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BY PKXTKR MAKSTIALL.
BROTHERS who have mado good
through thftr own ffTorta and
frinul th puhlir eye thereby arc
neither too numerous to be commonplace
nor so rar as lo be exotic. They run
the gamut of human endeavor from cor
porate business to international state
rraft. Th seven sons of the. late Mayer
GuggenhtMm control the smelt Ins hupl
flesH of th country; Jules and Paul Cam
bon, as ainbHssiidoiial representatives of
Fratwe at Berlin and the Court of St.
James, aro two of the most influential
International peacemakers in active
per vice today. Charles and Daniel Froh
man are among the most prominent men
of the American stage; Walter and
Frank I amroseh arc among the present
century's foremost music conductors.
Three i if Kn gland's literary lights are
A. C, K. l- and the Rev Robert Hugh
Hen Sim. all snns of the late Archbishop
of 'anterhury : American literature
boasts or the tiilders. Richard and Jo
seph, with their sister Jeannette thrown
In for good measure and their music
wrtttng brother, John K., on the side, as
it were.
Richard Hard in w Davis and Charles
Belmont Davis, a few years younger than
the creator of "Vn Bibber." have both
trained enviable, fame as short story ex
perts. Ueoi'go K:irr McCutcheon Is known
far and wide as an American writer of
novels of the Anthony Hope style; John
T. MoCut.'heon's fume also has com?
through his pen. his dally newspaper
cartoons being copied the Kngllsh world
over. Dan Heard is the most prominent
living member of a family of four
brothers and t wo sisters who have won
name and competence as artists and
writers. The late Frank Beard, editor
of Rani's Horn and the original "chalk
talk man." was a member of the famous
family, who had a famous father.
Ukc literature. the International
ft t age, broadly speaking1, furnishes sev
eral noteworthy Instances of brothers
who have won world distinction
through their work on it. Whenever
one thinks of grand opera stars of the
past or present, the brothers Jean and
Kdouard Te Reszko instantly come to
nit ml. Coouelln aine has lately been
compelled to assist In the Incarceration
In the Insane asylum of Coquelin cadet,
cue of France's best known Interpreters
of the comic drama. The rise of
fharles and Daniel Frohman from
bumble newspaper positions to control
of m ny theaters and actors by the
score on both sides of the Atlantic is
ma tched in part by the joint career
of Sam a till t.ee Schubert. It will be
remembered that Sam the little man
who literally was always on the run
met death in a raiLroad wreck a cou
ple of ytars aero, when he was at the
height of his brilliant managerial
ca reer.
The Taftfl and Other Politicians.
Turn to politics, and there, too, will
be found brothers who are playing the
grRt panic more or less prominently
and successfully, in bis efforts to se
cure the Republican Presidential nom
ination. William H. Taft is being: as
sisted In Ohio by Charles P. Taft
through "is newspaper, the Cincinnati
Times-star; while the big- Secretary of
War's chief political lieutenant In New
York is Henry w. Taft, whose reputa
tion as a la wyer Is as Nat ion a I as Is
the Secret rys in pel I tics and Gov
ernment. The Ambassadors Cambon
are world politicians in a broad sense.
Beginning1 with the Fifty-eighth Con
gress, the Second and Fifth Congres
sional Districts of North Carolina hava
been represented at the National Cap
itol by Claude and William Walton
Kttehln respectively. Henry Gassaway
Davis, the multi-millionaire tail of the
Democratic National ticket In 1904. and
one of h Is brothers, have been politi
rally powerful for more than a genera
tion In West Virginia, which they have
helped greatly to develop Industrially.
Ask any Hoosier politician what he
knows about the three Landis brothers,
and he will tell you, among: other
things, that Charles B. and Frederick
were part of the Indiana delegation in
the Fiftyntntb Congress; that Charles
B. was returned to the Sixtieth Congress
and that before he pained international
a t ten t ion as the judge who fined the
Standard Oil Company $29.a0-'.GU0, plus
a few hundred thousands. Kene
saw Mountain Iandis. the " second
brother, was private secretary to Walter
Q. Gresham when the latter was Cleve
land's Secretary of State, and otherwise
gave evidence of a deep interest in the
political game.
