Show Gen Agramonte Death Recalls Career in S. S L. L I Noted Swordsman Once Fought Duel H Hert er Funeral Held in inS Mexico S Stirring memorIes of the quick the clash steel and tire flash of firearms in the da days s 's when men muon m men were recalled by byn bya n a few a very low 0 of the real old old- timers hero here Saturday with the re- re of the news of the death of General CliL Clarence ence Horace dry cry 3 nto 98 oldest c can n resident of Mexico 1 City The g who resided d in Salt Lake Lake for about fifteen years was isas aL also o the e oldest ShrIner in the world a a. v veteran n o of wars an Orator and j a friend or of AmbasSador Ambassador Ambas- Ambas Morrow and beloved by all the American col colony ny in Mexico l City lIe was i no o cavalier cava cava- lice lier this dignified soldier who made and amid lost more than on ono fortune hut but being a swordsman and fencer often left hint open to the challenge of inen more ambItious for a reputation tion and with such a man he once onee fought lL a famous duel In iii Salt Lake At that time lie he Was vas In the tho United States marall's office under unde Marshal Mar Mar- D Dyer er and already more than fifty years E rs of age According to old timers the Walker House hotel then stood on time the present site sHe now occupied b by The Telegram Agramonte Agra Agra- monte returned one omme day to learn that a stranger lad had boasted or of his skill as a fencer In the lobby of the hotel and hIs friends had at once arranged arranged ar- ar ranged a 3 match between Agramonte and time the stranger CROWD ATTENDS I understand you rou have hae wagered a largo large sum of mone on thIs match said Agramonte therefore I 1 wIll not enter It If it was just for sport I 1 would not mind But all the money you ou had on deposit in tIme the hotel safe lisa has alSO II Continued on Gen Agramonte De Death tb Recalls Career in S. 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Continued from pac 1 been put up said one of his friends You have Ive me mc saId 01 1 1 Td it At p I sll of a a gr montes monte's i Cro opponent was wa an n athletic tc man fuH fully twenty years ears younger tItan than the general They shed th ir co cottS s rolled up sleeves to the eLbow and selected their theirl l tipped wih red bane Twice left a a mark maLk on the tho bie bite shirt or of the tr younger man but the they continued to fence and Parry Then Agramonte growing tired tred ot of the play with wih cL 0 stroke rapier from his antagonists antagonists hand and it high into the Tire shouts d. cro th t went up angered the tho IU If it was with swords I would ou to tho latest fashion h he Swords let tet i It be bc said Agramonte Agramonte Agra Agra- monte now no fully tUly angered at the tho strangers stranger's lack Jack of sl The Thc duel took place at the present site sie of Liberty park Tills This th Q when A Agramonte left lef his mark blood followed and the stranger crIed out that he had had enough Agramonte W was born birn in of distinguished English and Spanish o lineage Ho He was educated in a aFre Fre oh military college Later the family went to Spain and thence to Cub Cuba When hen Ute tile first first Cuban war for Independence independence in- in dependence broke out Agramonte who was th then n a large property holer tok a prominent part in the me mer r rebellion belon All hb possessed was taken over b by the conquerors the ti white yacht Jacht on which he used to sail si to New ew York The Tho was fl witness of the Ule ramous charge o of tile tight brigade at ava In the Crimean war aM tle si g of Lucknow in the tilo 1 11 dlan dian Ifo Ie was wa married maried th ce times and is survived by a widow a ason ason son and grandson in Ill Mexico by lila son C. C Young o at Salt lAke a daughter Clara Young Youg ot of Los Angeles and two sons sons in Ln- Ln Lon Lon- don FOUGHT FIvE WARS He twice French dec dec- oration oraton ot of the legion or of once olice In the Crimean Crimen war val and once onee from Napoleon III II when Agramonte was visiting Paris on the staff sta ot t General Gen Gen- oral eral Phil Phi Sheridan Sherdan He served serve ill 11 the Crimean war var the Indian Indin munty the Maori uprising the first Cuban war ot of independence and the American Civil Civi war in tile the Civil CIvi war wal he was on Ute tite staLl ut of General Generl McClellan with th the army of o the Twice he filled important diplomatic diplo- diplo matic missions for lre ident coIn Somewhere there are two pictures pie pie- tures showing him him seated cioe to cose President I Lincoln at staff meetings lie He had been tile the friend frend of every ever ambassador to Mexico for tor forty years On IrIs his ninetieth birthday hale and aDd hearty Ite he smoked strong cigars and drak toasts with hi friends The be American Amen Ameri- can colony guve him a surprise party part at tile the American dub club Ills HIs title tte of general was received when ho he was wa general of the tue national g guard ad in Maine He w was s proud of ills his American citizenship nd Il- Il l- l wa ways s 's retained It i. i lie le practiced law up until th time of his lis death In 1909 he lost a a. great fortune in a newspaper in Mezio City I i Ills His last shows him hm proud prud I and erect his white goatee goate and moustache and flashing eye giving him the air of the gallant glant soldier and nd gentleman to the last lat MEXICO CITY March 16 United Press General Horace Hore Montgomery cry ery y 9 98 veteran of five n wars and the oldest American colonist In the I capital capita was wa burled buried late today tody in U- U ancient National Na- Na tona cemetery among var dead General Agramonte died while he slept Thursday night Although 98 years old old General Agramonte died before his time When I get too old to look at a aw w l ed ankle I want to be lutIn put lut In my grave he boasted recently and although infirmity and illness iness increased with the passing years yeas the general genera In recent months sun still sloped his bourbon smoked innumerable merable and ogled ogle the pretty pretty pret- pret ty girls of the capia capital |