THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER if 1908.
MAN WHO MAKES STUDY OF DEATH
Thar may It pain or suffering up ta a perhaps, the moil painful dlsaasa. end '70 rr. Humiston took up surgery
certaia point, but ther can be a dMU fiber dleaa which eaua sroat phyai- specialty, and ta want abroad
wtere there la pain. ... ' Buffering, narcotic should be uaol vand took a poet graduate eouraa In
"Mefor death lliera la a period ef na to deaden lb senses, but (ha should surgery at tha Algeiueln Kraukenhaue,
Strang Leber and Conolueloos at
, Dr. .Humlaton.
Ia a a We i peopl ta tall him, when
tber thought Ihey Wr going ta die.
Generally they didn't dla whe
,hrr.-wi ii.ua -pa. r.r-
aomettme hurrying from on death
bed m anolhar.
Hufferlng, ha aaya, anda bafora
death.
Vying la eery much ltka going ta
alecp.
In moat Inatane tha dying want
to live, and In moat Inatancaa tha
ballev la a Ufa hereafter.
pain. tiometlme ll la a lung parted, rot be used la such quantities aa will
usually it la not aa long. I have an lll tha patient. The proportion of
TO aolve tha myetry of dying
not alooa tht myatary ef daatlt
haa bn , a Ufa atudy ef aa
American pliyalclan, Dr. C. B,
Humiston of Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Humlaton haa aolentlftoally
watched the death of 11,000 pereona.
Hla raaearch waa, of oourae, net merely
curloua There ware certain thlnga he
wlahed to know that might bava aa
Important bearing on human Ufa and
the hopaa and hablta of the race.
Dr. Humlaton could not eonduot hla
reaearch alone. No phyalolan In tha
ordinary eouraa of hla profeaalon even
a phyalclan In a hoapttal aeea a very
large number of deathbed aoenea. Dr.
Humlaton. by arrangement with other
phyaloiane and beoauae be waa reeog
nlied aa being greatly Intereated aa a
actentlflo tnveitlgator, waa called re
peatedly to wltneaa tba (drama that
marka the parting of tba wye. v.
Who haa not wondered bow It will
notorious criminals, many or them, die
aa peacefully aa the moat Uodllke
prlaete. There la no difference In
death. It la alike to all. good and bad.
liafor death there may be phyaioal r-aln
or Buffering, or mantel pain or Buffer
ing which la even more aevere than
physical pain, aa It la mora difficult
and Itnpoaaible to cure, tlut evea In the
ceaea of the moat Intenae phyelcifl or
R tenia! pain It eeaaea before death
lany times, If the patient la conscious,
he bellevaa that he la getting better,
but It le only the characteristically
palntsafl period, preoedlng death.
"Ieth la absolutely palulees. Not
one In a hundred suffers pain when
final dlaaolutton takaa place. There
may be great pain up ta a certain point
but the senses become naturally and
mercifully blunted, and when death
come It la alwaye, or nearly always.
Peaceful.
ne startling thing that I dlscav.
ered In my atudy of death, and a fan
which la now reluctantly conceded by
medloal men In eases where thi patient
haa auffarad great pain and haa bean
given narcotics, la that death la often
cauaed by the drug rather than tha
disease, la casea of cancer, which la.
deathe by narootlca la ahocklnsly large,
and the only iinuu far nuiih deaths
le the rather superfluous one that they
la Vienna, under the famous Ir. -111.
(oth. After a year of atudy there Ir.
iumlatoa went to London and waa
made a cllnloal aaalaUnt at the noted
Bono aoepitai, in avno Bqtiare. He
t
and eavaral hundred thouaand
been made el nee the hospital waa
flrat opened. One of the old house
h irate lane haa' made no lass than t,
OA Dosl-mortsina. while Dr. lillroth.
fir. liumleion'e professor at that time,
had mad rnore than tl.Oto. Every
nlht the bodies of the dead e.ra re
moved from the ward to tha post-
Doctor Humiiton Ha fatcked Fifteen Thou
Persona Die Dying? Is MucK Liko Goinf to Sic v
flret
tir
or woman
inente.
to watch lhair leal mo-
alt aentlment had 'to bo
Natural r
left behind. Dr. liumlatea had to re pon death,
ard each death almply aa aa Inter- that deatli must com, but It ' 1
eating caae and not as the end of the
life of somebody's friend ar relative.
