The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-05
TRIBUTES TO
STANFORD WHITE
Noted Architects Faults Those
of Genius, Says a Friena.
QUIET IN DRESS AND sPEEoH

Gireless Worker, Who FreQuented
Bohemia For Relaxatien From Hi.
Araus1s Tasks-How He Befriended
. Sick stage Girl Whom He Never
Saw - Testimony Of a. Theatrical
Manager to Hts Charftabl Acts,
One Of these is genius to the other, and
SO Of these which is the natural man and
which the sptxt? Who deciphers them
Comedy q Nrors."
The late Stanford White, the noted
architect, who was recently killed by
Harry Kendall Thaw, was a genius
with all the attributes and eccentrics-
ties Of one, says the New York World
He had two great qualities, as the
men who knew him best learned dur
ing long years of intimacy. These
were concentration and Imagination
the concentration capable of the great
est persistency in any undertaking, the
Imagination that recognized no bounds
for the full play Of creative talent
His greatest weakness, Gas the men
who liked him best discovered, grew
out Of his propensity to substitute and
apply his remarkably developed gift Of
Imagination for reasonable discrimina.
tion. Aside from the restrictions Of biz
profession and the fine and distin-
gushing seometrical rules of it be
obeyed no law that might curb his im-
agination. He loved all the beautiful
things In nature and human nature.
He was sybarite in his tastes, w.
luptuary In striving for the realization
Of his imagination.
There was nothing vulgar in bis ma
ture, only q wild, lawiess desire for the
things that rarely exist In real life and
are most frequently the creations Of
just such an Imagination as he pos
sessed. He was a gentleman In his
treatment Of all persons. with whom
he came In contact, a man Of ineffable
charm that impressed one with his ex
cellent breeding and appreciation OF
the rules Of courtesy. If he had the
weaknesses that often serve as the
hidden foil for great minds and a gen.
ius such as bis be deftly concealed
them from public view and did not pa.
rade them as would have done a man
Of less refinement. He was not loud or
blatant, but rather quiet IN his man
ner, dress and speech.
HiS ponfnc Vyoc rod IN many
ways in his highly strung nervous
movements, his utterly oblivious disre-
gard for people who did not interest
him, bis erratic and at times fighty
transition from one object to another,
In the Kaleidoscope working Of his
great but lawless brain, in the singu-
larity of his habits. There was no hn-
man law that he respected so much as
that Of concentration and his observ-
ance Of the ethics Of good department
One Of his very best friends furnish
es some very instructive information
concerning the character of his friend.
stanford was certainly genius.
and he was also q gentleman. He
worked with the vigor of a steam en-
CINE and as IL he there were but TWEEN
II -four hours instead of a lifetime to
complete his work. His wonderful
mind needed stimulant and relaxation.
He created his own field Of pleasure,
and, Ike most geniuses, he strayed
perhaps at times into unlicensed fields.
But you can put II down as fact
that he never persecated nor forced his
attentions upon any person, man or
woman. He was like child who tires
Of toy. Stanford was always firing
Of toys.
He enjoyed the friendship Of stage
people because they were unlike the
people he met in his business life. l
knew of some Of his enterprises in this
direction, although 1 never shared in
them, and you can take my word for it
that ne never molested any woman nor
annoyed her with his attentions unless
she were adept and experienced in the
bohemian side Of stage life.
when he wanted to indulge his
tastes for society he was not compelled
to limit his territory to stageland. He
was welcomed at Newport and Lenox
In the highest and most cultured of cir
cles.
The Impression has been created by
persons who are apparently trying to
create a mawkish and unjustifed SEN
timent in favor of Stanford's cowardly
murderer that Stanford spent every
night OF his life for thirty years in pur.
suing women of the stage and that his
relations with these were entirely un.