Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-30
A Distinguished Career.

AS with many another volunteer soldier
of the sixties at the close of the Gen.
Osborn entered upon a distinguished ca
reer in civil life, said DR.. Bristol, where re
displayed the powers of many-sided gen.
Jus and the virtues and graces of a char
acter of honor of the highest type of Amer
lean citizen As a lawyer. as treasurer of
Cook county. ILL.,, and as state senator, he
was one of the conspicuous. trusted and
highly honored citizens of that great state.
Gen. Grant as President who knew and
admired him. appointed Gen. Osborn min
lister to the Argentine Republic where he
reflected honor upon himself and his coun-
try arbitra tor between Chile and Peru in
their International misunderstanding. so
fair and Just was his treatment of the
questions submitted to his Judgment" DR..
Bristol continued that the two countries
which had been at variance united in COM
memorating his eminently just decision by
presenting to him a shield of great value
and beauty, wrought of gold. silver and
bronze. the very emblems of his own yir-
tues" In vast railroad enterprises in South
America, DR.. Bristol said, Gen Osborn
manifested the genius not only of a great
civil engineer. Il genius which every mill
ltary mind must possess, but also the spirit
of large minded, public-spirited citizen of
the world, who had his visions of the fu-
ture and dreamed his splendid dreams of
the marvellous developments of this entire
western hemisphere. He anticipated the
Panama canal, and the future history of
South and Central America and our own
national relations to those countries will
still further demonstrate the marvellous
foresight and enterprise of this man whose
memory we honor today.
High-Minded Man of Honor.
I'm the all the walks of private life Gen
Thomas o. Osborn was the same true
high-minded man of honor that he was in
military and in official life He had a
great heart
He was a man of most generous impulses
He carried good nature with him. and his
friends always greeted him with a smile
in anticipation of the pleasure of his com
partnership. Hosts of friends today morn
the loss OF the gen al gentleman, the warm
hearted companion, the brave soldier the
patriotic and incompatible citizen In Wis
iting the Capital one of his sad missions
was to select the spot where at last he
should lie down TO rest bes.d the old COM
rades of the war. Little did he think that
he would so soon sleep the sleep Of death
and that before a week had gone taps
would sound above his couch in Arlington
Suddenly he was called, almost as sudden
ly many a soldier has been called in
battle, and he stood among the heroes
on the upper planes of life; he was greeted
and saluted by the comrades who had with
him. won their promotion to the higher
ranks of existence.
Died Soldier.
Whatever else may be said of those men
who saved our country in its time of peril
the greatest thing to be said of them is
that they were soldiers under the old flag
OF freedom in the mighty and glorious six
ties Since then he may have distinguished
himself as man of letters, as q financier
scientist, as a statesman. as diI5lo-
matist, but when he comes to select his
last resting place in anticipation of the in
eSftable event. he does not chose spot !
surrounded by the monuments of poets,
statesmen, artists men of science. schol.
ars OF learning, but with some old corufade
or some gentle woman he stroiis among