aur 2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 26, 1908 —| John Bigelow] | Veteran = Who at Ninety Is Wide Awake and Interested In the Wirld's Affairs Friend of Til. den, Minister to France and Pan. ama Canal Critic. Je Jo J» - © OHN BIGELOW, France, who at ninety published a pamphlet on the | subject of the Panama canal, | was the oldest man on the train which | made the initial trip under the Hud son on the opening of the new tunnel | from New York to New Jersey on Feb. | 25, but in feeling he was one of the | youngest, With his daughter, Miss Grace Bigelow, at his side, he nimbly climbed the steps of the station at Hoboken and proceeded to the plat- form where the opening ceremony was | to take place. He remarked: “For the greatest joys of my whole life 1 am indebted to the Hudson rviv- er. 1 was born on its banks, 1 salled on its waters in dories and on cakes of ice, 1 have drunk it and have swum in it, but if in the wildest fever of my imagination as a young man I should have thought of having the | pleasure of crossing under the river | | should certainly have been pronounc- ed a lunatic, And today | have cross- | ed in that way. It is a new and very | different pleasure and on the whole is | the one of which as a citizen of New | York and an American | am most | proud.” | Mr. Bigelow calls what he has just published about our great engineering andertaking on the isthmus an ama Canal and the Daughters of | Danaus.” [It is a satirical production, claiming that the job of canal build ing has been botched by the president and his advisers, and the critic of the performance asks: “How much longer is this scandalousiy wasteful poliey to be tolerated? this Isthmian com mission be permitted to pour out the gold of our country as the malden daughters of Danaus were condemned in hades to pour water into a bottom legs ves eternally 7 Mr. Bigelow was a ernor Samuel J. Tilden's eanal in gating board. and for the York chamber of commerce he visited the isthmns of Panama and studied the operatious of the French there un ex-minister to has just | ig i he Shall | member of Gov vest! ater New 1 asad ERR a le NCE JOHN RIGELOW AT NINETY der De [oss nus that the Amn nginee ire not ok as we low | anothe Bigeio i mirer Filden estate he xecutor ing of and There wine from the pres H r= ume wo entitled “Letters an ary Men $ of Samuel J 1 by Mr. Bigelow and his extraordinary dares edited proof streng itis! ast ed rier a issued or reer Origloally were not of It was for antisiavery « fourscors and ten to his long depart third he subject of Tilden's ea he and Mr. TiHden the same political views a efficient presentat winlons that Wil len Bryant invited Mr. Bige come his associate In the publication of the New York Evening Post. Tilden bitterly expostulated with the Post editors for their Lincoln and on leaving rooms that Journal claimed “1 would not have the responsibil of William Cu ant and J Bigelow for all ith In the » treasury. If you have your way, ois war will divide country, and yon will see blood running like water in the streets of this elty ” One of Lincoln's first acts on becom ing president was the selection of Rige low to take the Paris consulate, from which post he was later transferred tr that of minister to France. In this po gition he did perhaps the greatest serv. fee of hin carver, as his efforts were 4} YEArs Service nd the work bas the fon of iam Cul Ww to he editing and support the editorial of one day ex len Bry the wen the rected toward securing a strictly oeu-, graceful tral attitude on the part of France In the struggle between the warring see tions of the Union. Altogether he wus in residence In France from 1881 te 1867. The only political position held by him since that time was that of sec | retary of state of New York under his | friend. Governor Tilden, For many years his life has been one of dignified retirement, occupled with literary and benevolent pursuits, and it was sings. larly appropriate that at elghty-eight he should have published a work glorify- fog labor for the sake of labor and giv- ing his secret of perpetual youth It yan entitled “The Useful Life a Crown #0 the Bimple Life” | | nineteen: { at the Cathedral school | ton, | and who | good humored | ney i | elal | MISS HELEN TAFT. The Clever Daughter of the Able and Versatile War Secretary. i Secretary and Mrs. Willlam H, Taft | | have three children—Robert Alphonso, | now an undergraduate at Yale and! Helen, who led her classes | in Washing and Charles P’., who is about ten loved to play tricks on his father while traveling with him in the now famous Taft jour- around the world. Miss Helen is nt a very Interesting age and is study- Ing hard at Bryn Mawr, In the event of | her father's elevation to the presidency she would occupy a position In the so world much what President Roosevelt's eldest daughter Alice held | before she became Mrs, Longworth. So fertile In