At flrat It waa hard to ahaka off the
eentlmental feeling, but ths deaths were
are abaolutely palnleaa, whan, ta feat, turning t Cleveland In llll. Dr. llumia- mortem room, where eavaral physicians aa numeroua and ao differently regard
death la patnlaa by 'nature.
The meaning of the word pain."
continued Dr. flumiatoa, '1a ao Indef
inite It la. dtrrinult to define It. but
whan I apeak of pain I mean Intense
physical Buffering. There la often a
eort of oppresalon before death which
aome people in la take for pain, but that
must not ha. taken Into consideration.
In death by drowning thareel a feeling
of oppreaalon, but there Is no actual
pain. Strangulation, which la by many
consldsred one of the moat terrible
and painful forma of death, Oo not
painful. There le a feeling of oppres
alon at first, but tha aenaes aeon be
come blunted and no pain le felt. Tha
twitching of the body, which la often
taken to mean that the vlotlm I
rerlanclna pain, le done auboonectously.
t Is a refloi movement, and no mat
ter how the muaclee may mora. It la
not a sign that pain la being or baa
been felt?'
Vot many- yeara Dr. Humlaton haa
been oonaldered one of the leading
pbyaloiana ef Cleveland. In tha latter
ton reeumed hi prectioa, and aaala
In 1I0 went to Vienna, where he re
mained five yeare. H was there he
took up the weird atudy of the phe
nomena of death. Ever since ha took up
tha atudy of medicine he wae aiiainue
to atudy - death, and nowhere in the
world la the opportunity offered aa It
la In Vienna at the Algernelne Kran
kenheus. or "general hospital." In no
other hospital In ths world Is such a
minute record kept ef the oauees of
death and nowhere la there auoh op
portunity afforded for Ita peraonal ob
servation. In the first placs the Algemelre
Krenkenhaua Is the lareeet hospital In
the world. It haa 1.100 bads, 1.000 of
which are devoted to general hoapttal
cases. Ths remainder are devoted to
the old soldiers. The hoapltal Is sup
ported by the Austrian government, and
is rrse. niiween so and
day In the various
wards of the enormous hoapltal, and
a post-mortem Is held on every body.
This la one of the rules of the hoa-
everything li
patlenta die every
devote their entire time to the work.
A history or each case, together iib
the dlacnoals and the treatment, whloa
Is prepared by the attending physician
during life. Is read before the poet
mortem la performed.
Theee records are of great assist
ance to those who wlah to atudy the
phenomena of death, for they furnish
statistics of the causae ef death and
ahow what treatment would have been
beet for the symptoms shown.
Dr. uumiston was the only phyalclan
at the hospital who waa making a
special atudy of death, and every poa
slble assistance waa shown him to aid
him In hla unuaual atudy. The wards
ware open to every eludent. but , It
waa only by ehanoe that they would
happen to be at thebedalda of a dying
man or woman. With Dr. .Humlaton
It waa different Every Aura and
physician In the hoaplfal knew what
he was atudylng, and whenever they
thou h t a patient waa about to expire
thev would call him and he would
haaten to the bed aide of the dying man
hast
be In
ed by the hoapltal attachee thau In
American hospitals that h eoou waa
able to witness 40 or 10 people die
every day and think ef nothing but the
eolentlftcally Interesting phases of the
various casea
Often several patients were dying at
the earns time aad he would have to
ten from ona ward to another
n time to wltneaa their final dis
solution. During these five years
which he spent In the big hospital ha
aaw more than 11.000 man, woman end
children die from almoet every cause
known to man.
"The Uerman and Austrian physi
cians." said Dr. Humlaton. "ar moie
Intereated In the causes of death than
tha phyaloiane of other natlona. and
more attention Is paid to thet ;rtlru
lar study at the Algemelna Krenkenhaua
than at any similar institution In the
world. That la why I ehoae that hoa
pltal to puraue my favorite atudy.
which I have made my hobby through
out yesra of practloe In this city. I
have found thet when I know about
WAR VESSELS WERE ONCE BUILT IN PITTSBURG One Hundred Years Ago Yard-
Turned Out Fighting Craft for Uncle Sam 0 Navy
ITT0BTJRO. Pa.. Saturdar-war
vesaela built to Pittsburg! Tha
bare auggeatlon seema absurd,
but at one time, long In the misty
peat. It waa a reeilty. .
