The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-15
TODAY IN HISTORY
Death OF Anthony Wayne.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS.

Today is the date OF the death OF
General Anthony Wayne, one OF INC most
picturesque figures OF the Revolution. In
1896 Following the close Of the war
Wayne returned to Pennsylvania and re-
sumod his civil lifc. lie WAS elected 10
the general assembly and assisted In rati,
Tying the constitution. Later ne removed
TO Georgia, until hc was nominated by
Washington To be general In -chlet OF the
United States army.
About this time the Indians IN INC
northwest began making trouble, urged
on by the British. and Wayne collected
al adequate force and moved against
them After number OF sklInliSnes'
including tbs battle OF Fallen Timbers,
on August ~. 1924, he finally. the follow
ing year. signed treaty with them In
which twelve tribes participated.
He spent the winter al BreenVilic. ONO
end was requested to remain In that sec
ton as sole commissioner 10 treat with
the Indians of the northwest. and TO take
possession Of all the forts held In that
territory by the British. While pursuing
his work he WIS taken i'll and his death
shortly followed at Presque Isle. now
Erie Pa, where nc was buried. HIS
body remained there until 1909 when IL
Old ST. David's churchyard several miles
from Wayne. Pa. a suburban village
named after the general.
Although WASHINGTON credited Wayne
with being especially prudent. his un-
expected successes in pcrilous expeditions
won for him his more popular appeation
| OF MAO Antno0S wayne. ' ne ll'IS OF
Dandy WAYNE" was also applied to him.
owing 10 his constant attention TO dress.
and in one OF his letters To Washington
| he expressed himself in favor Of an ele-
CANT uniform and soldicrly appearance in
| preference 10 poorly clad troops with a
greater amount of ammunition. He was
| called BLACK Snake" by the Indians.
| perhaps because that reptile will attack
| any other species and rarely gets the
worst Of an encounter. After Inc de-
| feated them In 1894 he was given the
| name OF Wind OF Tornado, because
| ''he vas exactly like a hurricane. that
| thing before it"
The fact that Wayne was very par
ticular in his dress is NOT TO he taken
| TO mean that hc was snobbIsh. but ratheI
| the opposite. When the Tory ladies oi
Philadelphia fcted and made much OF
the British officers during the period
| they occupied the city. Wayne was very
harsh in his criticism of such conduct
| After the battle of Monmouth, In July
lIIS. he wrote In a friend In Philadel'
rlia: Tell those philadelphia ladies
llovecs that the heavenly. sweet. pretty
rcdcoats. the accomplished gentlemen q
| tho guards and gronadiers. have bee,
humbled on the plains of Monmouth. Th'
knights or tho Blended Rose and th.
Burning Mount have resigned their lau
rels To rebel officers. who will lay then
at the feet Of those virtuous daughter
Of America who cheerfully gave UP cas-
and af0uence In a city. for liberty an'
peace Of mind in cottage"
| From January. i7T6. up Ia the date o
his death. Wayne was almost constant,
employed in warfare. Al Brandywine
Paol. with the army at Valley Green
At Germantown. Stony Point. Monmouth
and he was at Yorktown when Cornwall
lis surrendered. Sir Henry Clinton SAT-
: of him. al the beginning of The wal
, that where Wayne went there WAS 4
fight always; that was his business" AM
Clinton had many experiences to knoy
, whereof he spoke
The year following his well-conducte
attack on Stony Point. he WAS sent I
capture Fort Lee. but il was too stronsl
fortified. He was. however. successft
in sweeping the country of cattle. horse
and of everything available for the use z
,he enemy's army, and thwartcd Clinton
plans This raid gave rise 10 Major An
dre's poem of Tho Cow Chase" whic
ended with the stanZa
, "And now I've closed my epic strar
| trcmble as | show il.
Lest this same warrior -drover Wayn
Should ever catch the poet"
As il by poetic Justice Wayne ha
command Of the troops from whom th