New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08
Tributes TO MR.. LLOYD.
RESOLUTIONS BY HIS COLLEGE c1Ass-Yrws

PAPER OPINIONS.
The Class OF 20 Of the College of the City OF New
York, with which David Demarest Lloyd. Of the
editorial staff of the Tribune, graduated, met at
the Offices of Billings & Cardozo, the lawyers, No.
100 Broadway yesterday morning and adopted the
following resolutions:
We the members Of the class Of 1870 of the College
Of the City Of NewYork, express to the wife and children
OF David Demarest Lloyd, deceased clasTnae- our
at tho loss Of friend her husband and their
father
Studied words at such time not consonant with
his feelings and would do violence TO our own which
are too TO be cast into set forms
Loving tenderness high purposes fahfulness In work
characterized brothers life.
The true journalists exaclng task gratned his wrong
resisting nature while the dramatss dro humOr yelde1
TO him the luxury mental effort.
But him before the public did. and loved him
too. We feel that lives now that he has
gone. We shall always cherish his memory as one OF
the sweetest and peasan,est Of men.
His life was full; he knew the happiness OF nome the
nobility intellectual labor and the sweets Of success
Men must endure
Their going hence. even their coming hither;
Rpeness is all
To his loved ones we bring this tribute In recognition
Of regard for him.
For the class.
New.York, Sept 2, 1889.
MICHAEL III. CARDOZo.
NATHAN CLARK. JR..
SAMUEL NJ. JACKSON.
ALLEN LEE SMIDT
CHARLES A. KGNCH.
JOHN ii. MONTGOMERY,
CHARLES b. JESSUP
"The Philadelphia Press" pays the following tribute
to Mr.. Lloyd:
David Demarest LLOYD whose sudden death this
week leaves a gap in New.YorA journalism not TO be
filed, was one of those and noble sprts whom oy
the later scope and recent opportunities OF modern Jour
nslism have enlisted and interested in newspaper WORN
To all the high ability and higher aptitude needed ~
he hest of
Which enpobled and dignIfed all the fruits OF his
ia5oTs and these in the exposures of corruption in
political reforms and as corre pondent ana ieaGer
Journalism. His successful plays had Of late years
made his best known TO the public as one OF the
few American playwrlghts whose purpose WAS as high
as his success was certain: but in the walks Of the
great calling In which he was one OF the Few carry
those men who enjoy the inestimable privilege by
their presence and attainment OF dignlfying their
profession and rendering It's drudgery easier TO Others
by the light of their example and personal influence
II there IS much which now and then usCourages III
who knew him could always feel that the work must be
a man like David Demarest Lloyd
The Albany Tines says:
The death Of David Demarest Lloyd Of The Tribune
Is one of the saddest misfortes that have happened
10 vppg man iigh in the ranks bright in all its varied
departments with brilliant future and mos1 interest
ing ycu n wsIRngalone wa enough to crack the
brittle chord of most promising life
The New York Law Journal said yesterday
The journalistic and dramatic professions lose
bright and promising member In the sudden taking
away of David Demarest Lloyd. Only thiry-eght
wears of age a hard worker and careful writer II Is
sad 70 think what he might have accomplished had he
been spared for few years longer To those VINO
worked win him as an associate On The tribune, OF
hecams intimate with him elsewhere. he Will always
be remembered as a and sympathHmg fnend,
and one who was anxious TO do his duty to the DeSt
of his ability in whatever position he might De-
The funeral will take place at O'Clock to-day, al
Mr.. Lloyds home No. 135 West seventy seHenth
81 The Rev ]. b. Wasson who was TO o1clate
viii he prevented from attending by illness in his
family, and the services win be conducted by the
Rev Henry O. RiddeL of Emanuel BAPTIST ChIrh
Brookiygl The pail bearers Will be Willlam II. Clark
Frederick l. UnderbiI, Talcott Williams. l. NJ 10
dincg Edmund Clarence Stedman, Isaac NJ. foIu,
Hat LYMAN and William H. McElroy. The burial
will be in Woodawn Cemetery.