The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
TODAY IN HISTORY
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1910.
Carture OF Major Andre.


AT Tarrytown N, Y, standing by the
roadside Is little shaft OF marble. sur
mounted by statue in bronze Of a Con-
tnental soldier. which bears the inscrip-
ton, ION this spot, on the 25th day OF
September 1880, the spy. Major John An
dre. adjutant general OF tho British
army. was captured by John Paulding,
David Williams and Isaac Van. Wart-"
The land on which this monument
stands was given for the n!,,,l pmrp99se VI by
and an address was made by Henry j.
Rams,,d. a New York editor, on the oc-
casIon OF It's dedication, on October T.,
1853,
II was in March OF i77i that young An
DIRE. then only 20 years OF age, came to
America with one OF the English regl-
ments.
Young, handsome. clever. rull of gay
ETY.. an artist. and poet, he was the
life OF the British army. While the
starving AT Valley Forge. Andre was the
leader of revels In Philadelphia, When
the British soldiers evacuated that city
and went 10 New York, Andre went with
the revcls.
Andre, who had known the wife Of
General Benedict Arnold. In Philadelphia,
entered into a correspondence with Ar
mold and was the agent through whom
Arnold bargaincd, under promise OF q
large reward for the surrender Of West
Point. the key TO the highlands of the
Andre visited Arnold within the Ameri-
can lines TO carry out this trcacnery
He was captured on his return by three
clear the treason Of ArnoId were found
upon Andres person who by his own
frank confessions was convicted as q
spy and sentenced to be hanged. Arnold
by the blunder OF American officer.
got warning and escaped to the British
ship lying in the Hudson, Sir Henry
Clinton, by the most urgent representa-
lions to General Washington. tried to
save his favorite, but In vain. There was
but one way, the surrender Of Arnold, TO
avert the fate decreed TO Andre. This
traitor. could not take. Andre pleaded
for a soldiers death, but the Americans
held In remembrance The fate Of the
young hero. Nathan Hale, who bad been
firnness and the whole British army
went In mourning While the name or
Arnold is forever synonym for trca-
son. the fate OF Andre, even among our
commiseration. Arnold missed the one
chance TO restore hin,seir In a degree.
at least. to the consideration Of man
kind. He might have delivered himself TO
Washington and demanded Andres ex-
change. But he did not. He served with
fervor in the British army. At his death.
according. TO tradition. into which It Is
best not 10 inquire too closely, he called
for his old Continental UNIFORM and a
sword belt received from Washington and
died with these around him.
On September 25. 1890, the first news
paper in America was issued, and was
suppressed after the first number; and
in 1850 was opened the first Russian rail
road built by American engineers. To-
day is the birthday OF Mercy Otis War
rem. authoress OF the revolution G72S);
Christian Gottlieb Heine. classic editor
q72s) Alfred Vail, inventor dsoD: Fe
licia Dorothea Hemens. poetess G792)
James NJ Bailey, humorist known a the
sDanbury News Ean" Gs4D: and the
date OF the death OF Philip /. of Spain
050s). and John Henry Lambert, Ger
man philosopher G77D.