The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-24
MEN WHO HAVE ASCENDED
LADDER OF FAME

The Society of Lame Ducks will
gain a distinguished initiate next week
when Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Ore
Eon retfres from the United States
Senate. Mr.. Bourne will celebrate his
ffty-eight birthday today in quite a
cheerful frame of mind, despite the
impending deca pitation of his official
head. for as he admits. he has had a
lot of fun while senatoring. Also, with
no public duties to occupy his time,
he will have more leisure to follow
his trade, which is that of a philate-
list. In other words, Senator Bourne,
like King George ", is an enthusiastic
collector Of postage stamps, and his
greatest joy is to add. a rare stamp
TO his collection He was born in
New Bedford, Mass, Feb %, 1855,
and landed in Portland, Ore, by ac-
cident, as a shipwrecked mariner. Be
sides collecting stamps, he has fine
collection of what is vulgarIy known
IS long green or ''ka1e," and he has
spent much of it in building up a re-
putation as the most liberal enter
tanner in Washington
From SIS to $500 week is. quite
an advance in salary, but it has been
accomplished in the space of fifteen
years by Victor Frederick Moore, the
actor, who was born at Hanmonton,
N J., fhirty-seven years ago today.
Mr.. Moore spent most of his youth in
Boston, where he was educated, and
where he made his start in life as an
office boy. An enthusiastic gallery
god his fondness for the theatre de-
veloped into a passion, with the re-
su1tant determination to become an
actor. The stage-struck youth was
given his first chance as a super" in
az Boston production of Babes in
Toyfand,' and a proud lad he was on
that day. His talent was sufficient
to secure him engagement with
Arthur Sidnan in "a Summer Show
err and later with John Drew in
Rosemary Next. he played with
stock com panies in Newark, N. J..
Peoria, III, Philadelphia and New
York. and in 1901 went into vaude-
vile, touring with a comedy sketch
for four years. He began making a
real noise in the theatrical world as
Kfd Burns in ''Forty-five Minutes
from Broadway Later he appeared
in eThe Talk of New York and 9TH
er Conan plays Now he gets $1,6eO
in his weekly pay envelope for an act
that commanded only $125 a few
years ago.
Stockholders of the big Chicago
mail order firm of Sears, Roebuck &
Company will hold their annual meet
ing today at the main office of the
corporation, which is not in the Windy
City. but at 43S Broadway, New York
The giant concern, which originated
in a little mail order watch business
started as a side line by a Minnesota
railway station agent, passed from the
management of it's founders some
years ago, and the present presid ent
and directing force is Julius Rosen-
valid, a Hebrew. Under his manage
rlent the firms business has vastly in
erased, and the last year was the most
prosperous in its history. Mr.. Rosen-
valid is a native of Springfield, Ill,
and is now in his fifty-frst year. He
vas educated in the public schools of
the Illinois capital city, and COM
1nenced his business career in New
York at the age of seventeen. AT
twenty-three he went to Chicago and
founded the clothing business OF
RosenwaId & We'll. He became vice
president and treasurer of the big
nail order house thirteen years ago
and has been it's president for five
years. Mr.. Rosenwald has become
Immensely wealthy from his stock
holdings in the corporation, and has
contributed large sums to various
Chicago charities He is leader in
most of thee phiI4nthr6pief organia-
tions of the Windy City, and makes
no distinction between Jewish and
Christian charities. Mr.. Rosenwald
recently gained some publicity by
reason of his decision to discontinue
handling patent medicines. Proprie-
fary preparations were long a source
Of immense profit to the mail order
house, but Mr.. Rosenwald has decjd-
ed to get along without this source
of income. Associations of rural mer-
chants throughout the West have for
years carried a determined propa-
ganda against the corporation OF
which Mr.. RosenwaId is the chief and
similar houses. The country merchants
1oint out the undeniab1e fact that the
farmers buy from Mr.. Rosenwald only
when they have the ''cash money
and seek the local dealers when coin
of the realm is not available and
credit is needed. Undoubtedly the
rural merchandisers have a just griev-
nnce-but it is not on record that Mr.
Rcsenwald loses any sleep over it,
In the half-century that has pass
ed since the emancipation of the neg
roes of the United States, the race has
produced no man of whom it has
greater right to be proud than Prof
william Edward Burghardt Du Bots
who easily stands foremost among
Afro-American scholars and authors
Ii might almost be said of him tina
he is the only nationalist ever pro
duced by a people in whom emotion
alism, which often finds expression il
sl1e grossest superstition, is a marked
racial characteristic.
Prof Du Bots was born at Grea
Darlington, Mass, forty-five years
exc. Feb. %. 1868. He was educated
at Fisk University. IN Tennessee, and
at Harvard. and from the latter univ
ersity received the degrees of A. B.
=. III. and Pm. d. Later he studied