National politics has. of course, given
'Jrmmie" Garfield hts present name; un
til he was chosen recently as president
of Williams College, Harry Garfield, the
senior of the hnthers by two years, was
well known as Princeton T'niversjiy's
professor of pol i t ics. 1 e and 1 ,y on G.
Tyler, by the way. are tfcc only sons of
ex-Presidents heading American colleges.
It m rather interesting to note that
though President Tyler is a son of the
tenth President of the "nited States, he
is on 1 v ten yea rs older than President
Gai field, aged 44. whose father was toe
Nation's i'th President.
Giants in Business.
The great Curia hy packing bushier is
a monument to the Industrial genius of
three brothers. Michael. John and Patrick,
all born on the old soH In 4I. '43 and '4ft,
respectively. In Western Pennsylvania
and the region contiguous thereto United,
States .Senator Philander C. Knox's
brother Alfred is reckoned as no mean
financier. Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the
Vniverslty of Pennsylvania is rcognied
tus a world authority on Semitic lan
guages, religions and literature: his j
brother Joseph, also born In Poland and i
in charge of the psychological section of
the t'hiuago's World's Fair and president
of thn American Psychological Associa
tion in 110", has been professor of psy
chology at thn University of Wisconsin
aince 1J8. While Isaac N. SeligmHn hafl
become one of the Nation's foremost
bankers his younger brother, Kd win R.
A., who holds a chair at Columbia Uni
versity, long has been known as the lead
ing American political economist. It was
with the help of his brother James H.
that William H. Moore organized the
Diamond Match Company (trust and
pulled off many of his other corporate
promotion stunts that brought both
wealth and fame. Oscar Straus, Secre
tary of lahor and Commerce. Is the
youngest of three brothers; Nathan's
efforts to supply slums bfibles with steri
lized milk has brought him wide fame
as a philanthropist. Isidore Straus, like
his brothers, is a mercantile king.
Though t hey were born to prominence, 1
the three Belmonts have proved by. their
own works that they probably would have
made gvmd without the backing of birth :
August by his metropolitan subways and
other transportation enterprises, and O. i
H. P. and Perry as Representative In !
Congressthe latter also being Minister to !
Spain under President Cleveland. For !
years Oren Root, a brother of the Secre- j
tsry of State, was professor nf mathe- j
matics at Hamilton College, and as such j
was conspicuous in collegiate circles 1
throughout the country. His death oc
curred about a year ago.
In Scientific Pursuits.
Tn the medical profession two names
tlwit loom large are Jacob da Sllva Soils
Cohen and Solomon Solis-Cohen; a third
brother, David, Is famous in the North- j
west as a lawyer, high secret order man
and writer on religious, literary and so- i
ciologlcal topics. Dr. Jacob Solis-Cohen
was an assistant surgeon all throi:i?h the t
Civil War and went with DuPont's expe-
dition to Port Royal. General William A. ;
Kobbn, a veteran of the Civil War. who :
also fought in the Philippines during the
war with Spain, is the older brother of
Gustav Koboe, the musical critic and '
writei.
Two brothers who recently have at
tracted the attention of as-tronomers are
V. M. Slipher, who, as resident director
of Professor Lowell's observatory at
Flagstaff, Arts., has discovered evidence
of the presence of water In the at
mosphere of Mrs, and the stilt younger
K. C Slipher, who was ono of the party
of star-gaxers that studied Mars from the
top of the Peruvian Andes last Summer,
when that planet was in opposition to
ours. What healthy American boy has
remained in ignorance of the works of
the Sells and Ringling brothers, and,
finally surfeited with thrillers and other
wondrous things, called down blessings
upon those geniuses of the sawdust ring?
