The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-10
MARSHAL WOOD. g5, TODAY, IS AN s'EVE-
 HYN., IN NAME ONLY


 Evelyn is 9 nice enough name for ; lovely maiden or a beautiful child wife. Certainly But what do you think of it as a name for mani. Eh ?...... Well SO, do I. And yet, if you think a male uerson so handicap ped Ss necessarily a sissy and a mol Iycoddle. you had sbally we'll better forget 1t. For instance, the appella- tion in question was wished on him by the parents of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, who has as gallant a fseoEa fss aisb as m solaer s aPy ys11n f6ieE win celebrate his seVenty-fif birthday today. but, despite bis great age, he IS mot ePendang nrz ms soeclanlng ,,ge yeaaS m weeks ago the cables told how the old warrior narrowly escaped death in the hunting field. His horse rnisjudged the distance in taking a fence and was irpaled on a stake. Sir Evelyn, as good a horseman at seYenty-ffve as any of the mount in England, kept his seat. The horse was fatally injured. and the veteran borrowed ae gun and put an end to it's suffering
 The great feld-narshaI was born at Crossing, in Essex, Feb. g, 1888. He was the youngest son of the late Rev. Sir John Page Wood, the second baro- net His fighting blood was Inherited as she was the daughter of Admiral Sampson Michell. Sir Evelyn enter ed the navy at the age of fourteen, and, was only sixteen when he saw ac- SN1 @e~t Nt~- ~ A9eeAO in the sCrimea. He was severely wounded while carrying a sealing lad der to the Redan- His galIantry was mentioned in Lord Ra glane- dispa tch- es. and the youth received "a medal with two clasps and the Knight of Legion of Honor, Medjidie. Turkish medal.
 After recovering from his injury. Sir Dragons in 1855. He served with the Seventeenth Lancers through the mu- inv in India 9nds- that ,f4YTih1R conflict, although still a boy, so dis tinguished Himself as to receive the coveted victoria 5Cross. His next ac- tive service was in the Ahantee, Kaf- fir, Zulu and Transvaal wars and the Egyptian expedition of 1882 In 1888 he raised the. Egyptian army, and has since commanded several divisions in England. Besides being the wearer of the Victoria Cross,s Sir Evelyn is Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Doctor of Civil Law and Barrister of the Middle Temple His wife. who died over a score of years ago, was sister of the fourth Viscount South military and historical works. Ger tainly he is an Evelyn" in name only. years ago. the stork and a Doctor entered into deep, dark. devi1ish mates of the Cob of Dirt called the Mundane Sphere. <But, pish, let George Do It.) Tn other words, today is. George Aides forty seventh. birth bles in Slang having arrived at the home of his parents in Kentland, Ind, i on Feb. g. 1866. MT. Ade had B. s. versity, and took post-graduate course in the city room of a newspa- per at Lafayette,- Ind. AftePward he ed on a newspaper in the Windy City when he originated the Fables in l Slang and woke up to find himself famous. So far the, reading public able to Put Elm Over the PIata He is the owner of five or eight automo- piles, some fifty or 200 blooded horses, | a hundred cows and a fine farm
 Reporter. editor. author and con gressman summarizes the career of creator Of 'FChimmie Fadden," who [ will today celebrate his fifty gf tn | birthday. i'I The celebrated father of Jersey district in the United States | Congress. In that capacity he start ed a movement for dropping the '.Inis- bers of the House, asserting that the abolition of that concession to polite ness would save the lawmakers twen- ty. minutes day. But what is time to a Congressman? MT Townsend re gently addressed the Columbia Uni-A versity School of Journalism, and 1 gave Ine lHclplenI reporters some good | advice on how to chase the elusive | news item to it's lair The New Jer- sey- Solon was born in Cleveland, on Feb. 10, 1855.
 Marietta was the first capital of Ohio, but that is not its only claim to fame, for it was near that little city that Harrison Gray Otis was born seventy-six years ago today Gen. Otis isNa veteran of the civil and Philippine wars. After several years In the government service he engag ged Tn California journalism. As editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Times he has attained international celebrity on account of his violent hatred of organized labor