Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-30
ONE OF THE EARLIEST
 OF YALE OARSMEN
Tribute to Capt. Charles T. Stanton by Major Owen of Hartford.

Major Charles H. Owen of this city, member of the Yale university the Yale creY of 1859 with Charles T.
 stanton of Stonington, Yale, 1881, who died few days ago, paid the following tribute to Lieutenant Colonel Stanton, says the Hartford Courant:
 <"I knew him first as one of the Yale crew of 1S59-that is, I then first lkhew
 him intimately; I had known him as stroke oar of a competitor of the
 Naruna, and had admired him for more than his oarsmanship. It was a far from ordinary set of young men into whose companionship he was welcomed
 when he took his place in the first crew that maae a tally against Harvard. That crew never had a question raised
 as to their eligibility by reason of their standing in scholarship. Including Hez-
 ekiah Watkins. the capable coxswain- although any coxswain, as Stanton
 held with me, overloaded a six-oar-
 the Yale crew of '5gcarried one philos-
 ophical oration two orations, two Townshends and a chairman of the ,, Iale Lit board: and every member
 was an appointment man.
 It was their academical standing
 (and the generous cooperation in their training of the medical authori- ties of New Haven at that day, Pro- feSSorS Knight, Ives and TownShend) that reconciled the most conservative of the faculty to more than a tolerance of college athletics. Stanton was a nephew of Captain Nat Palmer, who, with a younger brother discovered
 Palmers Land. the southwestern shore | of the Antarctic continent, in a 40-ton l Stonington sealing sloop; it is worth mention here that he was also easily ! the first helnlsman and owner in the New York Yacht squadron, maintain
 ing his superiority year after year until | the Henrietta's ocean race. public | Challenge QNH0nnnani6d hV a Dri
 vate note to Captain Palmer to say | that if he entered the big schooner l Palmer that lay at anchor in the Ston-
 ington back bay he would spoil the | fun.
 What has all this to do with a
 memory of General Stanton? Just | this: Charley Stanton was boy after | Captain Palmer'S own heart. Not only was he one of his foretopmeR in the | squadron's race around Fishers Island
 in gale when, as Captain Palmer told me--a proud boy to be his guest-'all I had to do was to carry on until blew the sticks out of them but he was the
 companion of his versatile uncles in | fishing, shooting and over their charts | and shipbuiiding diagrams. It requires | a sturdy mora1-eharacter, nerve, brains,
 some kvetefan quality to make a good | stroke-Coach, Nickalls will tell you l that today. and it tells a big story that | a senior and four juniors sent the | SOpnomore stanton at once to stroke.
 He did not keep the position till the
 race. The shell came with stroke oar- locks on the port side, whereas they
 had been on the starboard side in the practice gig, and some of the crew | found difficulty in changing the hand | on the loom. Stanton could pull any | where and cheerfully took his place behind Henry L. Johnson.
 ''The shell came, only three days
 before the races, rigged for and fur
 nished with ten and a half foot oars,
 or souls. We had been pulling oars l twelve and a half feet long. The
 stroke went to a faster counE It did not take long for us to demonstrate
 that the. number of strokes per minute
 is a resultant and not a factor in a
 rowing problem. But all listened for | the opinion of the sophomore veteran l He said: When you've pulled your oar
 honestly through the water, if you're | going on, you put it in again.
 And so the plendi@ Boy foretold the
 story of his noble life. Patriot, gentle
 man, sailor. planter, handicapped by the most painful of wounds, he lived a l patient. somewhat retired, faithful life
 as loyal to his friends as to his coun- try"