Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-06

one or the other of these undertakings,
but lew, IL any, who have SO perfectly |
combined the two. 81
A London paper proposed to take |
up subscription 10 give Mr., Bay
ard u Christmas gift in 1896 as q
token Of the esteem Of the British people,
but Mr.. Bayard he'd that he could not
properly accept such gift and the pro-
posal was Withdrawn.
After his return to Wilmington. Mr..
Bayarl presented to the Baptists n fac
smile of the chair used by John Bunyan
while a prisoner in Ludlow Street Jail,
and fac sitni.e of Pilgrims Progress;
and to Brandywne NJ. T.. Church he pre-
sented cameo of John Wesley, made
by Josiah Wedgewood.
HIS STURDY FINANCIAL STAND.
In all financial legislation Mr.. Bayard
has stood uneompromisingly in favor of
sound and honest currency. When
he first entered the Senate he took ground
against the public credit bill, because it
did not 20 far enough and assure the
country also Of speedy return to specie
payments From his position in regard
to the finances Mr.. Bayard has never
sweryeti. Nc matter whether we see
him, ,pposiag Sclignck's public credit
net Of 1868 because it did not go fur
cnoiisil: or Sncrman's funding bill OF 1870
and the resumption bill of 1919 for the
same reasons; or combating Senator
Myrr:fnon's initiation plan; or writing to
| Southern newspapers and visiting South
ern. asspnh,agps 10 awaken those con-
stituencics to their duty; or ohjecting to
| the Ambiguous clauses of the 1T. Louis
platform; OF making war upon the propo-
sition to pay the debt in silver; or propos-
\ ing in the face of a timid nenate to make
| resumption permanent by making it act
| ual In every case. MIR. Bayard spoke
| voted and acteu for the restoration OF the
currency and the finances of the coun-
try to hard-money basis He was as
brave ON this point as the greater part OF
his Democrats fellows have been coward
| ~ and time serving
/ After his retirement of his secretary of
/ stateship, his efforts in benalf of sounl
money ranked second only to those of
| Grover Cleveland at :. time when many
4 Democrats held that any Democratic ut
4 terancc against the free coinage of silver
4 meant political suicide. He was in en-
/ tire SYMPATHY with the Honest Money
| Democratic party in the last campaign.
4 MIR. BAYARD AT HOME.
/ The strong personality which shone in
his otficial life was apparent also In his
domestic life. At Delamore PLACE, ne
/ had a magnificent residence, once the
lproperty of Samuel b. Davis, the guar
4 dim oil Myra Clark Gaines. An old-fash-
toned house, with wide Railways. and
with commodious porch overlooking the
4 - MI . ;s IN, i1nnl homo TDr
statesman. And there might be found
the host. always busy with books md
papers in his ''den" but never too much
occupied not to give his visitor ipforma-
ton as to some question in international
Inv or whatever might be under discus
sion by the public.
| MIR, Bayard. was married in October,
/ 1856, to Miss Louisa Lee, daughter of
| Josiah Lee, of Baltimore, daughter of
4 the Junior member of the banking firm
Of johnson g. Lee. They had II children,
4 Of whom several are dead Mr.. Bayard's
children are as follows, Miss Anne Fran
els Bayard, who is now traveang abroad;
Mrs. Mabel Bhyard Warren, of Boston;
Mrs. Ellen Bayard Halgren, who Is
i abroad; Mrs. Louise Bayard Angel;
\, James A. Bayard. of Maine; Miss Flor
ence Bayard; Thomas II. Bayard, Jr., of
q New York; aud Philip L. Bayard, who is
abroad
4 When Mr.. Bayard presented the medal
I, lion of John Wesley to Brandywine NJ.
/ 10. Church on December ., 1897, he said
that IL was Francis Asbury who induced
his fathers grandfather. Gov. kassett to
i become n member of the Methodist So
4 eiety. On account of That inhcrtan G.
his fathers homo became stopping place
for Methodist cletgymen ana all his cail-
!, dren were baptised by one Of them. From
the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, Mr.. Bayard re-
eeiyed the rite Of Christian baptism.
y In later years he became q regular at
tendant at Old Swedes Church and mani
n fested great interest in il both here and
abroad. II was his custom at Christmas
tide to eend presents for the Sunday
School children.
lie had been member of Trinity
Parish Corporation for many gears but
n was especially interested in Old Swt des
\ which he served as dele ate to the Dio-
cesar Convention several times, and
would have been elected deputy to the
General Convention except for rule
which requires that deputy be com.
municant, ant Mr.. Bayard was not a
commitment of the church.
He 1t wRs who originated the fund
; for parish building at Old Swedes; and
he it was who raised the money for the
building, which cost, complete, about
$4,000. Some years ago, be placed an
handsome memorial window in the church
In memory of his father and mother. He
was instrumental in securing the restor.
alton of the chancel of the church, the
} pulpit being restored to its original color
He was n member OF the committee mp
pointed by Bishop Coleman at the last
Diocesan Convention to arrange for tn
commcmoration of the b'centenninl of the
, old church, which will he celebrated next
year.
! Since his return from England nc has
: made several gifts to the parish building
Mr. Bayard displayed his interest in the
ancient property on other occasions. some
, years ago be had the steps lea,.ing into
the churthyard rclaid, and paving and
euybing put in order; and more recently
he requested the Street ana Sewer De.
partment to repave Seventh street in that
!, neighborhood. o. l..u
QUEEN OF DENMAIfh rs DEAD.