Show n1ILS Er FlIESllEsT IOW UKNERAL FONSECA OlrTAISKK HIS 1JOIJ Ult > X TIIK ARMY Geueral Ikwioric da Fonseca hon Itoderof Braillian rero utlon and blot of thb HCTT govern uent at Ilo is at present the suIt ect of widespread curiosity Is a ativo of Brazil fiftyfive years of nEt and a military man by alf ion 1 His father who came from a veallhy family of Portugal eml grated to Braill early in this ten uryatid ecttlol in Jtlo Grande SuI where he had some concessions of land from the government He soon afterward married a Braillian lady and haj three son of horn the revolutionary leader was the deet Thou three brothers Mere lucatcd together at tho Polytech nbc rchool at Rio and nil went Into thu army They took a consplcu us position in thiowarztgalnsttata uay liSten years ago all rising to the rank of general The econd rotlier Hermes Jled four month ago when ccnimintlint of the army in SOlo the Janeiro and the younger Brother tettl lanD is I at > nent commandant of the army In the province of Ilahia which pool 1 Ion lie ions onuiiieil for some six ears General II Fousvca time lead of tIme new government fit attracted > ublc notirv at tIme Uittlc of 1loororo In the war witit Parrpuay tutu Ito wa rfo tl lJflriIW IIi nlt moled on time fIeld I from the rank of eutcnint to a major His bravery aimed for him the namu among the i soldiers of Thou Lion of Mosso ro and upon returning to Hio hanu 1edro whom I lie boo lint de tWIc i iosed ntibllcly decorated him with tIme order of the lies He as then sent as commandant of the army in Iatlo Grosso where he remained for two year Rcturnlm to Rio he was given control the govein silent magazine and cartridge factory facto-ry there liclng raised to the rank of general In 1S31 while in Rio General ouseca created an organization that had much significance In view of the development I of last week TItlo was a military club I embracing early every odlcerlii the Brazilian rmy of which he hlmClf was elevlei president and within a year or two Ills popularity among his ellowofliccrs has led Fonseca to tie called 1 the Boulanger of Brnill eiHiblirnn Ideas were spread la the tt II unt pr rmy throughout the length and ircadtli of the country by the Club illtairccf Itioand on several open Ion the government endeavored 1 to suppress It So influential tad this organisation grown 10 lie however that the hOT rnnmit only desisted from Ihrsc lorts when convinced that If the chub was suppresseila 1 military revo S al baIt hutton would ensue It was thought matters had coma to a crisis in the iringof lIST when a controversy arew between General Fonseca and roncodeSa the minister of war r a claImed In course of which Fouvcn clalmeu to 1131 been insulted and was ordered or-dered 011101 remoto province He lad no sooner left than deep linllg f fb natIon manifested itself In the Club 1111111 and the raecilpers formally form-ally eCO Dons Pedro that unless Franco de Sa resigned ItIo portfolio there would be a IOA tn revolution A cabinet meeting at the emperor palace followed the receipt th mcswge De Sa retired re-tired from tile ministry and the ictorious Fonseca was recalled lIe WIII the lion of the hour In Rio and so great was his popularity that Dom Pedro again rent him away to void trouble this time to Minion as cIvIl and military governor of tile ovince which position he occu pled at the time of the recent uprisIng up-risIng General Fon cca Is married And the father of three children lie Is n handsome l imjioslng man some six feet in height I and makes to fine figure on horseback |