The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-22

bIe. which quickly changed into pneu- mCnia- At times his mind was not clear.
 By birth temperament and feeling Senator PIatt was peculiarly the repre- sentative of New England ideas and of the old-fashiOned Puritan integrity and conscience. Throughout his whole life he kept himself in the most sympathet- ic touch with New England institutions of every kind. The church, the town ship, the farm and schools and all other institutions of New England life were the objects of his keen interest. Par ticularly strong was his love for his native town of Washington, with whose citizens he had always been familiar, and where severe1 years ago he built a beautiful summer home and where most cf his summer life of late years was passed.
 As regards his political and public personality, Senator Platt was man to the last degree plain spoken. While not 8 brilliant speaker, he was a clear and forceful one on the public platform, using the plain Anglo-Saxon speech without metaphor. This plain speaking quality brought him in public as well as in private very near to his constituency and friends, and was one great source of his influence, particularly as in both public and personal relations he was approachable, and never in any sense distant or recluse. ... i Senator Platt was particularly fond of outdoor sport, and in recent years at the school ball games at Washington his was always a familiar figure. It was on fishing, however, that his out door tastes largely centered. For many years prior to the erection of his Wash ington home he had a cottage in the Adirondacks, and along the streams and on the lakes of that region he spent many summer days. As an angler and lover of outdoor life, one of his traits so striking to his friends was his in- difference to any kind of an elaborate lunch. He carried with him on his long fishing excursions usually only little Dread and cheese, but always insisted that a fire should be built on shore at which the bread could be toasted. This love of a fire as a kind of romantic element of forest life was one Of ms most distinctive outdoor tastes. ass
 Probably the most striking feature n tSentaor Platt,s public life was his in timacy with the state of Connecticut
 and it's problems and interests as con- nected with federal affairs. His con
 stituents always found him at the ma
 tionaI capital a ready listener and 3
 prompt assistant in any thing that
 bore upon the welfare of the state which he represented. All citizens oi 4 the state looked up to him with mos
 profound respect, and while intellec-
 tually of of a different mould, his re
 lations to the commonwealth were very
 similar to those of the late Senator % Hoar to the people of Massachusetts,
 During the first two terms in tht
 federal seinate, Senator Platt was no , prominent as a speaker, but it was il those days that by faithful attention tC
 the work of the committee room, ant
 by tireless industry in studying tht
 subject and methods of federal law
 making, that he laid deep the founda
 tions upon which were built his latel leadership in congress. That ceaseles.
 industry in the mechanical work of fed eral legislation continued to the end O
 life which, but for too intense de votion to public labor and duty, migh have been prolonged.
 Tn stature and face Senator Platt wa an impressive figure, more than six fee
 tall, erect, strongly but gracefully built and with features which, above a ful beard, often reminded his friends 0 !. Abraham Lincoln. In private and do , nestle life and the intimate relations o friends he carried the same directnes and simplicity of bearing and of speecl
 which marked him as senator and pub lie servant.