The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-02
Members of Worcester County
Bar Offer Tribute to the Mem
DRY of Frank P. GouIding in SUI
preme Court
ADDRESS BY
CONGRESSMAN THAYER
Judge Putnam City Solicitors
Rugg of Worcester and Hall of
FitChburg and Judge Barker
Speak of the Qualities That
Made Mr.. GouIding a Leader

and fitting tribute yesterday afternoon
to the memory of their dead leader
Frank P. Goulding. The memorial ser
vice was held at the sitting of the Su-
preme Court before Judge James NJ
Barker of Pittsfield and Judge Francis
A. Gaskill of the Superior Court occu-
pied a place by the presiding justice
The exercises brought together large
and representative gathering of the
bar and personal friends of Mr.. Could
ing, including Senator George F. Hoar,
Congressman John R. Thayer, Mayor
Philip ]. O'Connel Judge Samuel Ut
ley of Central District Court, Judge A.
A. Putnam of UXbridge, Judge William
T. Forbes of the Probate Court, Nudge
George NJ. Woodward, District Attor-
ney lockwood Hoar former District
Attorney Herbert Parker, Sheriff Rob-
ert H. Chamberlain, Deputy Shertfts
David H. Hayter, Charles A Bartlett.
William w Scott, Charles Sibley and
James Early, Francis H. Dewey, Col
William A Williams, John S. Gould
Henry F. Harris, John B. Ratigan,
Webster Thayer, Col. William A Gle,
Thomas G. Kent City Solicitor Arthur
P Rugg of Worcester, City Solicitor
Walter Perley Hall of Fitchburg, Col
E. B. Stoddard, Hon. Henry L. Park
er, Hon Rufus B. Dodge, Postmaster
]. Evarts Greene, Hon. stephen Sails
bury, Thomas H. Sullivan, Simeon G.
Friedman, James H. Bancroft, Henry
B. Montague, Frank f. Dresser, L.
Hovey Gage, Jr., Maj. William 7. Har-
low, Col 7. S. Johnson, County Com
missioners George w. Cook and Henry
G. Taft, Joseph A. Titus, ]. NJ. Coch-
ran Ernest I. Morgan, George T. Dew
ey, John c. Dewey, Thomas L. Brown,
Fred H. Chamberlain, John NJ. Thayer,
George A. Gaskill, James Green, Hollis
w Cobb, Eben Francis Thompson, F.
W. Blackmer, William C. Mellish,
Charles j Aldrich and George P. Esty.
The court opened at 2.15 and the me-
mortal on Mr.. Goulding was presented
from the Bar Association by Congress-
man John R. Thayer as follows:
Frank Palmer Goulding was born in
Grafton on July %, 1887, graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1853, was ad-
mitted to the bar in this county in
April, 1866, and died in this city on
Sept. 16, 1901.
A great lawyer and a great man has
gone out from our midst at the zenith
of his power and influence and in the
midst of the activities of his life work
Not a member of the bar heard of his
untimely death without a shock Of per-
sonal bereavement.
His eminence in our profession rem
ders it peculiarly fitting for the court
to pause in its appointed work to ac-
lCept the affectiOnate tribute we sorrow
fully pay to his memory. 1t seems but
yesterday we saw him passing in
and out of this court room, so familiar
to him, and, as 1t were, his second
home, where he had for thirty-five
years riveted the attention of judges,
juries, litigants and attorneys by his
mighty powers, all in subsection to his
will, each in its appointed way work
ing to the procurement of the best re-
suits for his client and his cause.
His appearance was commanding and
dignifled, his countenance expressive
and resolute, his wit ready and bril-
liant, his mind clear and comprehen-
sive, his judgment profound and his
general knowledge extensive. He had
the power to concentrate his attention
and penetrate the mysteries which
Seemingly surround every case, and
with a clear perception, gave each part
its proper position, presenting the
whole in the most forcible attitude be-
fore the court and jury.
He had his full share of that pride
which dwells largely in the human
heart and lies at the foundation of
much useful exertion in the great field
of Improvement; this urged him on to
earnest and noble activity
Mr.. Goulding was not particularly
gifted with fluent speech, but he had
an extended vocabulary of choice and
expressive words, which were ever at
his command. He used the purest Eng
fish to express his clearly conceived
thought. His imagination was vivid,
his knowledge of history and literature
and choice poethy furnished him an
ample fund from which to select pas
.sages to eliven and adorn his logical ar
gumentS. His arguments showed, as
the arguments of few did, method of
arrangement and clearness of compre-
hension not only of the main features
of the case, but of all the details, so
that his conclusions were usually ire
sistible.
His presence among his fellow law
yers reminded one of the mighty oak,
dominating all by its surprising
strength and power His statement of
facts in a case was captivating, and
his statement of the law applicable to
the case was clean-cut, forcible and
convincing. He spoke as one in au-
thority. OF course, he was not al
ways right, but you could scarcely de-
tect his error 1t was so adroitly con-
cealed, and never were you sure that he
was sensible of it. He never resorted to
the low level of the pettifogger or
schemer His purpose was not to be-
fog and muddle, but to expose and
elucidate.
He fought in the open and despised
cant, insincerity and cunning, and
overcame, if he did overcome, by q
careful and methodical arrangement
of his facts enforced by a clear compre-
hension of the law applicable to them
each taking its appointed place in the
conduct of the case to the end that the
conclusion he sought was most appar-
ent. His unparalleled dexterity and
| sWittness of intellectual movement rem
der him a formidable antagonist.
| He was a thorough believer in the sci.
| ence Of law and rules of practice He
| had no sympathy and no patience with
| the loose, unscientific method of prac-
| Using law. He worked in an orderly
and methodical way, and by precept
and practice sought to lead others t
! do the same. He could see, as few mer
! could see the nice distinctions which
make each case different from any
other case.
He left undisposed of at the Bar Of
this Court and other high tribunal.
more in number and more importan
cases in the vast amounts at stake anC
in the interesting and complicated pirn
ciples involved than often falls to tn.
lot Of any other great lawyer whel
summoned to lay down his life.
The sudden transition from life t,
death always subdues the feelings S,
that we are willing to see only the hes
features Of the character of the dead
Few men in the community ever hav