The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-13
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

Thanks to the assiduity of newspa- per ''colyum conductors the world has been informed of many cases in which professions or occupations have been adopted to fit surnames. Dr. See, of course. is an eye specialist. Rev. I've is marrying parson." Adolph Just is a judge. Randolph Cheat was a lawyer, until the courts granted him permission to change his name Jimmy Smart is, of course. a newspaper reporter. Rabbi Wise IS one of the most learned of Hebrew scholars Dr. Kill is surgeon. The list might be extended to fill many columns, with nothing lacking except a baseball umpire named Jesse James.
 Leo George Chiozza Money is not a banker, as those unfamiliar with his career might suspect, but he is inter nationally famous an authority on financial matters, and as the author of Riches and Poverty, and other books dealing with fiscal problems. MT. Money was born in Genoa, of an Italian father and an English mother, forty-three years ago to-day. He be- gan his career as a, writer on the staff of the London Commercial Intelli- gence, of which publication he was for many years the managing editor. AL though he has been a Liberal member of Parliament, and still affi1iates with the Liberal party, he Is also a~co1lec-
  one of very few writers on financial and economic subjects who can make statistics interesting His various books on free trade and other issues. especially -fRiches and Poverty" and Waste and Want have been widely read and commented on in America.
 Robert Marion LaFoIlette, wiscon- sins famous senator, will pass his hfty-eighth milestone tomorrow, but nobody who knows him ever thinks of him as anything but a youngster. The Badger Solon attributes his youthful ness and vitality to a vegetarian diet He is not a faddist, and does not at tempt to induce others to adopt his fesh-less regimen, but he is thorough 1y convinced that in his own case |, meat is poison.'
 Senator LaFol1ette is 8 native of Wisconsin, and was born at Primrose on June fl, 1855. He had a stren- uous youth, aiding in the support of his mother, brothers and sisters and at the same time paying his own way through the University of Wisconsin. He was twenty-five when admitted to the bar, and in the same year began his political career as district attor ney of Dane county. In his youth he heard Col Ingerso1, and the elo- Quence of that great orator aroused in ''Bob'' an ambition to learn to do things with his voice. He succeeded admira bly,, and was only thirty years of age when he persuaded the voters of the Third Wisconsin district to send him to Washington. As a mem Der of the ways and means committee of the House. he took a, prominent part in framing the Mckinley Bill. Af- ter three terms as Governor of Wis conson, he was sent to the United States Senate, where he speedily be- came the leader of the progressive element. He was a prominnt can didate for the Republican Presiden- tta1 nomination last year, until Col. Roosevelt entered the lists, which is why ''Bob'' now never loses oppor- tunity to express his love and admi- ration for Teddy"
 The Badger lawmaker owes no small part of his political success to his accomplished wife. Mrs. LaFol- lette campaigned for her husband when, youth of thirty, he first ran for Congress. Last year she took the stump in behalf of '@Bob'a'' Presi- dentiaI aspirations.
 The first mayor of New York, Thomas Willett, assumed the office PAS years ago to-day. Wil1ett was proclaimed mayor by Col. Richard Nico11s, the English governor, who had taken New Amsterdam from the DdCcn III loo4, ana Ordd1ne0 that all the inhabitants of New York, New Harlem and the island of Manhattan are one body polite under the gov-| ernment of a mayor, aldermen and sheriff. WiI1ett was a reform may or" and innovated many improve ments in municipal affairs One of his reforms prohibited cows from run ming at large, and he also directed that ''hogs must be prevented from roofing in the church yard" He served two terms of one. year each. He was a wealthy man for his day, the owner of fleet of ships that traded up and down the coast and to Europe. When he died in 1874 he left a. large estate of land, merchan- disc, cattle, negroes, houses and ships. Since he laid down the office ninety three men have held the title of may or of New York. His remains were l buried at Riverside, East Providence, R. T., and on a, slab above his grave one may yet read that he was "Ye First Mayor of New York and Twice G11S tai "a