And what reveller', young or old, In Civil
War stories, has failed to hear of the
famous "Fighting McCooks." seven broth
ers and five cousins, also brothers, some
of whom, notably the cousins. Generals
Anson G. and John J.. survive?
These are some brothers of today who
have made good. Foremost among; the
brothers of yesterday who secured the
public eye were W. T. Sherman, in war,
and John Sherman in National states
manship. Cyrus W. Field, who gained
undying: fame by sticking to it until he
bound the continents together with the
submarine cable, was one of the four
famous brothers David Dudley Field was
the last century's most noted) law re
former; Stephen Johnson Field sat 34
years and six months on the bench of
the. United States Supreme Court, serving;
longer than any justice before or .since,
and Henry Martyn Field, born in 1X22.
and the last to answer the inevitable
summons, which came last year. was
widely known as a clergyman and editor.
Then there was the famous Beeper fam
ily of brothers and sisters, of whom
Henry Ward and Harriet Beeeher Stowe
the one as a pulpit orator, the other as
the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" vied
for lasting fame, with the odds at present
seemingly in favor of the sister.
It is interesting to note the frequency
with which brothersf have won out in the
same lines, or closely alliedi lines, of work
calling for Individual initiative if success
is to be obtained.
In Diplomacy and Literature.
Because their careers have been prac
t i t ca 1 1 y para 1 le 1 for a good man y yea rs
the Parisians call the Cambon brothers
"the Siamese twins of diplomacy.' and
Kdouard and Jean De Reszke's reputa
tions are inseparably linked. Only a Ut
erateur can hope to keeo from mixing
up the productions of the Benson trio;
while musfc-lovers have 'been known to
give Walter Damrosch credit for the work
done by Frank. The two Jastrows excel
in higher branches of learning. The
Beards write and craw with almost eo,ual
facility and success. Rach of the Gug
genheims Simon, the Colorado Senator,
included is a smelting expert, proving his
worth in the days before the smelting
trust wasoantsej by building and suc
cessfully operating a smelter "all by his
lonesome.
The Gilders furnish another example.
As everyone who reads knows, Richard
Is the editor of the Century and rides
Pegasus as recreation. Joseph, with his
sister Jeannette. founded the Critic, and
when it wm merged with Putnam's
Magazine, the two of them became the
editors of the latter publication. The
late William F. Gilder, on the staff of
General Thomas during the Civil "War,
was one of the most daring newspaper
men of his days. John F. Gilder,
though a writer, produces neither
books nor poems, but music, thus beinar
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the exception to the Gilder rule of
work.
In the interests of science and of the
newspaper he was Serving:. W. F. Gilder
made two remarkable trips far Into the
Arctic Circle. In the late '70s he and
Lieutenant Schwatka, in their search
for the lost records of the Ill-fated I
Franklin expedition, made the longest
sldgr Journey ever undertaken for
clen title purposes, down to that time,
covering 3251 miles with their dogs.
During the three years they wer ab
sent from civilization they found and
buried the bodies of 40 of the earlier
explorers along the coast of King Wil
liam's Laud. On his second trip Mr.
Gilder was a member of the Jeannette's
relief expedition. The Rogers, the re
lief ship, being burned in midwinter
and the party reduced to the verge of
starvation. Gilder volunteered and un
dertook a sledge trip across Siberia in
the hope of obtaining relief.
His sole companion was a trader with
a reputation highly unsavory. Gilder,
being fearful that his companion might
desort him in the trackless desert of
snow, did not take a single minute of
sleep during the 54 days .that were
spent in covering 1800 miles to the first
settlement, where the trader lived.
Gilder would He down and rest, but be
cause the horror of possible desertion
was always with him, by an almost in
credible exercise of ,.wlil power, lie
never let the trader get out of his sight
for an instant. After completing this
truly harrowing portion of his race for
lives. Gilder, accompanied by Cossacks,
pushed on to Irkutsk, reaching civil
ization after a remarkable journey of
neariyTOOO miles by dog sledges.
The three Gilders, who are now mag
azine editors, began their respective lit
erary careers on tbe. same Newark. X.
