The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-14

ACTION BY THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
Pursuant to the call of President
| James H. Chadbourn, Jr., h Chamber
| of Commerce met yesterday at $3.50
! O'Clock to take action with respect to
the memory of the lamented DR.. A. J.
DeRosset. The following We're present:
! Colonel Walker Taylor. vice president.
Colonel John l.. Cantwell. secretary.
Colonel F. w. Kerchner. Colonel ]. G.
Burr. Captain James l. Nets, Rev. p.
II. Hoge. d. D.. and Messrs. w. NJ.
Cumming, George Harriss, J. A
| Springer, j. II. Cowan, T. W. Clawson.
Junius Davis, J. Allen Taylor, II. X.
Nash, NJ. S. Willard. z. W. Whitehead.
Geo. r. French. and y. jacob.
In the absence of President Chad
bourn, Vice President Taylor called
the meeting to order, and upon stating
the object of the meeting. remarked
that it was seldom the chamber has
ever met SO often as ii has in the past
few weeks to pay tribute to the MEN,
DRY Of two such men as DR.. DeRosset
and Mr.. D. G. Worth. He said a
committee on resolutions, consisting of
Colonel F. w. Kerchner, Colonel Jas.
S. Burr and Mr.. George Harriss, had
been requested to epa a record
to be presented to this meeting and
spread upon the minutes, and asked
if the committee was ready to report.
Colonel Kerchner thereupon submit
ted the following, and upon his re-
quest, it was feelingly and beautifully
e by Secretary Cantwell, to-wit:
This community, as we'll as the n
tire state, have lost in DIR. a. J.. DeRCs-
set one of its most useful and valued
among the best in every characteristic
that dignifes good citizenship. Not
even the language Of bereavement can
easily eXaggerate his claims, upon pri-
vate affection and public regard and
respect. He had, in the highest de-
gree, all the instincts which set men
right and make them true. and all the
courage and conscience and unselfish-
ness, Which keep them SO. His sense
of duty, in every relation, was so
blended with an active sense of the
obligation to discharge it that no
temptation could swerve and no sac
rifice could hinder him. With all the
kindly and gentle gifts which make
men loved by those about them, he
united the sternest n most stalwart
of the qualities or which communities
may lean in times of crisis or of peril.
hnlNy thnca rrhn IAo va cnl, l;., &rszl
could realize how largely the elements
of leadership were mingled with the
simple and tender traits of his quiet
and modest life.
The people among whom he lived so
Ions and of whom he deserved so Well,
Will doubtless do larger justice to his
memory Tt is only for US, his as
s%ociates and friends at this meeting
many of them his lifelong compan-
lons-to bear sorrowful witness to their
personal loss and their painful inca
pacIty to measure it,"
The chairman asked if there were |
any remarks upon the record offered,
and Colonel James G.. Burr said:
Mr.. Chairman: 1t has been my good
fortune for more than sixty years to be
on terms of close intimacy with the
H.. LII l. OtSlIe, IIleTb-
fore, to say a word or two on this oc-
%casion, to speak of those noble quail
ties of head and heart which SO adorn-
ed and beautified his character. He
was not every inch a king out was
greater-he was every inch a man, with
lofty IDEAS, high sense Of honor, enob-
ing virtues n warm affections, who
could not be swerved from the path of
duty by any allurements of pleasure |
or of profit, whose daily walk through |
out his long and IGNORED life, COM
manded not only the respect but the :
a~ffectlon of our people, and who car
rled with him to the grave, the uncov-
reverence Of all classes of society.
He was a connecting link between the
present and the past, a high strung
of the old school,, always
and urbane and ever ready.
by counsel and advice, to assist any
and all, who might stand in need of
his enlarged experience.
This chamber will miss his genial
greeting, his words of wisdom, his
courtesy and kindness and the anna
blllty which was so characteristic of
his personality and general intercourse.
and each individual member must feel
that he, himself, suffers a personal be- /
in the death of one whom |
I'LL oO CllS IFlSu ~ IIOIlOT. "A LUST. an
upright Christian gentleman, and a
citizen without reproach, whose MEM
Dry will be embalmed in our hearts for |
time, has gone to his rest, leaving |
behind him not an enemy in the world.
and for those who follow after the re- |
of an honorable. a. useful
and a vlrtouS life, worthy of all imita-
ton, and to be held in the profoundest |
veneTation."
After Colonel Burr had concluded his
beautiful tributes were paid
to d.. DeRosset's memory by Mr.. w.
NJ. Cumming, DR.. P. H. Hoge, and
NJ. S. Willard and n. Jacob.
The record submitted by the COM |
was then unanimous adopted by
standing vote, after which the meet
ing adjourned.
A match between two dentists would |