Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-11-13

kins, ]. A; Farrell, w. A. Griffith. E. Ha-
wsSSntn: sSs: A; T.; WALKER w c; Stevens. E. D.
Sewson; james Naismith, W. L. Burdick,
+; z Ward; Eugene Galloo. NJ. a. Bar
Der; Ps,ma, L; D; III, ,Havenhill; S: J; Hunter: W X.
Ida Hyde, NJ. w. Sterling. Z. c. Murphy,
Hannah Oliver H. F. Jones. E. F. EngeI,
cunE Fofenee Fore p p Parrei Cora II Mcni Ms
lum Smith. Archibald Hogg, w. D. Hig-
gins. "; r; Crane, O. E: McMeans. H. P.
LADY r. W. Cone G; l.: Lincoln. II. S.
ford, Carrie NJ. Watson.
AFTER the choir. composed of N. o. Stev-
ems; ems; L. l., D. Wood, Miss Connolly and Mrs
| Ben, had sung the beautiful hymn, Lead
Kindly Light" with organ ACCOMPANIMENT
Rev. DR., Cordley read a Scriptural pass
age age touching S on the uncertainty of human
llie and the Immortality of the soul. A
musical number followed by the choir and
h, 1ne honored and venerable minister who
| latters entire life delivered a touching adj
| dress. He said in part:
| We shall not soon forget the night of
october 10. 1899. We were waiting to hear
| from tne transport Tartar, with the Twen-
| ueth Kansas on board. We had heard
| nothing from them since they left Hong
Kong, three weeks before. or course we
| terieS or the great Pacific ocean No one
could guess what might happen during
| Inose three weeks of mysterious shrouding
,,ie,, Inc snip was crowded and the pestilence
| might decimate the company on board
she was three days later than she was
ploihised, and the anxiety grew tense. 1t
was arranged that as soon as she was
| siShted in San Francisco the bells would
| ring and the whistles blow. There was
| rejoicing all over the land when the nation
read the morning papers announcing the
| arrival As we opened this paper the first
thihg that met our eyes was that William
Appleton Snow had been drowned lust as
tie Tartar was coming in, and Instantly
mere came a cloud over the sun of our
mo nj hos 10, ,ttf1
paraiyZe and bewilder men. 1t seemed So
strange that 1000 men should cross the
sea without an accident and that he should
perish who went out to be the first to vel
come them home"
Here followed a brief reference to Mr.
Sno" as reporter on the San Francisco
1nroniGie @ and the story of his last assign
inent He had really been assigned to other
work that night, but had heard the Kan
sas poys We're coming in and asked to be
sent out 10 meet them. Then followed a
speaker continued
ne was so eager to report what his
paper was to give to the world the next
morning that he forgot himself and his
peru. he was too eager to obtain what he
came Tor to think of the ordinary precau-
lions and was carried off in the perform
dllce OF his duty. He had entered Journal
ism from choice"
DR.. Cordley then pictured the dual roads
that We're before Mr.. Snow in his choice of
u profession. He told of the hopes of the
chancellor his father, that he would pur-
,he+ he aW Ma aeaSenlc genie career and of the years
Iore he finally entered journalism for good.
he continued by piGuring the life of the
END @d-ot,the-centgry journalist In glowing
and vivid words, referring to Journalism
as one of the new fields for herOism.
1t was newspaper man who penetrated
the jungles of Africa; it was a newspaper
in the frozen North. 1t is the courage and
daring of men like Will Snow that has
made Journalism what 1t is. He Thought
of nothing else. he cared for nothing else,
and he gave his life to his profession Was
not his object as high and as noble as if he
had been climbing the sides of that ship
10 slaughter its crew? As peace has her
victories well as war so peace has her
heroes as well as war He perished ar his
post and with him passed the spirit of a
hero"
Dr.: Cordley then introduced Professor
L. W Williston by saying that favorite |
teacher would discuss a favorite son. Pro-
fessor Williston touched on the MANY es-
timable features of Mr.. Shows personality |
and his remarks were given profound at |
tention. Following him William Allen
White delivered an earnest and simple ad- |
dress that made many eyes in the audi
ence dim. After telling of the friendship |
that had existed between himself and win |
Snow, he said:
in Lawrence to commemorate the life of our friend
who has left US. For here every path was familiar
is
youthful voice. Every highway by his ASSOCIATION
to our minds becomes a gallery pictures that re-
calls his presence. The mute trees whereunder he
has passed, almost speak Of him. and the immortal
birds that never age nor die always sing the SELF.
same song to the ever passing pilgrims of the
woods They seem to have delayed their winter |
hight this year, as II waiting unaware that their |
friend had set out on his long Journey. Here the |
blue sky he loved bends benignly over US. Here
every natural aspect Of seems intimate and
brings some dear reminder of our friend. Here was
the home he loved and while was fettered BY the
flesh his home-!oving heart ionged be here And |
now that God has given him beloved sleep and re-
leased friends spirit from fair tenement here
may II be lowering, with nature, enioving that
peace which passeth understanding When our |
friend was student at the university dozen years
ago his character waV(ormed Time and opportuni-
Y had only developed 1t. We who knew him then
knew all that wide circle friends and ac-
quaiatances in the world have known since. To u.
he vas brave, sincere, earnest, manly active chy-
alrous and loyal 20 fne degree. Thus he went into
the world With those traits he there. and
with them strong in him he followed his duty to
the end. His biography is epitomized BY its final
chapter-courageous devotion to simple ,iu,v His |
farewell TO this world was heroic it would
have been on the battlefield. Peace hath her vieto-
ries and her heroes for whoever follows duty how
ever humble be her walks. leads a consecrated life
And If duty takes him death he has died in a |
holy cause SO our brother left
Scarce had he need to cast his pride or slough the
dross of earth;
Zen as he trod that day to God. so walked he
from his birth
In simpieness and gentlencss and honor and clean
mirth.
Beyond the loom of the last lone star. through
opened darkness hurled:
Further than rebel comet dared or hiviug star
swarm swirled,
Sits he and such as praise God. for that they
served His world"
Here is something from the Press Club exercises: |
writers from all the papers in San Francisco East
ern correspondents, officers and men of the Kansas
regiment, teachers and students from Stanford uui-
rersity lawyers and doctors. members of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity, marine and other friends
Of the deceased there offer their silent trib-
ute to the brave young who persisted while in
the performance of his duty a reporter Every
sorrowful testimonial manifestiy right from
the heart that mems voices choked from the utter
ance, and there was not dry eye in the ROOM
Men are not given TO displaying their emotions
friend. these words that their grief cannot
have hesa truthfuly written. Now. all these test.-
ncnials may lend comfort to but they cannot
suEse our SORROW. Yet sorrow has its For
some purpose God put IL in the world Certainly II
brings great knowledge Of some grea, Force
outside Of themselves, and bids them call upon this
Force One Moloch. Jehovah. one as
Buddha. one as God. Certainly sorrow softens the
brotherhood where kings and princes and where
thousand bOwmen fail. In that Brotherhood meet
today Certainly sorrow educates the heart 1t
teaches Righteousness better than any written word
il voices more clearly wisdom that springs from the
fear Of God Of moral evil and OF good than all the
sases And he WHO is wise and Is acquainted
with grief has learned his greatest lesson can
say the hardest words in all the world. to speak. |
THY will be done" How those words stick In the
hroat. Now. in this dire distress that death has
Tadel the yoke is not easy, the burden Is light |
Finite wisdom shows dumb questioning grie: thou |
sand more glorious paths than that that fate
led our friend into the valley of the shadow. There
rH3ch IN his life that brave and of good
soN much that made because isl ,