited to join. Similar as \ sociations were formed in other Eng fish cities In 1851 the movement
 reached Amerca, that year witnessing 1 the formation of Y. M. c. A branches | in Montreal and Boston. There are | now s,612 associations in the world, of l which 2,192 are in North America, They have a total membership of 563,-
 479, and own 756 buildings, valued at
 $e0, ,454, ,336. They employ 3.63S secreta- ries and other paid officials. Worlds
 headquarters are maintained in Gen l eva, Switzerland