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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-15
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city. who was oiIleer Of the day at
Fortress fonroe he day bcforc tliss
famous prisoner was manacied by
order q Sem Nelson a. Miles, then
In command OF Tint pos The con
troyersy which has been Kept up Iis :
the neRspa pers the last two wsalis
between General nj lies and Yrs, II,;,s :S
Wis has stirred the memories Of the
few old soldiers who were atationa,I Z
at Fortress Monroe ut that time
Gautains sanderson Swns N tho is NJ;
the day Davis was bronslit there, hat.
an intimate ociation with him at
most DALI during the time nf liis:
lnearc efation and II WAS to him thnI
Capt. Jerome n tlow, who garfield OIL
General Miles order related the cir.
cumstances within 10 minutes aftef
Davis was put In manacles.
81 regret that this controversy has
been stirred ss0p. said Mr. Sander
son, S.,asS Il seems too bid tint an Cpl
sode so long forgo ten Should he rcss
directed gats this time From my az.
atlons; with Mr. Davis and my
knowledge Of his character an
convinced that HE never entertainoll
any bitter feeling toward General
Miles for the order. and know shat.
|3noS prisoner OF State ever received
more SconsId erate treatnel than aid 4
Jefferson Davis That General siil5S
never had ANY personal moi 10 srsss
his act or had any intention Of hunt.
Eating Mi: Davis Lam equally con-
vino
- was Tiny quarters on the drefls
Ing when II occurred / was abonE
to sit down when Capt Jerome IN.
low Of the Third Pennsylvania Ar !,
tillery; OF which i was % member. en-.
tered. Z,
Y ave u lst been Obliged 10 les
form ag disagr eeable duty, said cnpf.
Tltlowt % me have Just returned
from putting Jefferson Davis N
irons l=|is;|' 4 =.
captainS g flow then went on 70 -
| late how L had happened.
sssS.l had With me d sergeant and i {
blac ksmith,, said Capt Tltlow. and
when q reached the casemate / found
MI. Davis sitting ON his cot
z ~ hat. he said: DO YOU mean
e. e. say that General Miles Intends to )
liplace rons on Snis limbs? AZ nj =
oficerE ofsthe ocular army and as iof
imer secretary Of war wish to informs
you Capt ,ritlows that You. as an OF. :
sfcer Of the army. would be justified
In refusing 70 carry out such mn or
dol,
But the sergeant grabbed Nil
Davis from behind threw him over
on the bed and In a twInkiins the
shack were claspeds Oh.
Captain ~ flow then told md that
2 Davis when NE called that the deed
had / been done; broke down and ven.
He said shat he felt sofry for NJ
but had no other alternative Than 10
do Eas he had been ordered.
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Murray Carson, who lis part author:
of5@Rosemary'" is TO appear this week
in New York in The Trlfier.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-15

