Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-25
AT LAM0NT''S BIER.
Grover Cleveland and Wife
 Arrive at Millbrook.
DEAD COLONEL HIS CLOSEST FRIEND
En-President Said of Late Former Secretary of War. "He Had No Ene- mics to Punish Nor Friends
 to Reward"

M1LLBROOK. N. Y, July 25-For-
 mer President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland have arrived here, where
 Daniel S. Lamont. his friend and war ! secretary, lies dead. Mfr. Cleveland
 declined to be interviewed
 Colonel Lamont who was the closest personal friend of Mir. Cleveland. died suddenly at 9:15 o'clock of what was diagnosed as heart failure
 The first person to be notified of the death was Mir. Cleveland. who was staying on the Frye farm. his summer home at North Sandwich. N. H. Miss Frances Lamont sent the following dis patch:
 Father died last night. Come at once.'
 MT. Lamont had been entertaining a party of friends and went for drive with Mrs. Lamont He appeared in his usual health and dined with the party on his return At S:45 o'clock he complained of being i'll and in less than an hour was dead
 Daniel Scott Lamont was born on Feb. g. 1851, in Cortlandville. Cortland county, N. r., of parents in moderate circumstances. His father. John B. Lamont, was a country storekeeper. His mother was Elizabeth Scott
 When Grover Cleveland was inaugu- rated governor in 1883 Lamont was still a member of the staff of the AL bany Argus. He had been an active worker for MT. Cleveland's nomination and election. but 1t was not until after the inauguration that the two met. When Mir Cleveland began the prepa- ration of his first message he wanted some one to advise him who had an in timate knowledge of politics In all sec tions of the state.
 Lamont was suggested and Cleve- land sent for him. The two worked together for three weeks. Lamont gath ering data and putting them into shape for the governor. MT. Cleve- land said at that time that if he ever needed a private secretary Lamont was the man for him. The former was OppOScu tO tuc luCd. uoWCNSls anu believed that he would be able to transact the work which usually falls to the share of private secretary him. self. Cleveland did not forget Lamont, though. and appointed him military secretary. with the title of colonel, by which Mfr. Lamont was known more or less up to the time of his death.
 Mir Cleveland told the story that Lamont had assisted him in the ap- pointment of his military staff and that the names for the various posi- tions having been determined on. at Cleveland's request Lamont wrote down the names of the various posi- tions of the staff, whereupon Cleveland gave the names to be filled in after each title. At the end Cleveland rose from his chair, but Lamont said, There is one more place to fill-that of military secretary"
 "Oh, yes," replied Cleveland. Write in the name of Daniel S. Lamont"
 But that was not Lamont's idea. He declined the position, but Cleveland insisted.
 His sturdiness of devotion was the basis of the high respect which Cleve land entertained for his private secre- tary. "I never knew such a man as Lamont said President Cleveland | during his first term. He has no enc mics to punish nor friends to reward | here. He has only devotion to the in- terests of the president"