Strange aa It may seem, gunboat a
Ironclads, war aobooner and light
draught monitors were actually con-
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feel to die, or, at least, to know that draught monitors were actually con
the end Is grimly at hand?- And who structed and put together on the banks
lias not marvelled ai uiu aauiirvu
of these rivers, the boat yards forming
veritable hives of activity at auoh tlmea
aa tha war of 1111. tha Mexican war
and the greater conflict of ltf 1-14. Even
prior, to the war of 1111 war veaaela
were built In Pittsburg.
There la a coaslbllftr that the city
will reclaim thla lucrative Induetry and
war craft of an auxiliary kind be manu
factured, but aa thla hinges on the Im
provement of the entire length of the
Ohio river It mar not oome In the near
future. Judging- or ths progress made
in slack watering that stream within
the laat 10 years, while much of the
material for suoh vessels Is made In
Plttabura and its environs, It la shipped
to the coast and there put together, in
years gone by the parts were assembled
here and then floated or carried down
etream under tbelr own ateam.
Steamboat building Is atlll carried on,
the river coal and transportation combi
nation having a marine ways at Eliza
beth and steel barges are made at Am
bridge, while the Reea boat building
and engine building works on Duquenne
way turn out Iron steamers and light
draught bouts designed for the shallow
rivers of Europe and South America.
But these are merchant craft. No war
vessels of any kind are now constructed
In Putsburg.
A oouple of years ago W. A. Crump,
superintendent of transportation of the
coal combination, pronounced all condl
tlona favorable for the building of small
war craft in the local waters.
"I do not see why the building of all
kinds of river craft and light draught
ocean and lake craft should not become
a leading Industry in thla city," ba said
at the time "we nave an in neces
sary materlala here and the akllled la
bor. In fact, all we need la alack water.
Nine feet of water the year around on
the Ohio la neceeeary."
Oldest Industry. .
Boat building I beyond doubt tha old
eat Induatry of Pittsburg. At a time
whan tha country swarmed with Indiana
hundreds of canoe war turned out
here, and later, when the Indian trader
and trapper came to the "Forka'of the
Ohio," he built rude flat boata to trans
port hla fura and peltriea down tha
river.
Boat yards ware established as early
as the revolutionary war, a large num
ber of barges being conatructed In 1777
for army use at a point Juat above the
mouth of Turtle creek. Boat building
for the United Statea navy began in
thla city more than a century ago.
When war with Prance was Imminent
as the result of Napoleon's high handed
actions in closing the mouth of the Mis
sissippi to American commerce and
travel, the galley President Adama was
built here on May 19. 1798. It carried
General Wilkinson, commander In chief
of the United Statea army, down the
Ohio on June 8 of that year, being; built
In record time.
Thla Bpeaka volumes for the efficiency
and speed of Pittsburg mechanics.
Shortly after this the keel of a second
galley, the Senator Kosa, was laid out
same year the
galley the Senator Kosa, was laid out. is now no crart with spar
but the galley boat was not launched turned out In this section
until the spring of 1700. As war with
France did not occur these vessels did
not see any service.
It appears from the accounts of those
early days that the chief boat builders
for the navy at this place were Taras
con Brothers and James Bethoud & Co.,
both firms having yards at this point.
In the year 1804 many brigs, schooners
and other vessels were on the stocks of
THE JEFFERSONS
Successfully
nnt
seeming fortitude with whloh thoss ha
has known llmla in weir jives per
haps have approached the ordeal of
final dissolution. Perhapa if w knaw
that there had been no ordeal In th
closing hours, that then th desire, de
termination and hone to live ar greater
than the fear to die, and that death la
a function as natural and unemblttered
as sleep, w might be less unhappy at
the thought, we ourselves must some day
face the great mystery. And it was
with the object of determining theoe
things that Dr. Humlaton devoted five
years of hla life to a atudy of tha phe
nomena of death.
The principal reaaon why Dr. Humla
ton took up this weird study, which
would be worthy of a seml-sclentlflo
treatise by Edgar Allan Poe, was to
weigh the old adage that the good die
a peaceful and the wicked a horrible
death. Dr. Humiston's parents were
strict believers tn the Anglican faith,
and from childhood he was taught that
a sublime death was In stors for those
who had led a moral and upright life,
while the dying hours, or even moments
of tho ungodly would be tortures.