Anna Boyd has been engaged for.
one Of the principal roles in The
Earl and the Girl. u .s5s
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the UmIeQ OCdJeS nave
recently been summoned
to plead in answer to the charge of bad manners
And at once a cloud of witnesses came forward to
bear testimony against US
An anonymous Engishnan, engaged in business
in New York declared that it was painful to notice
the difference in the of employees in British
and American shops and offices; and an American
editor, recording this declaration, asserted that all
Americans notice this difference when they return
from abroad One of these homecoming travellers
voiced his opinion in letter to a newspaper, in
which he inquired plaintivey: What ails the
manners of New-York?" Then he ventured the
startling declaration that when he came home to
the city of his birth after absence of ten years
in Europe he found here "a people compared to
whom the Berserkers were Chesterields and the
Tartars a race of Talleyrands"
This last alliterative sentence is perhaps not so
completely annihlating as its author intended when
he polished it up, since the public morality and the
private morals of Talleyrand and of Chesterfield do
not commend themselves worthy models for
American imitation, whereas there a hearty
rnanlness about the Berserkers and the Tartars, a
masterful directness which healthy Americans cannot
fail to appreciate. But however unfortunate the
phrase, there is rnistaking the intention of the
writer and his desire to denounCe the social atrocities
of his native city. And although the bulk of this
denunciation is launched specifically against
New York and the New Workers. there is a willing
the part of most of the denouncers to enlarge
their target to include the whole United States and
all the inhabitants thereof
In many cases the accusation insists that our
manners are much than they used to be, and
that have fallen from the high standard trans
mitted to by the last generation by some gen
Grafton preceding that. Now, here if nowhere else
it is easy to make stand and repulse the groundess
charge. There is no basis whatever for any belief
that manners have ever been any better than
they now. Or at least there has never been a
time when manners not being assailed
and when the assertion not frequent that they
were steadily degenerating. 1t is with
it is with servants-every age shrily expresses
its dissatisfaction with those it knows best When
Adam, in :" AS You Like It,, proffered his savings
to his young master, Orlando looked back regret
fully to period when such conduct not I'M
common:
good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, for meedl
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where will sweat but for promotion.
Shakespeare wrote these lines more than three
centuries ago; and the sentiment expressed in them
echoes to-day in many essay the servant
question. So it is more than half a century now
that Lowell put on paper the remark of one of the
older inhabitants of Cambridge, who something
of Jeremiah in his octogenarian vgor, to the effect
that My children say Yes, SIR and No, sir;
my grandchildren, Yes and No and l am every
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day expecting to hear Blank your eyes for an
answer when l ask a service of my great-grand-
children Why, sir, | can remember when more
respect was paid to Governor Hancocks lackey at
commencement than the Governor and all his suite
get now"
Perhaps the worthy old gentleman, born in the
last quarter of the eighteenth century, would not
have found it easy to answer a question or two
to why Governor Hancock should have 1ackey
and to why any special respect should be paid
to this 1ackey. What seems to the octogenarian as
a loss of manners might be explained as gain in
manliness. But the evidence is abundant that from
the very beginning, from July 4, 1916, American
manners have been sadly unsatisfactory to American
conservatives well to the most of such foreigners
rashly adventured themselves this side of the
Western ocean.
Mrs. Trollope, Captain Marryatt and Charles
Dickens have left the record of their Impressions
and their record is fatal to any belief that there
has been deterioration of late years However bad
manners may be now, they cannot be worse
than they when these three lower midde-class
British novelists were shocked by lack of repose
and distinction. There is some consolation for our
sad estate in taking down Tuckerman's book on
America and Her Commentators" as instructive
as it is amusing; and in assuring ourselves by
perusal of its pages that at least no worse
than foreigners found us in the earlier decades
of the nineteenth century.
a Certain Condescension in Foreigners which was
written Just after the close of the Civil War and
which might well be required the basis of an
eXaplination-paper from every wandering Breton
and Gaul and Teuton who proposes to survey us
from a car window, as a preparation for a book
about ust is in this paper of Lowells that find
the best summary of the attitude of the ordinary
European traveller toward America and the Ameri-
cans:
But whatever might do or leave undone, we
not genteel, and it uncomfortable to be
continually reminded that though should boast
that the Great West till we were black in
the face it did not bring inch nearer to the
worlds West End, That sacred Enclosure of re-
speciality tabooed to us. The Holy Alliance
did not inscribe its visiting-list The Old
World of wigs and orders and lveries would shop
with US; but must ring at the area-bell and not
venture to awaken the more august clamors of the
1lnocler. Our manners It must be granted had
none of those graces that stamp the caste of We're
de We're, in whatever museum of British antiquities
they may be hidden. In short, vulgar"
1t is this ingrained European belief that we are
not genteel, that are, vulgar, which underlies
Matthew Arnolds complaint that Americans lack
distinction, and which sustains the detestation so
shrilly expressed by Ruslin--who was himself the
of liquor dealer, and who was wholly devoid
of the self-restraint and the urbanity which have
been held to mark the conduct of true gentleman.
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world. belief SO widely
held must have some JUS
tihCatiOn; and it is wholesome for us to ask our
selves and again what this justification may
be- Are foreigners right wrong, when they ex-
press their dread of our influence? In their eyes,
manners bad; and in the eyes also of
many Americans who have been to Europe and
who have fingered there fascinated by the in
dubtabe charm of Old World citizen Are
manners in America really as bad as they seem
to these observers contrasting them with the stand
ards of Europe?
The question is not easy to answer; but may
be helped to solution by remembering that the
standard of Europe-in so far there is any uni
formity over there's not final and that it is the
result of feuda tradition. 1t is a codifcation of
the practices of countries still conserving the habits
OF ar1stocratic social organization and still gov
erned by the idea of CASTE stanchly rejecting the
theory of democracy and absolutely hostile to any
practical application of the idea of human equality
When the Englishman engaged in business in New
York complained of the absence of civility in
America, perhaps what he really meant was that
he found here lack of the servility which is Gus
tomary in England and which seems to an American
unmanly and detestabe.
The Englishman who has money expects to find
his interiors Cringing before him; and in his own
country his expectation is rarely disappointed.
When he happens to over here, he fails to find
it and he misses it. Even when he is devoid of
haughtiness and when he tries to be condescending
he does not elicit the response he has expected
The explanation is to be found in the fact that
whether he intends not he assumes the attitude
of superior; and this is something that the ordinary
American resents instantly and rghteously 1t
a queen, Carmen Sylvia, who declared that princes
were brought up to be affable to every man; and
every should be brought up like a prince"
But until every is brought up like a prince
affability may take the less agreeable disguise
of condescension; and Robert Louis Stevenson
shrewdly remarked, The pleasures of condescension
strangely one-sded."
American social usages may differ from European
without being inferior in reality, however vocifer-
ously the Europeanized Americans assert this in
feriority Especially different is the relation of
master and servant, and that Of buyer and seller
in a shop. AS to this latter the British assumption
seems to be that by his mere possession of money
to spend the purchaser is raised to superior caste
and is thereby entitled to be treated with atterng
adulation. The American assumption is that buyer
and seller two equal parties to a bargain by
which both hope to profit, and that they meet
the level ground of self-interest and common
courtesy.
Perhaps actual discourtesy is rather more common
in London shops than in those of New-York. Pos
siby Hopkinson Smith went to an extreme when
he suggested that If you go into English store
the proprietor will take it for granted that you have
come to crack his safe; but the American traveller
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n SPITE OF Burke S as
sertion that it is i'm
possible to draw an
indictment against a
people, the inhabitants of
the United States have
recently been summoned
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29

