Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-20
TRIBUTE TO w. S. WHITE.
Late President of the Virginia Pre-.

Late President OF the Virginia Press
-. Association
me following tribute to the late w
Seymour White. OF Fredericksbure
was adopted at the annual meeting of
the Virginia Press Association at Old
Point last week:
The Virginia Press Association de-
slres TO place this tribute and testi-
lnonial To the memory of Williams
seymour White, who departed this lif.
IN Fredericksburg, Virginia, on No
rcnlber 10Th, 1897. in the 44th year o,
his age.
Seymour White. as he was fn,niliarl,
ana :incctionately known, was Il giftct
man in its broadcast and best sense.
When the war had done its work oi
devastation and had finished its course
he was a mere boy. the only son OF
his mother and she was a widow.
lie commenced life under very in
ausplclous circumstances and condi-
tons. which had anything else in
them bur inspiration for successful
endeavor- Added to these, IA serious
afiiiction hefell him in his youth. but
With undismayed front and indomit-
able viii he devoted his early life
saddcned by sickness, to diligent and
'lntiring study. From this ordeal he
emerged we'll equipped for intellectual
work with special adaptablity for the
labors OF a journalist, which calling he
entered first with the Free Lance and
afterward in the editorial management
Of The Fredericksburg Star, where he
Was doing faithful and efficient duty
when death claimed him.
His editorials We're marked bv well
constructed sentences in pure, incisivc.
vigorous AnE!o-S SAXON ornauentrd and
Illustrated by apt quotations, strong
IN presentation. convincing in logic,
powerful in invectivc. and at times
touching in tenderness and pathos
When the "insatintc archer hurried
him away, he was rapidly forging
himself to the front as one OF Vir-
sinla's prominent men IN journalism.
lie was an able and successful LAWYER
and at the time Of his death was presi-
dent of the National Battlefield Park
Commission, a project to which he
gave much of his time and talents
and which promises eventually to BE-
or great benefit to Fredericksburg ana
vicinity.
He so impressed himself on his
brethren of the press that when be
died he bore our highest honor, being
president Of the Association.
We miss him in our councils, miss q:
genial' frank. honest gentleman miss
brother of the craft Of whom we
were Justly. proud and whose memory
Inc lesson of such n life rs this should
hot be forgotten, but rather kept ever
IN remembrance for those who come
after. 1T is this, that no matter how
lnauspicionS the conditions or adverse
the circumstances when may confront
on" labor, study. patience, united
with Il nigh purpose and pure churac-
yer. Wlll WOO and win success. for his
ME. though short, illustrated this
he stood when h.
on the very threshold of !, life that
seemed about to bear him to triunph
through much trial. But he who doeth
all things Well dccrecd that his days
should be no more.
While we bow to the will OF II Tim
Wh1 smites through love and causes
suffering that the eternal city may be
reached. we meet here in annual ses-
sion for the first time since his Oath
and direct this our testimonial to be.
recorded to his memory We deplore.
the death and mourn the loss of Il
friend and brother editor. We send
our words of sorrow and sympathy to
his wife and family in their bereavn-
mept.- We bid the people of Fred
ericksburg. where he was norn and OF
which city he was mayor when he
died. To perpetrate the memory OF on.
OF its foremost men.
While we stand with uncovered heads
III the presence of the memory of such
Il man and editor as Seyinore. White
we cannot understand why, when life
Hith MIN was 1t its best ne should
be untimely called TO pass over to
the ether Side" but l!r knowcth what
is best. To us he VII ,,ar live and
even it is so, for
There is no death; what seems so is
transitions; ..
This life of mortal breath .. fig
Is but a. suburb of the life Elysian
Whose portal we call death"
y. p. ROWE. JR., cham'n.
CHARLES 70. DENT,
j. l.. BOOKER,