Show men of 0 f immortal memory mi am N A 0 t 7 1 7 nw ALMS OF X 4 W de wa N A 07 14 1 evohn pa X sit asit a f it ARM r OZ r f i IN M V ah IR mains an giralt ab je c the yo ell if the J by CHLOE ARN ARNOLD OLD it happened rather oddly that the day bill dimming cumming went away I 1 discovered the monument after ill all that daiy adny was quite like a barrio barrie plays play so 00 humorous and pathetically sweet that flint it left one feeling like laughing and prying crying at tho the same time bill was the lie first boy from beld vid to enlist in 1917 when ill his country 8 called on her sona son and do was going into cemi at NInn niantic tIc conn in BO an american liou household lebold from scotland such as aa this Is in of courso course ilie lie ter came to supper that sunday night that was no as inevitable as quotations from dunis burnal poems at table for durna burns Is 13 a lierd herd here just as aa velt and joffre are everybody talked a great deal and ate little the minister told of how a descendant of hannah dutton that heroine dear to tho the hearts of all young readers of history had helped serve meals meala in a rhode island summer hotel hold where he had spent his fits vacation dill bill talked about automobiles TI then ell tile the time thus caroo for him blip to go 11 lie ina had sad beforehand that ho no wanted to take his bag to the station alone ile he had seen the bo departure of ills his company from the bridgeport armory the day before and lie saw that a farewell cannot be too quiet quiel just us as he be went on off tho the veranda the minister took ilia his hand god bless you kill bill lie ho said very low but we all heard it and it made the moment a little more solemn than we could have liked there wua was a mist mint in mils bills eyes for or a moment but nobody noticed that any more than they did how lite hla mother went into the house very suddenly denly however those who understand will understand all about how bow this was just hen I 1 set out for tho the post office for those who love rustic air and the mild monotony of the night eight insets songs few walks afford more quiet delli delight lit than tho the saunter down for the evening mall it Is a broad thoroughfare arched with maples whose leaves are silver in the moonlight you may meet some townsman you know perhaps it driver of some come delivery automobile and he will pa pam with you a staccato greeting smooth flowing conversation seems somehow out of place at tills this time of day U DOUT BOUT two hundred yards I 1 I 1 from the danbara road which turns abruptly from the miln street to la ridgefield nud and among the bills out of cf sight the aument has bc erected it stands so go by ahk tb that ahe the village folk who pass it detary day would hardly havo have noticed it i vh croaa those who pass in n their long ions steady to the n mountains I 1 by motor would never dream unit that the ho hillock was once the scene of tt a bloody battle the monument la Is inserted in in an old gray stone alone fence which was put in alilea by tho the fint lent hands of the colonists in tho ilia stern old times anti and it sturdily defends intruders from its I 1 to inclosure to tilts lay day the carved letters seemed to stand out more on tills his particular sunday and I 1 rend in deafen def no ot of american In depend anee at battle of april 27 nn plea died rAT PATRIOT niOTa 13 wh alio wr laid iid 1 n th cheso isrin Ss con by SIXTEEN BRITISH SOLDIERS BOU lIEna living their enemies en emlea dying their ir guests in honour of service find and this memorial ito Is placed 1 for the strengthening of hearts I 1 1 until live avo years ago alio battle of ridgefield was unmarked and existed only on one of tile he at pages in tile ho his histories though tho ilia an dent and well hickory designated the graves and by it miss bliss alary olcott reckoned whore where to place tile tho when tills this battle WAS fought roost most of the men of military ngo awny away with Laff lyette and other generals they had no ciomo guard such buell ns as parade in full rig about tho the station grounds of fl a friday afternoon indeed gioino soy eny flint most moat of ilia six hundred undred li were men inen seeking nd adventure venture under arnold for lie ho was ns then a pol vular hero her anti and h he directed file lie principal defenso defense against the british no one ling ever known the names of the eight patriots Pot riots and some english mother in IM 1777 wondered nt at uit luit u it what enot at in the wilder ties fesq in america they hall hurled burled her boy tito were nil all burled buried in one grave the ho americans in mother another