The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-13
HIGH EULOClES.
Hudson County Bar Takes
Action on the Death Of
Walter Collins.
MANY GLOWING TRIBUTES
Resolutions Adopted Sympa-
thize With the Bereaved
Father.

/ There was large gathering of promi-
nent lawyers in the Court of Chancery
this afternoon to attend a meeting of the
Hudson County Bar called to take suit
able action upon the death of Walter Col
Inns
Among those present were:-Washington
B. Williams, Flavel MCGEE, Isaac Ro-
maine Clarence Linn, John S. McMaster,
William III. Speer, Jr., Charles Vreeland,
Jacob Weart, James P. Northrup, William
Bumsted, John w. Heck, Thomas J..
Kennedy Eugene Leake. George McEwan,
E. S. Besson, Charles Carrick e.
A. S. Lewis, George G. Tenant
Mungo J. 'Currie James Manning,
Charles Jackson, James Nugent, Mervin
Armstrong, Marshall Van Winkle Joseph
Farmer, James Gordon, W. H. Gilmore,
John Griffin, Jarvis Atkinson, John w.
Queen, Pierre Cook, Thomas McEwan
Judge Henry Puster, John Mulvaney,
Frank Hall. George McEwan called the
meeting to order and Charles L. Carrick
was chosen chairman. He stated the OBJ
ject of the meeting and Messrs. McGee,
Grouse, Gordon, Hughes and Queen were
appointed a committee to draft appro-
pirate resolutions. The committee pre-
pared these resolutions, which were adopt
ed by the meeting:-
Through the impenetrable mystery of an
all wise Providence, the bar of Hudson
County is again face to face with death.
During the year that is not yet past the
Messenger has summoned those from
among our ranks who were rich in honors,
and whose professinal and public service
Il H. -
the span of life. Now the arrow of death
pierces a shining mark closing a career
at its very threshold. and with inexpress-
ible sadness summoning one in the fresh
ness and vigor of early manhood.
In the death of Walter Collins we have
lost joyful comrade, the community has
lost valued citizen and the profession a
promising member. With a mind we'll
stored and trained and a nature sensitive
and refined; with a home life sweet and
simple; with daily incentive and en-
couragement inspired by the noble exam
pie of loving father; with the world
opening out before him with brightness
and hope, and with all the aspirations of
youth to high and noble things, the golden
thread of life is snapped with the warn
ings of a single hour.
Mr.. Collins was born and reared in Jer-
sey City. Here he received his prelimin-
ary education, and here after complet-
ing the course at Williams College, he
studied his profession, was admitted to
the Bar in 1896, and settled for his life
work. His best and closest associates
were books, and these the best that, the
literature of the English tongue has be-
queathed. And yet as companion he
had all the qualities of good fellowship.
His joyful buoyancy was ever an inspira-
ton. His gentleness, his kindness, his
sweet refinement, his tenderness of heart,
were all his own-were like the drop of
dew. He was more welded to the study
of law, its literature and history, than to
the conflict of forensic dispute; but he
was firm and resolute in his onvvictions,
and for to sustain those convictions in
mastery manner, and with manliness and
persstency.
Flavel MCGEE said it was appropriate
that this meeting should be confided to
the younger members of the bar, but he
had known Walter Collins since he was
a boy and he felt called upon to speak.
He spoke of Mr.. Collinss accomplishments
and his high literary tastes. The young
man, he said, not only devoted his time
to general literature, but was close
student of the law. He was one of the
best equipped of the younger members
of the bar and was rapidly gathering
about him a good practice.
Oother eulogistic speeches were made
by William H. Speer, Jr., Thomas Nc
EVAN, Eugene Leake and Jarvis Atkin-