The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-25
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it at prohibitory price. and that Il
was trying TO stop the appropriation for
Valley Forge, which my letter of feb.
aB in the Press asking and praying Tor
IT,, shows that Ii il falsehood
Because of Mr. Brooke's inability TO
carry out his contract with Little
! Rhody' after getting 10 20 abandon my
Tree gift of the .Jno j. Waterman grave,
and 10 carry out his spite Of 1894, he offers
the star Redoubt which he pictured
could be obtained for between one nun
dred and fifty and two hundred and nity
dollars, when 10, and behold, through his
editorial victims he prociaims thab
through the land owners greed he can
not obtain 1t under forty five hundred or
five thousand dollars Then he comes out
in all his dictatoriai majesty and says
1 will condemn your land in three days
after the appropriation ESQ 600 passes.
Condemn IL for WHAT Because lac could
not control the grave of John Waterman
and ground surrounding, which offered
10 the State Of Rhode Island free, and
which the great dictator has threatened
60 condemng Great God Condemn the
grave Of John j. Waterman, which have
protected for the last twenty five years
when it was offered, through. patriotism
free and unalloyed To the State of Rhode
Island practically accepted and selected so
far, that the contractor for the monument
wrote me skiing the distance from the
station and the distance from the public
road to the grave, which ! gave him.
Getting In His Work.
But the dictator was gradually getting
! in his work. First by dinner to the
Rhode Island commission at the Union
League, Philadelphia, where they were
wined and dined afterward with his ex-
tensive correspondence and interview
i -. - s.. -. t.s.sI lIxkt..
\ Philadelphia, when Immediately after that
/ interview about the 9th of January, 1897,
Gov. Lippitt said we cannot accept your
offer and gift
1.-The scquel--I was appointed on the
| Valley Forge commission by Governor X
| +. Patterson, attended all its meetings up
| TO the time of my removal. Got all the
witnesses I'm the condemnation proceed
| ings but one or two, devoted my time
and attended the whole of the trials and
| even since my head fell into the dictator :
basket, / have taken witnesses over the
| ground, and was witness myself for the
Valley Forge commission in December last
| i'm the English appeal. L did my duty,
although the owners were all neighbors
| of mine.
"On the 2lst of November, 1894, i went
to see Mr. Brooke on official business,
| when without any provocation, no as
much as called me a liar, saying, he
doubted my truthfulness and integrity and
| would have nothing To do with me.
This is only an extract from lengthy
war of words after he made the charge
An Apology Demanded.
II brought the charge against him at the
next meeting of the commission. Hs
| could not substantiate word of hi.
charge against me, was removed from the
| chair as presiding officer and Major
| William Wayne put i'm his place until h,
should make an unconditional apology
To me. After stong debate lasting
nearly two hours every member voteo
that ne should make the apology or re
sign from the commission. This L viii
| refer To the commissioners present or
that occasion outside of MIR. Brooke anc
myself, who were Joel j. Bailey, j. Cad
wallader Charles G.. Harrison, ;. :. Hart
ranft, ID. w. Howard, Henry A. Mullen
berg, William Wayne and +, ID. Stone
which made full board and their vot'
and addresses We're unanimous in m,
favor; and at the last minute he made al
unconditional apology to me, (of cours'
forced). Hence his revenge. Afterwart
and ms soon as GOV. Hastings was inaugu
rated, my head fell into the basket of TIN
dictator, and 1 was removed from th'
commission with Jno. Cadwallader
Charles @. Harrison and ID. w. Howard
+. ID. Stone resigned as secretary. Why
everyone of these had some difference
with Mr. Brooke i'm the Commission, ant
one he personally insulted. Is is al
'unfathonable mystery he said hov
these gentlemen were ever thought pro
per persons to be upon that body.
A Condition in the Offer.
"Yet he would write his scurrilous arti
cles without any cause whatever 20 satisf.
his 'erratic' spite, because put pro
| vision i'm my offer that the State of Rhod
| Island could not deed 10 the state q
| PENNSYLVANIA for fifteen years, SO thi
man Brooke could not contro
my free gift To the State o
Rhode Island; so he coul'
not come under the shadows of my owl
vine and fly tree (as the grave Is only
few yards from my porch) and shake hi
dictatorial finger at me and say | owl
this grave Hence the spite, whic
through his editorial victims has got tn
State Of Rhode Island wrong and made
cover for his own spitcful transactio
| TO stop the erection of a monument owe
| the grave of j. Waterman, which Prof
ID. w. Howard, through his untirin
work for Valley Forge and in calling til
attention of the citizens of Rhode Islam
to this grave of Jno. Waterman an
| through his energy caused the first stcT
taken, when there was an appropriate
made TO erect the monument, which wa
aftcrward abandoned by undue influence
|, If my letter of the 26th Of Jan. with th
Impossible terms" did so much To "spu
on the Legislature to make the appropr