The record-union., 1893-07-18
NTANFORD'S MEMORY.
How 1t is Cherished by the Citizens
of Sacramento.
The Memorial Prepared by the Com
mfttee of Citizens Appointed by
the City Trustees.

At yesterdays meeting of the City
Trustees, II. Weinsteck and Thomas NJ.
Lindley, of the committee appointed to
draft resolutions on the death of Senator
Stanford, submitted the following:
The Citizens Committee appointed by
yoIr honorable board to frame resolu-
tions in relation to the loss we sustained
by the death of Senator Leland Stanford,
beg leave to offer the following and to say
that, in place of the customary form,
they have deemed it best to adopt a
method which they believe allows a more
complete expression of the feelings of our
people:
TO THE MEMORY OF SENATOR LELAND
STANFORD.
How sweet the thought that whatever
the destiny be that awaits us beyond the
portals of the grave, whatever the awak-
ening be from our final earthly sleep,
though we have ceased to be, still among
the living we are not forgotten; that there
are loving friends lett behind to keep our
memory fresh and to honor our name"
1t is this thought, this desire to keep
fresh his memory and to honor the name
OF our late fellow-citiZen, Senator Leland
Stanford, that prompts the people of tho
city OF Sacramento, regardless of race,
color, creed or occupation, to thus pub
llcly express their deep sorrow for the
lrreparable loss sustained by his death to
our city, our State. our Nation and to the
world at large.
As citizens of Sacramento, the city to
which Senator Stanford came nearly forty
years ago, with limited means and COM
paratively unknown; the city in which he
spent nearly twenty of the best and most
useful years of his life; the city in which
MS greatest enterprises were conceived,
matured and carried to successful results;
the city in which his only and deeply
cherished son was born and lived his
childhood years; the city whose people
aided him with all their might and main,
morally and financially, in all his politi-
cal aspirations and in the colossal and
courageous undertaking to span by rail
the great Western Continent; the city
which sent him forth to broader fields,
wealthy, renowned, powerful, respected
and honored; as citizens of the city whose
history and interests are so closely iden-
titled with those of the honored deceased.
we cannot but deeply lament his death,
and express to his bereaved and sorrow
ing family our feeling that his loss is not
theirs alone, but ours as well..s
Great as was the inspiration Of his life.
his memory, his name and his deeds are
destined to remain lasting impulse to
move the living to higher aims, nobler
thoughts and loitier aspirations.
Long after we, who were his friends. his
neighbors and his fellow citizens, shall
have been numbered with the dead and
been forgotten, his name, his noble viz
tues, and the memory OF his achievements
Will stand forth and continue to inspire
and to teach those who are to follow US
how to overcome difficulties, and how to
dedicate their lives and their means to the
service of their fellow-men. Long after
we shall have passed away, our sons and
our sons sons for ages to come will lead
their children reverently to the doors out
OF which he was carried to the grave, say
ing: Look This was the house; this
was his chamber.
Signed: L. NJ. Lindley, A. p. Catlin,
w. p. Coleman, Scion S. Hou Jabez
Turner, q. l.. Simmons, H. Weinstock,
Citizens Committee.
On motion of Mr.. Conklin, the report
of the committee was received and
adopted as the sense of the board. The
Clerk was instructed to forward the me-
mortal to Mrs. Stanford.