New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-20

To the great God thus once bendins.--
God foxbid be rspFieved {S
Give o God one geperation,
Like the boys have orceiveal
Terrific cries and calls for beer. and exit Johnny
BOuquetJ
Istood over the grave Of Fulton in Trinity Church
ward Yesterday and recalled his plain strong story
Fulton was examined as q witness at Trenton,
New-Jersey, before q Committee OF the LEGISLATURE
on the petition Of john Livingston TO allow only
Fulton's steamers TO navigate jersey waters, Inc
State Capitol building was cold and the weather
was cold. Recrossing the Hudson TO como 20 New
YORK. with river full of ice he was several hours
on that broad water where st appeared his triumph
and he took heavy cold. probably pneumonia. He
vas then in the Government service, trying to make
steam fripate, against the opposition OF the old
sats Of the Navy and while still sick he went to the
frieste on n bad day and gave instructions on her
aec IN the omen air The cold with redouoied force
raturned. and he died February "a, 1915.
Tha newsuapers went into mourning. The
Albany Legislature wore mourning, although he
had never held any Office. He was buried tine DAY
after hs death from his residence, No. Safest.
attended by nearly ell the officers OF the city and
national Governments IN town. From the steam
fripate he died trying to achieve minute guns were
fired. and also from the Battery. HIS BODY was put
IN leaden coffin covered with mahogany, carrying
metal plate aud was laid in the yanlt OF the Liv-
ingston family. By his will he devised his pictures
TO an academy of fine arts at Washington, but bis
estate was involved and these pictures. said to be
spendid were all scattered His viii makes no men
ton whatever of any religious faith. Il leave my
wife. Harriet Fulton" he says, $4,000
year duriue her lD Tie leaves his brother. Abraham
Smith Fulton b,qnsst, his sister, Elizabeth Scott.
81 600 his sister Isabella Cooke, So 600. and $500
aDiece to each child of his deceased sister. Mary
Morris. He leaves Mrs. Ruth Barlow, widow OF the
poet his interest in the plates OF the "Coumbiad"
Fulton was born IN the most Scotch-Irsh part OF
PENNSYLVANIA in Little Britain township, before thu
American outbreak at Boston. He was fifty years
old when he died. His father had been first tailor
and then a farmer. His mother was Mary Smith,
and he was the oldest sOn but the third child just
before Robert was horn the father had removed from
Lancaster City. where he had lived six years, to
the farm. The el4er Fulton and the
father of BENJAMIN West were neghbors and good
friends. Old Mr.. Fulton died when Robert was
three years old in Lancaster town. aud IS buried in
the Presbyterian churchyard there.
Brought ND about Lancaster which was then
great place for manufacturing rifles for Western
hunters and for fitting ont pack-mulss with wares
to cross the mountains Falton was clever with his
pencil and lnquring as 10 mechanics. While boy
he madehis own lead pencils The Revolutionary
War passed on while Fulton at Lancas-
ter, and Congress came there to meet for little
while. and then passed to YORK, TO the south OF
it, His earliest experiments in increasing the speed
of boats were made on Conesoga Creek. which winds
around Lancaster. The HessIan prisoners were kept
awhile in Lancaster, and no made caricatures OF
them on paper.
l. gloI \. IL, 10 &c., % a-
como an artist, or at least portrait painter, aud
Ben Franklin. the editor Of the town. took him In
hand and encouraged him. With his first earnings
be settled his mother and sisters farm in WASH
ingtou County. Penn, where Senator Blaine
was afterward born. Fulton now was threatened
with consumption and this took him 10 Europe with
a letter of introduction 10 Benjamin West. The
visit to England probably resulted in tho
steamboat Watt had already perfected
the steam engine. and the only question
was how to apply it to navigation. With
that comprehensive AmeFicauism OF which 80 many
specimens have since been seen. Fulton surrounded
the difficulties everybody had found IN the steam
boat and gave ii TO the world much IS we now see
IT. Under the influence of West and our Ministf- 20
France Barlow. he spent considerable tune al ART.
He illustrated the tolerably bad poem By BARLOW
with oil paintings and yet his mind was constantly
dropping into things Of mechanism such as inclined
planes, marbe-sawing apparatus hax-spinning ma
chimes cast-irou aqueducts arguns, torpedoes. etc
The dates Of his steamers the ClermOnt, 1907;
the Paragon 1911 Fire Fly, 1912 tho Richmond,
1918; Washington, 1913; the New-YorE and Mas
sau ferryboats, 1885, the steamboat Vesuvius,
built at Pittsburg, 1918. He had contracts for sew
eral boats 10 assist Jackson at the battle Of New
Orieana In 1914 he made the Fulton-the-First. the
frat steam vessel Of war IN the world. She cost
1920, 900 and blew up in 1920. In 1915 he built
the Emperor OF Russia" for the Car Of Russia.
Afterward the Savannah crossed the ocean safely
instead of her. Fullers last two boats were the
" Chancellor Livingston" Of 526 TONS and the
q Mute.D
One Of the greatest events in Fulton's life his
falling in with Chancellor Livingston, that shrewd
Scotch Dutchman, ct the Court OF France. Ii wing
ston's part In the steamboat gives im the great
name of promoter. far better word than patron.
Fulton married the daughter Of Walter Livingston
relative of tho Chancellor. and sic n buried Mt
Claverack Church, three miles back OF tho City of
Hudson. among the Livingstone Van Nesses. Webbs.
and other founders of New-York. His son, Robert |
Barlow Fulton, died In 1s41. His daughter, Julia
Blythe died in 1913. There were two other daugh-
ters Mrs. Ludlow and Mrs. Creery, living la New
York City near the commencement of tho Rebellion.
clerk In one OF the public Offices at Washington |
named Franklin McRea married daughter of Mrs. /
Blythe and he lobbled out the project to pay the
heirs of Robert Livingston 100000 due them by /
the Government.
Fulton was gentleman by nature; he had short, /
curling haIr eyes wide apart and seated under deep
brows, nose slightly Roman and rather short, and
be had q most beautiful mouth. Benjamin West |
painted his portrait, and t shows gent eman with |
gold SEALS lace rufles in hs bosom. and high coat
collar he was ak feet high, slender
md well-formed. and very easy and grace
Inl In his movements. he was without |
lffectation or selfassertion, yet had
Scotch confidence that made him unembarrassed
anywhere Ills eyes were black or dark, he had q
,oft, docile temper, and was not very much of q
reader In his views he was thoroughly RepuDli-
al, and he would take Office. We soc his type
% many man of executive talents nowadays who
has initiated his nstancy and followed 10 the path
'f his inventions. JOHNNY BoUoUET.