tile the tablet pays equal honor to ench anch and it la in placed only for the strengthening of hearts on that sunday morning ln in april 1777 1771 the colonists needed some defeli title sign ot at success in their struggle glo with the enemy and with the he stubborn wilderness from which they had to how hew their homes indeed it was but three years afterward that washing ton was inquiring whom lie he could trust 3 ao 10 OVER NOlt TRYON MON who for personal reasons had no love for the rough dragoons of connecticut was chosen to lead tile the british against danbury lie ile knew the country unit lie he still remembered how flow the connecticut troops had upset the type for or his paper all over the streets of new york so go with 2000 men ile he alsem barked from the 27 ships tile tha sent to coropo compo beach near westport and went off to danbury where tho the colonists hod had collected collect od their supplies while tryon was passing through where mark kwains twains house still stands he shot up a church by way of something to d dut but vien hen he met arnold la in he was not hard put pat to it for for a while st nt gelist the no british bad 2000 nen the th americans but OW but bat anolda men hold held out agatus them they could not get through until they sent gen eral agnew with men and ami attacked lite lie americans fron from ilia rear arnold gave orders to lite his men inon to rent allied aided liy by beneral hell bell its 1 fought oil until ills horse was shot ills toot foot became entangled in the stir rup nip and it tory rushed up you tire me my prisoner I 1 lie ho rel yelled lett not yet arnold ainold said lie ile shot tile the man dealt dead remarking that one live soldier won was worth ten lei dead ones llo then ran ann to israel comp camp now park twelve aoa awny after tho the british by hit reckless courage tito tho british kinra 40 on up the ilia village streets which are now na as they were then lien nut dut tit alio wounded of both sides were acro taken into info aikaa sarah stebbins house anti and ton tenderly derli 1 cared for her house tood stood benr where enry Ol Olcott cotts 8 ilos doft now and tile tho old buttery door pierce by tit any shots and a cannon inal Is ut tit ilia ho olcott house tile the soldiers drs who died on tho ilia lold field or of their wounds tho lie ones onci to whom aiom lie ho stone van a raised tryon know flint lie he was not popular with ilia most of ilia of ingers so lie ho plundered n good many of them taking everything they had and they alicy had to appeal to the lie general for help life 1118 men ulso also burned tho ilia keeler griat gilst will mill und and not bet fire to taqui I 1 in that tant day efte 10 ofil keeler favor anvern n was the favorite inn op on the way to fl koston blonton onton trion livard moreover that the ho patr patriots loto were milking making ammunition in it so he mounted tits his guns in the tha episcopal church find and fired ok 6 the ho pra oil a while tt it fared ill III with the ilia tavern but na as innkeeper keel or er scald later inter it who folded by the ilia grace of god and the strong nobu wind L A tor torys s house chood directly boutil of 0 it itch to io burn merrily tills annn got tryons permission to put out the ire but when ho he told keeler whom lie he could thank for saving caving his fits house keeler attributed lite hla good fortune to t other sources just na as the cannon balls commence tt to fly gayly through the tavern a man was coming down ile iio howled that flint he fie was waa a dead man that flint ho be was killed but like all who nho ninke make such spirited declarations of their death he was unhurt and ran away to moe with the rest for a n long time atter after itta the lie keeler tavern woe was kept and continued in favor with travelers tra vetera washington and lafayette are supposed to have hava stayed there though there is nothing to prove it however for or one old house it has distinction enough for certainly pickering comte do Ilo blocham cham benu beau due duc do de laudun biron oliver wolcott walcott and lieutenant governor Oo Go vernot treadwell also jerome bonaparte bonaparta did enjoy KB its hospit hospitality allty altogether the old taverns fortunes fortune are enviable for tt it la Is now cheri cass gilbert the architect ci spends tilt ht Bum mcra it la Is colled called cannon bal house bouse and the main part li uti un changed even to the partition ou on thi th second floor which they used to pw pir up to make a largo large ballroom A wini win Is added in the tha rear aud and a foun fo tale from gilberts hand makes more beamut the end of that thai one fine old street |