The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-19


dark coats and thick, light colored
trousers
When the gate was opened we all
huddled together and squeezed through
1T with mighty yelling and cheering,
and we swarmed over the dried lake Of
cement into the open basement of the
school, where a gaslight could be
vaguely distinguished by those who
had strong sight, and where the boys
found some gymnasium ladders and at
once perched on them like so many
hens at sunset Some of us carried
portraits of Mr.. Burns and bundles of a
paper called Democracy" with lead
ing article about Burns in Battersea."
! We laid these on a bench, ordered the
boys down from the ladders because
they appeared more comfortable than
ourselves. and then one of us said: II
shall put Mr.. Burns there, just at the
edge of the building, so that he can
talk to us in here and to the crowd out
of doors"
When Mr.. Burns came he was told
what fine place had been chosen for
| him.
TIL speak anywhere but there" said
| the Battersea Bonaparte. Come
along; We'll go out in the open air at
the other end of the yard
| He came into the crowd as IN express
train shoots into crowded sta tion
with the same strength and rush and
the same suction in the air, drawing ev-
erybody after him.
"Im your Union Jack he seemed
to say in his characteristic mode of
SnpGch tT'r,1 TnhpnU and
your Union Jack, and you've nothing to
! fear and nothing to worry about so
long as you've got me-" A little leath-
er hand satchel was the only cargo of
the train, and when this was put off on
the bench with the portraits and pa
pers, he gripped the lever, threw 1t wide
open and shot across the cement, suck
ing several hundreds of us after him
so fast that 1, for one, only touched
toe to the earth once in every ten yards.
While he stands down on a level with
his people we study him; a man OF wo-
mans height and mans build, short
broad shouldered, broad chested, with
powerful arms and legs He is all in
blue, except his black bowler and
stubby black boots He looks like a
million other men in London. and vet
the moment you hear that he was for
merly an engineer, you see that he is
typical engineer to-day. The same
short, strong build. the same square
jaws, the same carelessly worn blue
suit. the same keen, steady, bu1ninG
eyes are in thousand locomotive cabs
darting all over England, Canada,
America, Australia and South Aflic
this morning.
do you prepare your speeches? ?"
mot a Bit" he says. looking al the
hard used little leather bag. "Wha
isn't on my head is in that little bag
He has Napoleon's way of standin9
with his chin down, partly pondelinR
partly resting.
But that is mere f1ashlight pose, fot
he is the slave of his nerves and has q
birdlke restlessness. He misses moth
ing with his eyes, and his head turns
quick as light, at every sound around
him. He spent ten minutes in silancins
the boys and girls who were 60 nearll
quiet that no one else heard than
But now see him as a leader. II
chair and throws up his head
to begin his speech. 1t is head among
ten thousand, with high. round fore
head, Bismarckian crown and good,
hammer like bulge behind; a big stor-
age battery of propulsive force. Only
his eyes and bushy eyebrows are dark
all the rest Is grizzled or whltA--wnie
whiskers. beard growing white and
whittier from a dark beginning, hair
thin ON TOP. and nearly sailed at the |
sides. Age? Fifty-five to sixty at q |
guess. But, in fact, he Is for'y-tWo--
nearly twenty years younger man ne
looks. How does he live? on no sara
ry, with calling at which money can
not legitimately be made yet fairy !
dressed, and with wife and child al
honne--how do men like that make botn
ends meet In public life In England
It'll tell you how l live he SAYS. IL
his speech. II am supported by vol
untary subscription among the WORKING
men of Battersea, and this Is joined II
by radicals, Tories, liberals imperial
ists-every sort of politician-ani they
support me because they like ny
and honesty. In twelve
years that money has not e1ualled
three pounds a week. lie lkes 10
talk about himself, and he has a confl-
dent positlVe way OF assert'ns hiinsei.
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man lorWafu' ne says, oecesoa9 nSn
nave ooiie WIN nun ne wiz van.
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