The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21
TWO EMINENT LAME DUCKS OF GOTHAM CELEBRATE TODAY.

Two distinguished lame ducks or the American metropolis, former May or Col. Ardolph Loges Kline and ex- Sheriff Julius Hamburger, both of whom retired the first of this year, will be the recipients of birthday con gratulations today and tomorrow, re- spectiveIy. Col. Kline became cnler executive of New York on the death of Mayor Gaynor, and held the office
 until succeeded by Mayor Mitchell.
 Elected to the humble office of alder
 man, his colleagues elevated him to board of aldermen A resignation
 made him automatically president of the board. and Mayor Gaynor's sud- den passing made him. by a stroke of fate. the mayor of Americas great est city.
 Col. Kline was born in New ter sey ffty-six years ago today. Of Ger
 man Scotch Irish descent In 1878 he enlisted in the United States army and rose to the rank of colonel. Dur
 ing the Spanish-American war he saw
 active service at the front. As a boy the former Mayor ran away from
 home to New York, and his first job
 was as an office boy in a jobbing
 house at a salary Of s4 a week
 Julius Harburger. the dirninutive ex-sheriff of New York, is little more
 than a dwarf in stature, but he can
 use more big words during the course of a public speech-and there is no record of Julius ever having side stepped a chance to deliver an address than any other man in history. The eminent orator was born on Feb. z2, 1851. He is a patriot in every inch of his brief stature. and that probably accounts for the fact that he chose Washingtonss birthday as his own. No appreciation of MT. Hamburger would be complete without a sample of his oratory, which is hereby appended:
 ssBecause did my duty in shackIing and carrying out the law, the polics department became incensed against me, and through their undergroun llabryinthian, seal-Jointed. oath-bound institutions carried on a warfare against me, unwarranted, uncalled- for. traitorous, cowardly. un-Ameri- can, despotic, Siberian Russianized proclivities against man who was doing his sworn duties, and they should have upheld him for doing them, instead of prostftuting their of fices.''
 MT. Harburger was born in New. York, where he was s'inoculated and fnculcated with the initial prepara-
 tions for a patriotic life After leav- ing school he opened a little trfmming store. and in the course of time <en- tered politics, with what success we wot of
 Gen. Sir Robert Stephenson smyth Baden-Poweu, the founder of the Boy Scouts movement, was born fifty seven years ago tomorrow. Feb. 22. 1857. the son of a clergyman His
 army service began thirty eight years ago, and the story of his military ca reer is repIete with incidents of bra very and daring. although his greatest fame is based on his brilliant defense of Mafeking. which made him one of the greatest heroes of the Boer war.
 Ever since his retirement from the
 army Sir Robert has devoted his time
 to the organization and extension of 1 the Boy Scout movement.
 Brander Matthews. author, educa- tor, and first chairman of the sfmpli- fed Spelling Board. was born in New Orleans sixty-two years ago to-day
 As professor Of dramatic literature at Colunbia University, Prof. Matthews
 has won fame throughout the educa- fionaI and tIo a fric<aI world hut it is as the defender of simplihed spelling that he is best known to the public
 at large When in doubt, use the shorter is Prof. Matthews rule for
 spelling, which he applies to such words as through. though, catalogue,
 programme, honour, comptroller and 1 many others.