The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
EDITORIAL NOTES


by Francis Child, who died just two
centuries ago today, Oct 4, 1713. In
ancient Greece Rome and Babylon
there were banks very similar to pres
ent day institutions Banking reap
peared first in Italy upon the revival
Of civilization, the Lombard Jews es-
tablishing banks in that country as
early as the ninth century. The bust
ness of banking spread from Florence
over italy and to France and Holland.
The Mint in the Tower of London was
the depository for the cash of London
merchants until Charles T. seized the
money as a loan. The traders then
began to lodge their money with the
goldsrntths in Lombard street. Francis
Child was one OF these, and he found
the business so profitable that he de-
terrnined to devote his entire time ito
banking He visited Holland, where
several banks had been established for
some time and studied the methods
in vogue there, applying them to his
own transactions. Within a few years
he had many competitors and Lom-
bard street abounded in banks. The
first run on the London bankers oc-
Cured in 1857. The Bank of England
was founded in 1884.
Prof Michael Idvorsky Pupfn, the
eminent Serb whose electrical inven-
tions promise to revolutionize wireless
telegraphy, was born at Idvor, in
dfty-dv years ago today. He is an
almost unique figure in the scientific
world, for he combines under one
roof the genius of the inventor the
practical horse sense of the business
man, and the rare ability to impart
his Knowledge to others AS an edu-
Gator, he is the head of the labor
atory and professor of electro-mechan-
les at Columbia University. His many
inventions include a telephone cable
for underground and submarine use,
numerous devices for perfecting the
Iong-distance telephone, and the ia
nous ~Pupin coll which has greatly
extended the range and usefulness of
the wireless telegraph. He has mar
keted his inventions so successfully
to realize a large fortune.
Dr. Pupin was fifteen when he de-
termined to run away to America
Without advising his relatives of his
plan. he tramped to the nearest port
and there slowed himself away in an
American-bound vessel. He landed
in New York, but soon went west,
where he for some time was a hired
hand on a farm Being ambitious to
secure an education, he returned to
New York and secured employment in
a factory. He prepared himself for
college by attending the night classes
at Cooper Union In the meantime
he lived in the most frugal manner,
and, having saved $500. he entered Co
a
night he worked his way through that
institution, and when he graduated
in 1888 he had a bank account of sew
era1 hundred dollars. He used this
money to return to Europe. where he
studied at Cambridge and the Unfvers-
ity OF Berlin In 1889 he returned to
New York to become a member of the
faculty of Columbia Black-haired
and swartF1y OF complexion, DR.. Pupin
Is typical Of the best class Of Serbs.
Col His H1ghness Sir Nipendra. Ma
rayan Bhup Badahur, Maharajah of
Cooch Behar. was born hfty-one years
ago today, and succeeded his father at
the tender age of ten months. The
Mahara5ah's son, Prince Jitendra a
handsome youth Of twenty-six, recent
~ married Princess Indira the only
daughter of the Gackwar of Baroda
The wedding was originally scheduled
to take place in India last May, but
the bride changed her mind and sail
ed away to England. Later Prince
Jitendra and his mother, the Maha-
rance of Cooch Behar, proceeded to
London. where the delayed wedding
ceremony was performed. The royal
family of Cooch Behar is alleged to
be descended from the gods. This
claim OF divine origin has been denied,
however, and Jealous rivals say that
the Cooch Behar royal line is OF abor-
1ginal descent The Gaekwar of Ba-
a
of one of the oldest families of In
dia. and his ancestors once ruled over
q large part of the country. The Ma
hara5ah is a famous Nimrod, and the
author of a'Thirty-seven years of Big
Game Shooting"
Greatest of all American Indians. a |
brave warrior, a Napoleonic leader of
men, an able statesman, an eloquent
orator, a. diplomat of rare ability
such was Tecumseh, chief of the |
Shawnees, who was slain in the battle |
of the Thames, in Canada, just a cen |
fury ago tomorrow.
A cloud of witnesses attest Tecum-
seh's bravery, sagacity and nobility of
Character Major-Gen. Sir Isaac
Brock, commander of the English |
forces in Canada at the outbreak of
the last war between England and the |
United States, wrote of his red-skin- |
ned ally, "a more sagacious and ac- |
tive man does not, I believe, exist
-Tecumseh was made a brigadier-l
general in the British army during |
the war of 1912. He was joint com
FnaEzss@5- with General Proctor at the |
s1ege OF Fort Meigs, during which he
protested the Kentucky militia, reck-
lessly led by Col Dudley into an am
bush from humiliation In all his
military career. Tecumseh manifested
the most humane and civilized in
Et1ncts. and often aroused the anger
and contempt of his followers by pro-
tecting prisoners and women and chill
dren from the ferocity of his braves
Tecumseh had nothing but con-
tempt for Gen Proctor. the command
II of the English troops in the battle
~ the Thames, in which the great