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Show HERMAN BAMBSEGER, who celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday and the downfall of the ! kaiser on same day. !t" 1 CELEBRATES TWO ' JOYOUS EMS Herman Bamberger Observes Ob-serves Birthday and Fall of German Kaiser. Herman Bamberger, brother of the governor of Utah, is celebrating today. "Uncle" Herman has two causes for celebration. One is the abdication of the kaiser, whose downfall has been his wish since November 10, 1843, and the second cause is his seventy-fifth birthday. Mr. Bamberger .reached the three-quarter mark in a century 's measurement meas-urement of time today. On his sixteenth six-teenth birthday he was forced to leave-his leave-his home at Darmstadt, Germany, because be-cause of his refusal to become a soldier in the kaiser 's army. Following his arrival in America, Mr. Bamberger went to Terre Haute, Ind., where he was a clerk in a store. When the civil war broke out he joined the Union forces and served through the rebellion. After the war he went to Missouri and opened a store at Pleasant HiH and finally came to Utah in 18S1 and opened a mercantile establishment where the Kenyon hotel now stands. Later he entered the mining and real estate business and operated extensively in the city ind slate. He has been more or less interested in politics, serving serv-ing one term as county commissioner and was a member of the board which had charge of the construction of the present City and County building. Xn commemoration of his birthday "Uncle" Herman is the honor guest i a party of his relatives, which is to hi given at the governor's home tOcUij Mr. Bamberger has made his home witl the governor since the death of his : wife, twenty years ago. At the festivities today there will be Governor Bamberger and J. E. Bam ; berger,' brothers of Herman, and his sister, Mrs. L. Eothenberg, of Cincin-I Cincin-I nati, O., and Mrs. Simon Bamberger, Mrs. J. E. Bamberger, Miss Elsa Bamberger, Bam-berger, Miss Dorothy Bamberger, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. William Sitnon of Butte, Mont., and Miss Helen Lehman. Mrs. Lehman and Mrs. 'Simon are both nieces. of Herman Bamberger, both being daughters of Mrs. Rothenberg. As he reaches his seventy-fifth birthday, birth-day, Mr. Bamberger is hale ami hearty and was among the many who enthusiastically enthu-siastically watched The Tribune bulletin bulle-tin board yesterday afternoon telling of the rapid downward trend of the autocratic government in Germany. |