The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-31
SAVANNAH BARS
MEMORIAL
IN HONOR OF POPE BARROW.
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE PAID TO LATE
JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT.

of Judge Barrow and Requested
Family to Furnish a Photograph
From Which to Make a Portrait
quent Speeches Made by Members
of the Bar.
Nearly every member of the Savan-
nah bar was present at noon yesterday
when Judge 4. M. Norwood of the City
Court, called the meeting to order in
the Superior Court room to pay tribute
to the memory of the late Judge
Pope Barrow. The younger mem
beers, who found kind and encourag-
ing friend in Judge Barrow, and the
older members who learned after long
years of association to love him for his
kindness. his sympathy and love for
fellow man, and to admire him for his
uprightness and integrity, dropped a
tear of reverence.
The meeting was called primarily to
receive and pass upon resolutions,
drawn up by the committee appointed
some time ago, and to receive such ex-
pressions from members of the bar as
might be offered.
Judge Norwood presided. Judge
Paul e, Seabrook, chairman of
the Resolution COMMITTEES, sit
ting on the bench with Judge Nor
wood, read the resolutions imme-
diately after the meeting was called
to order.
The body of the resolutions was
taken up with a review of the life Of
the dead jurist from his boyhood days,
UP to the time of his death. In clos
ing the resolutions We're as follows:
Tribute to the Dead.
"In becoming frankness he was ac-
customed to say that he was in no
sense a self-made man, but that he
owed all his achievements in life to
the considerable means which he in
herited and his numerous and power
full family connections. While in his
modesty in this regard he did not give
full credit TO his own efforts and their
results, still his inherited means and
early environments no doubt encour-
aged the development of the charming
hospitality and delightful manners
which always distinguished him, as
they did his predecessors on the bench,
as a marked type of the true, old
time Southern gentleman to the manor
born.
Unlike the majority of the mad
hunters of wealth of the present gem
Grafton the delight of Pope Barrow's
life was in his friendships and in
the delightful intercourse of kindred
spirits.
"I@-:::::!ng rapidly lasting friendships
in his adopted home, Savannah, with
its Southern customs and delightful
society, soon became very dear to him.
Earnest and sincere in his desire to be
of service to the people of his native
state and community, his appointment
and subsequent election as judges of
this court was esteemed by him as
one of the greatest, If not the great
est, honor that had come into his life
Like the venerable Herschel ". John
son, he recognized how sacred was this
position and how much the rights of
the people as well as the morals of the
community depended upon his faith
full discharge of the duties imposed
upon him. No incident in recent years
displayed more strikingly his love for
Savannah and his work than his re-
fusal of the tender made him of ap-
pointment as a justice of the Supreme
Court of this state.
Fit and proper was it, then, that
the angel of death should have sum
moned him when just descending from
that bench where with gracious dig
nifty he had been busy In the service
of his people.
Wherefore be 1t
Resolved, That in the death OF Pope
Barrow this community has lost a be-
loved and honored citizen, the bar a
fearless and able jurist, and the state
one of its choicest sons.
Resolved, further, That a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of this court and that a COPY
of the same be given the family of
the deceased.
Hon. Walter CharIton's EuIogy.
Hon. Walter G. Charlton was the
first speaker to accept the invitation
of the chairman for remarks Mr..
Charlton was warm personal friend
of Judge Barrow and he spoke most
touchingly OF the many Iovable traits
of character of his dead friend, char
acteristics most keenly appreciated by
those who knew him intimately. mot
only has Savannah sustained a. loss"
said Mr.. Charlton, "but the entire state
has lost one of it's most brilliant sons
and faithful servants.
His First Death Sentence.
Mr.. Frank M. Oliver, who read
law in the Office of Judge
Barrow, spoke feelingly of the init
mate association he had with him. He
was the young mans friend and coun-
seller, he was the recognized among
those of his own years as the soul of
honor and chivairy, and though we
have men among us who will fill the
vacant chair with success and distlnc-
ton, yet the loss to those to whom he
was so much at heart can never be
repaired,
I'm his heart there were unbounded
wells of sympathy. l particularly re-
member the first case that came up
before him in which he was called on
to pronounce.the death sentence
"In this he evinced that keen grief
that he always felt for the sufferings
of others, and after the jury had
brought in a verdict of guilty, before
he would pronounce the death sentence
he called on a committee composed of
members of the local bar, asking that
they examine the records in the case
and ascertain If every requirements Of
law had been met. and whether or not
any error had been committed. When
the examination was made ii was
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