Show reteia betell COOPER OW oli tittles it called th the D dallal 11 or cf W bisila n r t app CA court ailder ali the cooper vi nas as the iho most if f in mo 8 lie W was 0 easily approached and dell bled to 1 chat hat with friends if if all the tied with him by none were printed they would till a large argo TO volumn lama ilia his words wonia acm alerts well chosen ag bo be conked bock back loto into the past and it of ilia MOM times limed when bon bimo annio into ol at ilic file new new I 1 orte ork would ink ask W 4 talk lall p politics lipics 1 I have lived nadir the eaten i 0 of ocal a I 1 tho the presidents or the republic he bo would 1 efte most moet or of the ho prot n local race or itic country it abu 0 famo itimous us ma I 1 have acan 0 cn all I 1 I 1 1 tho great t actor or rod ad actresses s it d b lubno n beyma b none 0 of I 1 the iha playmates rf if my dinv boyhood are arc living flying ho be said mid recently n rev dr bellows WAS my pastor I 1 used to attend his hid church down before fill I 1 attended air dances church on broadway the same damu wh L mr 8 formed curot d into a theatre 1 lien hen I 1 was born barn there were only 27 OUO people in ibis city fily bly mother wits burn born on tho the spot chero here cipar stands elanda st si pauls iura church cli Broadway Vesey and aad it fulton streets bod and she abo remembered the old stockade blockade built to keep oil out tIn indians diana I 1 remember the post mail I 1 rail a ll 11 fence around the negro burial aroun groaned it where fuere stewart a wholesale store wu wee and chambers street I 1 heard beard thom Thoa addis Addla emmet monument ta Is in st pauls paullo churchyard k jo in federal ball at what Is now am it dud aud well wall streets tort breo hours in ID a cue caso in which A mao brought suit as c claimant lair fur for this land and to in lac fact I 1 for several acres extending to duane and it chatham streets emmet was so BO a eloquent an that A be carried tho the jury by alb abo judge audgo I 1 t think it was 9 had bad an idea of tho the equity of the case lad and on 00 account ol of the iho over powering force of orEm emmets mela eloquence the arst words worda chargo charge to were of the jury you must remember that lawyers are paid fur for talking emmal won his CUM 40 lie ile aa oo no doubt honest in bis bin I 1 belief in ID his clients claims cealma but within a fortnight afterward it was found that tho the man w who ito had won wait his bla case had secured it by forged forced papers an and it he bo wait to prison I 1 remember I 1 nas as bout about dion years old id st the time when washington was burled buried that is ho he WM was buried at mount yemen but wo we had a funeral service in old st si pauls I 1 stood hood iu in front of tho the church and I 1 recall tho the event ot at hill bia old v bite horse and its trappings 1 I owe any ellec tas which may have been minic continued mr bit coor conifer largely to lo my attitude in regard to the books I 1 would not put myself in I 1 beir by running rooming in debt I 1 had bad care rower it three trades by the time I 1 was 21 years old one of them on what Is now the corner comer of broadway Dro Bro adway alway and aad chain acra I 1 could make every part of a hat ha nod and for metrical years worked in an in ale brewery with my father to in my 17 year I 1 entered as ap Dren tica to tho the ouch coach making business la in which I 1 TO r marincil four ears till I 1 became ol at ago afo I 1 made tor for my employer a machine tor for the hubs bunsol at carriages which proved cry abie 10 mm ana was llie be first ol of ito im kind in this ibis country when I 1 ws as 1 old my employer offered to build mo me a atop slid and kl act mi me up op la in but buta I 1 always had a horror of being bur bun denea with debt and havior no DO eap cap own ofte I 1 declined ilia his k kind n offer I 1 a himi telf became a bankrupt I 1 have made it UK a rule to pay everything as I 1 go if IQ iba cobrac or bust anything la is due from mo me to any ono one had and the money is ij not dot called fur for I 1 ranks mako it il my business on the last be bc role fore chri ghnaim Ch naim almes u alake lake it into b bl I 1 6 V bust bui neu need place un bill COOPERS I 1 rey HOT dr rabert said to lo a mail awl and T bporter this more log jog that he bad