Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03
WE'RE HERElASTMONTH
GEORGE w. GLOVER AND DAUGH.
TER IN THIS CITY.

George w. Glover, son of Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, and his daughter. Miss
Mary Baker Glover, were in Washington
during much of the past month in almost
daily consultation with former Senator
William E. Chandler, who will be their
leading counsel in the great legal battle
TO be fought in the courts of New Hamp-
shire. During their stay in this city they
were registered at the Elsmere, but few, If
any, of the persons who met the quiet
elderly man and his attractive daughter
knew that they were so closely related
to the Christian Scientist leader, and abso-
lutely none of their acquaintance gained
an inkling of the remarkable suit which
was even then In the making.
A prominent local business man who met
the Glovers father and daughter, during
their stay here, in speaking of the former
yesterday, declared Mr.. Glover to be one
of the cleanest minded men he had ever
met, and "a man apparently slow to anger,
but nevertheless absolutely fearless in prr
suing the path of what ne regarded to be
his duty" This man commented at length
upon Mr.. Gloyer's life story as he had
learned it little by little, and he character
lied it as a story filled with struggles with
frontier conditions from boyhood on.
Asserting His Independence.
at fifteen the boy Glover was asserting
his Independence in an effort to escape the
drudgery of farm work under a cruel task
master the speaker said, and before
reaching the age of sixteen in 1901 he
was an untiring applicant for enlistment
in the Wisconsin regiments then forming
Successive recruiting officers refused to re-
ceive him, and he became a roustabout on
a Mississippi river freighter. After a year
of that his ambition to become a soldier
was gratified, and he went to the front
in the sth Wisconsin Volunteers, and was
severely wounded in battle. During all that
time the silence of his distant mother was
n constant source OF worry. When the war
was over he "trekked' to the Black Hills
country, and Mr. Gover's tales of the
| hardships then encountered are all told
with simplicity and with no evidence Of
vainglory.
Not once did Mrs. Mary Baker Glover
Eddys son express resentment toward
those from whom, as a boy he should have
received kindness, but instead received in
justice. He was deprived of the oppor-
tunity to learn to read and write, which
was earnestly craved. but his conversation
on these points with acquaintance made
while in Washington were sufficient to
prove to them that Mr.. Glover is in every
way a worthy son OF the Mrs. Eddy thai
all her devotees believe her to be.
No Reflections on Mother.
"At no time did any word escape him that
in any way reflected upon her or upon any
act of hers affecting him or his family On
the other hand, he was outspoken In con-
demnation of the coterie who for years
have surrounded his mother and who in a
constantly Tightening circle have for their
own selfish ends so hedged her about that
no one of her old-time friends nor any of
her blood could gain access to her presence
save at rare intervals and then always in
the presence or within hearing of those
who had her in their control.
The legal proceedings begun yesterday
in New Hampshire courts will. if the clique
surrounding Mrs. Eddy be worldly wise,