New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-03
COLONEL WARNINGS USEFUL LIFE.
An INCIDENT BY WHICH HE DID GOOD IN HIS
EARLY YEARS-A TRIBUTE FROM
MIR CTUTTENDEN


t. The Edlto~ OF The Tribune.
sr r. October lS6. at the session Of the Legs
ls,ure % Vernon; at Montpelier. a young man
applied for the Of the hall Of the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES IN which he wished 20 give n
cratuitous lecture on the subject OF farm drainage
His application rejected. The Old farmers OF
Vermont had no use tor him What could such a
youth teach veterans who had dug open bitches all
their lives? He would no. give UP the fight lie
had come there 70 be heard. he sad. and he would
be heard-in the streets II they would not give him
hail,
he had published n small book on the subject OF
which he sent copies to members OF the House.
with request that they should read It. Some OF
them read Il and became interested. They said
that the young man should have hearing. They
secured the Representatives, hail for him. and be-
fore fun audience Colonel George f. Warins jr..
delivered what understood was his first public
lecture on the subject Of the drainage Of farm
lands.
There are some Vermonters who have not for
gotten that lecture In his modest. unassumng
manner he poured q food Of information over his
subject and after deeply interesting his audience
sent them away wondering. with Nasty, how
they came TO know 80 many things that amt so -
The cordial vote OF thanks We gave him satisfied
Colonel Waring but i small compensation FOR
the improved methods Of draining In Vermont
which were caused by his lecture.
l, was forty years before l heard from Colonel
Waring again Mayor Strong had been viciously
attacked for appointing non-resident TO the IN
portant Department OF Street Cleaning. ana me
critics demanded 70 know upon whose recommends
niss hat ~ was made upon his own Judgment
af,er an Interview which satisfied him that Colonel
that this was the same Colonel Waring whom
had heard at Monpelier md thai our stre Ead
10 fight the Mayor who appointed him, $50.
He accepted the apponimenl, ana i2r one J {I
undertook a herculean labor. greater than that OF
the Augean stable When he eper 9o qpo" cn1 or.
ruption which kept them Athy; bqt he nag
preparation. and his blows fe with all ne energy
impaired by his strong health and me physque.
clean streets under Mayor Strong's administration
but he brought system into use Whlch W snS"
never consent 70 abandon and which we shan en-
Joy the benefit or & IS hoped even under the con-
Of Colonel Waring II closes life srusge aeaihs.
n,h and corruption IN ne s,Teets ana n PI,I
chemistry and drainage until the war called MN
into the military service q MS country Ater We
ar and d,eaas. re vds successful IN all his
,ostsroos. successful I'm his last in our city In
The -eliow fever scourge which devastated Mem
mis- in rs ne devised system Of separating house
l1 80 jill sgrfare seware witch ercc;uay checked
-ho advance Of the epidemic When invited by
p-ostdent Mckinney TO serve al the head Of SAM
eminent because he believed tha; his Memphis
Snon the Work with all the unsedsh energy OF his
For the frs, time in his lie he had pndeTesti-
ne, the demon before. after ms generatI aug % !
raining N Spanish ways upon Spansn sou sh ha
Re :en We may no; say with Malcolm OF me
Thane Of Cawdor that nothing in his !ife became m;
II,syarG he was a knight without fear and with
out reproaoh: that his whole ife vas pubic Gene
20 survive and expand il will be healthier stronger
'IN;eW-York oct, 80 ls9s l. f. CHTTTENDEN.