New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-13
THEE GLIMPSES or GENEEIL BCTLE'
At wrSr FONT ~ ONE or THE NETWORK
COURTS AND ON THE LECTURE
PLATFORM.

"r,crvboGy ln town j. talking about General Batter
aid uan in this CIV lat week. 'and =" h'-" a.
,.ii tell Won about occasions when ani ie 'H'uh-
.,anec. under which I the famous man For h"
va. famous. In spi,e Of The fac, that At NH'' ~ Ms
,rc IL might seem appropriate 10 call him notorious.
Jaw General fufcr three time, 10 my distinct f''"'''
ton possibly might have caught rnpS" m MIN On
other occasions but do not recall r'sn now lie VS.
such striking figure. however that one ''''N "'"'
forac, him imagine.
The nr,t tine ever saw him was NJ West POINT IN
~ lie was . member ~ the BOARD ~ Examiner. or
whatever II was called Of the Military Academy. being
then member ~ the House 81 Representatives, nm
rot mistaken. Al that tine lac REGARDED Us many
pcopi, a. Of Republican leaders aud o. prh'p'
re only nan who could meet the rcbi, 80 the House ani
give them what they deserved. The uint especially
remember In rcrasd 10 Gcnrnh Butter al West foint
hammered one dAv when there had boon target practice
With the mortar-. \ can,a, nrget hal been 1t ny
over toward Old crow Nest and after the hfhg In The
afternoon tai. brought NJ near the rarad" GROUND
and spread the recall exactly how H'nroi
Fuller walked and examined IT. several OF the shots
hal puncturad IT, leaving rageci holes here and there.
he looked 81 tho," peculiar eyes 81 his closely
and critically and then remarked: well that's pretty
far target
That wear or the year. I think IL was. hoard
the General make powerful plea la ono Of the New.
York courts a notei telegraph suIt. IL was. b.
licvc suit letwccn the Western Union Company and
tho old Atlantic and Pacific COMPANY and Of the
uo.nt- Involved was right to the duplex and
auadriprx systems. IL the summing NJ in which
Butler cume out strongly. IL speech which the
paper. reported to the extent Of column more and
the court room packed during the time h. speak
ing One thing I remember yNiiy. and that i that
,hi, was the time heard OF Thomas A. Edison.
who has since iccomc famous. That speech must have
been a, carly 1876 for have clear memory 81
the publication In Of the illustrated magazines In the
summer Of is77-m Scrbnci's' tnk-of article on
the telephone aud phOnOgraph. In which Ot course MI.
Edison celebrated.
-, wear or two ater-mv impression I, that 1t was
I'm 1871 heard General Butler deliver lecture on
some subject connected with the Til, In the
BooAlyn adcIny o. Music There large audience
and he was wormly received | have forgotten tho
lecture entirely. but there two things about tho
lecture that cannot forget ono Is that hc wore white
KID gloves which must have struck In the
audience as extremely ODD. The other that he hal
hi, Lecture written sheets large ioo-'ap. and
read every word IT, holding the big sheets clo>'
TO his eyes conceal his face from the audience mot
u the time. Nv impression Of the lecture whole
I. that II was decidedly pcrfunctory performance The
General spoke with little animation In fact. his manner
then formed marked contrast to that the Oc-
a,lon when | heard him In court. Then hr In
earnest and put hs soul Into what h. had to say"