Show f I Vho O REW A Y UP Rf I Ob EG i OT a Charter from the State of New NewYork NewYork GOT York Superintended the Drawings and Made So Many Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars That He Cleared Cleaned Up All the Debts and nd Endowed the College with a Fortune o 0 IW 1 R men have havn loft left such n a 1 II I pr pesos ss upon ulon tho the life Ilfe of ot America F l as IM q I Nott For Jor more than thanA A I H If f a 1 century he ho wan W II proem as na an nn educator rM r e na i a r f piling rp men and BB IB n a temperance ad 1111 vu nt lt U AM V the th Inventor of ot a mini of or II in IK coal cout for tor fuel rl j i ill did II R RN much n ns no nn one ratan t I i d I th Ih material t vr of f this thin I 1 linN Hut But tin try II j MI vl Hi h ugh the long lanK per p I I t f rr r h stands out Jut ex event oon on more prom t I n i i n a i financier He n th Ih the treat M r nn i r if ot the men who hdA I s h ti t u Mm farad aril and nil fortuno f within the i t Ir Ii i iri d t through the th f r i a J ii s Interests Dr Nott Lott Notta lItt lItta a I w fit flea t 1 Ir r ef et America U u n t i Ir i l til or of f college coll t at attim Nh tim hn n 11 11 Ix N S NY Y he effected efte INi a 1 in mr mer r gr r f r II I tt ry lo of ot the Rm rom romI I i M STil il fr f i the ht nf or hit his hi ti n I Mi hla f r I hod t v nt ie century n f Ida his fl II 1 were nou 1 1 subsequently Rl at ii td I a r I L Ill Th painful III tol f rr i r rat ai III years Yo for r and there nv jL pen even n nin 1 hc in i but Dr Not Nott ur i l th nou R Rt hIv both bOlh as 1111 c ct t i r tIn th mid Ind his hla hi methods method V t 1 r r i I N ott Il t tonk iok the th pr III ney n 0 r I n 0 In 1891 when hen ho he h wad 1 I rI 1 d lie hp would have i itt t i i rr m that I lays B than thun n a nM 1 ar M ir r r Intel hater h he trw W In to t he hI the th thI thel 1 l at tt It n r t i nR if f t America A Yet Yel that In Is Inn I Ix Isern ern n x I i hap it tame came about At it t tim r N oi n a as the pastor of or a n l large rt end and andi i r t Inn hun ill h In Ihn Union K f r whir luch he h wets trustee waa n 1 p X j in C i it but n a 1 few fV years old III It lJ ii f lain hara and tens WIl badly hailu In nf l lf f r fu fuI lt It maintenance tilt t Ir lun hn h n regarded 1 ns as R a frontier t n f r Kr great it west Tho The college had hall HI Lr l 1 hr r 1 In nine years je r Dl DJ i nl j I I N Nott itt took look hold Itol l new ne life nt n r g through the tit entire canon n It I urd rd wai WI reduced from fromIa 1 I Ia i t I t V 41 4 a It week eH k so eo o as aM I to tn attract V Yet ct i Ith tush the entire exle ex x xI le 1 I f r the th Institution wi wore re little ih dh t I r a 1 pAr the income from fromi fromN N i s ur rs failed to 11 01 to rich J m 11 ll THE TIlL I TT nY STARTED Th tr r 1 a lIr of ot rw York stale mate tatt was wasn Il IlI I HI n i I pretty v bid bd way then III n en o thero there therol theroS S l 1 f ir r the college to ho he looked fr hr i n that hat direction To Dr NotUs r 1 tl I nand in I the th only of getting ae i to 10 o ht help Ip the college and of or get r i it n u I kit kh wn was as by bv means menn of or a lot im v i irr r the of f the Institution rr r n i r ere almost Illmo aI m oat l as many man lotteries lott rles In Inc inda c dix da a IB ta there werE hanks hank and anil anili i hl r r cf ot gambling quite quits an as I V A II I thi th stop tRI tati I i In despair at al hey heying be beIns Ins ing unable to 10 ct It the lit mone money that hat w was so 0 urgently flooded resident Nott pro proposed proposed posed po Ill that I Union college co III If 0 should purchase pur chase the interest of ot all 11 the Ih other In Institutions and assume the management of the Ihl lotteries Nott NoU person pernon personally ally effected the merger rid nm prepared a Il new nos h for far th the drawing he ho hav having ing bt teen i made the lito 01 