The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-06-24
IP-TOUN SkEICHLS.
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! tinnnry guiIlotin1 bcing anxious to chop his
! head off, hcthou.,ht tadv.subctD seek night 'tO
| Switzerland FIRST. To America altcrward. Lii;o
40 many other iliustrious Frcnchmrn. Anth.imo
Brillat Slyarin hal to Work hero to max The
! best Of bad lob French lessons and the loal-
| cr4hip OF th' orchestra nc the old Park Theatre
| woro his mpin resources. Which OF thr-c uut.
suits carried himio Now England am unahlcto
| ten but tho chapter entitled "ScIour en- An"r-
iuuc proves unmi.Nkaily TINT no used to
visit the good oil city OF Hartford. AMI totus'
| thence occasional excursions to SUM id. to the
| house Of - ho-pitiblc and iOyit farm T. OF the
! namc " Barlow.
| Tho Yankee farmer and tho French refugee
INDUCED in shooting wild turkeys partridgcs,
and squirrels. and. alter a good day = sport had
a substantial dinner Of cOrn'd beet slowed
goose, hnuuoh OF mutton, and lirst-elass cider
| awaiting them. Tho appfcciatisc sucst did not
know which to admire moro-tho sound. honest
,ciuas. or the agreeable social life Of his
| friends family
This Yankce farmer was 8. L. NJ Bar
lows great grandfather Tho family had
cmgrotcd from England about 1880. and
had attained u fair degree Of prosper
ity. Edmund Barlow son Of the SUI
Il ia farmer. removed to Granville. Mass,
and was AMONG III FIRST settlers. lie accumu-
samuel Bancroft Barlow. 10 Yalo College, to
study medicine. He graduated thcrc in 1871. In
those tunes however. country people wore gen
| orally in good h'a,th, and medical men had but
| u poor show. b sides. the young physician
married carly descendant OF Capt. Joe Wals-
word. II Charter Oak celebrity. begot several
children. and had 10 remove 10 New York in
search If moro rcnluncratiyc field Of prac-
ticc
Thi, was in 1912. Tho doctors eldest son.
samuel Latham Mtchill. born in Granville
was then II years Old and was intended TO
! follow his fathers steps at Yale. But the boy
soon perceived that there were fcwor dollars in
| the family purse than mouths to feed a, the fam
| ily table. lie consequently made his mind NJ
that college education was u luxury he could
not afford. Looking one morning through the
advertisements Of tho old S'n,, he read Of n boy
| being wanted at the Office III Willrtt Il Grcis.
| lawyers H. applied for the situation and Sc
cured ii At the munincent pay OF one dollar u
week.
| After some throe months service the boy was
out Of boots. and had nat yet received a cent
| from his employers. SO he yentured To ask MIR.
| Grcg for his wages.
Wages. sir!" answered tho old Scotchmnn.
in a digniied tone: you don't receive wages
here. sir You are engaged at a salary Of s51
per annum. PAYABLE semi-annually.'
Young Barlow thought that both salary 80
! and srmi-annually" were fine expressions
| but nj tie same time he could not get amy
boots in eN mango Tor them. So he won't To- Mr..
| Wilott. who WAS not II Scotchman. and asked
him for Il few dollars in advance
The first check 81 s2G. for half a years salary
carefully drawn Ia the name II Barlows father
was found in Groigs papers after his death
and is sin preserved bv Mr.. Barlow as "a rend
nisronce oi good old times.
After some seven years apprenticeship tn,
Young man WAS admitted 10 the bar on his
tvcniy-nr-t birthday. H. wis then earning
about $1,000 Il ycnr. boarded at Delmoniro'- ol'
hotel. and was practically the manager Of III,
whole business Of Mr. Greig.
Upon thc'drath Of Mr.. Groig. some Of tho mos
important 90 his clients. like Suydam Sage 4
co. and Hur-ous Brothers. induced tho younl
llvS N To- start IN business for himself H ha,
% large practice assured to him. and Dolmoni
cos Hotel lid the rost. Tor ii was moro OF a clui
than Of n public lodging and eating house
People mot there on sornl terms. Political an,
commercial relations wer" formed. reputation
mado uni unmade. and large proportion ~ tn
business of the '.tv was transacted at belmont
co'- loung Barlow who wl- boarding there
soon became general iavorite. lis lutc.li
lrnco. the liber'tity with which he -peni money
and the tact which hc displayed in his rotation
o. tAn people he met. sc urel for him az th
very outset a MOST enyiahe reputation. All hi
uHiuniutiuoos became his friends. and all hi
friends became his clients. His start IN profcs
siond life was SD brilliant that 40 the age of .
he had q rractirr too large for any one man. au.
obtained the management of claims under tl
trcuiy with NcNro for which his SHARE of H.
counsel fn's amounted 10 nearly 5000 OO0.
To convey AN idea of the raplity With whic
Mr. Barlow has been maxim; money since.
will Doe enough 60 give few Instances. tri
20 Europe ON behalf ~ am Illinois rniroa,
in lsi9. brought him sjpnno. Another tri
on behalf az the ohio and Miss @sippi a
equal sum. A. tho close Of tho Iranco-Gcrma
war he ct s21uo0 for hall an hours wori
Commodore Harrison and palty of entorprls
ing gentlemen had made contract with Can
h',ia for the supply Of quantity II arms I
Oh" French Government. TIA" amount of mono
involved was 81 .Gnouon. B-f,re the contra.
was flied nambrua hud fallen. 1hicr~ cam
into power and thinking the prices II tn
contract cNormtaut. rerudiated il. The parti,
who hal contracted for tlrsc arms became SAY
aga, and. not knowing what t. ito with then
began 10 quarrel They were ou the point of az
pointing Il receiver and selling out the who
cargo at auction. when Mr. Barlow appcaro
among Thorn as the representative 81 a gcutl,
man who hud ilo.uuO interest in tho concern
% After having heard what cyory ono Of then
had To say. he invited the whole gang to h
FOL house ono evening" I'aiue' To- tlcm that the
qunrrrl- could not make them any better OF
and in half an hour. urrW upan Aereemen
which they all signed. The next morning b
de- pntehcd am agent g. Paris. Two or thrc
months later the cargo was shipped t. Alglcl
and IN" money received IN New York. Comm,
! tore Garrison Nu- SD delighted that he spol
70 tnurou-y handed Mr.. Barlow check f.
S-j,uu1-a circumstance an the more remui
able as it Is well known that he Commodore
not a believer in unruiicd-lor disbursements.
our distinguished lawyer had the same su
cess in tie war which, some twenty yea
To- ago. Vanderbilt AMI A-pnwal were wagl
81 over the Nicaragua md Panama huencs
Is They would not speak To each other. n,
), salute each other in the street. Mr. Bario
" had no interest n the dispute beyond that,
being a holl'rof "a fnw shares of the Paril
Mail But he con .ilercd the AFFAIR ~ sullcie
public interest % warrant his interference
K So one day he inv tod the two cnomirs 10 b
ntusn Uthnut pif lt.r If than, Lp,v-ipts flint ID