Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-12


a High Tribute OF Regard and
Esteem.
The announcement in the MORNING NEWS
Yesterday Of the sudden death of Col.
Wm. Z. Wsdley created profound senss-
ton throughout the entire community, snd
was a great shock to his numerous friends,
as the Isst news concerning bis health was
OF 8 very encouraging character.
At the Central Railroad offices and me-
ehAnieal departments the unexpected sad
tidings could scarcely be realized. and one
and all were greatly affected thereby.
During the day the employees Of the car
and machinery departments assembled to-
gsther and S meeting was organized, on
motion Of Mr.. J. P. Mcintyre, who nomi-
mated Mr.. D. D. Arden as Chairman. Mr..
Mcintyre was elected Secretary, and the
meeting was declared open for the eonsid-
Grafton Of such matters as should abe pre-
sented.
Mr.. 7. B. CatherWood moved that COM
mittee OF six be appointed to draft suitable
resolutions expressive of their regrets at
the death Of Colonel Wadley.
The chair appointed as the committee,
Messrs. T. B Catherwood, 6. Bevans, W.
Leopold. r. B. smith, J. Winborn and NJ.
]. Barrett, who thereupon retired for con-
sultation.
After an absence Of some time, the com
mittee returned, when Mr.. Cstherwood, ad-
dressing the meeting, said;
"Mr. Chairman AID FslOa0 WOrEme1l ::
Your committee has honored me by appoint
| ing me their spokesman The vicissitudes
Of life, the ups and the downs OF human ex-
| istence have never been more completely
| exemplified than in the career Of him whose
sudden taking Of We are met to lament.
| Beginning life upon the lower rounds of the
/ social ladder, he climbed step after step
/ with unfsltering purpose and steady pro-
gress: be grasped every succeeding round
L with q firm clutch, whose tenacious hold
| only relaxed when he had secured firmer
/ clutch and a stesdier foothold one step
/ higher. Nor was his onward and
| upward way g progress Of power
over crushed hopes, ruined fortunes or
/ broken hearts of rivals and competitors.
i HIS life was the life OF one who strove with
| all his heart and with all his soul to do good
/ TO his fellow men: the life Of one who devo-
Il
| purposes to the service Of those whose in
/ terests he was employed to guard; the life
Of one who had laid aside all thoughts of
/ self and Of self ACKNOWLEDGMENT; the life Of
Il one whose aim was to earn the right to wear
| the title, Goods nOblest wOrk-an honest
man." And he did earn fright nobly;
and be did wear fright royalty. His was
q life well spent, indeed; his were duties
well performed.
/ "Comrades, you know as l know that
| President WedleY was the WOrkingmen's
/ friend: one of the men who master men has
| written, "a fellow feeling makes us wOnd-
| rOus kind and the fellow feeling which
never, never, never leaves the heart Of the
working man, prompted Colonel Wsdley in
all his transactions with US. look back
| upon my own wasted life, my younger com
| rades, and 1 say to you, here is an example,
| an example that is In Itself an Incentive.
| Keeping before your eyes the same high
/ aims, governed in your actions by
the same honest purposes, 1t is
| possible that you will achieve
the same high success. When you accept q
trust, further the interests and serve the
| purposes of that trust with all the powers
WhereWith q benefieent God has endoH ed
! you, so that, at the close Of your life, life
I in such case well spent as was Colonel Wsd-
| leyis, you will have the perfect bliss Of
| knowing that YOU have traVersed the way
| laid out for you, and have trespassed upon
the rights Of no man. You will have exer-
eised your share of GOd-like power, and you
| will have lived without fear and died IN
troubled by remorse. And now l beg, Mr..
| Chairman, TO submit these resolutions,
| knowing al too well how inadequate they
| are to express the full depth Of feeling
| which possesses this meeting:
WHEREAS, The All Father, who rules the
universe, who giveth and taketh away, hath
seen ut to take unto Himself our honored,
nav, our beloved President and friend,
only fitting that we, the men Of
| the mechanical departments Of that
| company whose colossal success has
| been largely due to his lsbOrs, should give
| earliest expression to our sorrow, q sorrow
that must be shared by thousands; there
fore, be It
"Rssolgsd, That in the life OF our late
President, William NJ. WadleY, we have
! held up 10 US rare example OF honesty
and of sterling integrity, a life whose record
| is one to envy in these latter days, when
| public virtue has become tradition only.
| 8. Resocgs1, That In the result of his labor
we have held up to US, and to those Of
| Younger and of coming generations, grand
! Incentive to labOr-shst labor which looks
forward with high hope to noble ends.
"RsSOIJed, That IN Colonel Wsdley's sin
| gIe-hearted zeal for the good of the com
| Dsny, whose servant ne was, as ourselves,
We acknowledge SIS an example which we
! shall be proud to follow, and 8 zeal which
We hope to emulate.
"ResOlUed, That while we recognize the
genius, and bow 20 the force OF will that
won for him success and raised him to
| power, we win TO record our conviction
! that these qualities would have avsiied him
I nothing If not reinforced and strengthened
by the mightier power OF sterling and in
| cOTruptible honesty.
s'ResOlUed, That We ind q consolation In
| our knowledge that the good men do lives
/ after them
| ''RssOlUsd, That these resolutions be pub
| lished n the three papers OF the city, and
/ that a COPY suitably eDgrOssed and framed
| be sent to the family OF our hOnOred dead. I"
On motion, the resolutions we're unsni-
/ mouslY adopted.
Col. Vim. Rogers, Superintendent, and 3
/ number OF the clerical force in the office
i we're 0reseuf hV Invitation at the meeting.