The Portland daily press., 1894-02-02
THE SCOTTISH BARD.
His Memory Honored by the Burns Society
Last Evening.


And never brought to mind?
Should aud acquaintance be forgot,
And days OF auld lang syne?
The memory of Robert Burns was hon.
ored again last night by banquet which
was held at the Preble House.
The following sat down at the tables
Josiah H. Drummond, Miss Marion Hart
Elder, Misses Drummond, James P. Bax-
ter, Miss Charlotte j. Thomas, George
A. Thomas, Charity E. Cornish, A. S.
Mari, F. L. Littlefield, E. Leighton, j.
Morgan, W. Whipple, j. M. Watts of
Schubert Quartette, Miss Lizzie L. Ho-
vey, M. c. Sterling, Mrs. M. G. Sterling,
George W. Norton, Mrs. H. B. Hussy,
Mis-. C. J. Clement, Miss Addie NJ. Reed,
A. Halves, James Bland and wife, Fl. P.
Huston. Miss Eva F. Huston, Miss Nellie
E. Whitmore, Andrew Cross, DR.. W. II.
Roberts, Mrs. W. II. Roberts, I. @. Don
aid, Ida G. Phillips, William F..
Hardy, Mrs. William F. Hardy,
Mrs. M. F. Wentworth, Eliza
beth W. Varnum, Parker Pillsbury,
S. M. E. Cook, NJ. S. Mcfarland, Abbie
L. Whittle, A. Carter, Mrs. A. Carter,
Caroline Dana Howe, Mrs. Whitman
Sawyer, Mrs. Theodore J. Brown, Clara
Marcelle Greene, Mr.. William Gilmour,
Frank L. Rankin, Mrs. F. L.. Rankin,
Luetta King, Mrs. Alfred King, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. F. King, Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Den
nett, John S. McAdam, Edinburgh, E. S.
Osgood,'' Mrs. Ellen F. Foster, Mrs.
Palmer, MI. and Mrs. Clinton A. Wood
bury, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. G. Hart, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward C. SWEET, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Plummer, J. Charleston, Mrs.
Allen, Mrs. E. B. Robinson, Wallace W.
Robinson, Miss Justelle Barber, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. N. E. Kimball, Lillian B. Muir
dock, William F. Robb, D. F. Murdoch
and wife, James Hepburn and wife, Mel
lie G. Cooper, R. Fleming and wife,
Alex. Macfarlane, J. N. Martin, E. H.
Mathers, G. B. McGregor, Miss Hardie,
A. Geddes, Thos. L. Merrill, F. Fl. Fas-
sett, Henry ]. Conley.
After dinner, Hon. J. III. Drummond,
president of the club, presided. After
welcoming words. he referred to the late
Edward B. Robinson. and then introduce
ed L. B. bennett, Esq.,, who read the fol-
lowing tribute and resolutions, written
by Philip w. Mcintyre, who was unable
to be present:
1t is eminently fitting that this society
should formally record its sense of the
loss it has sustained in the death of Ed
ward B. Robinson, to whom it is SO large
ly indebted for existence; who may in
deed, and without exaggeration, be
termed.its founder.
Expressions of individual regret have
been general; and there is no one of Mr..
Robinson's acquaintance in this asso-
citation who does not deeply feel his abb
sence tonight. To those who knew him
intimately, the sentiment of regret has
all the poignanoy of personal bereave-
ment. His gentle and unsel6sh nature,
the charm of his manner and converse
ton, his wide knowledge and cultivated
literary taste, combined to make him a
delightful companion. His loving study
of the poet whose memory and fame this
society was formed to honor and pro-
mote-his intelligent enthusiasm for
Robert Burns-rendered his association
with this body of Burns's admirers of
exceptional value.
jMr. Robinson was sparing of neither
tune nor loving service in the organiza-
ton of the Burns Society of Portland.
Without him it would not have come into
being. He was the moving spirit of the
reunion last year; and though at that
very time walking in the shadow of
death, his wit was the keenest and his
mood the merriest of the many assem-
bled about this board. When death
came, as it did soon after, he met it with
the calm courage and serene mind that
befit a Christian gentleman.
AS formal recognition by this society
of the man and his work, I sumbit the
following resolutions, and move that they
be spread upon our records:
Resotped, That in the death of Edward
Brock Robinson, one of its founders, the
Burns Society of Portland loses an asso-
ciate distinguished by signal services and
unseifish devotion to its increase and well
fare;-a comrade in whom it recognized
an accomplished student of Burns litera-
ture: and man endeared to all by the
amiability of his manners, the charm of
his conversation and the rectitude of his
character.
ResoIued, That as further mark of es-
TEEN and affection these resolutions be
spread upon the records of the society in
full.
After musical selection, very finely
rendered, President Drummond intro
duced His Monor, Mayor Baxter, as one
who had travelled amid scenes made his
toric by the life of Burns.
Mayor Baxter said he had expected to
meet few of the countrymen OF Burns,
but did not think that he should find so
large an attendance. After giving few