In addlfion, there was always a weird
fascination about death whloh attract
ed him, anil he wanted to disprove, at
least t i his own satisfaction, a number
of beliefs he had - brought from child
hood. He believed the phenomena of
death waa a subject which had been neg
lected, but which was worthy of close
study. His theory was that If so much
time and money was spent In studying
how to bring people Into the world, it
was quite Important to study how they
left It. especially as the knowledge thus
derived would be of great benefit to
mankind, both In prolonging life- and
easing the pain of those who suffer.
No medical man or scientist has made
a more careful and thorough study of
thla grewsome subject than Dr; Humla
ton. He Is recognized as an authority
on the subject, and while his observa
tions and deductions have never before
been made public, they are known to
the greatest . scientists of Europe, and
, aocounted as valuable and highly accu
rate Information about ona of tha rid
dles of the universe.
There are three theories by which
man accounts for all phenomena.
First, the supernatural; second, the su
pernatural and the natural; third, the
natural. Dr. Humiston studied the phe
nomena of death aa natural phenom
ena. "There Is no truth In th statement
that, the good die happy and the wicked
suffer, as has been taught by the church
ever since the dawn of the Christian
era," said Dr. Humiston, to a World
reporter. "There Is absolutely no dif
ference In the actual death of the vilest
c riminal and the most sainted man or
M-oman. There Is no pain In death.
Avoi J Going to Law
By Cara Reese.
' EEP out of law altogether, or else
keep in law up to the handle, if
you expect to be a winner In law
suits. Tou muat make up your
mind to deliberately swallow
every grievance and Injustice and there
by save your bank account and pre
serve your mental balance aa well. Or
you muut do the very opposite, namely,
rmploy an attorney by the year and
ulrnply wash your hands of legal pro
cesses by dally unloading the troubles
on him and leaving the thinking, the
manipulating, the disturbances and anx
ieties as his share along with the reg
ular salary you pay him.
These are the only two way of
steering clear of legal worriment and
cf scoring victory in th long run. Just
the minute you begin to take up all
the little infringements and Infractions
on your rights and privileges as a citi
zen and run Into court with them as
an amateur, that is as one unprepared
to meet the cold, calm working of
legal process that has been on the
erlnd for many years, Just that minute
you enter the maelstrom and are
whirled hither and thither until you
are blinded, dated and churned, and
eventually take leave of all your re
maining senses. Bo, If that is your
plan at present, you are duly warned,
and there la time yet to calf off the
slip you hold from your savings de
posit on a two weeks notice, and to
restore the amount it calls for to the
principal once more. If you know
nothing about law, then keep out of it;
ewallow your chagrin aa a personal In
justice and thereby aave your pocket
book. Then there Is the one other plan for
the know-nothing, but this Is too ex
pensive for you In your present cir
cumstances as a clerk on lowered wage
In hard times. 8me attorneys, "by the
year," receive salaries as big as the
salary of the president of the United
states. And they earn their fee, for
that is what they are paid for, to win
every case, regardless of facts. Thla
Is why kings and queens and great
heads of corporations and rulers of na
tions are not worn out when wars and
rumors of war, snd territorial selsur
and poaching and pilfering In forest pro
nerve and on high seas com to their
ears. This Is why they are not worn
out by hot temper, expostulation,
threats of anlng to law and wildly hunt
ing up forgotten records and document
which they imagine will be needed In
evidence.
Instead, they almply aay, "Ah. bat"
then calmly loach the button, then allp
their worries, ona command only, to
the effect that the verdlot la tha end ba
In their favor. It la as easy aa the nro-
verblal rolltn t-.rTm a log to save your- - fv,i TK. mostly to hla exquisite coa?iedy
elf from brain fas- and .Then.tini UT thesplana waa Thomas Jeffer- oii-hm,,..- nob Arrea.
sultant from lawenlts and court aon; born In England in 1740. At that In 1774. his n waa bom. The bey
theae flrma. and In tha
Conquest, a schooner, was launched
from the yard of Captain Kliphalet Bee
be. It waa of lit tona and waa pierced
ror if guna, ao it waa quite a rormio
able craft. It Bailed for the West In-
dies under th-command of Captain
Kenny, and waa heavily armed and well
supplied with a crew, so that It could
clean out tho ptratea that then Infeated
those watera snd which played havoo
with Pittaburg cargoes and shirs.
Oeneral James p llara, grandfather of
the late Mr a. Scnenley, owned several
mercharrt vessels, one of which fell Into
the hands of Spanish pirates operating
In tha Carribean sea.
Brig Allegheny.
