The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-06
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

#Eass GoOTSG 9- F.s became .4tf77 Dy the grace of God, of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ire-p land and of the British Dornin- Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India four years ago today, May 6. 1910, when Edward VII. died. The anniversary of the Kings accession will be celebrat- ed in London today with the customary salute of forty one guns in St. James Park. the ringing of bells in all the Angli- can churches, and the hoisting of flags over all the government buildings.
 The first number of the New York Herald. then called the Morning Herald, was issued sew enty nine years ago today by James Gordon Bennett & Co.,, from a tiny publication office in the basement at 20 Wall Street. Bennett, father of the present owner of The Herald, was a na- tive of Scotland, and had had journalistic experience as report CT and editor on papers in New York, Albany, Charleston, Phil adeIphia and Washington before he launched the Herald with a, capital of $500. The Herald. like the Sun. which had been estab lished less than two years be- fore, was originally a one-cent paper, although both of these great journals are now among the metropolitan papers selling for more than a. cent. The Herald entered a field where there were already seven large morning pa pers and eight smaller afternoon Journal als-quite enough, it would seem, for city with a population of little more than a quarter of a million The first number of the Herald was ten by fourtesn inch es, and it contained twelve short columns of reading matter and four columns cx ads. ''i The fol- lowing year the paper was en- 1arged and the price increased to two cents.
 There is humor famine in Germany. As a result, many cir cu1ation managers ars tearing n1possible to get readers for a nlorols. The reason for this sad state of affairs is that most pro- fessionaI hmorists are so tenn peramentaI that they find it inat possible to be funny in jail. And most of the leading. humorists of the Kaiserss country are behind z the bars because they simply scoufdns t resist the desire to laugh at the Grown Prfnoeg which is { 1ese rnajeste. The eldest son and their heir of the European war lord vii celebrate his thirty-sec- ond birthday today. and 1t is ex spected that the Few hunaorists who have managed to escape i'm prisonment will take advantagess of the occasion to present peti- ton to the Emperor in behalf of their eager colleagues, and begging the Emperor to appoint an open season when the wits of the press may indulge their risi-
 bflities at the expense of the Kaiser's first-born. It isn't like ly that anything will come of the. movement, as it is stated on good authority that the Kaiser is un- able to extract any h huFnor from the actions of his son. So far as the general public is concern sed,s the humorists may enjoy free lodging at the expense of the government as long as Frederick William is at large, for the Grown Prince may be depended upon to keep his future subjects ade- qslately amused.
 John Tinney McClItch heon, who has an army admirers who are ready to take oath that he is Americas greatest caFtoonist, was born forty-four years ago to- day on farm in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and lived on a farm until he was six years of age The greater part of his youth was spent in Lafayette, Ind, and he was a cIassmate of George Ade at Purdue University. During his long career as a car toonist for. Chicago newspapers he has travelled all over the- earth. He witnessed the battle Of Manila from a dispatch boat, toured India, Burma, Siam. Co- chin, China, Korea and Japan, the South African war, and was in Central Africa during Col. Roosevelt $ famous expedition.
 Oscar w. Under wood author of the new tariff bill. who was recently nominated for the United States Senate in Afabama, arriv7 ed in the world bysway Of Louis vile, fifty-two years ago today Tn his race for a senatorial toga, sCongressman Underwood was op- posed by Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson, the hero of the sssbottling', incident in Santiago harbor. MT. Underwood was candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination at Baiti-
 more and if his tariff measure gives general satisfaction it is likely that he will go to the next Democratic national convention with thessolid South behind him.
 Rear-AdnliraT Robert Edwin Peary, who nailed the United
 States flag to the North Pole,
 was born ffty-eig1t years ago to- day at Cresson, Pa. He studied civil engineering at Bowdoin, and
 at the age of twenty-five entered the navy as a civil engineer. His
 first service. was in Nicaragua, but