The funeral services of the late Mrs. Willis D. Northrop took place from the residence of Mir. Edward s. Swift, 5l6 George street, a cousin of MT. NOrthrop's, yesterday afternoon at ? o'clock and was atttended by many relatives and friends of the de- parted one.
 Rev. Norman J. squires. pastor of the West Haven Congregational church of which the deceased was at one time member, off1ciated. He spoke feelingly of the departed one and of her Iovable character and many good traits cf heart and mind. The bearers were all cousins of the deceased from Waterbury. They were Clifford and Earnest Welton and William and Joseph Walker.
 At the services Rev. Mir. Squires spoke most feelingly and impressively of the loss sustained and of the admirable and beautiful character of the sleeper, add ing words of consolation for the be- reaved.
 The floral tributes were notable for their number and beauty, and several of the pieces came from friends in diff ferent parts of the state.
 Beecher and Bennett had charge of the funeral arrangements and burial was in the Westville cemetery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
SMASHED THINGS.
Escaped Inmate of sanitarum

Escaped Inmate of Sanitarum.
 New Milford, Dec. 2S.-Edward Ketcham, aged S5, who escaped from Dr. Gibbons sanatarium near Stanford came to town Wednesday morning and was arrested by Constable Nearing who landed him in the lookup. There he smashed everything breakable and tried to@fdo up the constable when he carried him food. He was overpower- ed, put in a straitjacket and taken to Stamford last night. Ketcham is said to belong to a well-known Danbury family. He Is related to other we'll known people whereabouts. On the way here he stopped in Danbuw,. where he stoned several houses. He also drove the operator. out of the railroad sta- tion at Brookfield Junction and visited one or two other stations on the way here, committing depredations. Some time ago he was employed by Bryon, Dexter & Co. of Brewster, N. T., and there his actions led to his confinement
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
PRESENTATION TO MIR BONNER.

Social Gathering Marks Close of His
 Special Service in Stamford.
 An interesting presentation to Hugh Bonner, the veteran fireman, took place at the uptown engine-house yesterday afternoon. The occasion marked the end of Mir. Bonner's service to the city, and was made a very pleasant one by Chief Harry W. Parker, and the members of the department. Chief Parker hnd as his guests, A. c, Hend- ricks, a former mayor and a former fire chief of New Haven, and John s. Jones of Westport, the secretary of the State Firemen's Association. At g. meeting of the state association in Hartford, early last fall, Chief Parker was pres ent together with MT. Bonner. A photograph of the gathering was taken with MT. Bonner the central figure of the group, and it was this picture which was presented to the famous fire chief yesterday The presentation was made b yMr Hendricks.1 who spoke of the great service Mir. sEonner has givento fire departments all over the earth, and MT. Bonner responded with few gra- cious words of appreciation. Chief Parker had all the men of the depart ment assembled at the engine-houses and they gave Mir, Bonner a hearty greeting. . Early last summer MT. Bonner was engaged by the city as a. consulting in vestigator of fire-protection facilities. He has submitted several reports, pointing out weak spots in the present system, and suggesting Improvements. Mr. Bonner's work was in the main of 8 good deal of value. His personal qualities were such that all who met him became greatly attached to him, and regret that his services for the city have terminated.-stanford Advo- cate. Dec. 2f
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
LITCHFIELD.
First Death in D. A. R, Chapter.