About thla time the brig Allegheny, of
160 tons, was launched at the yards of
Barber Sc. Lord. All this activity waa
largely due to th feeling of the federal
authorities that war with England would
soon ensue, whloh It did seven years
later.
,The next great period of war activity
was when the Mexican war broke out,
when six vessels, two war steamers and
four revenue cutters, were built here.
The war steamer Michigan was bark
rigged and the war steamer Allegheny
ship rigged. Four others, the Bib, Hun
ter, Walker and Jefferson, were schoon
er rigged. It seems, strange. Indeed, at
this late day to hear of sailing vessels
built and launched In this city, for there
is now no crart with spars ana rigging
used In Its construction. It measured
tit feet in length, 41 feet beam and
drew 11 feet of water. Its burden was
110 tons, and It had a speed of It miles
an hour In atlll water. The Manayunk
waa towed down the Ohio on March ,
188S, having broken loose from its moor
ings the night before but without any
mishap, although It floated three miles
or mora
Among tha unique war craft fitted
out In this port were the rams, ar ordi
nary steamboats mad ironclad by
plates of boiler Iron, and the pilot houae
and other parts protected by walls of
heavy timbers. Theae ware attached
' to the flotilla of gunboata on the Mis
sissippi that performed such good serv
ice at Vlcksburg and other places dur
ing ths war. There are several ram
fleet .veterans living In Greater Pitts
burg. Merchant Ships.
The number of merchant vessels butlt
In Pittsburg Is legion. Ons of the very
first. If Indeed not tha first, was the
schooner Monongahela Farmer, con
structed at Elizabeth In 1801. Pittsburg
was only ons year behind her sister
town In boat building of this descrip
tion, as the records show that in 1801
the schooner Amity, of 120 tons burden,'
was built here by Jarasoon Brothers.
The voyages of these htstorlo craft
mark the initial step In the building up
of the enormous commerce of the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers. Before the ad
vent of ralroads the Ohio river was the
great highway for freight shipments
(and passenger traffic as well) out of
Pittsburg to the boundless west. It
may be sal a that, tne development or
and provisions, arrived in Pittsburg as
early as tha year 1780. two years auLae
quent to tha aettlement here of the
Frenoh.
Prior to the epoch voyage of the first
ateamboat built on western watera the
New Orleans, constructed by Livingston,
Fulton and Kooaevelt at thla port, all
tha rauaea ef death I am al l" ! ' '
leravt similar arwptonia at I "
lime, and lliua. In many raere. t I
one death. Of eoure It le jnevH
ba avuided fur a time at least-
By pr, C B. Humiston.
Thla much I know from my five years
study of the klyaiery of Death;
The wicked ar not afraid to re
Into tb great beyond.
Nobody know when bt la going to
die
There t no pain tn death In- II c'-b
out of too. ,
Suffering always anda before death.
Nearly all dying people want I') liv.
nearly ail people ui aeiievina " "
future life. '
1 1 a v fimww iniua fAiuiun ,11 . . -.
for postponing tb moment of dissolu
tion. Dying la vary much like going l
lwp. The poem, "How near like death
sleep Is, how near Ilka sleep dath la,"
which waa written bv a (Me vein nl
phyalclan sevaral years ago, haa a great
rinal of truth In It. No pain I experi
enced In going to sleep and no pain I
experlenned In dying. Tber may tx ,
pain and uiental suffering before golix -to
sleep, but when on finally does go tit
sleep no pain of any kind Is felt. Dying,
la simply a Bleep that knows no waking.
No ne knows when tie Is going to t
die. People may think they know, and -of
course may know that they have only ,
ao many days or hours to live, but they
can't tell even a few minutes ahead
how soon dissolution Will take place.
This la a moat peculiar fart, for It la-
ftenarally believed that many people
tave been able to tell when they were
going to din. I have been at tie bed-',
alda of many men and women In tha
hospital who took an Interest In my -study,
and who said thay would toll me
when they thought they war anlng to
die. either by a word or pressing of .
Fulton and Roosevelt at thla port, all die. either by a word or pressing or ,
the veaaela built here were of the sailing hand. Not one of them died Imniedl..
kind and could not return from down
river polnta. The New Orleans waa
built only four ysars after Fulton's
great achievement In Inventing and pro.
palling the flrat steamboat In the world
on the Hudson liver.