or of or enterprise The Th state authorities do dorid rid 11 d that to tn meet the Provisions of ot the art Rr to 10 pox oever r the expenses of or the management and to 10 the grants of nf there concerned l the whole amount of tickets to be he h drawn draun Would bo bl SOO 00 and that the drawings must ho he completed lod In III 11 years Jear Ir The Tho amount of or the ticket to 10 be he b sold old was WAil xa fixed nt at a 1 sum um BO en o that 15 16 per p r cent on do the prizes prize x would produce the Ih U i 0 required The Tho law fixed the th compensation for tor management at nt 1 16 tier per cent on the sum raised O 0 OI TUB rm ME Owing to his position po and to his III other ether duties Dr nr Nott nIt first made mad a II contract with a firm arrant of or vendors of or lottery lOUI tick tickets ets 18 to sell 11 them on a commission and subsequently sold said the th Interest In the college to these Iho brokers 1 for far The sale of or the tickets was WR not net as brisk briskas Ik Ikall an as nag n AS ae expected and the ticket t brok broker er ere n defaults defaulted In their payments I Dr Nott Nett took aver Or the tho control and Rn about five Oe jeam ears eRMI later hater a crop erol of or n f cults fUIt and Rn d at Ian In arose ro At first the there e concerned only the ticket brokers I ai air X I r r rI J I r o I x i 1 I 1 M fit I d 1 UI ar an nM the mR and selling of ot stocks on Oil margin mar n are arn now no and ex even en ene lees Is e condemned b by moralists 1110 Dart Dartmouth Dartmouth mouth and Harvard colleges AS us well 11 oa as asman many man mall other educational institutions Institution of or lesser leuer note had hM employed ed this method methol of nr raising funds fund unsuccessfully f Ur Dr Nolt Noll applied to the th state Into legislature to secure an for enl col college lege The answered by au nu four lotteries rles to 10 b I to drawn draun to Produce for this purpose l otti in those days daH dR were iere not man managed need aged n ed with the same mp skill skill and expedition now nox characterize them In the countries where they still flourish Tho The drawing of or the Union college lottery waa B not 1101 completed until 1814 1811 nine nino yearn earH after IttEr It was wa authorized and Ind the thenet thenet net result was waR GI q Dr nr Nott then Ihl II made n a new effort and 11 1 secured the pas pS passage fo sage aK of an nn act by b which w were authorized to tf raise rals the following sums um For Joor Union college for tor Hamil Hamilton ton college for the Ashbury A Af Ar church In New f 1 York MOM MW for forthe forthe the tho College of or and lUll Surgeons Surgeon and for the Historical society lY These These lotteries WHO Mere a nil as Illy lily managed ns as a their predecessors 0 The state It ap AI appointed appointed pointed managers ma nn pr for each of ot them tho m and paid them regular a arl Annual salary a H Il was ns n for tar the Interest et of or th the managers therefore to make mke their jobs lobs last lut as IS a along long as nil and so 0 from 1814 to 10 UM 1 2 the tho Institutions In to be he bene benefited aled realized d nothing from these loiter lotter lotteries Ice ies Union college III vas 8 kept alive II II 0 bj by I r ad n 18 made to It tt from time to time by b ind rani an Dr Nott hut but later tater I 11 is w worn Nn ern drawn Into the Ihl legal Ill I It I was R Raile alleged aile among other r so bitter hitter was Willi the t that I Nott Noll had used the funds of nf the thi college the lottery luller fund for his hili private IM t n ii Ot and had greatly augmented his hi fortune thereby It 11 all IlU ended years later Inter In ISIS 1816 In Dr Nott paying the Union college Whether this largo large sum Mum was a In sails faction of ot the tho debt as 18 i claimed t by II sorer some or r was wae a R donation us as asserted by h there the college sot got the th money and It Il xa was Ill applied