Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
BROUGHT MESSAGES FROM DEWEY
Ex-Minister Barrett visits Montpelier
Talks on Eastern Questions.

MONTPELIER, June 3O.-Hon. John Barrett,
of Portland, ore, ex-Minister to Siam, ar
rived in the city Thursday evening from
Hanover n. H., where he had been at
tending commencement exercises at Dart
mouth College, his alma mater MIR. Bar
rett came to Montpelier to bring messages
OF a personal and private nature from Adj
miral Dewey to his brothers, Charles and
Edward Dewey, and to Mrs. Mary +.
Greeley his sister. These he delivered in
the morning and went to Barre to visit {.
S. Currer, an old classmate. He left the
city last night for New York.
MIR. Barrett brought to the relatives of
Admiral Dewey. very assuring news in
regard to the health of the Admiral. Some
time after the battle of Manila, Mr.. Bar
rett was with the Admiral on the Olympia.
and his admiration for and confidence in
him is unbounded. He freely expressed
tn belief that had any man but Admiral
Dewey been in command there during the
last summer and fall the United States
would by this time have had more than
one war on its hands A trained diplomat,
himself. MIR. Barrett recognizes and loves
to speak of the rare diplomacy with which
ever recurring difficulties have been met
and peacefully surmounted by the Admiral
since May !, 1895.
MIR Barrett laughingly referred to the
recent speech delivered by him before the
Home Market Club in Boston at which Ell
ward Atkinson was present and took CO.
pous notes. Within As hours after that
speech, Mr.. Barrett received over 200 teie-
grams from every part of the country,
ever from as far west as San Francisco,
congratulatng him on his utterances on
that occasion.
one was from President Mckinley and
they collectively represented every phase
and condition Of business life These tele-
erems. which would fill a volume Mir.
Barrett chershes among his greatest
t. caSures.
Mr.. Barrett is an expansionist OF the
stalwart kind and on this theme he is
most entertaining. He has no patience
with men who say the flag should ever he
hauled down in the Philippines, or that
this country sould take "A backward step
IN that part of her possessions. In his
opinion, should we now recede, not on y
would we lose all we have gained there 1T
such cost, but the prestige we have ac-
quired among other nations of the world
would vanish.
During his several months stay on the
Olympia, Mr.. Barrett learned to know Adj
miral Dewey thoroughly and was accord
ed much consideration from him as he was
also Il native of Vermont his form.r
home having been in Grafton, being a son
of the late State Senator Charles Barrett
The fund of anecdotes and incidents
which he has in store and which have new
er been published would make the richest
kini of copy for the historian.
A FATAL RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.
Mortified, June 3o.-A fatal runaway ac-
cident occurred on the mountain road lead
ing to Waitsiield last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Joslin OF Waitsheld
were in town yesterday to attend the com
menCement exercises at Norwich Univer-
sity and started for home last evening
While descending the mountain road tow
ards Waitsheld, the harness broke and the
horse ran, throwing Mr.. and Mrs Joslin
ont Of the carriage, injuring Mrs Joslin
SO severely that she died in a few minutes
and before aid could be summoned. Nc
marks were found on her person. her
death being caused by the bursting of a
blood vessel. Mr. Joslin was badly bruis-
Cd but he sustained no permanent injury
Mrs. Josin was daughter of Mrs. Dan
| iel Bacon of this town. and her age was
about 40 years.
SUDDEN DEATH AT MONTGOMERY.
. Monte June 30.-Daniel y. Dix, a
well known resident of Montgomery Cen
ire dropped dead Friday morning. He was
a prominent man in Franklin County and
had repres ented Montgomery in the Legis-
lature two or three times, Heart failure
was the cause Of his death. He was about
IS yeaCs of age and leaves widow and
one daughter. Till within few years had
been a manufacturers of butter tubs.