New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-26

All bultoned up before,
have you not?" asked man lying on the grass
under tree on the Green at Idtchheld, Conn
last summer, 10 his companion, who was lounging
beside him. They were young men, Beside them
lay tennis racQuets, and evidently they had just
been playing that game. As they lay the fresh
green grass in their costumes OF white they looked
cool and comfortable Within the range OF their
vision were the old county jail the few buildings
OF the business part OF the town. the handsome
new library and historical building and the Soldiers
Monument. Bits of the four interesting streets
which form the skeleton Of the town run NORTH
east south and west their roadways 50 wide that
no matter how much they might stretch IN the
breeze the tips OF the branches Of the huge elms
which border Them could never kiss. We're part
OF the scene
Yes, what about it," asked the other glanc!ng
up from the grass. blade OF which he was lazily
pulling through his fingers.
The nrst speaker sat up straight and crossed his
legs in front OF him like tailor on his table
That verse hc said, as a relic OF Litchfeld's
famous law school and the epitaph OF a runaway
slave. It is almost hundred years ago 70 a day
that negro, black ebony. walked down this
broad street dustier then than now, and asked OF
a person he met: Dis var town Ltchheld? ] hear
tole OF Il in The Souf fun de quality. De young
men come 10 school we're
1T was evident that he a Southern negro
by his speech. That he had heard OF IitcbaeIa
and its law school before he left the South was not
70 attend the school You know those two pro-
oigious elms the left side Of The street as Won
climb the hin from the railroad station standing
sc close together that their branches interlace and
seem 10 be those OF one mighty tree? The STAGE
driver. as you came up the hlI. probably pointed
his forennger al their towering limbs and told yo,,
that John c. Calhoun planted the trees while ne
was at the law school here
But 10 return 10 Grimes. for that was the name
s'Ven by the negro TO those who asked. His phi
iosophy soon made him well known in the village
Tor he had decided that dis we're am a good nIaca
10 lib in. and had opened a barber sbon ,,;rirnes,
6ooa nature won him customers and the students
OF the law school submitted their tender chinS 10
MS ministratOns Grimes was not communicable
aoout ms past ana no ons bothered him with cues
lions about IT, IL was enough that he vas 4 GOOD
barber told the truth and stole from nobody
Years passed. and he had saved enough "a INV
him little home. One day a Young Soutber,er
visited Srlmess shop and something IN the
neEro's race that seemed 70 interest him. A negro
save Aac escaped from a plantation IN his COUNT,
some years prior 10 his coming 10 Ts,.hssts "a
remembered the description OF the reero n,blis,as
in the county paper. Grimes seemed 10 ans,rer %
this Description. lie wrote home about his disooy-
cry, and an investigation proved thar ,bo -
was the escaped slave described in thu ad,.r,,s.
mont. use
crimes had won the regard OF MANY rersors "a
had become one Of the institutions ~ - -,
scnool. one OF the students. al his request had
''''N~" al NF-AiaAt Tor him. OF which ne abo,.,
verse quoted a moment ago was a mar, W..
could be done FOR Grimes? He didn't want 40 -
BACK TO the South, but under the law he r,1tes
with the horse and the cow, so there was no -,
Tor him unless his freedom could be purchases u
order 10 buy 1t his little home must be sold Thera
was an obstacle in the way OF this Legally h.
could hold no property and was OF course now,
etiess 10 transfer good title. A friendly neighbor
Ni4"eltooA the task and the sale was finally ac
comphsheo IN legal manner and the freedom =,
oo crimes secured. lie stayed IN LitchheId only
q SNORT Time AFTER this occurrence, ana then went
70 New-haven. where ne became a bootblscl, Co.
me students Of Yale College
originated" said the second man as the e.. g.
ished his story al"
i'ere are any number Of interesting stor,e. con-