The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-28
CHALONER BIDS CITY
Appetite FAREWELL
John Armstrong Starts for
Virginia and Will Go Later
to Toledo.
PLANS TO ATTEND FIGHT
Leaves Sonnet Praising n. Y,
Int Urging a Change
- Law.

John Armstrong Chaloner departed
''his" New York yesterday afternoon
with his accustomed flourish. He Is mo-
toring to his Virginia home and then
on to the willard Dempsey fight in To-
ledo. He will come back to New York
in July to press the petition which his
lawyers, Strousand & Ware, have fled
with the Supreme Court asking that
Thomas T. Sheran be discharged as a
committee Of his property and that the
property be returned to him.
Though his family. the former Lieut.
Gov. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler. Sheriff
Bob to whom he sent the who's
Loony Now?' telegram, and his other
brothers and sisters are reported to
have been reconciled to him through the
efforts of the women of the family. he
Is taking no chances on the expiration
OF the writ Of protection granted to him
by the Federal courts to permit him to
press certain libel suits here. He will
not be legally sane in the State Of New
York until the pending petition shall
have been granted him. He took two
Parthian shots at the lunacy lawn
sonnet form-just before he left yester-
DAY.
"My safe conduct is about to expire"
ne bdlu as ne packed nlfnseIl, MS
full servitor. Grady, and his many bags
and books into his comfortable sedan car
In front OF the Brevoort at 1 o'clock.
"And I'm of on the three-day trip to
Merry Mills. From the Merry Mills |
20 to Toledo and occupy a ringside seat
front row-at the Willard-Dempsey
fight,
II am a strong believer in the manly
art OF self-defence. As such l know
hot hA onlx- 60 aIx fha col
ence is to have finish fights, All this
talk about brutality touching a fight to
finish springs from ignorance or n.y.
pocrisy.
81 know from experience that there
IL absolutely no pain In being knocked
out-one drifts of into a dreamless
sleep-that's all Gillard knocked me
out In our encounter In the dining room
at the Merry Mills. March Is, 1909. and
recovered before the count was more
than half up, and rose and toed the
gcrntch-so i know whereof / speak"
Then. when asked about his legal
status here, Mr.. Chaloner replied by
drawing from his pocket a manuscript
containing the two sonnets. They were
written before the verdicts favorable
TO him were rendered by New York
5uries In the Federal Courts but Chal-
oner says the sonnets still express his
opinion Of the lunacy law from which
others besides himself will have to suf-
fer until they are reformed. His manu-
script. the sonnets being inspired by
a quotation from an interview with him
self appearing in THE SUN, Is as fol-
lows
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY"
HAIL AND FAREWELL.
when ! left her twenty years ago. New
doIs was ga. IKE LITTLE srtsn ,wkwsra CIR
al. To-day, when / come back to her II II
like suddenly coming upon that lank four
10 She's glorious stunnins."wohn Arm
sfron0 chaloner in THE SUN, April 6. 1919
l.
kiss my city's rosy finger tips
And w CRY; IAN hail Queen of the Western
Al which a smile doth curl her naughty lips
Those lips OF carmine and those teeth
say: AN hail Fair Queen. Hail anC
IT'S but a little while-and am gone
Like Cinderella time doth break the spell
Like hers, mine eye must rest the cloch
upon.
But am thankful to have Got this glimpse.
May my kiss be like that @ the Fairy Princ,
That walked his sleeping Princess to bIushe
Awake And blush deep for thy grievou
Awake! PURGE and revise thy wicked law
(Midnght-Night of April O. 1897
II.
i love the passion in thy throbbIng veins
love thy yigor and thy Joy of life
love thy love OF battle and her pains
Financial battle and fierce mental strife
love the beauty of thy daughters fair
beauty unsurpassed in all the earth
love their nonchalance and queenly air
me innate knowledge OF their dainty worth
love thy turmoil and tempestuous speed
Born on thy breast thy life is in my blood
plunge deep In thy maelstrom do | need
From time TO time when / feel in tn,
mood.
Reform thy law, sweet girl. and bid me come
NO longer Danish me from this my home
JOHN ARMSTRONG CHALONER
Hotel Brevoort, New York