First Death in D. A. R. Chapter.
 The membets of Mary Floyd Tall madge Chapter, D. A. R., of Litchfield, were saddened Tuesday morning to learn of the death Monday night of a member of the chapter-Miss Elizabeth Whittlesey of Morris. Miss Whittlesey had been under the doctors care for some months, but was not seriously Ill, and was in Litchf1eld the last of the week. She was dangerously i'll but a few hours with a trouble of the heart, and her death came as shock to friends and acquaintances. Miss Whit tlesey was charter member of the chapter and was always a most inter- ested, helpful member, driving the five miles from her home to attend the meetings. Her death is the first one to occur among the members of the chapter, which has been organized six years and has membership of 80. The chapter will attend the funeral Thurs day afternoon, and all those intending to go are requested to notify Mrs, H. W, Vessels and be at her house at 12:SO.
 Meeting of Pomological Society.
 The Connecticut Pomological so- ciety, assisted by the, Connecticut Dairymen's Association. will hold an institute in the Town Hall at Litch- field. on Tuesday, January 2, both morning and afternoon. Dinner will be served on the usual basket plan at noon, in the Grange Hall. Everybody interested is cordially invited to att tend. Further notice of speakers will be given later.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
pBATH oF ALRERT C2E
Dies at His Home in West Haven A,
 ter a Brief Illness.

Dies at His Home in West Haven .Af-
 ter a Brief Illness.
 The death of Albert c. Coe, presi- dent of the Falcon Rubber Co, and formerly treasurer of the L. Candee Co, occurred suddenly Wednesday evening after an illness of a short duration at his home in West Haven
 He was a son of J. c. Coe, of Elm street, West Haven, and was born in Beacon Falls on Jan. q 1884. In his boyhood he moved to New Haven. At the age of IS he entered the office of Bunneu & Scranton. brokers. Soon af- terWards he became Identified with the Candee Co.,, rising rapidly till in 1897 he was elected secretary and assistant treasurer of that company. Last year he organized the Falcon Rubber Co. and became its president.
 The deceased lived in West Haven, his residence being at 654 Savin ave- nue. He is survived by g. widow and five children and by both his parents. His eldest son died last July.
 MT. Coe had a wide circle of business friends and was greatly respected and trusted by them and his death will be greatly lamented by all whom knew his great worth of character. He was a member of Christ church, West Haven, and for several years its senior war den, and was an influential leader in church affairs, being largely respon- sible for the movement towards the er- rection of a new church and for the style of architecture to be followed. He was member and past master of Am nawan lodge, F. & A. M.. and of the Royal Arcanum and Heptasophs.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
OBITUARY NOTES.
Death of Captain William H. Pierpont,
 Former Prominent Citizen.

Death of Captain William H. PierpOnt,
 Former Prominent Citizen.
 Capt. William H. Pierpont formerly of this city, and long prominent res- tdent of Fair Haven died at the home of his son, Herbert M. Pierpont, No. s1 Bancroft street, sprindfield, on "wednesday aged 69 years.
 He was known to his friends as Gen. Pierpont. He was the first volunteer ito enlist at the famous war meeting held in Fair Haven, April 23, 1881. He was retained In the United States ser- vice after the close of the Civil war by special orders from the secretary of war, serving as chief mastering off, ficer he served four years and five months in Company F. Seventh regi- ment. Connecticut Volunteers, rising from the ranks to captaincy.
 Gen. Pierpont had lived in this city since the Civil war, until going to Springfield three years ago. He was house under Collector A. J. Beers, and was @ member of the Connecticut Sons of the Revolution, and was 32d de- gree Mason. He was 8 past president of, the Young Mems Republican club of this city, past department state commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, past division commander of the Sons of Veterans and past grand patron of the Order of Eastern Star.
 He was 8 prominent member of Ad- n1iral Foote post, G. A. R., and for years had been indentified with all the leading Grand Army events in Con- necticut and New England.
 Captain Pierpont was never mar ried. He leaves three brothers, John D, of San Francisco, Cal James B, of New Haven, and Collins of Westfeld.
 The remains will be brought to this city this afternoon and funeral ser- vices will be held in Memorial chapel, Fair Haven, Union cemetery, at 2 o'clock. Rev. I. N. Sheath of Grand avenue Congregational church will off, ciate. The burial rites will be in charge of Adelphi lodge, F. and A. M., and members of the lodge will act as bearers
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-29
SUNDAY SCHOOL FESTIVAL.
Annual Sunday School Observance at St. PauPs Yesterday.

AANuaA SuAAAuS SShOVA OOSSANHASC "S St. PauPs Yesterday.
 The annual Christmas tree festival of the St. Paul's church Sunday school was held in the parish house of the church yesterday. The primary and intermediate classes, consisting of the smaller children of the Sunday school, gathered in the afternoon and the older members in the evening. About one thousand persons, children and their relatives and friends, were present at the two celebrations.
 The exercises consisted of the singing of the Christmas carols of the school by the children and the presentation, by cast selected from the scholars, of little Christmas sketch entitled "The Toys Rebellion" Judge Tyner. of the city court, innpersonated Santa Claus to the satisfaction of all; the lovers of that perennial gift-giver.
 The exercises closed with the pre- sentatton of gifts to all the scholars. Each one also received, according to custom, box of Christmas candy and an orange, with all which they depart ed homeward well pleased.