When It was proved that auch craft
could go upstream as well aa down a
tremendous Impetus waa given to boat
building In Pittaburg. Soma years after
ward, when coal began to ba towed down
tha Ohio the number ef steam boata In
creased wonderfully, particularly upon
the completion of slack water navigation
Improvements In the Monongahela, In
1840. Fifty years ago the passenger
business on the rivers was Immense, pa
latial steamers plying between Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and Louisville.
During the civil war several Ironclads
or gunboats were built here the Man
hattan, Marietta, Sandusky and the
U.navitnl, T" V. o-.mhnaf U.rl.Ha wan
launched November 23, 1H64. It was commerce on the local rivers was prac-
bullt by Tomlinson, Hartupee & Co. tlcally coincident with the settlement of
The Ironclad monitor Manayunk, built Pittsburg, the first craft being the ca-
by Snowden & Mason, was launched from noes of the red men and the batteaux
the south end of the Snjlthfield street of the French soldiers garrisoning Fort
bridge, the celebrated Bllgo iron being Duquesne, Batteaux, laden with stores
The Meeting and tha Parting.
They had met by chance at Atlantlo
City. They were strangers to each
other, but ha was convinced that she
was a southern girl of high casts, and
she In turn believed h(m to be a New
York man of money.
"You are from New York, arn't you?"
she abruptly asked when they had
paused for a moment; after a stroll
along the beach.
"Yes," he answered, determined to re
veal himself In his true station. "I live
In East Sixteenth street, where I grovel
among my fellow-clerks on $10 a week.
But you you are a aouthern lady of
social distinction and"
"No," she coldly rejoined; "I live In
East Sixteenth street among th clerks
also!"
"Anywhere near No. 161 T" ha faintly
asked.
"Next door 1581"
Then they parted.
ately after they had given me the sin
nal. Home of them lived for houra ami
even days afterward, and many dlH '
before they were able to tell or slgnat
me. Some nf those who told m thev
were going to live 24 hours more, dieI
aa they were speaking. Careful Investi
gation allowed absolutely that no on
can tell when the end will come.
Many dying people, when their suf-
fering ceases, having reached th perlo.f
of no pain, believe that they are better.
In a large percentage of th cases I ob-
served th patients thought they were
Improving when thay were actually
dying. Some of them thought they were '
ao much better that they jumped out of
bed and walked around the room an!
then fell back In bed and died. The-
dying do not know when they are about
to pass Into the great beyond. J
Nearly all patlenta who are dying, t
Dotn tnoaa wno nave Deen told tnat they
have not much longer to live and those
who know themselves that they are
g-olng to die, want to live, and make a
struggle to do so. Of course, soma want i
to die. and either pray to pass away,
or beg the physician or nurses to enl
their suffering. That Is only to ba ex'
pected, and the expectation prove the"
rule. Nearly everybody wants to hold
on to life until the last possible mo-"
ment They are willing to grasp at
the last straw. Most of the patients tn
their early days were taught the prln--
ciple of th Christian faith and before. '
they die they believe In a Ufa In th I
hereafter.)
Nature ha mada death aa easy as It -can
posalbly be made. It atrikea alt
f eople In the same way, no matter what r
hey believe. During their illness or,
during their suffering such beliefs may
enable them to endure pain with mora
fortitude, but in death all man are alike, v
AND BOB ACRES F ive Generations of the Jefferson Family Have
Appeared in the Part of "Fighting Boh Acres" in he Rivals J
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S ALL the records of theatricals
there Is no parallel . to the won
derful history of th famous Jef
ferson family.
Tha first of this Illustrious fans-
While cns:"fil a rnm'lis'n with Oar
rick's company. Jefferson played Bob
Acrea in "The Rival," in which he es
tablished himself as one of the fore
moat comedians of his time. He waa
the Idol of all London In 17 due
accora-
rare
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same
brilliant results a always at-
1o reconptru't T' . Rivala." la so do- eoclstJona connected with th part and same part severing a perloel ef ri
leg. he ellmlnal' 'I if." I'a talky scenes th rlortoua rnaalbllltles eivca hla In a reatury and a her la aimoet .
and In their t.J in-orto rated all his own Version of the plar. parable, yet when It le rmei
the little blta cf bueineea that his Hia fourth eon. William W. Jeffer- that th respective rrfnrmanr ,
brilliant talent had erolted. aa well ea ana. waa bora In lt7. While vUlting f thee fle general). cb
the many dainties which his dlstln- Ms father la pMtsburg tn lit owing arealeet Bin ef hla ew a time. I
futsbed aeceetera bad originated, and t the aid e-entleanan suddenly be-om- be appreciated what a j-n.'ti,.