J., newspaper, graduating therefrom
direct to magazine chairs. The careers
of the two Cambons offer a sull more
remarkable parallelism.
When Paul Cambon. now Ambassador
to the court of St. James, left the French
army at the close of the war with Prus
sia, he entered the diplomatic service;
Jules Cambon. who as a captain of mo
biles, had made .a name for himself m
the Franco-Prussian conflict, es Doused
diplomacy a short while after his brother.
The year 1SR2 found Paul Prefect of
Lille: Jules held the same pot at Con
stantine. A little later Paul was sent to
Tunis: Jules took his brother's old post
a Line. In Tunis, as French resident.
Paul won the appellation of the "Cromer
of Tunis." Meanwhile Jules, in Lille, was
attracting wide attention, like Paul be
fore him. by his wise Prefecturial con
duct, which finally won for him the
Governor-Generalship of Algeria, Ha ac
complished In that dependency what jraul
bad dona for Tunis.
Paul meanwhile had been Ambassador
to Madrid for some little time, iti 18S0
he was sent to Constantinople, said to
be 4he hardest diplomatic station in the
world. When British uneasiness at his
success at the Porte was at Its height,
Pelcasse transferred Paul to London.
That was In 1SS. and just about the time
when Jules secured liis first Ambassa
dor! post, being sent to Washington,
where he remained till 1902. when he was
given Paul old post at Madrid. Today
he represents France at Berlin; Paul is
still in London. Thus each brother has
been Ambassador in three different capi
tals. And as Jules entered the diplo
matic, service somewhat later than Paul,
so each time he has received advancement
somewhat later than his brother.
At the time of the Franco-German dis
pute over Morocco and the subsequent
Algeciras conference, each brother played
a most important role. Jules strength
ened the traditional friendship between
France and Spaia: Paul arranged the en
tente cordiale between his country and
John Bull. Quite a number of European
writers on things diplomatic have declared
that at this critical time the peace of
Europe was preserved largely because of
the work of the Cambons.
There is one Incident In Jules' pub
lic career, however, that has no coun
terpart in Pauls. Before the war with
Prussia Juleg was a writer on a Paris
Jan Republican newspaper. Napoleon
III having levied a certain special tax.
young Cambon boldly declared in his
newspaper that it was not legal, took the
precaution to secrete his worldly goods
and then refused to pay his share of the
tax. He neglected, however, to hide his
cow. one of his principal possessions, and
Bosv" was oounced uoon by the Gov
ernment and led from her owner's sight
forever. Immediately aM the Republican
papers "played up" Cambon for a hero,
started a subscription for their cowless
compatriot and in almost less than no
time made him owner of a second cow
far superior In milk-giving qualities to
the late departed. It was bv this amus
ing little incident that Jules tlrst be
came known to the boulevardlers.
Jules it 63; Paul, who first gained
public notice as private secretary of M.
Jules Ferry, is two years older. His chief
outward distinction at present is his tnr-toiseshell-rimmed
monocle. Both men
have been Immensely popular in their
respective ambassadorial posts and are
extremely polished.
The careers of the Kitchin brothers
also offer somo rather interesting par
allels. Both were born and have lived
continuously in North Carolina; both are
graduates of the same college; both ran
for the State Legislature and were de
feated; both are Baptists and boast of
anti-race suicide families: both look alike,
dresa alike and are usually seen together
when Government business takes them to
Washington.
William Kitchin has been in Congress
beginning with the -Fifty-fifth Congress;
Claude's, district sent him to the National
capital as a unit of the Fifty-eighth Con
gress. Each brother has represented his
respective district since his first election.
Claude Kitchin s immediate predecessor
was a Republican, but by becoming the
champion of the movement to eliminate
peacefully the negro as a political factor
in the district Kitchin was triumphantly
elected. When re-elected to the Sixtieth
Congress he received all but 1S0Q of the
nearly 12.000 votes cast. Kitchin got his
Congress nomination by making in a
speech the hit of the evening at the or
ganization of the "Rod Shirts." as the
negro eliminators came to be known
from the. red clothes they wore as a dis
tinguishing mark at the first meeting.
