The record-union., 1895-09-28

chamber. Among the evidences OF his
intriguing disposition, not as accusers,
but as tokens of the loves of his victims,
the old man hreathed his last.
During the time of Burr's residence on
Staten Island the means of communica-
ton with New York City or any other
part of the outside world were few. No
steamboats, had then begun 10 carry ex-
cursionists to the island, and the ferry
boats visited it only twice i'll the forenoon
and twice in The afternoon, the last boat
leaving for the city at an early hour. after
which the place was secluded and quiet
But there were curious visitors who had
learned the secret OF Burr's hiding-place
and they visited Port Richmond in num-
bers, hoping for sight of the once brill
liant man. He had held high positions
and made great noise in the world, and
they could not understand why ne should
bury himself in that old house. He had
enough money left to keep him in mod
est manner until his death, but it was not
this alone which sent him to place of
seclusion, nor was it simply because he
sought release from the opportunities of
friends and acquaintances, for the impress
sion is general that he in reality dreaded
the visits OF clergymen. who came to him
from all parts OF the country to convert
him and make his path smooth to the
other world. Their attempts to bring him
to repentance of the sins with which his
private life had been thickly sown had
irritated the man who never had been re-
pentant; and, although he had treated the
well-intentioned clergymen with his
usual suavity of manner, he hated them
from the bottom of his soul. The minis
ters persevered by haunting him at his
refuge, coming in twos and threes, day
by DAY, until, in desperation at their per-
sistence, he refused utterly to converse
with them at all, and they gave him up
as an incorrigible old man.
Notwithstanding these rebuffs of other
clergymen, q minister of Port Rich
mond was at last admitted to an inter-
view with Burr, which lasted long time,
but without apparent result. On enter
ing his room directly after his long inter-
view with the clergyman, his landlady,
Mrs. Edgerton, found Burr absorbed IN
his lonely and favorite devotion of again
reading his old letters at the window, with
a dreamy look in his eyes and faint
smile upon his thin lips.
The old man had no attendant. He
lived alone, with his old joys and his
new sorrows, waiting for death to claim
him and take him he knew and seemed
to care not whittier. a mysterious
stranger haunted the house for many
days and nights before the death of Burr.
He never was admitted to the recluse, but
cerning his health, and he was supposed
to be either a relative or an interested
friend of the statesman, although he was
neither. This man was faithful to the
determination, and almost Immediately
after Aaron Burr's death put IN an ap-
pearance, and, without saying, by your
leave" opened his satchel and proceeded,
as if had right to do So to take plaster
cast of the dead man.
The funeral seryicas at Port Richmond
were very slimly attended on the day
succeeding his death. No relatives or
distinguished men were pointed out
among the attendants at the funeral, and
the services were very simple. His re-
mains were taken to Princeton, \. j.,
where Colonel Burr's father had been 8
college professor and where more preten-
tious funeral services were held. On the
day following Burr's death, and shortly
before the funeral, touching incident
occurred, as related by the undertaken.
Among those who came down from New
Y ork to Port Richmond on the early
morning boat was a closely yelled lady
in black, accompanied by a beautiful
little girl of II years Of age. They seemed
to have come unaccompanied, and hung
back timidiy while the other visitors
were passing into the room. When an
opportune moment was reached and the
lady thought she could do so unobserved,
she turned and asked the undertake er If
she might enter. The man said Of the in
cident:
They both fell to weeping and Sob
bing unrestrainedly, the girl in child's
way and the woman passionately. as
though her heart would break. She had
raised her veil while giving way to her
emotion. and showed the features Of q
still beautiful woman, on the near side
OF 40. / judged. after they had some
what composed themselves, that they
were relatives of the dead man, and was
confirmed in this belief by the remark OF
the child to the woman, as they were
passing out of the room: we will never
sec grandpa any more, mamma to
which the woman hastily, and with an
agonized voice, replied: Hush, hush, my
child and they hurried away together.
The lady may have been Theodosia, Col.
Burr's ill-fated daughter. 1t may have
been another daughter and grand-daugh-
ter, who cherished his memory, and may
have been disowned. but that these two
were relatives L have no doubt."-New
York Times.