The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-19
DEATH OF COL, JONES
REVIVES FAMOUS ACT
SAVED WASHINGTON FROM OC-
CUPATION By CONFEDER-
ATES IN 1861.

Commanded Troops That Were Ston-
ed by Ruttians in the City of Bal
timore-Military Funeral Given
Man Who Coined the Phrase,
"Jones, He Pays the Freight"
Binghamton, N. Y, Aug. 49,
Mayor John Irving issued a procla-
nation last Wednesday evening hon
oring the memory of the picturesque
figure of Civil war days, Gen. Ed
ward F. Jones, who died there the
following day. Flags on all public
buildings were ordered to be plac-
ed at half staff.
A private funeral was held at II
o'clock Saturday morning, followed
by a Scottish Rite ritualistic burial
service. The body was carried to the
State Armory where it reposed in
state until o'clock, where there
was military funeral under the di-
rection of Gen. Charles Hitchcock,
commander of the First Regiment,
NATIONAL Guard. The coffin was
carried on caisson with a mounted
escort of Battery c, first field ar
tillery. The regimental band and
an infantry escort of Company H,
First Regiment, led the procession.
Spanish war and G. A. r. veter-
ans also marched. The coffin was
sent to Boston where another fun
eral was held. The body was Gre
mated there and the ashes buried in
Mount Auburn Cemetery.
The scales factory, founded by
Gen. Jones, to advertise which he
originated the famous phrase,
Jones, he pays the freight" has
been closed since the General was
stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
a week ago
Edward F. Jones was born in
Utica July 8, 1928. At the age of
l6 he went to Boston and secured
| a position in wholesale dry goods
store. Here was begun the founda-
ton of career which included a
fortune seeking tour of Barbados
and Trinidad, long service in the
Civil war and the establishment of
the Jones Scale Works at Bingham
ton, n. Y Through his business re-
lations he became known all over the
world as Jones of Binghamton-
He Pays the Freight" being author
of the phrase "He Pays the Freight"
which has since become a current eX-
preston.
Gen. Jones first entered the SER
vice as a private and later an officer
qf the Prescott Guards, named after
| Col. Prescott, the hero of Bunker
Hill. He was subsequently elected
| Major and afterward Colonel of the
famous Sixth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, which, under his command,
was the first regiment in the coun-
trxr n 10 fl4 -
| dent Lincoln for $4,000 men. These
men passed through New York and
Pennsylvania in advance of the New
York and Pennsylvania troops, were
attacked by mob in Baltimore, ar
| rived in Washington on the eve of
| April 10, 1861, where they were met
at the station of President Lincoln,
who, taking Col. Jones by the hand,
said:
" If you had not arrived tonight
we should have been in the hands
of the rebels before morning"
Capitals Fate in Balance.
Col. Jones has been sometimes
criticised for not avenging the death
of his comrades and fighting it out
with the mob on the streets of Bal
| timore. On this subject Gen. Jones
in recent interview said:
THE most important and mo-
mentous epoch in my life was when,
after the attack by the mob in Bal
timore, officers and men gathered
around me and begged that they
might avenge the death of their
comrades. But the line between de-
sire and duty was sharply drawn
when a telegram arrived from Gen.
Scott which said, Let nothing delay
you By my side stood William
Prescott Smith, superintendent of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
who appealed, For Gods sake, Col
ohel, give orders to move or it will
| be too late; the track is even now
being torn up!' The surging crowd
of maniacs yelled defiance. Every
impulse bade me accept the challenge
but l remembered that obedience to
orders was a soldiers first duty"
Although not realized at the mo-
ment, the fate of the nation hung in
the balance. The capital was in i'm
minent peril and the situation was
fully realized by the President and
his Cabinet as we'll as Gen. Scott.
This is the only instance in the his
tory of the United States where the
President and a portion of his Cabi-
net left their official domiciles to ex-
tend a welcome. 1t is generally con-
ceded that the non-arrival of the
Sixth Regiment that night would
have resulted in the occupancy of
Washington by the Confederates.
Col. Jones afterward recruited the
Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Regi-
ment, which was attached to Gen.
Buffers division, organized for the
purpose of capturing New Orleans.
Came to BinghamtOn in 1865.
On May 7, 1868, he married Susan
Anne Brown of Boston, his first wife
having died.
He was a member of the House OF
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