Before he settled down to being a Tar
heel Representative the elder Kitchin was
a country newspaper editor. It is inter
esting to note that quite a few of the suc
cessful brothers here mentioned have had
newspaper experience of one sort or an
other. There are the Gilders. Wiiiam H.
Taft. was law rpporter for his brother
Charles' paper, the Cincinnati Times
Star, and the Cincinati Commercial for
two jH-ars. Richard Harding Davis and
Charles Belmont Davis, sons of the late
managing editor or the fntianetpnia
Ledger, followed for a time in their fath
er's footsteps. The Schuberts soid news
papers in front of a theater they after
ward came to control. Daniel Frohman,
during the five years that he was In the
DewApaper world, was office boy, re
porter, private secretary to Horace Gree
ley, and manager of a paper that lived
but a short while; Charles Frohman was
also a newspaper office boy. and later
connected with the business side of ths
old New York Graphic. Daniel became
a theatrical advance agent because b
doctor had advised him to travel for a
spell for his hearth. When he took this
peripatetic Job he iiad no idea of making
theatrical management his life's work.
Charles Frohman drifted naturally Into
theatrical management: as a youngster
he had organized a minstrel show and
charged a cent admission to its perform
ance&. AH the Beards have done a great deal
of their work for newspapers. Dan has
been a magazine editor off and on;
Frank's cartoons during the Blaine cam
paign made him famous, and he was also
known far and wide as the editor of
Ram's Horn. When lie was sent to Con
gress Charles B. Landis was a country
newspaper editor. General John J. Mo-
( ook.' noted lawyer, heads a New York
law Journal. Henry Ward Ber-cher added
to his name by his journalistic feats.
George Barr McCutcheon was an Indiana
small town editor before his books made
him wealthy; John T. has also gained a
well-stuffed pocketbook by his newspaper
cartoons. Thus the newspaper has been
used by not a few pretty well-known
brothers either as a stepping stono to
their ultimate respective goals or as a
field for their fixed endeavor.
From the bakery to the stage waa the
leap made by the Coquelin brothers. After
giving his sons what he would call a
public school education. Coquelin pere put
them in baker coats, aprons and caps
and taught them to knead, bake and sell
bread. Just at the father was congrat
ulating himself on the prospect that in
his old age he would have someone to
look after the business for him ' along
came Rachel to Boulogne. Constant
Coquelin witnessed one of her perform
ances, straightway became enamored of
the stage, and after that the bread was
poorly kneaded, bakings were burned and
customers illy served, while he studied
parts and dreamed of the day wiien he
wouI4 stride the boards a star.
When his father at last became con
vinced that a bakershop was not Con
stant's place in life, he sent him to Paris
with an annual allowance of 240. Here
he studied In the Conservatory, made his
debut at 2ft and has been in pursuit
of his ideal ever since. In X4, four years
after his brother had made his bow,
Coquelin cadet took the prize In comedy
at the Conservatory and shortly after be
gan his career as a comic star. When
his mind recently gave way over the out
come of a love affair. It has been said he
was probably Frances leading comic
actor. He became stagestruck while an
employe of a railroad', he having deserted
the paternal bakery some months prev
vlousiy. The Benson brothers are among the
present-day well-known brothers who
had fathers as or more famous than
themselves; the late. Archbishop of Can
terbury called them sons. The two Gar
fields, despite their own works, are best
known as the sons of a martyred Presi
dent: Alphonso Taft was Grant's Attorney-General.
During Ctadl War times
Major Daniel McCook and Dr. John Mc-
Cook were famed as the fathers of ths
"Fighting M''-ooks." and they fought
bravely themnelves. Daniel being killed iim
battle. I,. Clarke Davis was a leading
newspaper editor years before the public
ever lizard of Richard Harding Davis.
