The Washington times., 1908-02-22
Crosby S. NOyeS-Henry I. Sat-
terlee.

~ 0AS SA5At NdJ washing VII -
made the poorer by the loss Of
Crosby Stuart Noyes and Henry
Yates Satterlee, two of its strong
est men. Working in different, but
not wholly separated, fields, both
imprinted their personalities on the
Capital. Both helped to fashion it
into better 0nd greater city. Per
haps either must have made himself
felt in any American community;
but here each found a large work
10 which his hand and spirit were
peculiarly fitted.
Mr.. Noyes revealed himself rarely
in the article which served as the
chief contribution to the semi-cen-
tennial number of the Star, the
newspaper to which he gave his
4rst thought through all of his
long life II was filed with phrases
which were more than picturesque,
which were sometimes benign,
sometimes sharp, and always efec-
tive.
The story told was one OF pluck
and enterprise, that Of a boy who
walked to Washington from Balti-
more and was the chief force IN
converting a bankrupt daily Of an
old type into one of the most sue
cessful, asseTtive, and modern news
papers Of the East. 1t disclosed the
strongest loyalty to the writer's
friends. Indicated in It, but not
dwelt upon, were years of activity
for that beautiful Capital which
was the writer's dream for Wash
ington, and 1t did more than sug-
gest with what insight and resolu-
tion he upheld the hands of the gov
ernor who made such beauty a pos
sibility.
Finally, the article covered, with
only the most modest mention of
self, the advance Of Washington
from a muddy, unkempt, unimpres-
sive, badly governed country town
into one Of the great and splendid
cities of the world-because to all
this Crosby NOyes gave counsel,
sympathy, and the most earnest
personal service. The city-whether
as the Capital of a great people or
a community where seIf-assertion is
peculiarly dificult-is not likely
soon to find so valiant an advocate
in his stead.
Bishop Satterlee did not, like Mr.
Noyes, spend all his mature life in
Washington. But he brought to it
a manhood not less striking, and
gave to it twelve years Of noble eff
fort. Few men of his strong, pious,
Christian idealism have been so
practical. In the church and out Of
II, men are rare who could have
suffused their labors with so pure
q spiritual influence and yet have
advanced them by so practical a
movement as the thank-offering
with which, a yeer or so since, this
bishop undertook to pay in large
part the debts of all the parishes of
his diocese.
The National Cathedral Of SIS.
Peter and Paul is possibly the best
key to an estimate of this church
man. Though he longed for a great
building significant Of Christ's king
dom on earth, and reflective Of a
Christian purpose to make His
earthly house beautiful, Bishop Sat
terlee did not undertake the cree
ton of that structure first. He de-
veloped instead the Cathedral &C
tivities-its educational opportuni-
ties through two schools; its char
table opportunities through com
pact and energetic mission band;
its spiritual opportunities through
open-air services so impressive that
no one who attended them can ever
forget them; its administrative op-|
portunities through a scheme CT
diocesan and cathedral government
which is the sdmiration of the
whole body Of American church
men.
Episcopal churchgoers in the Dis
trict Of Columbia knew Bishop Sat
terlee as a preacher of fine SYM
pathy. OF radiant unselfshness, OF
rare persuasiveness in expounding
the tenets of a manly Christianity.
In the very shadow Of his death it
is these qualities which make the
sense of loss most keen. But in
This case, and in that Of Mr. Moves,
the tribute to a lovable and gentle
personality from those who knew it
P by contact serves only to emphasize
the larger loss of the public in the
death of two men whose lives were
rich in tangible achievement for its
welfare.