St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-22
TO Be Laid AT REST.
The Funeral Of the Late E. M.
Wilson Will Occur
To-Day.
The Feeling Tribute of the
Hennepin Bar to His
Memory.
Mayor Babb Finally Comes
Home and Babbles Some
More.
Cuttings From the Courts and
Police Circles--Notes
About Town.

WHO llau gone TO SI. raul 10 lilGCG Illenl.
The committee from the bar association
met them at the depot, and ushcred
them TO the carriages in waiting. The
funeral services will be held at the Nc
Nair residence, 1901 Lincoln avenue, at
2 o'clock this afternoon. The services
will be unostentatiouS and private, only
the intimate friends of the deceased.
members of orders to which Mr.. Wilson
belonged, and his law associates taking
part. Rev. ID. j. Burrell will officiate,
assisted by DR.. McCurdy, of Manchester,
who had been close personal friend of
Mr.. Wilson.
The following are the paElbearers that
have been selected:
George A. Bracket Clinton Morrison. G.. NJ.
l.oring, Judge j. NJ. Shaw, William Lochren.
Judge NJ. B. Koon, Judge Mitchell, Judge
Thomas Wilson, of Winona: Judge Charles
+. Flandrau, of st. Paul; and Judge j. b.
Gilfllan.
The Tribute of the Bar.
Nearly 800 lawyers, comprising about
every member ST the Hennepin county
bar. met in the large court room at the
district court yesterday afternoon to
memorlaliZe the memory of both Hon.
E. M. Wilson and Hon. F. Won Schlegell.
late pro bate Judge. The meeting was
under the auspices of the Hennepin
County Bar association, and was called
to order by Judge Shaw. the president.
There were present as representatives
of the Ramsey county bar:
Charles E. Flandrau, j. B. Busbin, o. E.
Holman, HIS. Horn Frank B. Kellogg, C. A.
Severance, II. II. Stone ii. +. Stevens, n. G..
Hickman. III. R. BigeloW, Gordon E. Cole, j.
NJ. Gilman. John W. Willis. E. G. Squires, G..
B. Young, John L. Townley. j. ". Lusk, c..
d. O'Brien, G. Clark and w. d. Cornish.
At the suggestion of Judge Shaw,
these gentlemen were invited to take
part in the memorial services. Judge
Shaw then mounted to the bench and
meeting:
Judge Shaw's Address.
my friends, l feel day as if l had a
special right to greet you as friends. Ii there
should be any man within the sound of my
call friend, or, if there should be any man
who would not under ordinary circum-
stances care to extend 10 me the hand of
friendship, L should still believe that the
common bond of friendship which unites
each and every one of us to the lllustrious
to commemorate. would Justify me at this
hour in calling you all friends. Probably
never-rarely, if ever-in the course of the
history of this city and community, and our
sister city as well, has such a shock
been inflicted upon the great heart of
our people as was felt when, few
DAYS ago, there was flashed over the wires the
intelligence of the death of Eugene Wilson.
That snock was well-nigh universal. Men
were seen to meet together upon the street
and pass by in silence with sorrowful looks
words not being adequate to express the
feeling in their hearts Many men were
heard 10 say, rs it possible, can 1t be posi-
BILE; that Eugene Wilson is dead? Is it not
possible that there may be some mistake
about this intelligence?'
although Mr.. Wilson was what we may
appropriately call many sided man, man
who seemed to have warm and cordial side
for every class in the community, it is to-day
especially as lawyer that we would wish
to contemplate him. We have seen him
i'll that capacity going in and out
among us for quarter of century
or more Everybody knew him, everybody
loved him. 1t is not necessary that should
attempt here and now to speak of his special
qualifications as lawyer. They have been
an open book before you all for q long num-
Der of years. 1t is only little while ago
that, within a few feet from where stand
we heard his voice pleading earnestly, and
only as learned and able counsellor can
plead when his heart and soul is enlisted in
his cause, for one whom he was called upon,
in the line of his professional duty, to act
for. We little thought then that in SO short
a time we should be called upon to mourn
his departure. But we who are assembled
here have special cause for mourn
ing, above those who, perhaps, though
equally near to him, were no
brought into such intimate association with
him from day to day as we have been. We
have all witnessed his qualities, and particu-
larly his qualities from professional stand
point, and l want to say here something
which, l think, you will all agree with me
in That nothing in human history, nothing
in the contact Of men with men so effectu-
ally serves to endear men to each other as
contests, honorable contests, which we of
our profession have with each other in the
causes in which we are employed. Nothing
serves to bind men more closely together. or
to insure respect for each other more than
such contests as these of honorable OPP
ponent with honorable opponent. We have
all read the history of the days
OF chivalry when n I'm muscular snsa,,o power
fication of men for glory and honor, and we
know that then those knights who fought in
the arena together loved each other. and
loved each other the more intensely in pro-
portion to the hard blows and the close con-
tests waged with each other. And so i'll these
better days, in the chivalry Of this age. which
is of an intellectual character, we all know
that the contact of mind with mind in noble
contest is such as inspires affection respect
and lasting friendship. That Eugene Wilson
was such foe and such friend all those
who have known him, and particularly those
who have for many years met him at this bar
and Wrested with him in honorable contest,
and have been overcome by him, and rarely
perhaps achieved professional victory over
him-We can all testify that Eugene Wilson
was such friend and such foe.
''But, my friends. we are called upon to
bear double sorrow to-day. Within twenty
four hours from the time Wilson yielded his
spirit to the great enemy, another prominent
and worthy citizen ana member of our bar
Also was called upon to pass over the river.
Ny own acquaintance with Judge Won
| Schlegel was limited IN comparison with
that which had with Mr.. Wilson, and there
are those here who can doubtless speak to
| his memory more intelligently and more
| fully than l shall be able to do, But know
enough of him to know that in the compar-
atively short time which he had been here,
| he had achieved an honorable reputation,
| both professionally and as a citizen. He
| was man of great qualities and attalnments,
| a citizen whose integrity and honesty in
| all the walks of life no one ever presumed to
| question; and he was man who. although
| have learned he had right to boast the in
| heritance of noble blood in his veins, yet
never did so boast-he preferred to ground
| his patent of nobility upon those God-given
| instincts and struggles which characterize
natures noblemen. 1t is emlnently lifting,
my Ir1enQS LnaG we SuOulu DIV tulS tiuC pay
that need of respect and honor to the mem.
| orY of these men which they have deserved
On motion to that effect, Judge NJ. b.
Koon, j. B. Gilfllan and A. T. Ankeny
were appointed as committee to pre-
pare suitable memorial of Hon. E. NJ
Wilson for presentation to the district
court of the Fourth district. Anton
Grethen ST., A. LELAND and c. B.
Holmes were appointed to draft suita-
BILE memorial Of the late Judge Won
| SchlegelI, and both committees retired
for consultation. In few minutes the
first committee reported this memorial,
which was adopted and ordered pre-.
| scented to the court:
The Memorial.
Nav it please the court: The members OF
| the bar of Hennepin county, having learned
| of the death of Hon. Eugene M. Wilson, one
| of their fellow members, desire to present to
| the court brief memorial of their profound
| sorrow for the sad event. and of the exalted
worth of their deceased brother and friend.
Mr.. Wilson died on the 10th inst at Mas.
sau, New Providence, to which place he had
| lately gone in company with his wife and
| two daughters for the purpose OF rest from
| the arduous labors of his profession. Having
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