ed landed dew from generation ta tn 1IL Willie" for as Buck be Is pe-ideus f-st waa e-.r, . - .
nmiiM rlik ths aame beautiful r kia ahMerkl ta M rather ront- stlil mora Nul I jl to ..; .
ard aa Is alway tendered a prU-eleea yanr a hob. Hi sauces eras la fact that th part nf u ti
experience; aa easy as climbing a time, actors were considered social out- w" enneteuefl josepn. in mi. joepn mneo ny bis aistinirisni anrwore
greased role in dog day. Either keep c... ... vagabonds, and to adnnt tha 'oewd i h. fatWs footsteps and la lilt. J-wph Jefferamn. th third.
out cf law altogether.- rerardlees of '"a vg001. n" naopl tne wttMm m ftw yearn, developed into a waa bom He ia the Jeffersna whewe
your grievance or else install a salaried "ailing of an actor required a won- parttcnlarly likeable comedian. Hla nam will, lire as long aa theatrical
rrofeeatonaL w'ho shall ha In tha huai. derful sacrifice of personal prestige area test comedy creation was also aa history continue to exist and much
M-sa in irwar rlla) ltm.t i Tbomaa Jefferson did this In about Bob Acre, and Ms reputation in tb of hla fame was rained by kl per-
ts wrr awi nw lnd P 'JT- Th crtflc he mad was the part was second only t that of hi forrr.tc .f Bob Acre.
Trm w1M kwa r,t eeTVver. time P"1'1 'e' of hi horn tie and famous fBther. HI three g.nrtl ef ancestor
rei,rBi t iut Kii f mplet loss of nearly all his aid Joeph Jeffereon. th first, cam to had ur-d the erlglnal -nannacrirt aa
rrT -theT mVn I.V LiL?Z fr,"'1- - America In 1T7. A on was born to constructed r-y Rlard Brlr.ler khert-
r .Zti .TVL, ?kl B.VM tha aplrlt ef Theepla was him In 114. Tat boy was namedfcr dan. the HtU of -The Rival- It
Ll,4i .5!,.ft? J? Tm.?1 atrong within Mm. he followed his in- ft. father thue. wa have Jorb Jef- was long and ta ky aa w-r a'l fe
i LVf . "". moreover, h r-orn natural Inclination and rapM'y fereon, the srd. play In vre at tb tinj Th RIv',-
r called ia two weeHs notice on h'n Ta-d tm him thoeea caJltng. lie Thl boy aa eo as hla sg r-er- was wntte-n. Tbe play bad ree.ly he-
JrI la tana, nd la caewlng and eventually became tbe principal come- mltted. wVt en tr St era. a rente- pome old-f aeslowed and we not pra-
laTHt nd wearies film! f oil t eve. i. nM mniik i rAnrnw - v. . t . lm.ks Jt . . i w .nM it K - - -
rami! rieirKw". HMwnewi ana ai penormaar mui i m w- i -rwn i i - a, i -m t
inwepb Jefferson, th third. nas In berr,g -with th eept kn el work It t-r r.r-vs w" .-.' r
rameva aa tt-e treeteet ef all ewme- ef hi fetSer. erandfather. greet-grand- -WLl" irof.tel H t-e .,
d:ana Ne little part ef hla sac- father. nd rt-jtret-grBdfatber. Me luu "ua t- r 1
wa f-mld on tb f eV-n f Ta It iem,btfj "if there 1 another ree- f'hr t
and
er 1 . T BS TM are doir.g. Pot ef roa Marine- at Lha tlanml Cudca lm Lm. -v,. . kl. mk.Itt Tl.. nl a-l, Atirlnm tSe lne mtlliu aeraau
wU4 be ioawa, CaU La aaaJre. aX 4oe ka teartry4 Sob aVerae, aad wit tb laaata Jerfo. . Lb VUra, cU4 Jiba
Rlra'a" whto-b reoowatrwrtea
mnast wit date,.
Urn kM work was a R" 'Acres
mt is aaua-nta aa
ri f any mnrt Brtr t th eo- Tba t-
rit1o ef t Jffr famfly and tr- n i'ai
f l ef P- A-re, eed, f- J lay r-t a- '
"ik isJva-a." it gaaerauona ia U pi: -