Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — ANECDOTES OF STANTON. [ARTICLE]

ANECDOTES OF STANTON.

Hpw the Great War Secretary Helped an Injured Man in Pittsburg. The school children of Steubenville, 0.. have contributed the money for a memorial tablet to be piaeed on the house where the great war secretary was born, says the Boston Evening Transcript. One of the Steubenville people who knew him in his early manhood tells of an incident that occurred while he was practicing law in Pittsburg. His mother lived in Steubenville. Stanton was accustomed to return home frequently by boat on the Ohio. One evening when he came od board he saw a poor fellow lying on the forward deck. He investigated, and learned that the poor fellow had fallen through a liatehway and broken his leg. The fracture remained unset and uncared for. The young lawyer went to the captain and asked what the neglect meant. The eaptain replied that the man lived in Pittsburg, and could be attended to when he got home. Making no comment on the inhumanity, Stanton went to the boat carpenter’s chest and borrowed a saw and ax. He took a stick of wood, cut such a length as he wanted, then he whittled out a sot of splints. Then he went to his stateroom, tooK a sheet from the bed, and tore it into bandages. He ordered three or four of the crew to%asslst. The fracture was reduced, the splints and bandages were applied. Stanton went to the cookroom and ordered prepared a jug of vinegar and water with which to steep the swollen parts. During the ninety miles of the trip from Steubenville he sat by the injured man applying the bath. When the boat reached Pittsburg he hired a hack and took his patient to his home.