The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-26

FRANK Ii. DYER

THE HERALD has real cause tn mourn this
morning, and SO do the people of this city,
iot .nat matter. 1t is with unfeigned grief
lnat we announce the death of FRANK H.
LIVER most sorrowful event which is re-
coraeo elsewhere in this paper. AS yet we
can scarcely realize that this is true the
event is so sudden, so shocking. SO over
wheiming IN its terrible sadness. 1t was
Oily a lew hours ago that he seemed one of
the healthiest the most active. the most
vigorous OF men; 80 strong and energetic
was he. so cheerful and so forceful that
one would have thought of half the race pass
ing away before the grim destroyer began
thinking OF troubling FRANK DYER. And yet
these lew hours hay g brought I'll at mighty
frame low, have stilled that brave and gen
erous heart have silenced that merry
tongue, have qnieted that active brain and
unceremoniously terminated career
"hlch promised so much in character. in
achievement and in good. 1t is events of
TINS kind which impress upon US the weak
ness OF the very strong and tell how slen-
DER and frail is the thread which binds the
present to the vast and unknown beyond
These circumstances intensity and make
more intricate the mystery of life, and
more inexplicable the purposes of that
Being whose will guides and controls
creation and creatures. We cannot
1athom the reason for striking down man
like FRANK DYER. We cannot understand
why men like he should be cut short in
their work and laid low, when the multi
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more than worthless, live along TO do all
harm.
In ali this community we can name few
who In so short time have achieved so
much as Mr.. DYER, and fewer still who
promised more. Little more than boy in
years, scarcely in the prime of life. FRANK
DYER had long occupied foremost posi-
ton. By his wonderful force of char
acter, by his remarkable will power,
by his tremendous energy, he crowded
TO the front He was a leader by
nature, and never took into account the
possibility of failure. We find this charac-
teristic asserting itself in all that he did.
He undertook enterprises involving work
which would cause otbsr men to turn pale
and faint, but he was not even nervous :;
projects involving vast sums of money.
which others would never think of Crap
ping with, did not even induce him to hest
tste. He never doubted that success would
attend his efforts, and success usually came
as he said it would. In politics, as in bust
ness matters, he was the same energetic.
forceful, pushing and winning character.
his strong individuality asserting itself
in the councils and management of
his party as in the control and direction of
industrial enterprises and financial under
takings. People have sometimes been
amazed that so young man should under
take what he did, but their amazement has
turned into admiration when they have
noted the ease, the GOODNESS and the self
reliance with which he proceeded.
We say it is community loss when such
man goes hence, and this community will
grleve sincerely, for there are not many
who can take the place of the dead There
are not many who employ their great and
peculiar ability to such good purpose. His
active brain, his noble heart, his money,
were all made to work to their full
capacity for the benefit of his fellow
men, and those who knew him best know
something. though not all, of the good
which ne did. But enough of this here.
The story of his too brief but remarkable
lie is imperfectly told in another part of
this paper. 1t is the story of career which
is full of those things which are praise
worthy in men. 1t is story which all
wish had been continued for twice its
length in achievements and years.
To the stricken family-the grief op-
pressed widow, the orphaned children, the
oereaved mother and the lonely sister-to
all those WHO were nearest and dearest TO
him, the sympathy and the consolation of
the many will run, and admirers of the
dead would gladly bear some of the per-
sonal sorrow which will fall 10 the afflicted
household.