The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-08
made president of tho company which office

quarrying and manufacturing roofing slate
and marbeized slate goods, and was active
ly engaged in this business up to the time
of his death.
AS was natural Mr.. Hyde had strong To-
cal interests clustering about the place where
he resided so many years, and which he had
been the chief agent in building up, and he
desired to have it named Hydepark; the au-
thorities at Washington deemed it impract
cable in consideration of the immense rank
he had achieved at that point named it Hyde
willie in his honor.
Unlike most men who have attained such
n wide spread notoricty in their private bu-
siness ventures, Mr.. hyde had no taste
for political career and he never held an
Office in his life. Pre- cminently bust.
ness man he held the opinion that he could
but save the public welfare in private ca
pacity. lie considered that he had no right
to enter the arena of politics.
lie was remarkable throughout his life
for superintendent vitality of mind and body
and it is perhaps somewhat singular that
he did not wear out at a period of life when
most men are in their prime. His power
of endurance was probably due TO the won
derful degree of self praise he possessed,
aided by his systematic habits and the ah-
seriousness which ruled him in everything.
He never drank spirits except under medi-
cal advice he abjured all manner of dissi-
patton and held temperance and moderation
paramount to all things. lie shrank from
no effort; drew no distinctive differences in
regard to kind, quality or degree of labor.
lie regarded all necessary work as honor
able and probably engaged personally in as
many vanties OF it as any other living man,
He retired at nine in the evening and rose
at five in the morning invariably the year
round engaging in active business until six
in the evening when he resigned himself to
social and domestic intercourse. Alter bu-
siness hours he was as free from its pcrplex-
tiles as if they Lad no existence. He never
lost moments sleep through business
embarassmcnts. Always sanguine and al
ways believing that some remedy would be
provided for an emergency, he was ever
cheerful, cve- hopeful, and when disaster
overlook him or his land a due proportion
of trials fell to his allotmenD his courage
never for an instant faltcrc1, but renewed
and strengthened by. the exigency rose to
meet its demands.
In physique Mr.. Hyde was rather below
ordinary stature. Spare in habit, he seemed
to be constructed of sinows. He was capa.
bic of any amount of physical excrtion.
Numbcrlcss instances might be recorded
| illustrative of his powers of endurance. In
extended surveying expeditions in which he
! was often engaged lie was the last to yield
to fatigue.
His mental cquallcd his physical activity.
| lie knew everything that he needed to know
and always at the available moment. lie
was always a rapacious reader, digesting
and assimlating the information he acquired
to an astonishing degree His memory
kept pace with his reading to such an ex-
tent that he was always able to converse in
telligently with all classes. His wonderful
assmulative power qualified him to mingle
in the most cultivated and intellectual So
ciety, and he never in any sense fell below
the grade of culture, no matter how high,
| in which inclination or circumstance placed
him.
Always a reader, during the early and
middle years of his life he disposed of a
vast amount of miscellaneous matter, but
in his later years he reveled in the treas
urcs of standard works of literature. Sill
Walter Scott and other authors of simila
position being his favorites, and eigh
months of the last two years of his life h'
spent in constant study of the Bible. HI
was Il member of the church of st. James
IIydeville. His health was always firm
Once or twice in his life h, was seriousl,
IN but he was mover ailinp. never half sicj
and half well. March IS, 1872 while alb
sent from home attending the funeral OF
relative in Fort Edward, he was attacked
by paralysis, but prompt medical aid check
ed the malady. His body was enfeeblet
by the attack but his mental organization
was in no sense impaired. No moment o
unconscousness ensued; his mind was n
cloor and his intclloct and reason as finol,
adjusted ne in thn dovs of robust health
nm to the honr Of thc accident bv which h
lost his life. he advised and directed con
cernino his business affairs with all III
mental ocumon which usually characterize
him
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In summing up the characteristics OF MI
; Hyde probably the leading trait which III
diyidualized HIM among his fellows wa
tenacity OF purpose exemrlihed by IN
mnulia of detail he always brought TO SUI
/ staniiate his purposes Inc ioiiowihs VII
, serve as illustrations; AZ one 'me whe
he had Il contract with the raiiroao com
) pany to supply NUMBER oil ties' III III
t final adjustment difference arose. "he
) one morning Mr.. Hyde appeared AZ me con
pany's Office with an lhcontroVer'ioie p'tc
I OF evidence. lie iiad waikeu from me
! hall to Cas'lcton the previous night piae
ing his foot on ne at every step ana coun'
h ing. At the end OF every hundred lies n
$ turned down leai IN DOCK nc carried
r his hand for the purpose: IL IS perhap
needless to ada mat he gained MS case
5 The following account Oh an eS'enue
. transaction serves as farther PROOF OF IN
point and also demonstrates That he wa
ever keenly alive to the promotion OF IN
general welfare. In the fearful drougl
j of 1872 which nearly created famine &c
2 the brute creation there were more morse
0 and cattle IN Castleton, ana adjoining town
c than could be sustained ana as horses wei
p | pt yulup 10 Sllnpltor. he conceived an