The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-17
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

"A survival of the dark ages of science" Sid William Crookes. the eminent English chemist, recently | scientist, who will pass his eighty | first milestone today, was a student | at the Royal College of Chemistry in 1848, when many of the common l places of the science of today were still undreamed of or a-borning. 1 In q recent address before the Old Students Association of the Royal College, Sir William recalled that in | his college days Wheatstone was working on the electric telegraph, FIaraday was engaged in inventing the | machine that was the parents of all the electric power dynamos of the present. and Pasteur had just com menced the experiments that were destined to revo1utionize the science of medicine.
 Turning toward the future, the great scfemist predicted that on the practical side of chemistry the great est progfeSs will be made in inquiries into the constitution of matter. Even now,'' he said. chemists are begin ming to prick the bubble of those vari- able mysterious. and complex things called clements
 From his discovery of thalliunn, new element, over half a century ago, until his recent invention of the spin thariscope, Sir Williams life has been one of deep devotion to science and of vast practical benefit to humanity. A philosopher and thinker, he has never lost sight of the true mission of the scientist to be of assistance to his shed light many and diverse prob 1ems, ranging from the manufacture of beet sugar, artificial manures and dye stuffs. sewage disposal and calico printing, to the immortality of the soul.
 Charles Frohman, most distinguish ed of American theatrical managers, wiH celebrate his hfty-thiru birthday today. Like his brother, Dauiel, he was born in Eandus1zy, O., and, also like Daniel, began his career as a clerk in a newspaper office Charles was employed in the circulation de- partment of the old New York Daily Graphic, while his elder brother was a clerk in the business department of the New York Tribune. Charles Froh- mans introduction to the theatrical game" was as a ticket-taker in a Brooklyn theatre His first manager ia1 position was as treasurer for Hay er9y'S Minstrels, but he also "dou- bled'' as a marcher in the parade Since then he has become manager and proprietor of a number of the
  don. and other cities, is one of the leading producers, employs an army of ten thousand people, pays out near 1y five millions a year in salaries, transportation and advertising, and, all in all, is. the big mogul of the amusement industry. He is a Colossus who has one foot in New York and the other in London, and withal a modest man who restricts his per- sonal publicity to one obscure line in the program.
 Brfckbats and bouquets will be showered today on Robert Joseph Collier, editor and publisher Of the wen-known illustrated weekly that bears his name, this being the thirty seventh anniversary of his birth. MT. Collier has been the head of the New York publishing business established by his Irish father for nearly ten years He has been managing editor of Golfers since last Fall. when Nor man Hapgood, now editor of HarpeT's Weekly, resigned because of political differences with his chief. The youth full millionaire editor and publisher is an enthusiastic sportsman, his inter ests extending to yachting, motoring, | racing. and aviating. He was e61u- | cated at Georgetown University, and -afterward spent a year at Harvard and Oxford, acquiring Boston and English l culture.