The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-11
julius L. Brown Tells of n Meeting
with Him in England

With Him in England.
Wallace Putnam Reed in the Atlanta
Constitution.
Yesterday morning 1 called Mr. Julius
L. Browns attention to the dispatch in
the Constitution announcing the death of
Admiral James D. Bulloch, at his home,
near Liverpool, England.
did 1 ever tell you that I met him in
Liverpool, some years ago?" said Mr..
Brown.
In 1891 / went to Europe to join my
wife, daughter and sister, and one day,
while at The Hague, 1 dined at the
Vieux Dolan. one of the oldest and most
famous hotels in Ho, hand
LAS was the custom there 1 went into
the beautiful garden back of the hotel
and sat down at a little table to take nv
after dinner coffee. A fine looking old
gentleman had preceded me at the table
| and we soon drifted into conversation.
Finding that I was an American. and
from Georgia, he became very cordial In
the course of his talk he said that he was
we'll acquainted with the lady who had
married Howell Glenn of Atlanta Then
he went on TO say that when a youth of
nineteen he had been sent 10 New Or
leans as cotton buyer for an English
there he was in a restaurant and had a
pleasant chat with a stranger, whose dis
tinguished appearance and soldieriy bear
ing greatly impressed him.
He did NOT learn his name until after
he had left, when one of the guests in
formed him that he had been talking with
Gen. Zachary Taylor, the hero of the
Mexican war which had ended only
short time before.
~ Il,
Confederate sympathizer. He had lost
$500 600 in Confederate bonds. though his
friend and neighbor, Admiral Bulloch.
might have prevented it. Bulloch. how
ever, was equally careless about his own
interests, and lost heavily by the collapse
of the Confederacy.
''I expressed my desire to meet Bulloch.
saying that I admired him very much,
and regarded him as one of the ablest
men in the Confederate service. 1 had
heard great deal about the skin with
which he had managed our naval inter-
ests in Europe during the war. and l
felt proud of him as a fellow Georgian
My new friend said that he lived near
Bulloch, about forty miles from Liver
pool, and giving me his address promised
to arrange a meeting If l would wire
him when l reached that city.
Some time afterwards I was in Liver
pObas anu sent NHe message. The next
morning the old gentleman was at the
hotel with the admiral, and sent UP his
card. After introducing US, he begged to
be excused, saying that his daughter had
died the night before, and was to be buried
that afternoon.
This was quite a shock to me, and
intimated that under the circumstances.
1t would have been natural for him to
postpone the trip to Liverpool. He shook
his head sadly, and remarked that / had
been very courteous to him. and it was
a pleasure to him to keep his promise
After his departure l spent the entire
day with Admiral Bulloch. The famous
naval agent Of the Conference.-The man
who contracted for the construction OF
our war vessels, and succeeded In getting
them on the high seas, despite the vigil
ance of English officials and federal con-
suls-was man OF medium height. with
clear-cut, resolute features. He looked
enough like Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to
be taken for his twin brother
when 1 told him So he seemed 20 be
gratihed, and he expressed the opinion
that Johnston was one OF the ablest gem
erals Of this or any other age.
Il asked him what semmes was doing
with the Alabama in the north Atlantic,
when the cyclone crippled Il. Semmes
had given no explanation IN his book but
Capt, Kell had told me that the idea was