The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-01

ana SWIM their raftS upon the ONION
and the Dog rivers the same as did the
great admiral so years ago. The same
schools are filled with bright-eyed boys
and girls and the same healthful play
fulness and mischief fill the air with
fun and laughter as they did when
Dewey was the ringleader of his school
fellows long ago.
The admiral is not the only one of
the race to demonstrate the advan
tages of having been born and bred in
Montpelier, or of belonging to the
Dewey family. The qualities which
made him succeed in the battle of life
have impressed scores of his kinsmen.
They represent the great middle class
which is the foundation of the national
greatness. The Genealogy contains
more than 10000 names. The family has
obeyed the biblical injunction and has
increased and multiplied The mem
bers are to be found in every state of
the United States and every province
in the Dominion of Canada. Some,
more adventurous than the rest, have
gone abroad and have prospered in
foreign lands. London and Liverpool
Cape Town and Australia, Marselles and
Alexandria, New Zealand and Japan,
South America and Italy can claim re-
lationship to the great admiral through
one or more citizens. Before the battle
of Manila there were IA towns and vii
lagos which bore the name of Dewey.
Even in the brief gazetteer of the Gen.
fury Dictionary there are three Dewey
towns, one in Illinois, one in Montana
and one in South Dakota The new
gazetteer is not yet out, but, according
to a collector of odd newspaper items,
there are now LAT towns that have
taken the name.
In the French wars of the last CEN
| fury five Deweys took part, in the revo-
in I,
| there were IL. in the Mexican war there
We're 8, in the Indian war there were
| 8, and in the great civil war there were
! 1876. In the late affair with Spain the
| admiral appears to have been the only
| one of the name who took an active
part, although more than 10 in various
parts of the country enlisted and were
eager to go to the front.
The site of the house where the adj
miral was born is now occupied by the
neat brick residence of his brother Ed
ward Dewey, a prominent Vermont in
surance official. 1t is on State street,
opposite the handsome old-fashioned
/ capitol. The old house was moved
years ago from its original position and
stands a short distance back from the
street, with the river flowing not far
away from its back door. 1t was a
very handsome affair for the old days
| so years ago, but Overshadowed by the
richer and more pretentious structures
of the present time. 1t is simple, neat
| and comfortable, in fact, almost cozy.
| The old dining room is now the kitchen,
| while the bathroom and convenient
| shed extend out over what used to be
| the little spare room The long sitting
| room remains unchanged and the upper
| floor is almost exactly as when the
Dewey children made the place echo
with their laughter. 1t was very live
| ly home when Dewey was a boy. He
/ had enormous vitality, strength and
| health and was ever on the move.
| Though he had good head and learn
| ed quickly, he was not studious in the
sense of being bookworm. Unlike the
model little boy in books of the San
| ford and Merton class, he did not come
home after school and pore for hours
over his lessons for the morrow. If he
! did read at all it was some such old
reliable of boyhood as Robinson Cru
soc, the Arabian Nights or historical
tales of wars, sea fights, pirates and
Indians. He loved to play, to fight ano
to indulge in that most charming of al
| childhood's pleasures-making believe
According to his brothers and Mrs
Mary Greeley, the sister who brought
him up, whatever he read and liked M
mediately fused into his own lndl'
viduality. He was Robinson Crusoe
Man Friday and the Faithful Dog. H.
even impersonated the immortal par
rot which whiled away the hours o.
the poor exile and acted the part 81
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eventually the pernicious activity o