to the of fir scholarships scholarship and other othur puri osei specified In Dr Ir teed or of if conveyance At any rule rate the Ih original source oure of the money waa u derived dlin 1 from the lotteries which I nr Dr r Nott had merged merited and managed with such lIch skill III The debts debtH of or the tho college e Herr ff paid pall and It waa WM left heft richly endowed ondo for the tho fu ru future future ture Dr Noll remained the prest president 1 dent of or the Iho Institution until hie his death In nt the ago alfO of or PI ri PIAs ria As 1 a nn educator Dr Nott was wa the foremost of or his day clay JI H lie followed few tew If it nn An any of this the precedents that had hall been boen laid down by II the h wad adi or of the th grout great Iut colleges and universities of or the lime time In reality roo II t he wo wa wee a generation In nd HIt advance vance of ot the lu da day III In which he h lived II d l Flogging for tor p pout petty tt deni wa WI universal x r where Dr Vr Nutt abolish h od eel It In ht Union college and so o 0 earnest and were his hili efforts that ho ha lived 1100 to sex nen tI tho Iha Ih rod cad Interdicted In inmany many other I Tho fh abolition of ot corporal punishment In tho public schools choo of ur New Nets York city anti In iii those thosa of ot other cilia the United l tates Is 18 directly trace traceable traceable able uble to Dr Nott Notts i effort and influence Ill In those da days s too there the e was HUB II a long lonK list Ibl of or college crimes crime the tha penally for tor which was WAil as expulsion and disgrace dl lIr clI Doctor Nott Nail hUll hud a IL thorough knowledge ot of human nature and he punished em each li offense In his him hI own call college In his hie own owneta WI eta generally a II lenient end and merciful m on ono HIS STORY STan One all of or Dr diversions was Willi the raising raining of or line fine HU Ills DutY Duff Cochins and Leghorns Ilhorn and Ill mouth Rocks Rock wore were the der Or apple of lIr his hl is eye eje On one occasion when Impeding his hilt l pou poultry It T yard ard h dl discovered that of or hi hili hia fattest fowls fo I were ere ml missing He De HeIng U InK Ing an Rn Intense l practical man he matched his hie hen house that thaI night him himself himself self olt Along Alon toward midnight he lie saw four youths he lie recognized as R of or hid hl hi college collece creep stealthily upon his hi sleeping chickens lie He made mRle madea a R sudden nol noise that frightened them away The Th next each ach of or these the four boys boss rs r a fL most p polite and cordial In to dine with Nutt at Itt athis athis his hi residence of r their guilt t tor of or an Rn attempted larceny of or the fOwls the Ih night they conferred Interred together but sow W no nfl WR way aj of ot esc escape up With 1111 Stunt hung feet feel they crossed the doctors threshold that evening and with n 1 that they could not con conceal weal enl they thoy seated themselves at It his hIli table I Few w men mn were re more brilliant and entertaining comi rs thin than tho the doctor lie He was w an Rn Ideal Idell host and he exerted himself especially 11 el II II on this occasion to 10 set It these boys boy nt at ras The dinner was WAR a n culinary triumph First there was A chicken soup ROUp Then I 11 after the doctor had pressed e 1 n sec second second N ond helping upon the Ihl youths the per orr wants brought In a huge hU platter or f cream chicken The Th doctor dotor heard heaped the th plates 1016 of or the xoung soung men coca and or rf urged them to tall rail to let I Although tIl e wars nor not e af f C the h treat t they forced themselves to do justice to the chicken In ht this terra form Again and again the doctor pressed them to opt oat At inure more and situ by b 9 the time thine the tho chicken salad naiad was Wit placed before them then the III they were sere r tined filled to In repletion After