The father of the Gilders was a minister
and school head with quite a reputation
In the East. The three Belmonts are
still spoken of as "the sons of old
August." Marcus, father of the Pro
fessor Jantrow. was for more than three
decades one nf the renowned rahbis of
America. Meyer (Itiggenheim had mads
a fortune In the mercantile business and
discovered the possibilities in smelting
while he was rearing his family of ten
boys and girls. The father of Elihu and
the recently deceased Ctren Root was as
noted a mathematician in- his day at
Hamilton College as his son aud name
sake was in his. Dr. Leopold Damrosch
was a musical king tn New York from
the early '70s till his death In 1885, when
his sun Walter took up his work.
Reside.-, being a great churchman,
the father of the Bensons also had con
siderable reputation as a literary man.
Each of Ms sons has built up an envi
able reputation as a writer, though as
such E. F. Is probably the best known
through his novel, "Dodo." By the
really critical the works of A. C. are held
to he much superior o those of E. F.;
he has certainlv been far more prolific,
having averaged four books a year
since he ceased to be a master at Eton
In 19rt:t. He is now a fellow of Magda
lene Colhege, Cambridge. All three
brothers are Cambridge men.
The youngest of the brothers. Rob
ert Hugh, was the center Vif a nine
days' ecclesiastical sensation when, on
leaving Cambridge, he announced his
intention of preparing for the Roman
Catholic priesthood. This he did by
studying for orders under the late
Dean Vanghan. He was ordained
priest at Rome four years ago and
given the Catholic Church at Cam
bridge. Three or four months ago a
cable dispatch announced that he was
planning to give up his parish work
and devote all his time to literature.
Like his brothers, the "Dodo" Ben
son has divided most of his time be
tween two things; he is one of Eng
land's small army or archaeologists,
and the year before "Do'do" appeared
(18:t) he went on an archaeological
trip which lasted four years and took
him to Athens, Egypt, and other fields
of the delver into the past. This Is
the same Benson who came to this
count.-y a few years ago to study It by
extensive travel, never got outside of
the metropolis and when he went back
home said some sarcastic things about
New York In a book that he called "The
Relentless City."
(Copyright. In8. by Dexter Marshall.)
JAPS LESS FUNNY
THAN WE.
Washington Herald.
RECENTLY we read that a Japanese
publishing house had returned a man
uscript lo an author, accompanied by
note of rejection concluding thusly:
"As though pierced with 10,000 sworde
and bowed In the dust of humiliation be
fore your august highness, we return
your honorable manuscript. We are not
fit to be the means through which your
notable and most illustrious article
reaches the n'opl" of this land, and,
through them, the four corners of the
earth. We humbly pray that your mag
nificent writing may find publication at
the hands of some high Mandarin whose
honorable ancestors lived 10.000 years ago.
and look down upon him today" to blese
him."
Naturally, we thought that a pretty fair
sample of highfalnttn flattery, and word
slinging. We smiled, in a superior sort
of way. and rather pitied the simplicity
nf the behind-the-times Japanese; a feel
ing of amused indulgence possessed our
soul a variety of lofty and self-conscious
pride that Americans did It better and
more sensibly than that, albeit not one
half so politely.
However. In glancing through the dra
matic columns of a well-known metro
politan daily recently, this surpassingly
touching sentence fell beneath our eagle
eve:
"She Is America's foremost actress,
whose glorious praises will be sung for
all time by countless generations yet
unborn, the unparalleled, the incompara
ble, the oniy one our own magnificent
Julia Marlowe."
Incidentally, we are not laughing at the
Ohesterfieldlan Japanese quite so heartily
as once we were wont to. There appears
to be others, quite a few, given to
grandiloquence In this happy and care
free old world. Our lofty feeling and
amused indulgence are more or less flat
tened out. We guess we ll let this mat
ter severely alone for the present; the
molders of public opinion who come along
a hundred years or so from now may
have the laugh on the Japanese in this
regard. We can't see where we have it
just now, to any great extent, at least.