The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-04
John M1rCHEI1e GREATs4AB
LEADER, FORTY Es.IE. TODAY

Americas best loved labor leader,
John Mitchell, former head of the
United Mine Workers of America and
now second vice-president of the
American Federation of Labor, win
celebrate. his forty-third birthday to-
win couIfty. nh we 3Ef s4Iitchell's
birthplace and there ne attended
school between his sixth and tenth
years. The subsequent education of
the man who now writes iearnedly of
economic questions was obtained by
burning midnight oil, after hard days
% toll in the Illinois coal mines His
employment as a miner began at the
age of twelve, At fifteen ne Joined the
Knights Of Labor, and ever since he
has been prominent, in the councils of
organized labor Between his fifteenth
the West. investigating labor condi-
lions. and making a livelihood as a
miner he had barely attained voting
age when he married and settled
down at Spring Valley, Ill His con-
nection with the United Mine Work
srz IN an official capacity. began in
1855. when he was chosen secretary
treasurer of a sub-distriet. From
shat he rose to organizers national
~tce-president. and in 1898 to the
presidency of the organization Since
HIS retirement he has lived at Mount
to his duties as an officer of the
American Federation of Labor, has
delivered. many lectures and written
numerous articles "a hdbpoks on labor
topics Il ~
Dr. George Ernest Morrison, who
asst year was appointed special advis-
81 to the President of China, was born
In Australia ffty-one years ago today.
From his youth his life was one of
drilling adventures. Twenty years
90 he walked across Australia from
he Gulf OF Earpentaria to Melbourne.
Soon afkerWaEd he explored New
Guinea and barely escaped with his
life when aftacked by q band of muir
derous natives. he was severely in
Jursd by a spear. and the head of the
weapon remained IN his body until it
waE cut out at Edinburgh, where he
had gone to attend the university, in
1854 After graduating he went to
China, as the Pekin correspon dent of
the London Times. In the Dragon
Empire he continued his pedestrian
travels. crossing from Shanghai to
try. and from Bangkok, Siam to
Xuunan city and round Tonquin. In
1897 he again set out on a journey
from Stretensk, IN Siberia, to V1adi-
Vostok- It was in PeIzin that Dr. Nor
risOn mak Miss Jeanne Robin. of New
Zealand,Swho became hisswife in Lon
CON last year.
One Of Americas foremost authori-
ties on art, Charles Henry Hart, was
born in Philadelphia sixty-six years
ago today He was originally a law
yer. and practiced until 1894, when he
was severely injured in asrailroad ac-
eident- After his recovery he devoted
himself 10 writing books and articles
on artistic subjects. Last December
Mr. Hart set sail for the third time
on the sea of matrimony, his bride
being the daughter of a Spanish
grandee-, His first wife died in 1897,
and about eight years later he married
Marianne Livingston Phillips, a young
~oman e less than half his age. They
were ditorced last year, and the sec
md Mrs Hart was soon married to 9
Detroit man, George Emery Daniels
Mr. Hart was the hero of the Johr
Paul Jones controversy some time ago
Prof Hermann Collitz, philologist
At Johns Hopkins University, was borr
IN Hanover, Germany, hfty-eight' years
ago today He is the author of die
Ferwa Observation-Disclosures der Grie
shischen Dialkete. ''SamTn1ung del
Sriechischen DiaIektinschriften," ant
other learned works.