kaona a mr hir cooper A dumber u her ot at years intimately and at though his bill death was waa a ham real shock hock 1 was as no surprise to diio about sir Coopt rB life I 1 lave little to say ay added lit collyer Colly cri bo be lived so 0 o much in t tho he broad light or a philanthropist a and it wait known so ao well to lo all classes 0 or f people that were I 1 to lo talk about his li h estory I 1 could tell felt QU ott little hillo that la Is bew ew hamall lie was a wonderful ninn loan and A very y good 01 0 ilia stock block or of star lee end his recollections of old sure very interesting rod cod to his bla ft ends he was waa tiling to lo talk hour ofir hour of bid early lifo life last february Feb I 1 attended a birthday dinner iven by sir it coopers Coo pira family lo in his bi bollor honor T then hen he bo was waa as aa cheerful and as lull at life a s I 1 had ever seen been him there was no indication fodi canon that it year had passed since I 1 dined nt at a previous birthday dionor lie ile seemed in 10 remarkable mark ablo health and was wai the very lifo life ol of ibo ho never la 10 tile the am beretas conversations we had to gether complained of feeling ill or noxious about him health mr cooper VM wed a regular listener to th ibo 0 services or of all souls soula church chorch of which dr low law was waa t tho be for a long time ile and william cullen were eways seen at tile the morning moraine services rid od cafare mr BIT cooper passed his will year he was nas always to bo be seen la in hlo his pew on oa sunday whither it were tho the morning or c service and ho he morl won waa the bowl I 1 listener lever I 1 ever knew ila seemed BO 60 interested in ILL T what hat the ibo that it was it a very tery great asure to lo see him before too ino with Elt eleasure it a brow knit and lit ll 11 bead beat for word ward with thought souto little timo lima a ago 9 0 I 1 called on him at his bis house bouse and in trio flit courto or of our the ibo subject of ago afo wait wag discussed said he 1 I would lo be glad till 11 love havo foai out clore ears of lira given me for I 1 am in noxious to make inako some omo improve mcc W ia 10 cooper union and then lun part of my 1 lifework would bo be complete 1 if r 1 I ajo could d only livo flou four r years yeara looper 0 free 1 would it dio in CO L I 1 I 1 to hint him that were ill hia it deagro bouc handed him biffl ho be would at the cod cad of tho the tuno time see LO other improvements bod and desire more limo ho he answered that ho he thought oot not but that ho fie wait wai ready to he be called an any y moment it U much auch alro a will and A od ho he was for W va he prepared pre prepared parel fur for death it if ever meat lim aa 1 I remember ft a talk I 1 lad had with him oot ot edg 9 in which he be paid aid that p r I 1 r ian 1 er 0 of 1 g great reputation PU on aad S ability but u who 0 has cioce died to bad CA called u upon an blu bite ono day a nod among oth other r it age doi cussed the future lire they cy ere cro old and tried acted meade the minister and mr hit cooper and when aco tho the clergyman begun began to lion mr bir coopers Coo port belief he said bald ties 1 I sometimes think thank that if ono one hall bs too loo good a time hero bete below their tharo a Is ita ILU reason for him to go to heaven 1 I have had is a vc very ham gjeto good m N but i know pointer poor crea as force turca whose lives live ila 0 been op cat in laft a constant con filant struggle for existence they ban a ome come reward hereafter they have worked here they a bo be rewarded after death the only doubts that I 1 havo have about the future BM are whether or ool not I 1 have oot not had bad too good a time lime I 1 think mr cooper camper went ciotto to my church i fura I 1 became pastor of 0 it itald and before ho he attended alt all boots he visited my church often during his life I 1 have heard board that bo be was u engaged many in writing RU an autobiography but I 1 I 1 elm an vo quite alta confident that it 18 1 noi dot finished it 1 mailer for family lo 10 ilia life hie history would bo be of interest I 1 think I 1 will refer to kosir IT coopers Coo peri life alfo work neat sunday irom my P pulpit L itah lie e nai gret t madau frand to city and be will be deeply regretted by all cloase classes ol of society |