The Press., 1894-02-15

mits himself to be an anarchist.
 THE late Hon. A. P. Hyde, of Hart ford, was buried on Thursday last from the South Congregational church. The different courts in session all adjourned, and the attendance was very large. Rev. Dr. Parker in his funeral remarks said of MT. Hyde:
 He had powerful mind. He was al- most intuitional in his detection of flaws and sophistries, and in his perception of the important points in given case. He drove his nail in a sure place, and ham, mered it home with strong, unwasteful blows. He did not cultivate rhetorical art or refinements, but indulged himself in plainest, directest, homeliest, and most foreible speech. He was accustomed to ascertain just what he should do, and then that one thing he did, heartily, wig orously, to the finish. What success this gave him is we'll known.
 It was in the nature of the man to do this. Singleness of purpose, directness of aim, persistence and force in effort were characteristics of him in all his ways and works of life.
 At a meeting of the Hartford county bar association held on Thursday morn- ing Charles E. Perkins presided, and resolutions prepared by Henry c. Robin son were adopted, expressive of apprecia- tion and of regret. Speeches were made by Messrs. Robinson, Gross, Loomis, Calhoun, and others, from a few of which we quote:
 Judge Loomis said that in his younger days MT. Hyde and he were in each oth- er's company quite frequently. They had entered school at Monson together. They had studied law together, and were to- gether in the same class at Yale, and were both admitted to the bar at the same time, in 1847. While MT. Hyde was To- cated at Stafford and the speaker was en- gagged in the practice of law at Rockville they had frequently been engaged on the same and opposite sides in court. They had run for congress twice on opposite tickets. Judge Loomis said that in all battles of strife which they had he never knew him to do a mean thing, and no shade of unpleasantness ever came be- tween them. He had large heart and was a man of noble impulses. To the bar of the county and state and the citi- zens of Hartford his death is very great loss, but to that dark home of his the loss is immeasurable.
 Judge David s. Calhoun said:
 My remembrance of MT. Hyde goes back further possibly than that of any other one present, for it will be fifty years next October since I entered Yale college as freshman and first saw Alvan P. Hyde, then senior, looked upon by me with his full share of that reverence with which the eldest class in college is re- garded by the youngest. I knew him not at all familiarly, though we were both from the same county, but l recall vividly the concentrated viger of his kick as he warmed the football Sometime send ing it whirling from point just below the big elm in the upper green on to the floor of the state house portico. But knew he was great favorite among his classmates, and had gained an excellent reputation as scholar and writer.
 As general practitioner doubt if 1 have seen his superior at our bar. He had no speciality, though his marvellous faculty in unwinding the tangled threads of business complications might have made him one of the greatest mercantile lawyers in the country. His mind was so versatile and his equipment so complete, that he was fitted for every style of fo- rensic contest. 1 always found him a trusty and competent leader, sturdy, skillful and dangerous antagonist. Pa- tient and fearless, with that grand phy- sique which defied fatigue-never too elated and never scouraged-insensibl to i'll omens, he never faltered till an ir- resistible judgment barred his way.
 ''But whatever an analysis of his natu- ral and acquired powers may show, no one who knew MT. Hyde as have known him, will deny, that judging him by the amount, variety, importance and success of his legal work he was one of the great bodies of the Connecticut bar. And it is not the humblest part of the eulogy which we offer his memory to-day to say, that no lawyer through nearly half a century of struggle and strife in courts ever car ried himself more manfully, more gener- osasly, more honorably, or left fewer rank ling wounds behind.
 ''The higher Alvan P. Hyde rose, the higher he was esteemed. His great, kind heart, his liberal judgment of others-his rare good fellowship, his simple honesty of soul which needed no sensitive moral seasibilities since it was not open to temptation. His strong relish of the pure airs of truth and justice-his deep-seated love for home, friends, and country-these we remember with that affection which crowns our estimate of the character of brother and mingles sorrow for his loss, a--.- |