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of their wants, and that the cuisine and laundry depart- 

 ments were looking up. 



We had some rather clever young members of our 

 club, many of whom have gone before. Lane, despite 

 his retiring disposition, still lives in the possession of 

 a large fortune. We had in political ways some oppo- 

 sites: George H. Hoyt, was a most eloquent young 

 speaker, of decided Anti-Slavery sentiments, who upon 

 the trial of Ossawatomie Brown, who made the foray 

 at Harper's Ferry, ending in his execution, went down 

 and appeared in his defence as counsel, and who died 

 soon after. J. B. Shepard, quite the opposite of 

 Hoyt in political ways, became prominent in Tam- 

 many afterwards. Hiram B. Banks, brother of Gov- 

 ernor Banks, fell at Fair Oaks in the war, as did 

 several of our club members. Several are still liv- 

 ing in Boston in mercantile life. Two or three went 

 to the bad from drink, and others I have lost sight of. 

 About this time I met Richard and Peter B. Olney, the 

 former afterward Secretary of State under President 

 Cleveland. I met them for the first time at the 

 country residence of my friend their uncle, Peter 

 Butler, at Quincy, Mass., during the Christmas holidays. 

 They both were then completing their collegiate courses 

 in Rhode Island, and were about my age. They were 

 strong, hearty lads, and of the two I gave Peter B. 

 the preference in looks and manners. On the first day 

 I met Richard, he was spending the greater part of his 

 time in scouring his somewhat prominent teeth with 

 the bruised end of a stick of liquorice wood. He was 

 not particularly attractive, and his countenance was 

 disfigured by a large prominent scar across one cheek, 

 which gave him a somewhat severe aspect, but his cast 



