The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-06
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

English geographer and explorers will hold a meeting today to commem- crate the birthday of Capt. Scott, the intrepid explorer who lost his life on the return trip from the South Pole. It has been suggested that Scott Day be annually observed by the Royal Geographical Society, and it is likely that the plan will be adopted. In any event, the name and fame of Scott will not soon vanish from the mem ories of men, for few tragedies in all history have made so deep an fmpres- sion as the death of the heroic Scott and his brave companions
 Robert Falcon Scott was born at Outlands, Davenport, a naval station years ago today, June s, 1868. His ca -reer as an antarctic explorer began in 1900, when he headed the English ex- petition that sailed on the crude wood- en whaler Discovery and established a furthest south record. A born lead CT of men, physical and mental stall wart, fearless yet never rash, deter mined but always sympathetic, Capt. Scott was the ideal figure of an ex- p1orer. The long roll of modern mar tyrs to science begins with the heroic Bruno, mute and defiant in his pyre of flames, and ends gloriously with the tce-enshrouded Scott.
 OdHdOd anu AuSCIaAd, as well as the United Kingdom have joined in be- slowing honors and more subsantia1 expectations on the families of Capt. Scott and others who lost their lives in the antarctic tragedy. The widow of the great explorer is now Lady Scott, with the same rank style and precedence as if her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the Bath, as he would have been if he had lived.
 The Kings prerogative of bestowing a title upon a woman is rarely exer- cised. The last noteworthy instance of this kind was in 1891, when the widow of Sir John Alexander Macdon- aid, the great Canadian statesman, was made a peeress, becoming Bar oness Macdonald of Earnscliffe. The distinguished Dominion Prime Minis years ago today. In the same year the widow of the Rt. Hon. w. H. Smith, leader in the Commons, was created Viscountess Hambleden
 Perhaps the first notable case of the conferring of a title upon the widow of a great man was in 1901, when the widow of Sir Ralph Abercromby. killed in the battle of Alexandria, was made a baroness. The bestowal of titles on women whose husbands were living has been of rare occurrence, but there have been several such cases. Oneeof
  ring Of the title of viscountess on Mrs Disrae eli @some eight years before her husband, the eminent statesman, was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfeld.
 One hundred and one years ago to- day, June G. 1872, a United States ves- seI seized the British ship Lord Mel son on the Great Lakes. War was not declared until nearly two weeks later, and a United States court de- clared the seizure illegal, and awarded $5,OOO to the Canadian owners of the Lord Nelson A United States court clerk absconded with most of the s. O0O, and for a century the claim has gone unsettled. Now it IS before the International Joint Commission, and the present Canadian claimant, Henry James Bethune, will probably De awarded not only the original $5,o00. but interest at per cent. from June S, 1872, making a, total of over $35, 900.
 The first European settler in Brook 1yn was George Jansen de Rapeljo, who established his home at Waal- bogt, now Wal1about, during the di- rectorsnip of Peter Minuet- His daugh- ter, Sarah Rapelje, was born there 2Ss years ago today, and was the first white child born in Brooklyn or Long Island. The Indians celebrated tEe ar rival of the stork with paleface pa poose by conveying to the young lady a large parcel of land near the Wall a about-land now worth many millions. Governor. Minuet of New Amsterdam promised the mother of the infant a COW, as soon as the ship came from Holland and the promise was fulfilled, the COW being the first to be brought to Long Island. The father of Sarah was followed to America, and to RrookIyn-or BrouckeIen as it was called by the Dutch-by two brothers who received patents for land near Gravsend. Tn 1857 Governor Stuyve-