The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-03
BURTON HITS BACK.
Says Bulen Has Made An
Explosive Replete with
Misrepresentation
and Falsehood."
CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED,
SO He is ACCESSIBLE
The Letters That Passed Between
Pastor stoddard, PRESIDENT
Cowles and Mr.. Beach.
The following letter was received at
."rhe News" office this morning.


.sThe News office this morning.
Jersey city. July 2. 1897.
To the Editor of .'The Jersey City News =
AS the attack made upon me py G
Bulen has occupied so mucn space a
your columns, l trust that you VIII 6,I-
ford me an opportunity to put before fhe
public this statement
1t is true that l have recently absented
myself from Jersey City in the hope that
by so doing, publicity and the conse-
quent injury to innocent people might be
avoided.
However, as Bulen has made an ex-
posure. replete with Misrepresentation
and falsehood, the conditions are now
in hhansfa hiaag aps but VIII vii s. Be sa as % al mes
ceSsibie.
BuIen's statement that he has had oc-
marriage is utterly false. and neither
Bulen or anyone else can prove TO the
Mr.. Stoddard, who has so kindly spoken
for me hitherto. has my address and IS
at liberty TO give it to anyone that he
may deem proper.
l. W. BURTON.
90 Bentley avenue. Jersey City
A News reporter called on the Rev.
Dr. Stoddard this afternoon and asked
him for the present address of Mr.. Bur-
ton.
Il do not know he said, where he IS
at present, but it is either in Orange Or
New York He was staying for while
in West Forty-second street Or West
Sixty-second street. New York city. 1
can't remember the address; those things
slip my mind. I think he left there and
cannot say positively where he is at
present. I do not imagine that he would
have much to say anyway.
A reporter also called at the house, No.
30 Bentley avenue. The lady who answer
ed the ring at the door bell referred the
visitor to DR.. Stoddard-
Much has been said in the published ac-
counts of the Burton-Bulen scandal of the
correspondence between DR.. Stoddard on
the one side and Mr.. Bulen and his friend
Elijah Cowles, president of the Automatic
Fire Alarm and Extinguisher Company,
of which Mr.. Bulen is the super
intendent on the other but it
has never yet been told how Mr..
Cowles became mixed up in the affair.
After Burton and Mrs. Bulen confessed
10 their intimacy Bulen was for several
months almost beside himself with grief
and his friends feared at one time that
ne was on the verge of insanity. His
nerves became unstrung and his mind
wandered so that the men under him
noticed it, and his friends became so
him alone. In all this time he had not
breathed to a living soul word of the
trouble that was rapidly breaking down
his health and destroying his mind.
Matters went from bad TO worse with
him until finally he was such wreck that
President Cowles called him to his office
and advised him to go away until he
should become himself again. He also
asked him as a friend to eonfide to him
his trouble. Bulen told him his story. Mr..
Cowles. who is prominent in this city
both as business man and as president
of the Y NJ c. A, declared that 1t was
a duty he owed the church to inform DR..
Stoddard of the character of Burton, who
was superintendent of St. Johns Church
Sunday School and was also prominent in
the choir and in other branches of church
work Mr. Cowles communicated with
George Mallory and George Stratford,
trustees of the church, and they advised
him to lay the whole matter before DR..
Stoddard He had an interview with DR..
Stoddard which paved the way for a
lengi correspondence, which THE
New here prints in full. These letters
are tiyely the only ones that passed
on the subject:-
No. 95. Summit avenue Jersey
City Heights, Feb i, 1897.
Dear Mr. CowieS-you came to me some
time ago with a sad piece of information
have spent over two hours with Mr.
Bulen and heard his side of the. story.
Burtor's side. / feel that you, not only
as my informant, but as head of the COM
pany. should also hear Mr. Burton's
tice of this, and 1 am sure that you will
look upon the matter in. different light
when the interview with Mr.. Burton Is
over. Yours sincerely,
Mr.. Cowles did not answer this letter,
but he did see Burton and gave him a
chance to explain himself, as the follow
ing letter which came two days latter
shows:-
Jersey City Heights. Feb. 3, 1897;
Dear Mr.. Cowles-As Mr.. Burton tells
me that he has seen you l feel free to
write for myself 70 ,n;ndn nay mind and MT Baf
ed unjustly. You and several other gen
tlemen have been told one side, and only
weeks after and that through a hye my oilees heen
told, heard the other side Meanwhile.
Mr. Burton has been discharged and re-
fused an ordinary business letter of rec
omrnendation. And for what2 For sin
Committed years ago at time Of life
when SO many men fall, but for sin
ceased a,ea to- to commit. s since his marriage
he has been moral man and lived ike
an exemplary Christian man. appeal TO
you as one who is interested in young
men and knows something of them. to aid
me in having justice done to Mr.. Burton.
I appeal to you as a lawyer, also as one
who knows the necessity of hearing both
sides, to insist, as President of the COM
pany from which Mr. Burton has been
discharged. upon having his side OF the
story heard by every one in the company
who has heard the other side | make
this appeal independent of any acts COM
mitted by other parties, and which may
mitigate very much the sin of Mr.. Bur-
ton That may have to come out later
But base my appeal to You simply on
the ground that this sin was committed
years ago before Mr.. Burton's marriage
and has not only been repentcd of but
that the man for several years has lead
consistent life without. 50 far as can
discover a blemish. It is not right that
such a man should be accused. made to
lose his position and suffer as he has done
and am sure that you will agree with
and aid me in what / ask in this letter.
AS soon as I hear from you shall go on
to communicate with Mr.. Bulen and
others who have been made aware OF this
story Yours sincerely,
Mr.. Cowles replied to this on February
S from Jersey City. as follows
i Rev. q. L. Stoddard %. d
I1esar Sir.--Your letter of the Sd was duly
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