dinner was W II over this the doctor entertained them with a R lion flow of or stories and HIHI anecdotes In almost every everyone one ens nn of or n A chicken figural roars mor morr or r l less s humorously The box hove O R squirm squirmed ed 1 In III their chairs chain and It with lIh n a nl sigh l h of or relief from e each NIh of or them Hint that they descended then the tI and heard the doctor call eal after thorn them cheerily Now Sew boys 08 I t shall always RIn t be e glad to have bees you come and take dinner with me mIl whenever yet ou feel like Ilk Rat oat RI Ins chicken I take tAk a great deal nf or pride In hr mx fowls and anti It affords mo me much pleasure to have the Ih young men In who wish to 10 In ms my m e enjoy ment of nr them meet under my m roof to tl todo eln do no so This Thin punishment of rat chicken thieves a R tradition of or t tin t Inn college 1 thereafter and the Ih hen hn root roost were fr never again molested In his hlo attitude toward lowAr slavers also hn Dr Nott far ahead of nt hi II ts soy I At n ft time limp when slave holding wart al st I most 1111 1 H a fugitive crept Into Schenectady cIRi Dr Pr Nott Nutt nil ed 01 upon him and nd RV gave JIl him shelter In to hi his hili o own n house When hn the th slaves own owner er r appeared Dr Pr Nott bought bough hl the negro from him for to lOOn 1001 and 1111 gave the Ih IR his hi freedom For many years Ill thereafter this black mart man xi WILl taa u one nn nf of t the Ih characters of th the town lown Dr Nott sit sat 1 him up U In business as asa asa a R hack driver rend and the th min man waa self Ir a RII as long ns as a he hll lived lIed A J VOl AND ORATOR Hard nil 11 drinking vas WA the th rule rulo during the Ih tUsi halt half of nr the Iho nineteenth century It ll was considered no for n a 1 law Iw lawyor jor r or a 1 statesman or even xen a II clergy clergyman man mall to 10 appear In public under the th In of ot liquor Dr Nott founded III Iti Union colleg ono one of or the first firm tern In hI Now New nw York state It still exists Not only that but In Innumerous innumerous numerous public addresses he hI the Ihl evils 1111 of or with terrific No man could excel him himIn In tenting such n picture with all 11 UK its It ghastly details Whenever he hll dally deily delivered ered It a temperance address addre multitudes flocked to hoar hear him lie He was the tha Ort first Ortto to employ colored drawings to 10 show how the of or alcohol on the human syn 8 system tern tem and their exhibition caused mix math mUth h controversy at the time As A on IOn orator either lIhr f In the tho pulpit or oron oron oron on the lecture platform Dr N Nett itt was wIn the th foremost of his dray dB Th Those e w o have haxe heard him hint say ay that the tb I tones ton of or hi III his v ft k e were corp so IlO o t that H R man who did rut not n t understand would pace haxe ha been able to tn form forman an idea nf of r the train of or thought which h he h WH was pursuing Ills sermons or ad RII never ner seemed l mole inure than a R quarter quarter ter of ot nn an hour long although In reality they lasted train from an hour to Rn nn hour and anel a n half tien he h the audience would sink oink hark beck In Its itA it chubs chair after having been IHn holt bolt upright all nil thin that tune time under the th spell ot of the attention that thaI he II demanded When Ahen Dr Nutt died 11 1 he h left Union rol col college lege s II si WIll veil t that It was waa rifle nilI in nf of the lire hest uti n el 1 institutions In America Amerla Ilea only Iii r d Ihn the lire Hev Alon Alone o Titter pater wh was then thena a R professor In Union r liege and aft after afterward i ward aid bei nn fin Epp I ip Hex I r crap eral h of ot their ran IQ achieved in tin 1 1 r hu nR the tho mot molt note j s 1 Iraan Io oller W WlAS was lAS x s bishop hl hop of or Now Nov Y York rk and a It rr rt r rIll Ill pulpit orator nr oJ |