The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09
SONS OF VERMONT.



letter was received at Washington
Friday from the superintendent OF Coh
stabulary at Glasgow, Scotland, una
apparently clears up the mysterious dis
appearance of the Rev. Dana Daven
port, young Episcopal clergyman
the son of the Rev. Mr.. Davch
mort of Brandon, OF Anacostia'
a suberb of Washington. Inc let
ter said that on July 20 a young mar
was found lying beside the track OF
the Caledonian Railway, at town nvt
miles from Glasgow. lie was badly IN
iured and died on that day. He was
able to say, however, that he was Dana
Davenport. a medical student of Wash.
ington, ID. C. The body was Inferred
by the Caledonia Railroad officials. A
description of the deceased man given
in the letter tailed with that of the
minister, except that the clothes were
not the ones he wore when he left home.
A notebook found in his pocket con
tanned the addresses of ministers and
phvsicians in Glasgow. The Washing
ton police Immediately notified the
Rev. Mr. Davenport, the young man s
father, and accompanied by two detec-
tiyes he went to the state department,
where a request was made that the de-
partment cable the United States con
sui at Glasgow to forward the clothing
and other effects of the young man to
Washington in order that they might
be examined. Young Davenports
father has little doubt that the man
killed near Glasgow was his son. Dana
Davenport was evidently demented
Miss Elizabeth Dawn Griffith, sister
of Landlord p. j. Griffith of Poultney,
is in Poultney spending her vacation.
Miss Griffin has been engaged in
operate singing in London the past
season, from which city she sailed
about July |. She returns to New
York September l and goes into rehear
sal for a new play, intending to star on
the American stage next winter. An
English lady friend, Miss North, ac-
companies her.
Richard NJ. Hunts Funeral.
The funeral of the late Richard NJ.
Hunt was held Saturday noon at Trim
ity church at Newport, r. l., and
was well attended, IA large number of
cottage residents, representatives of
the profession of the deceased architect
and of societies and organizations of
which he was member being present.
There were many beautiful floral
offerings, and special musical pro
gram was presented. Rev. G. j
Magill, ID. d., rector of the church, |
officiated, assisted by Rev. DR.. Hunt
ington of Grace church, New York.
Richard Morris Hunt
From the \. Y. SUM
In Richard NJ. Hunt the art of archi I
lecture has lost its foremost and its
most inspiring figure in America. He
has left no monuments to denote his
strength and power to posterity equal
to the growth of the art in this coun
try and the extraordinary progress that
il has made during the last quarter of
A century, which are inseparably iden
tified with his own career. He was
hose qualities of both whereby i
lis was one of the unique and charm
ng personalities of his time.
Many beautiful structures attest his
aste, his learning, and his intensely
,rtistic spirit but those who knew his
'areer and its surroundings more init
nately will best remember him by the
ambitions that he excited in others, by
he wonderful vitality that he impaired
o the whole art movement about him,
md by his absolutely unselfish devo
ion to the best interests of the profes
ion that he adorned,
Hunts was broad, manly, a gen !
rous, and lofty soul, and his place
'ill not soon be filed !
Died Like Hero !
The conductor of the freight train /
,recked Monday at Conway, Mass. as s
oted in our Franklin county news,
'as Michael Sullivan, an Orwell boy. !
lie died al Greenfield Tuesday morn i
NJ and his remains were taken to Or +
rell where his parents reside. for in n
arment. He gave his life like hero !,
lie saw that unless he succeeded in at =
-acting the attention of his engineer Y
, his signals to stop, a collision WAS "
levitable, and that his life as well as s
Tiers aboard the train were in jeop- +
rdy. He could have jumped, and thus n
,ved himself, but he bravely stuck to h
is post, and continued to signal the
lgineer until the crash came. When II
Id by his physician last night that Fl
n, glad Il ;s mo who has go4 ~ gn o.
sta3d If son,o other rnor follov ~, II
family :, Sullivan was ongaged w. a
n" marie, next month ~ Fita5hrro IL
nI - e.. ml ~ 80 ii ~ ,I:
, aroused from stupor in which he n
nd been for some hours, and said pt
Oh, if | could only SEQ. The ST
ntence remained unfinished, and ia