Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1919 — TALES FROM BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TALES FROM BIG CITIES

Why President Wilson Is in the Murat Mansion BORDENTOWN. N. J. —Why did Prince and Princess Joachim Murat turn over their magnificent mansion in Paris to President and Mrs. Wilson? Because he is a Murat and sire is a Bonaparte. Both the Murats and the

Bonapartes have gratitude to America, which afforded their ancestors an asylum a century ago—and thereby hangs E The first Murat (1767-1815) was one of Napoleon's marshals, and Napoleon gave him his sister Caroline in marriage and made him king of~Naples in 1808. Napoleon Achille (18011817), his oldest son, came to the United States in 1821, established a large estate in Florida and married a

grandniece of George Washington. Napoleon Lucien Charles (1803-1878),-the second son, came to America in 1825 and joined at Bordentown his uncle. Joseph Bonaparte, Napo eon s favojrite brother, who was king of Naples ami king of Spain, and came here a-magpmcent -estate-of 2,000 lived as count of Survilliers, with his tw6 The American Bonapartes are descended from Jerome, the youpgest brother of Napoleon, married Elizabeth Patterson in Baltimore. - Napoleon Lucien Charles established himself in the “'Versailles of America ”* near his uncle. He laid siege to the heart of Miss Caroline Fraser daughter of Major Fraser of Linden Hall. The prince’s relatives did not approve, so the young couple eloped. Joseph Bonaparte cut off his nephew- s allowance. The prince ran through two fortunes in farming and real estat experiments, and his wife opened a fashionable boarding school for girls in Linden Hall. • ■ ■■ ■ ■= — • ... . . —. • • The present Prince Murat is the son the late Prince Joachim, who was born in Bordentown in 1834, the son o£ Napoleon Lucien Charles and his beautiful American wife.

“If Wishes Were Horses, All Beggars Might Ride” ■ . . - — ——— : ~■• • '■' ! ; : :

. „ J t _. . ~ LYNN, MASS. —Free trolley rides for all under a form of public ownership of public utilities is proposed by ex-Mayor Ralph S. Bauer, following a conference with Peter Witt, traction expert. “I propose,” said Mr. Bauer.

“that the city of Lynn purchase from the Bay State Street Railway company the entire track and overhead feeding wire equipment and car barns within the city limits of Lynn. “This can be done by a 20-year bond issue, which should be large enough to permit the purchase of 120 one-man operated, front-entrance cars, giving the people in Lynn a service with not over a ten-minute wait during the rush hours, and extending this service over every track in Lynn, in-

eluding the belt lines and other abandoned sections. I propose that the ent service in Lynn be operated by the city, making absolutely no charge for ca - fare anywhere, the operating' expenses to be met by the tax levy. “The entire cost of operating could be met by one-half of 1 per cent on our present valuation from the tax levy. Free rides in street cars over every part of the city would. in my judgment, in five years build up every vacant lot within the city limits. We would have within ten years 200,000 people in Lynn.” _J

Daughter Plays Joke on Chicago Policewoman

CHICAGO—Mrs. Alice Clement Faubel is Chicago’s best-known policeV woman. Part of her daily work is to keep lovelorn young couples from rushing into hasty marriages. She is the Nemesis of elopers. Ruth Clement

is Mrs. Faubel’s twenty-year-old daughter. Ruth wanted to get married. She and Charles C. Marrow, son “of a former mayor of Parsons, Kan., had It all arranged. But Marrow is in the naval aviation corps at Pensacola, Fla. Mrs. Faubel insisted there be no marriage until he was released. Marrow came up to Chicago to spend the holidays near Ruth. Most everybody connected with the business of marrying people around Chicago knows Mrs. Faubel. so there seemed

no chance for an elopment by Ruth and Charley. Mrs. Faubel felt perfectly Slf< And then Ruth and Charley just up and got themselves married! Quite simply, too. They got their license at the county building. But they dodged the judges. Instead, the couple went to a minister in the neighborhood of Ruth’s home at 4715 North Washtenaw avenue, and there the knot was tied. Ruth returned home and was unsuspected. Mrs. Faubel, inspecting a hotel register, found “Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Marrow.” She rushed up to the room. Neither Charley nor Ruth was there—but a marriage certificate was In plain sight. Mrs. Faubel was peeved. She phoned the lieutenant at her station and told him she couldn’t work —her daughter had eloped. “Are they married?” the lieutenant asked. “Yes,” said Mrs. Faubel. “But I’m going to wait right here till they come back. I’m going to arrest him and send him back to his station.” The fire of the policewoman cooled after a time, and then Mrs. Faubel was again just the mother. All is quiet on the Potomac now. _ -

John Anderson, Who Broke Sitting Bull’s Heart

BOZEMAN, MONT.—There has just left Montana to enter the soldiers’ home near Los Angeles, Cal., one of the picturesque figures of the state. He is John Anderson, ex-slave, ex-regular army soldier and 46 years a resident

of Bozemap. Anderson is noted throughout the state and widely known In army circles as the man who killed Sitting Bull’s son —and broke the heart of the Sioux warrior. Anderson was born In slavery In the Cherokee nation, now Oklahoma, eighty-six years ago. His father was a purebred Cherokee, his mother a pureblood negress. Slavery was not presumed to exist In that section, but is said to have flourished, and many Indians and half-breeds were under'

the yoke. In the latter part of 1861 Anderson ran away and joined the Union anny. He fought throughout the Civil war and served in the regulars some time after it. Leaving the army in 1872, Anderson came to Bozeman. In “t 874 he led a party of gold miners to a strike reported on Porcupine creek, just below the Rosebud. Frank Grounds of Bozeman was captain of the expedition'’and Anderson was guide. While trekking past the site of what later witnessed the battle of Yellowstone, where General Custer met his death, the gold hunters were attacked by a large band of 'Siotix. The Indians numbered several hundred, the white Men only a score. Little Sitting Bull, son of the chief, who was even then famous, was leading the redskins and made himself unduly conspicuous. w - At a critical moment. Anderson ran upon the red chief with his pistol and shot him Mead. The Indians retreated. The son’s fall, It Is said, confirmed Sitting Bull’s determination tp fry tp wipe out the whites and Je<L.to_thfi Indian war that followed, ... Anderson returned to Bozeman, where he prospered during many years. He and his wife, who still lives, own a cottage on the outskirts. But increasing age largely made it difficult for him\to earn a living and, he has gone to the home. , - Anderson was a slave of a German In Oklahoma and.the tales he tells of the Inhuman cruelties the. brute inflicted.on bis helpless victijna would, rank. tor sheer horror, with accounts of anythmg done in Belgium and Frahce.