The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-31
MEN WHO HAVE WON
 SUCCESS IN VOCATIONS
Of7do's Governor "JInn11e" Cox is Only A3-aGYpa1s' Smith and DcWoH
 HoDRer.

Back III the el$FG1LE century % P@A- ty who answered to tho name of OIf the Sharp-Eysd founded a family. With the passing oe th& osntnriAS the desosndanss oS sh& man wiIh the piercing opti0S took the name of De- Wolfe, and as the EseNte@t living rAp- resentative of tNS clan lat uS ip$ro- duee Mr. William De Wolf Hopper, one of the funn1est ot cur com edaAns. wal was born in Gotham -rowE fifTJ- Evs ypsrs aEo son of John Hopper, lawyer of quaker stock and 6h& who had been Miss RE soltS De Wolf.
 In his matrimonial activities MT De Wolf hae eQuasled the Goodwin record. His initial domestic axper1- ment the date o. which is loss in the mists of antiquity, was with FL la Gardiner, 8 second cousin. D1-' vorced. Mrs. Hopper II was Ida Mosher, a chorus girl. They had one child, a boy. Vines. MT. Hopper be- gan 10 pay attention to Edna Wallace the step-daughter of Alexander Duns- muir, a Canadian mutli-millionaire, Mrs. Hopper II became peevish. Dt- vorced. Miss Wallace who later came into prominence through her attempts to collect several millions from :he Dunsmuir estate, was Mrs. Hopper IT.. Then came Na1la Reardon Ber- gen, who was psima donna with MT. Hopper in "El Captain" and shared his success, while Miss Wallace took second place, which was not at all acceptable to that lady. Divorced The prinna deAna became MYs. Hop per ", in London in 1899. After thir-
 teen years she brought suit, alleG- ing that the nckle comedian had again gone off the zsaatrtm.5pis:I reser- vation. Divorced. Final actiC!l Tn the last case was taken only s3.ort time ago, and at the Lambs Club MT. Hep
 per's friends are laying wagers on the identity of No. 5. That there will De a No. 5 is reasonably certain. for tAe
 descendant of Off the ss1tarp-Eyed,
 although ffty-five is still yot:Ghful
 and comedy of appearance, and nas a
 way with the ladies.
 Press agents are often corsidAred
 pestiferous nuisances, but among them are many men who are gentle men and scholars, and who have a
 bona hde excuse fer exfstenee. Ad- mitted chief among theee aiss Je: on 5 H. Eddy, -tflhe 6ean of Re press
 agents. who, according % :'1orma- ton from New York, will be gwen q
 testimonial by all t:<e rren.tnsns theatrical mana gers of that city. M-. Eddy is, known all cve- North Amer
 ica and has been publicity prom otar
 for Booth, Barrett, Joseph Jefferson Mary Anderson. Sa1yini, McdteG&a,
 Chauncey O1cott, Sol Smith Russell | and many others of the stars of the last generation.
 Dr. Ernest Stanley Shepherd, the
 distinguished scientist of the Geophy- sicaI Laboratory at Washington, is still young in years although old in achievement, having been born at Remington, Ind, thirty-four years
 ago. pr. Shepherd recently risked his life in the cause of science by
 descending into the fiery crater of r IIz21o in IT 1 secure samples of gases. Scientists have often examined gases taken from the edges of volcanoes, but these were unsatisfactory through having | smoke. pr. shepherd was the first 1 investigator to procure the pure ar tfc1e, from which much has been l learned about the formation and l chemical obstruction of the gases of the earth's interior.
 William Waldorf Astor, the scion of l the American muIti-mi1lionaire house | of Astor who abandoned his native 1 land to become a naturaHzeds Eng | liShman, will be sixty-five today He | is the great-grandson of the shirt sIeeved John Jacob who founded the | family fortune, and the son of John Jacob III. When the latter died in
 1890, William Waldorf became the | head of the family, with a personal fortune then estimated at a hunQreO million dollars, and which since then | has probably largely increased in bulk. | MT. Astor is now six times a grand 1 father. His eldest son, William Wal 1 dorf Jr. has two sons and a daugh- l ter, the oldest lad of six, while his l daughter, Pauline, who married Capt. l H. H. Spender-C1ay, formerly an of i dcer of the British army and later l member of the House of Commons, 1 is the mother of three daughters. MT l Waldorf was member of the New | York legislature and United States
 minister to Italy before he transfer
 red his allegiance to the British
 bought the Pal1 Mall Gazette, and l don publishing properties. His at
 tempts to win a place in the inner cir l cle of English society have not been l entirely successful, and he has prob l ably learned to his sorrow that, there 1 are things beyond the power of even | the Astor millions to buy.
 l Prince Henry William Frederick 1 Albert, the third son of King George 1 and Queen Mary, will celebrate his | thirteenth birthday today. Like his ] brothers and sister, Prince Henry has 1 been brought up in an atmosphere o1 ! democratic simplicity. A recent let ter from London says that Prince 1 Henry's inatruction includes an hou1 ] a day devoted to the study of the | philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, Epic
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