The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-03

wholesome. According to the record his personal charm was irresistible, his manners full of grace. A gentleman of this city who knew him during his college days, wrote of him:
 He was almost six feet in height, perfectly proportloned, and in figure and department he was the most man ly man I have ever met. His chest was broad: his muscles were firm; his face wore a most benign expressions; his complexion roseate; his eyes were light blue and beamed with intelli- gence: his hair was soft and light brown in color. and his speech was i rather low. sweet and musical. Ills personal beauty and grace of manner l were most charming. In dress he was
 always neat; he was quick to lend a 1 hand to being in distress, brute or human; was oYerfiowing with good hu- nor. and was the idol of all his &C., 1 quaintanees,"
 Superior. however, as were his phy- sical attractions those of his mind were
 even more marked. He graduated from 1 Yale college among the first thirteen
 of his class. He is to be numbered with that small group of men who find it DO ssble to excel both in athletics and scholarship. Many boys who have heard of his famous leap on the college green are unaware, perhaps, that he was admired as a brilliant debater,
 and that he won high reputation for
 scholarship. Dr. Jared Sparks wrote of
 him that he possessed genius, taste
 and order" and ''hecame distinguished
 as a scholar To a taste for art he
 united love of scientific study This
 last is curiously interesting when we
 consider those traditions of classical l learning under which he was trained Though required to teach Latin in his
 school at New London, we find in one oily situated here. I love my employ | n.ent; find many friends among strang- CTS; have time for scientific study, and
 seem to fill the place assigned
 me with satisfaction I would remark
 incidentally, that it is not so paradoxi-
 cal asNit seems that we often find men
 in whose natures are united, a fervent
 poetic impulse and love of scientific
 study; for consider. and see if it be not
 true, that both poetry and science seek
 the great end of order in creation.
 It does not seem necessary to the purpose of this address that should
 dwell at length upon his career in the
 army. On leaving college he entered
 immediately upon the profession of
 teaching, first at East Haddam, then
 later at New London. It was at this
 latter place that the call came to him
 in the person of the messenger, who rode post-haste from Boston to New York, In resignlng his school to enter the army he wrote the proprietors: School keeping is business of which l was always fond, but since my resi- dence in this town, everything has : conspired to render it more agreeable. have thought much of never quitting
 it but with life, but at present there
 seems an opportunity for more extend ed public service" These words reveal the spirit in which the young school-
 master entered upon his brief career. have quoted them to bring out the
 thought that he was not a professional
 soldier. He was a scholar, teacher,
 drawn away from his chosen calling by an irresistible impulse of pure pa
 triotism. To the very last he was a scholar, one who loved learning, a youth of ideas and visions that lured
 him on to the heights of knowledge. Ii is not without significance that he was
 dressed at the time of his capture as
 a school~lnaster, and that the notes
 found in his shoes were written in
 Latin.
 Doubtless there are those here who
 have seen and handled the diary Of Hale which contains the record of his
 army experience First he is a volun-
 teer in Cambridge, then as lieutenant he renders faithful service Iii the siege of Boston. With no other influence
 than the soldierly qualities displayed he wins promotion 10 a captaincy It is on record that he offered certain dispirited men his own salary if they would remain with the army. As all ) officer he was noted for his discipline his patience, and the tirelessness with which he gave himself to the most ex- acting duties. "A man ought never tc lose a moments tine," he writes in his diary. If he put off thing from one } minute to the next his reluctance is but [ increased" All his observations are oi
 the most practical character. Ut is oi the utmost importance he writes that an officer should be anxious tc f know his duty, but of greater, that he should carefully perform what he does , know"
 We need not finger over those mis- fortunes of the Colonial army after
 Washington's withdrawal from Bos-
 ton. The story of the Long Island campaign, the retreat to Harlem
 Heights, the demoralised condition oi the regiments. one-fourth of the men being on the sick list--this story Is one that has to do with critical hour ir
 the history of the American cause. The British army was in perfect condition
 both as to discipline and equipment : It was strengthened by the presence ,oi a large naval force, Washington him- : self could not see how our army was to be saved from destruction. IL was absolutely imperative that he should have information as to the purpose of +he British commander This could