Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-27

title of the firm was changed to B. Robin
son & Co., Mr.. Cherry became partner.
In 1898, after the fire which destroyed the
building at 18th and F streets. occupied by
the company. Mr.. Cherry became the senior
partner and the firm has since been known
as the Cherry & Moran Company.
For a number Of years Mr.. Cherry had
been prominent member of the Board of
Trade and of the Business Mems Associa-
| ton. He was also a sustaining member of
the Carroll Institute, and manifested great
| interest in it's business affairs and func-
tons
His wife, Mrs. Clara Eaton Cherry: his
mother Mrs. l.. A. Cherry. and a sister.
Mrs. James w. Orme, who resides at 1919
K street northwest, survive him.
Devoted to His Home.
While Mr. Cherry was devoted to his
business and to the community in which he
had lived SO long, his strongest devotion
was to his home life, was the opinion ex-
pressed today by one of his former BUSH
ness associates.
He was a man of the most even tenn
permanent 1t is declared. and of quiet
genial disposition. He was regarded, in
deed, as man without faults. He was
identified with the charitable work of the
District but in such a quiet, transformations
manner that but few of his friends were
aware of his bounteous charities to the
poor and afflicted. .------
Illustrative of Mr.. Chery's quiet but eff
fective manner of dispensing charity,
friend today stated that during the terri
BILE blizzard of 1899, although men more
hardy than Mr.. Cherry 1inched from going
out of doors in the snow-piled streets to
meet the icy blasts from the north and the
scurrying sleet and snow. he donned his
great coat and rubbers preparatory to leav-
Ing the house. When warned that it was
desperate undertaking to face the fierce
elements he simply replied that 1t was
necessary for him to go as he had an i'm
fand n nd hn
1t was not until the bright sunlight of
summer had returned that the true purpose
OF his mission on that wintry day was
learned, and then not from his lips but
quietly extending assistance to venerable
woman away out on the northern suburbs
| OF the city, who was rearing her three little
grandchildren, their parents being dead
| The only source of income for this needy
| family was the small wages earned by the
eldest boy and few cents each week the
revenue received by the aged woman for
| her needlework
| On the morning when the blizzard was
| raging his heart went out to this poor fam
| lily with its burden of old age and child
| hood. He investigated and found no fuel
| in the house and but little food. and the
| aged grandmother and the children were
huddled in bed trying to keep warm. with
| his own hands he carried temporary sup
ply of coal and wood to the home OF pow
erty from a nearby store, and, returning
| to the grocery store he carried a supply
| of groceries to the home and remained I'M
| til a bright, cheerful fire was burning In
| the stove and the atmosphere was fragrant
with the odor of coffee and cooking food
Then he went to a coal yard and ordered
| a supply of fuel and to grocer's and left
an order for a generous quantity of food.
| To the coal dealer he said:
This Is awful weather. The family
needs this coal at once. Send 1t i'm
mediately without regard to the COST
Revealed by Accident.
No one, not even his business partner
| knew of this incident, and it was only
brought out by the merest accident.
Mr.. Cherry had been a constant reader Of
| The Evening Star since he first learned to
| read at the old-fashioned school in George
| town, and on the wall of his private apart
| ment at his home is displayed copy of the
| 1904 calendar issued by The Star with the
colored sketch Solitude" which he had
| often pronounced to be lone of the pref
test and most suggestive works of art" he
had ever seen.
The funeral arrangements are being per-
| fected by Mr.. T. Pliny Moran this after
| noon. The services will be held at st. Pat
| and burial will be at Oak Hill. The
| list of pallbearers will include Judge T. H.
| Callan, Hamilton Adams, Joseph A. Curran
| of Guy, Curran & Co and w. T. Belt, chief
| engineer of the fire department