We regret to record the death of Mr. Chauncey Depew,
in his ninety-fourth year. No American was more appreciated by Englishmen than Mr. Depew in his day'; he was known not merely as one of the greatest orators in the world, but as one of the best story-tellers. His recollections went back beyond Lincoln, whom he knew personally. He used to describe the extraordinary scenes when he himself as Secretary of State for New York State was in control of the train which bore the President's dead body from Albany to Buffalo. All night the train passed through bonfires and kneeling people. The journey was "a continuous service of song and prayer." As legal adviser to great railway companies in America, and as director of many other companies Mr. Depew became a rich man, but he never realized his ambition of becoming Ambassador in London. Mr. John Hay was on one occasion preferred at the last moment. Although Mr. Depew represented New York in the United States Senate he did not acquire there a reputation comparable with his renown as a public orator at great ceremonies. He was such an inveterate romancer that perhaps he hardly knew himself where fact ceased and his own fertile imagination came into play.
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