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468 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
he probably had said something and his conscience troubled him. Accordingly
Louie and his clerk arranged for a storm signal if the irate
father hove in sight. A little later this appeared and when the irate
father appeared Louie and the clerk had disappeared and the father sat
down to wait to execute venegance on the clerk and in ignorance of the
deception practiced on Louie. To him then and there appeared the
devil in the shape of Louie's dearest enemy and social rival who suggested
they could not be far away as their hals and coats were still hanging
on the hook. A pull on a closet door was resisted by about five horsepower,
resulting in Louie, being pulled out into the room ejaculating,
"Oh dear Mr. I will never talk about your daugltfer again,"
which he was solemnly warned not to do.
About the time of this occurrence one of Louie's friends said to him,
"Now Louie that ought teach you a lesson, this makes three times you
have been thrashed for slandering women." In his high feminine voice
Louie replied, "No it aint, only twice."
He often promised his friends to remember them in his will and
several times drew Avills doing so, though not the last.
He never married, hut left behind him many friends who were sorry
he was gone.
On one occasion when the militia was drilling on Washington Square
the company had succeeded in getting possession of a lot of Shakespearian'
costumes belonging to a stranded troupe of actors and appeared clad in
these costumes, much to the disgust of old Capt. Leicester Walker. Joseph
Root, then a young man, had been unable to procure one of these costumes,
but in order to be in line he had sewed a large piece of red flannel
on the scat of his pants. He was then very large and fleshy and the flannel
occupied a conspicuous position, as Mr. Root Avore a "roundabout."
Captain Walker drilled his men unmercifully for a while and then
marched the company down to a house on Columbus Avenue, where a
young lady at that time resided that Mr. Root Avas very sweet on. She
sat looking out the window. The company was hailed so Root was
directly in front of the Avindow. The captain gave the order, "Front
face," which brought the red patch directly in the girl's view. He then
ordered "About face" and kept turning the soldier round and round
until the girl left the window and later Mr. Root.
One of the pleasnntest memories of the writer is the personality of
old Judge Ebenezer Sadler. For many years bis law office stood next
north of the building now occupied by Miss von Sick as a millinery
shop on Jackson Street, where the Ogontz garage stood. The office
building was removed to the lot east of the bouse now occupied by
Doctor Blakeslee, where it, is still standing.
Tn thai office building for a quarter of a century the old judge lived
and slept and transacted his business, lie lost his wife in the early
'50s, and true to her memory, he never cared to remarry. lie was always
fond of the ladies and in the season he cultivated a beautiful 'flower
garden, and it was one of his greatest pleasures to give the flowers he
bad raised to the ladies, both young and old. which be knew and admired.