Show 4 fORGOTTEN DV DY Elmo Scott Watson ii i ti l His Reward a Debtors Debtor's Cell THE PilE lIE school histories say that Robert Morris a n merchant and banker of ot Philadelphia on January 1 1777 won a victory for or the American Amer Amer- lean ican cause caus In the Revolution and saved the tile Continental army when he lie started out before daylight went from house to house begging money from his friends and finally got In hard money This he sent to Gen George Washington who was In desperate nee need of It to get his sol soldiers t to re But the school histories are si silent silent silent si- si lent about the man who Robert Morris himself once declared sa saved ve the Ule Revolution D with his bis loans of more than ten times the amount Morris collected on that historic New Y Years Year's ars ar's day an and whom h a grate ful republic allowed to die In a debtors debtor's prison with of ot the h he had advanced It still unpaid unpaid un un- un paid and his body to lie to this this' day In an nn unmarked grave In In fact It ItIs Itis itis is doubtful if a II single sch school ol his fils history history tory contains the name of ot Haym Salomon a Jew Salomon was born In Prussian Poland In 1740 When he lie came to New York some years b before fore the I Revolution he was a widely widely-trav wl ely tra well educated elle uc young young man man and alth although ugh he had bad nc nothing t gain and mu much h to lose b by d doing so be espoused espoused es es- es the pa patriots patriot's cause When the Ule British troops took of New York Salomon Salomo with many other American s sympathizers were thrown Into the gloomy old mold prison known as the Provost but fortunately fortunately fortu fortu- for the cause he escaped an and went to Philadelphia In the Quaker city he quickly built up tip a large fortune fortune-as fortune as asa a m merchant merchant mer mer- r- r chant and banker When the dark arl da days s 's of the Revolution came and the struggle for Independence seemed doomed to failure because of lack of money Salomon through i Robert Hobert Morris l lent len large sums euros t to the Continental congress and In addition addition addition ad ad- made loans to many patriot leaders lender Just as ns his Iris career was marked b by byan byan an early rise to fortune so was It marked b by an un earI early descent to im im- el t. t The The new ie government n t could not or would ri not t repay repay him hint him and many individuals whom he lie had befriended befriend ell forgot to help Saddened Saddened Sad Sad- by this tills l Ingratitude bot both i p pub pub- b. b hI lie and private and antI finally thrown wn into a n debtors debtor's prison he died die at the age of forty five jears ears Pompey the N Negro gro Spy py ArH HALL HALE as was an N NATHAN can spy who was discovered an and paid the penalty on the gallows lI ws but buthis his regret that he e had only one life to give ghe for his country has lins made him Immortal Pompey was was was' an an American SP spy who helped make possible possible possible pos pos- sible one Cne of the time ni most niost st brilliant hi victories victories vic vic- tories of ot the thc Revolution n but his name and his exploits alike are almost almost almost al al- most unknown Pompey P was ryas only a negro slave Pompey was the thc property nud and work man of ot Ca Captain triin Lamb who lived on a a fruit farm arm near Ston Stony Point N. N Y Y then held b by a British garrison In the spring of 1779 Pompey Pompe began hegan selling strawberries straw berries to the British soldiers who welcomed this nd addition Uon to their r radons rations ra ra- t dons ons and became steady customers So Pompey became n a dall daily visitor vIsitor- an and the British took no notice of the fact that the negro was spen spending spend In ing more and more time each day within the walls of the the fort tort fort The They little realized that he was reportIng reporting report report- Ing everything he saw to his master and that Captain Lamb wits was passing this Information along to Gen Anthony An thony bony Wa Wayne ne who was already makIng making making mak mak- ing his plans f for r the capture of ot I Ston Stony Stone Point About bout th the middle of ot Jul July Pomp Pompey y notified the time British officers that he lie could no longer come to the the fort i In daytime since hits his master kept him busy hoeing corn Still unsuspecting Ill ing and unwilling to do without the theother theother theother other fruit which the negro was bringing after U. U the strawberry season seq sea sea- son son was over the rs told him to bring his wares at nI ht nn and gave him the time countersign so that he could pass the sentries Every ery night he was told th the c countersign ri which would admit him the lie next night and this Information wa was particularly par par- valuable to the kind of attack at nt attack tack which General Wayne had planned The night before the time proposed attack at tack Pompey Pompey brought word that the countersign was to be The tort fort I Is our own awn and offered to guide gulde the Am Americans rIcans Earl Early in iii th the evening e of ot July 15 Wayne set out and and the negro led the little army to within a n mile and nOlI n a half halt of th the fort tort lh The final preparations were were made for or the thc assault aud lit dt midnight life Uie ritt k was made malIer r T le cry ri wIt whir 11 h Wn Waynes Wayne's lles men menS t Into buttle the countersign n which Pompey hind hall given gl them Tho fort its Is' Is ur own 6 a and amid 1111 after 1 10 15 minutes rot of bloody work with tho cry ba wa vas Wn true f for r the Americans n. n lC 1981 1381 Western Astern rn J o l ft |