The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-09
SAD End OF EDDIE OAKLEY.
FORMER OWNER or MORYS
KILLED BY STREET CAR.

His Place was One OF the Institutions At
YaIe-Eyery student. Freshmen EN'
cepted, Had Credit OF S7O-GOt . Job
Al Yale Cub. but Couldn't Hold II.
Yale graduates in New York were filed
with regretful "reminiscences yesterday
/ by the news contained in a despatch from
! New Haven saying that Edward @. oakley
/ once the proprietor Of Mory's, had been run
! over and killed by a street car. For twenty
wears before his retirement from Morys,
| in the middle nineties, Eddie Oakley had a
warm place in the affection and respect
Of Yale undergraduates.
He was regarded as one OF the institutions
of the university; his business, TO be sure,
WAS the drawing Of ale and the serving Of
wonderfully fresh eggs and still more won
derfully concocted Welsh rabbits; but to his
calling he brought tact. a gentleness OF
manner and genial aroma OF fine old
fashioned hospitality such ~ few patrons
Of public houses in this country have ever
been privileged to know.
The undergraduate traditions we're that
Eddie inherited the place from Mrs. hon-
arity: il was an accepted tradition because
it seemed quite impossible that Eddie
could have such deep regard for ancient
Yale notions with which successive years
of undergraduates had saturated his house
unless he had inherited some OF them from
somebody a great deal older than himself
Mrs Moriarity rather preferred the name
of Temple Bar" for the place. For years
she did her household mending in a corner
OF the little tap-room and kept a kindly,
mothery eve on the proceedings In the.
front room, the back room and the kitchen
Everything within the little rooms was
a. spick and span and simple as were the
outer walls OF the little white building
itself.
The uproar with which the announce
Tnent OF the destruction Of the Old Brick
Row was met 10y Yale graduates all over the
world would nave been echoed in under
graduate circles Immediately had Eddie
ever voiced the thought OF changing his
furniture or the wallpaper or the quaint
old pottery has relefs which hung over the
fireplace-one Of them holding up Yale
Netss and the other Yale LIT. But Eddie
never thought Of anything 80 revolutionary;
he would as soon have authorized the serV-
ing OF drinks to a freshman OF the permitting
Of others than seniors at the round center
table. carved with its hundreds Of iniiats
Every man whose name was IN the Yale
catalog,,e-eKcept a freshman had twenty
dollars worth Of credit at hory's in the old
daYs. A modest little slip came TO him
through the mail when the limit was reached.
II he then called for his checks Eddie always,
With half apoIo yetc half humorous smile,
brought out the accumulation Of checks
from ahttle pigeoDhole and laid them before
him. Somehow nobody, in strinBency
Of academic spending money, ever asked
Eddie 70 extend the limit And u wac DeVer
necessary TO ask for time in which TO make
payment Fellows who were ever the
limit" paid cash until they we're ready to
settle the bill, with never fear OF dun
or a yearning look from the proprietor.
And never was a bill paid but that the
liquidatfng debtor and all his company
were asked, az though it were the greatest
possible favor, 20 accept the apprectative
hospitality Of the house. Large was the
company Of him who in days when every
body was hard up announced that he was
on his way TO Mory's TO pay Eddie's bill.
The bar closed at midnight. Eddie's
ritual for the ceremony never varied. One
by one the lights clicked out at intervals
Of two minutes apart. he went from one
light to the other as noiselessly as a shadow.
Then. very very gently, the shades were
adjusted One whose ears we're Feyed
10 the sound could hear the locking Of sun
dry doors and the setting away OF bottles
and tobies and pewter tankards IN the bar.
And at last II none Of these soft hints was
enough 70 end the sitting, Eddie would
appear with all dignity and all solemntty
but oil regret, too, and. say: Cent emen,
Il is u O'clock After ten years II Is not
possible to remember when that was not
enough.
But unhappy days came upon Eddie. II
was whispered among his patrons-and they |
were all his friends that Eddie was drink
ing heavily The business was left more
and more to his walters, quiet, smiling per-
sons. who never wore aprons and tried very /
hard to be exactly like Eddie in every word |
and gesture. Then the credit privilege .
was reduced 20 $40, and then suspended ,
altogether.
Eddies misfortunes, and no one could |
bring himself TO say that they we're all Of |
his own making, so far reduced his capital /
that he could no longer cart' the s. 900 or
$4,000 of credit his way OF Going business
required His debtors were always good
nav. He used 10 boast that he had not lost
t25 in ten years. But he could not carry
them, He went down, and others came into
his place.
The present landlord, Louis Under.
st III maint aims the traditions, except that
beer L. now served as vel az ale, and for
nearly ten years Eddie had been dependent
on Linders charity and that Of one or
( wo other old friends for such living IA
he had, giving in return to Linder, at any
rate. what he could impart ofthe traditions
Of Mory's.
When the Yale Club here In town moved
into its present building number Of its
members felt that its grill room was a
proper place for Eddie TO superint end
Tor the rest OF his days. He braced him
self with a new interest in life and all seemed
to promise well for him. But the out burst
Of affection and Of "reminiscences and re-
newed acouaintances which came upon
him in his frst night in the new place were
his undoing. He was not seen there again
and few Of those Of whose pleasantest
he wac a great part knew what
had become Of him.
Laurence IrVinE's Wlfe Gets Court Order.