The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-25
THE LIFE STORY
 OF ELIHU YALE Some Interesting Features of the Career of the Man Who Endowed Yale
 College. WAS BORN IN NEW HAVEN Governor of the East India Company and Writer" at Salary of
 Five Pounds
 Year.
WAS BORN IN NEW HAVEN

New Haven's spreading elms, join in the chorus of "Old Eli" how many ever stop to think of what sort of man was he whose memory lives in a col- lege yell, and what he did to cut Il name In history before he founded Yale college? Every Yale man knows that the institution was founded by one Elihu Yale, but how many know who he was? How many know that he was born In New Haven and was
 in Europe bred,
 In Africa traveed, In Asia wed,
 Where long he lived and thrived: in
 London dead;
 and that. besides wedding in Asla," he spent the greater part of his life right here in Madras, where he was Governor for the East India company in l6S1-1692, having previously Q6SD served as acting Governor?
 The record tells very little of Yale's service In India before he became Governor, except that he came out from England in 1872 as writer" at salary of e5 year, says the Madras correspondent of the New York Even Ing Post. He Is also mentioned as hav- ing brought up the rear of a process sion at the time of the proclamation of James IT. His brother Thomas, also in the company's service. was charged With fraud in the China trade, and Eli hu himself was removed under charges (which were afterwards proved false), and left India In 1899, after spending some time in jail
 There was nothing weak about Yale as Governor, and he held a firm and absolute attitude toward the shifty na- tive. The mercantile side of his charac- ter. however, was strongest and lie was not a politicians, but during his rule the company prospered commer- cially, Ellhu Yale had a violent and arbitrary temper. and just how violent that temper could be on occasion may be judged when it is said that he once hanged one of his grooms, Cross by name, for the henous crime of exercis- ing horse without permission! Al the time of his appointment as Cover nor he had served the company IL years, long enough-at that period for him to have become q seasoned Anglo Indian, with friendly and even \ intimate relations with his colleagues | His appointment did not deter him In any way from continuing his friend II ships, and tho registry books of St Marys church name him frequently as sponsor to the children of his neigh sfa. 70 i,a hpiIaa own marriage was solemnlzed in the | fort church est. Mary's), and the rec.
 ord may still be read in the old regis. ter today. He married q Portuguese lady. Heronima de Paicta, widow o II Joseph Hynmers, company servant X The great trouble of Elihu Yales lift N came to him at Ft. St. George (Mad | ras) when. in l6S7-SS, he lost his onll II son, David, the apple of his eye and { H promising lad who was taken iron N him when only four years old. Tn r child was laid to rest in the old for h cemetery near where the present lav 1 courts now are, and on the monumen i which still stands (onc of three) on th M old site over the grave of little Davl M Yale the inscription may still be read VI He jacet, David, illus
 Al honorabiis Elihu Yale, Praesi- m dentis ct Guhernatorls Castelll HI sancti Georgi ct Croitalls HI Madrassiac Natus fult HI May, 1884 Obilt Jan, 16S7-S I'M In 175S the monuments In tn HI eemtery. old even then, were used b MI the French as cover In attacking tf IN fort, and many of them were wrecke HI In tho various sieges, the guns of tn l fort raging the cemetery. The stone XIII except three-one of which Is | memory of David were removed ar HI today form pavement on the nort HI side of St. Marys church.
 lII St. Mary's church still possess, MI four pieces of plate dating from Il I'M seventeenth century. One of these I'M q fine large, and handsome alms-di llO of silver, presented by Elihu Yalc ll 1GS7 one the death of the boy. It Ol| 1T inches in diameter and weigl I| three pounds two ounces. It Is e INI graved with Yale's coat of arms a ||I the words "Ex dono Honorabilis Eli MI Yale, Armigeri, Gubernatoris, An NM 1887"
 I'M Before the time Yale was ma MI Governor 1t had been the custom MI all servants of the company to II I'M in community merchants, write |lll and factors dining at the fort In N|| mi6dle of the day at common tat I'M at which the governor presided. 1T | practice had been discontinued NM Clifford whom Yale succeeded M Yale revived the custom. He resit lI at the fort where he had his own r ll vate house, mixed freely with |Il neighbors, and entertained rig H royalty. Like many of the otl ll merchants, he also maintained a "gi MI den house, but he used it only as |I, occasional retreat for pleasure"
 MI Up to this time the English a |l Dutch had been bitter rivals for |N trade of the east, and whether ,r the two nations were at war, 0 |Il hostility frequently prevailed betw I'M English and Dutch merchants in
 lII east. But the alliance between Fl
 land and Holland, which followed
 ascension of the Prince and Princ
 of orange to the English throne
 1889, changed all this, and not
 did the Dutch and English traders
 tend friendly hands to each other,
 they formed alliances by intern
 M riage. Only one instance is recol
 Il of Dutchman becoming turbulent
 Yales' time, and short work was II,
 Of him. He was turned out of
 ll fort and forbidden to return, uI 7 threat of dire punishment. His n
 was Van Lahorn, and his crime