The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-05
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

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 George M. Conan celebrated his thir- ty-f1fth birthday yesterday. George
 recently bade farewell to that dear
 old Broadway which he has celebrat-
 ed in song and meIodrama, and de-
 clares that after year on the road
 it will be back to Providence for his'n.
 The man was born in Providence on
 the Fourth of July. 1873, and it is on
 a farm near the Rhode Island city
 that he expects to spend his declining
 years, in the buzzum of his family,
 surrounded by cattle, turnips, chick
 ems, cabbages, strawberry trees and
 other fora and fauna. His father
 and mother and the other and nu-
 merous Cohans are also going to leave
 the great white streak and settle down
 on a farm.
 It was about twenty-tJ1ree years ago
 that George started his stage career as a boy vionnist, and since then he
 has done nearly everything in the amusement line from circus performer
 to singer, actor, composer, dramattst, producer manager and theatre owner.
 He is reported to be worth several millions, more or less, and as he has never been a wild and regardless spender, the report is probably true.
 MT. Conan believes that Little Johnny Jones" is his dramatic masterpiece,
 but-well. there will be lot of long
 winter nights down on the farm, and George expects to spend them in writ ing '.the great American comedy.
 Little Prince Wilhelm, eldest son Of Grown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, had a birthday party yesterday, this being the seventh anniversary of his arrival in this world. If he out1ves his celebrated grandfather and his warlike father. the youngster will be- come Emperor of Germany ana Rang of Prussia-provided, of course, the neskv Socialists don't succeed in top bling over the throne and thus deprive the Hohenzollern family of their 1nn- perial powers. As for such a cont1n- gency, however, little Wilhelm WouId probably say, "I should worry He is described as a healthy, husky. hap py boy. and to such the present IS IS.r lar more important than the future Ills
 mother was the Princess Cecflie or Mecklenburg-Sc -Schwerin, a younger eis- ter of the present Queen of Denmark. and related to the royal families or England, Norway and Greece.
 Although he was born in Tennessee, educated at Cornell, and is now vice president of Leland Stanford Univers- ity in California, Dr. John Casper Branner is more at home in Brazil than anywhere else. The famous geolo- gist recently sailed for the conee re- public, to continue the scientific In vestigations he commenced in l8!5' when he went to Brazil with the Irn- neriaI Geological Commission. After concluding his duties with that body, pr. Branner remained In the Soutn American country many y 1ars as ex- pert for a mining company and as agent for the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, which he served as a. botanist. After returning to his native country, he became geolog1sr for the Pennsylvania Geological sur vey, State Geo1ogist of Arkansas, anu professor of geology at Indiana Uni x,arsitvL He Joined the Leland Stan- ford faculty in 1892, was acting presi- dent for a time. and since 1899 has been vice president Of the famous Cal ifornia institution. Since his connec- tfon with Stanford he has headed sew eraI scientific expeditions to Brazil.
 Mrs. Katherine Tfngley, the interna- tional leader of the Universal Broth erhood and Theosophical Society and the purple lotus mother of Point Lorna, Cal, will celebrate her sixty first birthday tomorrow. With mum Der of her disciples. and party or pupils from Raja Yoga College. Mrs Tingley recently went to Sweden to attend an international peace congress of the theosophists. The leader or the cult has spent most of the last year in Europe, where she arranged for Italian and Scandinavian propaganda Headquarters.
 .Tlne ..purple roother,b' Who claims to be the successor of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian woman who founded theosophy, and William o. Judge, the Irish American lawyer who was responsible for the development of the cult on this side Of the Allan 117T1y-x Mass Il July 6. 1852. She claims descent from early colonial stock. She became prominent in theosophical circles in 1896, following the death of Mr. Judge, and soon claimed to be the "outer head of the .'inner schooP' of the cult a. claim that was denied by An nie Besant. The warfare between the women resulted in a split in the ranks of the disciples of universal broth l erhood," and they are now d1Vldeo into rival camps one section looking to Mrs. Besant for inspiration and the other branch to Mrs. Tingley.
 The Theosophical Brotherhood col ony at Pont Lon1a, near San Diego, Cal, Is located on one of the most beautiful spots in the land of sunshine and flowers. The buildings are on a peninsula jutting out into the Pacific | and include academies for children of all ages and both sexes, an orphan school publishing house, Raja Yoga college, a school of antiquity" and other institutions. There is also an outdoor theatre of college along the same lines as the one at Point Lona | will soon be established in Sweden The California, colony was established | in 1898, At first there was much op- position to Mrs. Tingieys educational methods, but this spirit has now died out, and most of the people of San Diego now consider Point Lona | valuable asset as one of the sights" for tourists.
 Mrs. Tingley has nothing but scorn