Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-14
EIGHTY-FIFTH MILESTONE.
MT Wallace has Been Styled the Real
 Irish Gentleman and Scholar.

MT Wallace has Been Styled the Real
 Irish Gentleman and Scholar. Michael Wallace of River street, who passed the eighty-fifth milestone at noon last Sunday, dropped into the Democrat office today with q step as elastic and heart as light as they were in the good old times when he used to spend part of his spare moments bird-neSting i'll the hedgerows of his native soil. Of course this little sport was spasmodic, for naturally he is be- ginning to feel the weight of his years, still he is wonderfully we'll preserved for one of his age and in many re spects is one of the most interesting men in the community. His mind is as clear as it was half century ago and he can write a hand far more legible than half the people in town who are making a living at the business. He lives almost entirely i'll the past and in consequence he is ever in cheerful mood and is one of the most charming old gentlemen one could meet with in a days travel. He is q ripe scholar and unlike most people of his class has retained all his faculties and tell interesting anecdotes of his college days and the fates and fortunes Of those whose voices chimed with his in school, all of whom have long since been called to their reward. He Is we'll yersed Tn the history and literature. of the world and occasionally rattles off a good story for the Democrat which Is al- ways read with more than ordinary interest by people of q literary turn of mind. He is in the enjoyment of good health and spirits and expects to live to be centenarian and his numer- ous friends and acquaintances hope that his wish will be realized. 1t is many years ago now, since c. R. Bald win, then mayor of Waterbury, Met Mir Wallace at an Irish banquet and styled him an excellent specimen of the real Irish gentleman and scholar and the whole party rose enmasse and shouted it's appreciation of the term.
 Mir Wallace takes great pride in a short communication he received from an old college chum some years ago in answer to some papers forwarded him containing a few of his literary ef- forts. It was as follows:
 June 20, 1898. Dear Friend Michael:-I received your contributions to the press and read them with great pleasure. I also showed them to some of my friends all of whom pronounced them beauti- full as indeed they. are.
 q the hero-martyr and that on the s'Mu- sic of Ireland" and the Prosecutions of England' are we'll worthy of pe- rusal of the Irish race. This might al- so be said of your contribution on "Richard Dalton Williams and Prose and Poetry" The latter drew tears from my eyes as did also that on "Ire- land as She Is."
 can in memory see some of the faces you have pictured and I also re member well some of the scenes and incidents wou have referred to and fully coincide in your views upon them.
 Dear Friend, remember when you were light of foot as q. deer and how you espoused Iceland and her course at the O'Connell and Father Matthew meetings and on Sundays when the band used to play in Dodd's grove and elsewhere. Though many years have since elapsed, still 1t seems to me but yesterday. This ardent love of your native land and of the religion of your father seems to haunt you now just as 1t did in the dear dead days that are gone. know it will be with you on your dying pillow.
 Accept my respect and love, which are unalloyed. -
 Yours respectfully,
 PATRICK LAWLOR,
 Middletown, Ct
 Mir Lawlor died some years ago and sa., fhic iS fhc Ia sf limo Nil. XNa alls,nn hod