Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-03
FUNERAL OF MR.. EXLEY.
Services to Be Held at Residence OF
His Son Tomorrow.

Funeral services will be held over the re-
mains of the late Thomas NJ. EXley to-
morrow at o'clock at the residence of
his son, 1449 Sheridan avenue. The inter-
ment will be private.
A meeting was held in the private ONCE
of Mr.. EXley yesterday of half hundred
men and women, the clerks of the pay
master generals Office, War Department,
when a memorial to the late chief clerk
who died last Wednesday in this city after
brief illness, was adopted.
Mr.. B. p. Murray presided. and in a
short but impressive address, referred feel
ingly to the high esteem in which Mr.. EXley
was held by all the clerks of the office;
that by the exercise of all those good
qualities which go to make up good ana
usefu; man, he had won and held the ut
most confidence and love of all his sub
ordinates, many of whom he had served
with for nearly forty years.
The chairman appointed committee con-
sisting of Mr.. A. NJ. Salmon, chairman;
ColoneI Edwin Frey and Major Lewis
Knapp to draft a memorial to be en-
crossed and a copy to be presented to each
of the surviving sons, Mr.. Sidney I. EXley
of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mr.. Clarence M.
Exley of this city. The memorial follows:
The Memorial.
again we are called upon to mourn the
loss of a kind and generous superior and,
to most of US, a devoted friend and COM
ramon, who, for more than forty years,
has unremittingly labored to advance the
clerical efficiency of this bureau of the
War Department to it's first rank. When
at last the accomplishment of this labor
of years purchased at the expense of his
strength and health, lay open before him
the messenger of our inscrutable providence
called him to cease his toll, to leave his
desk and his duty so conscientiously fulfill
ed to the very last. How pleasing to- our
memory the fact that, in accomplishing
this task, he carried with him the love,
esteem and affection of his associates, who
will ever gratefully remember his worth.
his strict fairness and his impartiality in
all his relations and treatment of his
subordinates.
Thomas NJ. Exley was appointed clerk
of class l in the office of the paymaster
general October 6, 1864, and assembled step
by step until he reached the highest clerical
position in the office, and each advance was
gained through merit alone, without po-
litical any other outside influence. he
was a man of great ability whose walk
in life was always upright and honorable
with whom the great word was duty His
record as a clerk was surpassed by none.
He was also a man of noble and generous
impulses and ever ready to extend help
ing hand to friend or brother in need.
In his death the government loses one who
was a patriotic defender in war and a
faithful, attentive and most efficient serV-
ant in time of peace.
1T is therefore with deep grief that we
are today assembled here in the very room
so recently daily occupied by our departed
chief to give utterance to our heartfelt sor-
row at this sudden severance of this per-
sonal and official tie. May our grief be
tempered with the assured knowledge that
a life, such his, unselhshly devoted to
his beloved family and friends, and lived
wholly with view TO advance the welfare
of his fellowmen, can not end here, but
must find it's reward in higher and better
sphere and it is with this assurance we
point his beloved ones to home where
after toll comes rest