The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-06

| them that he did not care to stray into
those outer alluring walks so often
alas, with some illustrious exceptions,
leading through miring bogs and into
| puzzling mazes. His work was emf
nently common sensed and practical
and was all applied at home. He did
not squander his talents and energies
in futile attempts to solve unsolvable
political riddles. in casting impossible
political horoscopes and in uttering
quadrennial political predictions al
ways the reverse of those of Cassan-
dra; and generally as sterile and as
profitless for the people as the hyper
criticisms of the scholiasts or the spec
ulations of the schoolmen. His
| practical talents and energies were ap-
piled and expended in home consump-
ton to the enduring benefit of his peo-
pie.
| So far as your committee is aware
Mr.. Denmark never sought or desired
any political preferment. He never
wore a political coat of any texture;
but had he donned one, 1t is very GER
tain that it never would have been a
coat of many colors, or so constructed
as to be turned upon occasion, and
worn with equal facility either
inside or outside. A man of
character and purpose so strong
and positive must sometimes
upon occasion seem somewhat rugged
and hard. But he was never slippery;
and it is always easier to hold to a
rock than to an eel. The many beauti-
full blossoms that bloomed in his ma
ture were sometimes hidden in the
assures of the great rocks, and were
revealed only to the eye of the search
err. The surface might sometimes SEEM
! ed CONCEALED, like the frozen Alpine sea.
But grand crevasses, that the hunter
found. opened down to the heart and
admitted the luster from the sky.
Mr.. Denmark became q member of
the Georgia Historical Society on the
first day of April, 1872, soon after he
| located in Savannah. He was always
regular, faithful and Jealous men,
| Der. He was elected one of the board
| of managers as curator on February
the 14th, 1898. A. the time of his
death he was an active and useful
member of the Finance Committee,
| and of the Committee of Printing and
! Publishing.
He was a member never given to
| display. He was content to labor in the
silence and darkness of the trenches
| in order to approach some strong point
OF vantage He never counted a plum
ed parade upon the ramparts. But
while he discharged modestly the in
| conspicuous offices of our society, al
ways nearing, as he believed, worthy
and meritorious end, he discharged
| them with steadfastness and zeal. He
| felt in the progress, and ultimate ac-
| complishment of our Society, a far
| firmer faith, and deeper interest, than
| the unobservant and Indifferent public
| supposed. He once declared to a mem
Der of this committee that he consid-
cred the presidency of the Georgia His
| torical Society the highest honor that
could be conferred upon a citizen in
| Savannah. He was a deligent reader of
useful and instructive works, and his
| preference was for those of a scientific
| character. He was one of the first pur-
chasers in Savannah and a careful
ponderer of Appleton's valuable scien-
tific library. He was deep lover of
art. and had an abiding faith in it's
| mission. 1t was upon his resolution. Of
fered before the Board of Managers,
and afterwards unanimously adopted
by the Society, that Director Brandt
was sent to Europe last summer with
authority to expend $1,000 in the pur
chase of pictures. The fine new paint
and the five new large panel pictures
to be completed from studies made by
Director Brandt in Europe and Africa,
and which will make our fine hall of
casts unique among halls of casts in
America, will furnish the ripe fruit of
Mr.. Denmark's liberal resolution.
Be it, therefore, resolved, by the
Georgia Historical Society:
First That in the death of Brantley
A. Denmark the city of Savannah lost
one of it's most upright useful and
valued citizens; and that the many in
stitutions in our midst. with which he
was so prominently and helpfully as
ISOLATED, while they viii suffer a void
| 1t will be difficult, if not impossible,
| to fill, will continue to harvest and en-
| Joy the ripe fruition of his services, his
| life and his example.
Second That this society and its art
adjunct, the Telfair Academy of Arts
and Sciences, are, by his untimely
death, deprived of a highly capable
and jealous adherent, patron and
| friend.
Third. That a duly certified copy of
this memorial be transmitted to the at
f1icted family of the deceased, to whom
the society tenders its warmest SYM
| pathy and coincidence.
| Fourth. That copy be published in
the Morning News and in the afternoon
| Press of Savannah.
Fifth. That it be inscribed upon the
minutes of the society. upon pages
specially set apart for that purpose. as
a perpetual memorial of our deceased
and lamented associate and friend.
GEORGE A. MERCER,
ROBERT FALLIGANT,
| I u SATISFY