Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-12
Price Four Gents.

E - Hotchkiss, who had many warm friends, in- S Scidentally brought into the office large num- < Der of people, eager to give intelligence for the benefit of the paper. Indeed, sociability awas always an element in the editorial sue acess forty years ago.
 .a No man in business in this city had better administrative faculties or a shrewder knowl- Eedge of his fellow-men than MT. Darlington. 4He knew almost at glance with what kind $of person he was dealing. He was good $listener, and it could not be discerned wheth- Fer at any given time he really believed in |awhat was being said or was simply assenting, Bout of his general habit of courtesy. In Conversation he was always interesting. His Ememory for facts of local history was excel slent, and was often of great assistance to his Seditors in recalling past events. and their cor Srelative circumstances. He had a genuine alove of nature and 8 comprehensive way of *looking at everything beautiful in the world. zWhile absent on journeys of business or Spleasure, in his admirable editorial eorrespon- $dence with the paper Mir. Darlington ire Squently wrote his prose with a smoothness Band finish animated with an enthusiasm that Sgave it a poetic value. He was one of the sbest proof resders in the country, always Hpunctuating with taste and good judgment. With 8 president sadness MT. Darlington wrote, at the time of the death of the late s Minott A. Osborn, as follows
 of the death of Minott tn A Osborn ne comes with Speculiar mpressiveness- It sounds like the kneH ! 8also our business life at about the same period of
 ime and constantly exchanging the courteses appsr- iourney side by side and for more than half cen #sury-from youth to g ripened age-have been inti- & we little longer waltz
 As increasing years and incgeasing pros #perity came to him he had but little leisure 8though no one more enjoyed good concert { or well.played drama than he. This sort of relaxation seemed necessity for man 80 burdeHed with the activities and cares of his paper and so important member of numer- ous business organizations. Beside having Investments in nearly every enterprise which #engaged general attention, the deceased was frequently chosen to assist in the guidance of affairs in which others were associated
 Thus it was that he became director in the County bank, in the Mansfield Elastic Frog company, New Haven Gas Light company, New Haven Water company, and the Fair Haven and Westville Horse Railroad con- pany. He was shareholder in the Mer- chants bank and quarter owner of the Palladium when it's capital stock was raised 10 $1O0, 900, after the failure of the Scranton banking house.
 It was Mr Carrington's habit to lend money, after reasonable investigation, in aid of new and untried business projects, par
 icularly when the applicants were young men of good habits and reputation, and there are many who will gratefully remember the substantial favors done them.
 MT. Darlington loved the busy world, and
 was fond of the varying satisfactions enjoyed by the intelligent traveller and sight-seer. His trip through Europe less than ten years igo led to series of letters, elegant in dio- 5ion and comprehensive in spirit, which were admirable as specimens of epistolary work. He visited the West India islands also, the
 JOURNAL AND COURIER getting the benefit of his scholarly correspondence. Hardly year
 1nl 4laS1h s,l ,;,sk .e ais own country, more or less distant from Eaome, afterward writing for publication the facts he had discovered and the impressions formed. Elderly citizens will recollect seeing the Darlington pony and small #ph@ton with which MT. Darlington used to
 ride through the streets and into the country.
 0n one occasion he performed the whole journey from Canada to this city on the back >f this little Canadian horse greatly to the
 advantage of his health, which had become impaired by his labors.
 As husband and father the deceased was Everything estimable in human nature. Blessed i with a lovely wife of Trowbridge descent, his home on Greene street was notable for hos
 oitality and refinement, After the death of
 James Brewster, MT. Darlington made pur-
 chase of the old-fashioned brick dwelling on 4 Elm street, which is now the homestead It
 vas so improved by the work of builders and
 decorators that the house may be said to nave been almost entirely reconstructed the
 external walls, however, remaining as built.
 The death of MT. Darlington leaves void
 in business circles, and there will be much
 tasting about for some one to fill the
 places of responsibility and trust with which
 le had been burdened. For many years the # deceased was member of the society's con- E nittee of the First Congregational church,
 md was regular in attendance on divine ser
 'ice, invariably participating with his pleas
 ng tenor voice in all the services of praise.
 ie will be missed everywhere and by all : lasses of people. By the firms engaged in commerce, by bankers, by humble laborers
 the newspaper guild, by tradesmen in eve
 y street of New Haven, and particularly by
 young men who were fond of listening to his
 larrations of past events and liked his genial
 moods.
 By noon it was known throughout the
 business centers of the city that the veteran # ,ditor was dead. From all classes were heard expressions of regret, and kindly
 memories of the deceased were freely ex-
 ,hanged.