Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD
BAR ASSOCIATIONS TESTIMONIAL
TO A. g. RIDDLE.
Addresses in Eulogy of His Life and
Character by Leading
Attorneys.

assembled shortly after / O'Clock this af-
ternoon in the room Of Criminal Court No
?. city hall, for the purpose of doing honor
to the memory Of the late Albert Galiatin
Riddle. Mr.. Frank w. Hackett, formerly
assistant secretary Of the navy. was
chosen to preside at the meeting.
Eloquent addresses eulogistic of the de-
ceased, Were made by Judge c. c. Cole.
Mr.. r. Ross Perry. Judge Lander and Mr..
Simon Wolf.
Judge Cole. chairman of a committee on
resolutions appointed by the presiding OH
Ger, reported resolutions. which were uuan-
imously adopted. follows:
Tribute to His Memory.
Albert Gallatin Riddle was born at Mon
! son. Mass, on May -. 1916 and on May H.
1902, di ID at Washington. District OF Co
iumbia. where he had lived for thirty--ight
years His eighty-six years OF life com
passed the most momentous events in his
countrys history since its birth. and In
those events he bore a conspicuous ard
useful part After teaching school for sew
eral years he was admitted to the bar in
1910; was prosecuting attorney for GeauGa
and Cuyahoga counties Ohio. and mem
Der of the Ohio legislature; represented the
Cleveland district in the House OF Repre-
sentatives. and was consul at MatanZas.
Cuba, during tn civil war; was attorney OF
the District of Columbia from 1871 10 1889.
and was the author of many works OF nc
ton and history. AS schoolmaster. lawyer.
legislator, diplomat litterateur and citizen
his talents were increasingly employed in
the unusually long span of time allotted TO
him, and I'm every relation be did his cuty
fully and well.
In the year following his birth his par
onts emigrated to the western reserve of
| Ohio, where. in the virgin forest, his father
| h,Ef1 no Log trhf first
home known to the child. Here. In the
woods and in the midst of their perils as
| of their beauties, the foundations Of his
character were laid, and here he imhibed
that passionate love of nature which
| throughout his life manifested itself in his
works. whether literary or forensic. as well
| as in his personality. Tree and beast and
bird were his childhood companions. and
| his spirit to the end.
Principles Of a Pioneer.
In the pioneer society in which his con-
scious existence began he formed the
| tastes acquired the virtues and took on
the principles of the pioneer. The frontier
life. with its lmitless woods and their UNI
| restrained denizens. made freedom his CEN
trail thought. and the universal brother
hood of man and the universal fatherhood
of God" became part of him, In politics as
| in religion. This bore fruit in the Free
| Soil convention called by him at his Ohio
home in 1913, which was the first effective
political organization for the overthrow OF
slavery, antedating the formation Of the
| republican party in the United States. The
| conviction back of this act remained his
| inspiration throughout. and in his profess
sional well in his political career he
| held fast to il as to an instinct of his ma
| ture; and. the last survivor OF the early
| workers in the vineyard of his choosing.
| he lived to see the triumph throughout our
| hemisphere of the principles in the support
1 of which he had never known variableness
or shadow of turning.
Professional Career.
| Likewise, in his professional career he
| knew but one chart. but one compass In
| sstiate in study, untiring in energy. unfal-
tering in courage, faithful to the highest
| traditions of his noble calling and meeting
success and failure as one equal to either
| fortune, he achieved the experience of the
knight faithful to his quest through good
/ report and through evil report, and he goes
| to his rest like the crusader of old in
whose effigy is preserved the emblem of
\ his mission.
| Wherefore we, his brethren of the bar
record our appreciation of his wide attain
| ments. high character. devotion to duty
and loyalty to the lofty conceptions of his
| pure spirit; and We direct the secretary az
| TINS meeting TO convey to the members of
| his family this recognition of the life and
worth of him whose earthly comma nionsbin
they have lost. and We direct the chairman
| OF the meeting TO present the same ia tbe
| court OF Appeals and Supreme Court ~
| the District Of Columbia