The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-14


 he was allowed to remain with the sick and wounded Union men, a large num- Der of whom were in the hospital out side of the Confederate picket lines. Dr. Pellier had a parole, which admit ted of his going back and forth in car ing for the wounded rand sick Mar tinsburg was the home Of ex-Minister Faulkner, who had represented the United States government in France under President Buchanan. One day Dr. Pellier received a note from Miss Faulkner, asking him if he could get T message to General AveriIl. He thought the request over with a great deal of apprehension, knowing what the result would be if he should be found out. But he decided that he would take the risk, and so informed Miss Faulkner, The message was entrusted to his care. A trusted servant from the Faulkner mansion was placed at the doctors di- rection. After having had the message concealed in the stocking ofthe colored servant Dr. Pellier loaded her down with basket of supplies, tea, coffee and sugar from the quartermaster's department, and accompanied her to the rebel lines. It was daring as well as desperate enterprise. He was known by the outpost and was able to tell a satisfactory story concerning the colored woman's presence. He said she ! belonged in the district near by and was on the way home. Taking the statement of Dr. Pellier, no eXamina- tion was made of the woman by the guard and she was allowed to go on unmolested. In the end she reached General Averilrs camp and was taken to that officers tent. The message from Miss Faulkner, who was an ad~ mirer of the Union cavalryman, was safely delivered, giving him warning of the plans of Generals Early and Breck- enridge for his capture, which the fair writer had overheard in her fathers home. The warning was not received an hour too soon. General Averill es- capped from the hands of the Confede- rates with his entire force, but not un- til the clouds of dust and gleaming sa- bres in the distance showed the possi- bilities of an encounter. Some years ago. while General Ayerill was superin- tendent of the Soldiers Home in Bath, 1 N. Y, Dr. Pellier communicated with him concerning the warning that was sent by Miss Faulkner and received confirmation of the entire event The mother of Dr. Pellier, by the way, Mrs. Emily P. Collins, is ninety-five years of age and resides with the doctor. She is the oldest woman suffragist in the country, and was the originator of the first Woman Suffrage club in New York state. She is a distinguished member of the Hartford Equal Rights club, with Miss Frances Ellen Burr and Miss Mary Hall of the Hartford l county bar. Mrs. Collins is in compar- 4 itively good health and keeps up an in- teEigent interest in public affairs
 United States Senator Morgan G. st Bulkeley will be sixty-eight years old I December 26, the day after Christmas. l He will be home from Washington at that time for the holiday recess, and the birthday will be suitably celebra- ted. Senator Bulkeley is the oldest life insurance president in Hartford. 1t is an interesting fact that most of the fire insurance presidents in Hartford are far beyond the three score figure. President William B. CClark of the Aetna will be sixty-fve in a few months, and President John D. Browne of the Connecticut will be seventy. Judge James Nichols, president of the National Is past three score and ten, President George T. 0hase, of the Hartford, will be seventy-eight years old January 13, 1906, and is one of the oldest fireunderwriters in the United States He will complete thirty-nine years in the presidency of the Hartford Fire in January. There is not direc- tor of the company now living who was on the board when MT. Chase was originally elected president. President E. s. Gillette, of the Girard Fire and Marine Insurance company, of Phila- delphia, is considerably past eighty, being the senior of President Chase by several years. President GGillett was born in Holland conty and spent much of his early life in Hartford. To all in- tents and purposes he is a Connecticut man and has many interests in the state He has only one nephew living, MT. A. B. Gillett, of this city, ex-Yice- president of the Army and Navy club of Connecticut. President Gilett of the GGirard spends his winters in the national capital. He is one of the most genial and attractive octogerarians and the most felicitous of representa- , tives of the Nutmeg state.