The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-29
THE Lite COLONEL ROOSTER.
Tribute to Hts Memory at County Ear
Meettns-OId Officers Reelected.

At the New Haven county bar meet
ing held yesterday to honor the memory
of Colonel William Burr Wooster OF
Ansonia, John K. Beach, president OF
the association, presided, and the com
mittee appointed to draw up resolu-
lions upon the death, which was com
| posed of Ex-Governor lngerSoll, Judge
David Torrance and Judge Henry b
Stoddard, submitted the following
through Judge stoddard, who said;
MIR President-In the enforced abb
sence of Mr. Ingersoll | have been dep
utized to present and move the adop-
ton of the resolutions that have been
prepared by the committee on the
death of Mr.. Wooster.
1.-THE resolutions that the committee
present are as follows:
Resolved, That we deplore the
death and cherish the memory OF our
| late associate, William Burr Wooster.
| who was for more than half CEN
tury member of this bar In his
! death we have lost an honorable and
esteemed member, his clients a sound
! adviser and devoted advocate, the
= community al SOpb i'e'ii SNNi H>Se'ANe'''
1 and active in whatever made for the
public welfare, and his state and couh-
/ try a patriotic citizen who served both
well as legislator and as a soldier.
Resolved, That we tender to his
/ widow our deep sympathy in her be-
/ reavement and direct the clerk to for
ward to her an engrossed copy of these
resolutions.
Resolved, That the superior court
for this county be directed to cause
these resolutions to be extended upon
it's records,
Continuing Mr. Stoddard said in part
in presenting the resolutions:
Mr.. Wooster was type of that race
of men who have brought to New Eng
land a lasting and enduring fame. He
made his way to prominence in the
community in which he lived and died
: unaided by adventurous circumstances.
He touched the life about him in very
many of it's manifold activities, and al
ways an earnest, thoughtful, benevo-
lent and good man. He was a lawyer
eminent in his profession, but he was,
even in that relation more than a mere
lawyer; he was the friend and the
trusted adviser of his client"
Judge Torrance followed with an elo-
quent eulogy of his friend and towns
man. After speaking of Mr. Wooster's
early career at the bar, of his career
as an officer, his bravery in battle, his
services in the war and his patriotic
ardor for the old flag, ne closed as fol-
lows:
las q soldier he was brave without
rashness, ambitious only and always to
do his duty under all circumstances
faithfully and well. He was a strict
disciplinarian but not a martinez. He
loved his men and was ever watchful
of their welfare and in their troubles
and sorrows was their steadfast friend.
He was kind and courteous to his sub
ordinates, and ever bore himself as a
knightly soldier. He was not in love
with military life and cared not greatly
for any of it's horrors or distinctions.
The war was to him only means to a
great end, and when that end was ac-
complished he willingly laid down his
sword; for he loved peace and the ways
of peace. He gave to his country three
of the best years of his life, and to its
close he was thankful that he had
been permitted to lay upon its altar 50
costly a sacrifice.
He was a sound lawyer well
grounded in the general principles of
the law, but not a close student of it's
inner mysteries. He was a man of ac-
ton and of affairs rather than stu
dent and a dreamer Bur his strong
common sense his logical mind, his
knowledge of men and Of business en-
abled him to apply his knowledge of
law in such a way as to make him
wise counselor and a safe adviser of
men at times when wise counsel and
safe advice was what they needed
most. He tried causes well, but he was
better at preparing cases for trial than
he was at trying them in court He
loved his profession and tried to walk
honorably in it all the days of his life.
lie was the lawyer whom his clients
trusted to the utmost and he never be-
trayed that trust.
He was a manly man, of stainless
integrity and sturdy independence. He
was man of strong convictions on
most subjects, and he had the courage
of his convictions at all times and I'M
der all circumstances, but he never let
his stand for principle degenerate into
mere obstinacy.
He was plain Of speech when the
truth required TO be spoken, ana on
such occasions was blunt and even
IN his manner often, especially |
before the mellowins years had touch
cd his character to the ripeness of his |
after days; but these were things of the |
surface, they Were not of the essence of |
the man.
'Benea III the outward manner there |
beat as kindly heart as ever throbbed |
N human bosom, large kindly heart, |
as wide in the sweep and scope of it's !
as humanity itself
In the ministrations of the sick
in the houses of the afflicted
and the sorrowful, the touch of the
strong man was as gentle, and his
was as tender and keen as
he touch and sympathy of a woman;
md an appeal from those in need was
seldom made to him in vain.
His long, clean, useful, fortunate
ife ended in a death equally fortunate.
md in thus honoring the memory of
uch a man this bar does itself honor.
sum up this brief tribute to his mem
Try in saying not that he was a great
awyer, or a great man, but in saying
hat alone which he would have liked
vas in the largest sense of these words,