The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-05-05


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them, and the ladies' personally serv-
ed the soldiers taking the dishes from
the walters
Later during the war crowds rega-
larly gathered in the hotel corridors
to read war bulletins from the front,
which were posted In seveal parts of
the big lobby. Indeed, for a time, the
hotel seemed almost like military
headquarters.
General Winfield Scott stopped
there and excited surprise by his
great stature. He occupied room IL
on the ground floor, and special bed
was built to accommodate him there,
as none that the hotel owned was
large enough.
Another popular war hero who
stopped at the hotel. together with his
family and GengraIMarcy. his father
in-law, was. General George B. Nc
Clellan. The youth OF the city par
ticularly-were enthusiastic over Lit
Il Mae as they 'affectionately called
him. and made the hotel their po-
liticat headquarters while he was
there. So
4 CAAAuE ~khE Wax 1HAtTdtS
Halleck, FURNISHES and many famous
soldiers stopped at the hotel, and
their friends and partisans made
things lively in the big lobby daily
and until late at night.
The worst fire that occurred in the
hotel caused the death of several wo-
men sevants. Not much was said in
those days about fireproofiIng in
building, but the Fifth Avenue was
well built to resist fires, having many
three foot brick walls. Its luck serv-
ed 1t well during the draft riots. Says
Col. Carr:
81 was at the hotel at the moment
of he attack blythe antl-draft rioters
upon the colored orphan asylum on
FIFTH Avenue and ga wthe crowd OF
rioters as 1t came down the aventte
after firing the asylum. The rioters
next sacked the stores in the row OF
tenement houses that stoo don Broad
way where the Stuyvesant house later
stood. They went TO the particular
row OF stores because one OF them
had been used as a drafting office.
1t was a rough looking and dis
orderly mob armed with clubs, crow
bars. old swords and various other
weapons. 1 found the leader and
dissuaded him from attacking the
hotel, saying. in their own manner Of
speech, Let's leave It alone, they
neve hired no niggers.
After being sacked the buildings
were burned and then the guests be-
came alarmed for their own safety. I
ran up Broadway to Twenty-eighth
street and mingled with the rioters,
pretending TO be a sympathizer, and
learned from them that the next OBJ
iect OF attack was to be our hotel.
II think what I said had some eff
feet. for they did not hurry toward
the hotel and were not so savage
about 1t. Then i ran back and told
Mr. Hitchcock OF the situation.
General Mcclellan was not there
but number OF the. officers Of his
stan were and so was General Marcy
and when my story was repeated to
them General Marcy and the other
formed line on the side walk in
front OF the entrance down the street.
OF course the officers were not many,
compared TO the mob. nut they were
armed and they were soldiers, and
any one disorderly move they'd have
men fight.
after a parley the mob passed on
and before night we had brought In
carriages fro mthe arsenal at Seventh
avenue and Thirty-fifth street a hun
dred muskets and a thousand rounds
Of ammunition. After leaving US the
mob went. on down tie avenue and
stoned MAJOR opdyke's house.
The rioters did not return to US
because when they reached the neigh
borhood Of Blocker street the police
were ready for them in force and
dubbed them into fight with vigor
New Workers who remember that
day viii never forget