resource Miss Helen like Is | MISS HELEN TAFT. that if she y would be likely to follow the political foot- steps of the war secretary turned from one of his journeys his daugh ter pr ¢ in which were re from the ETraves she She had and & had profited | had flowers fr yard There also were pre the tombs of illustrio minster abbey “ ited the ars you flowers from tombs? “Well, 1 know grow re,” he reg see, | © all the tombs of gre: I) and Just they they’ WK keep thelr cole WILLIAM. S. SIMS. Lisutenant Commander In Navy Whose Made a Sensation. _ sald y Engl tO see and, she spent the w her | her travels the country Gray wrote he book church his elegy weed blossoms from West " ex- could old don't you from i$ men in dear, yosty “how these they “but, ited to get wr 80 well in pressing.” Testimony Spanish target pr fact made | ive when of Sant tiles were recorded LIBUTENANT COMMANDER WILLIAM 8 SIMS of marksmanship was dis If there had been any decent display of marksmanship on the part of the Spaniards, they would have got exhibition away, and our guns would not have have If stopped them. Cervera did not proper ammunition to fit his gune he had, he would have made trouble! for our fleet. An it was, he Was worse off than our ships.” According to Commander Bhs, con: Sitions were bad up to 1908, but have been greatly Improved singe then. As to armor belts, he thinks they are placed too low on all our battleships, Lieutenant Commander Sims is paval secretary to President Roosevelt. He was appointed to the pavy from Penn sylvania In 1876, | yearns for | conquer, | Boston | Times, {as Munsey's the Scrap Book, Q Frank Munsey «% Hustling Editor Who Owns Three Big Daily Newspapers and Half a Dozen Magazines His Views Con cerning Journalism and His Offer to Arthur Brisbane. So So of Frank A. Munsey, who recent- ly purchased the Baltimore News, as a human dynamo, His record in the publishing field indicates that he Is as full of energy as a 5,000 horse- power electric generator his purchase of the is suggestive both of exhaustless supply of motive and of the boundless possibilities of his policy as a publisher, for Mr, Munsey now owns three daily newspapers and over half a dozen magazines and stil more journalistic fields to Besides the Baltimore News, newspaper property includes the Journal and the Baltimore his Magazine, the Argosy, the All Story Maga. zine, the Rallroad Man' 8 Magazine and the Ocean. The Scrap Book is prac. tically two magazines, as it is issued in two sections, This is an age of combination, and Mr. Munsey does not see why the principle that has been applied so often in commerce and in. dustry should not he the publishing field As niso he himself as that cries so PATENTS, four or Labels. Ma ’ JOSHUA R. H. POTTS, Lawyer, 9290 Chestnut St. x sD Centre County Banking Co., Corner High avd Spring Streets | tained {| greatest { gineers and sta | authority | tance, | genius In charge | chief, O | theory T is not an exaggeration to speak | ner given not long since | fend | ment to Stephen Lauzanne { Journalist, | There The fact of | News | his seemingly | power | | to run the i clined, Washington | and his magazines are known | applied in | | he had ju Trade Marks Philadelphia. pet Buch a ns no college authors, artis tesmen very question ench of the LOO papers gett) great minds, w control, could support; Is, essayists on e benefit of these | taining thelr Individuality on pure i matters | $200,000 a be a 3 ) the head of the God made end, Ther: year force could man at and another of the busines As to paying $100,000 to an editor in there that Mr. Mun would to back up his The evidence accidentally at a din by the Period America In compli the French visit to America good natured spal Munsey and Arthur York Even editorial is evidence be willing this subject (quite sey on came out 'ublishers of then on a little ring between Mr Brisbane of the New Journal, and the latter remarked in the course of It: “1 will tell you a secret Mr. Munsey offered me $52,000 a year Dally News for him. 1 de and the Daily News is dead.” Mr. Munsey on his feet at once don't believe now that even Br bane could have kept the Dally News alive,” he exclaimed. Mr. Munsey said his recollection was that he had offered Brisbane $25,000 a vear, had donbled the lively between circumstances upon lections did not it was adjusted the magazine suddenly exclaimed, “Anyway, 1 wil double the offer again If you will was a ing Was “y There th which their reco sum was a dispute two over agree. Finally when publisher come { with me.” Mr of what en drishane bowed his apprecls dently wi mere compliment, b wd a am KR. Hearst Munsey is fifty-th st sir Will Mi plifies the sa) fifty Vea rs nd he w ’ enduran in estal ing b rtant factor in thepublishing worl a mse nt [07 WATER BOTTI Green’ s Pharmacy Co. : Bush House Blk. Bellefonte. WINDSOR HOTEL PHILADELPHIA W. H. 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