Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-29
PRAISE OF DEPARTED
ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICES
IN TYPOGRAPHICAL HALL.
Addresses by President Kidd of Co.
lumbia Union and Public
Printer Donnelly.

The seventh annual memorial service
in honor Of the deceased members OF
Columbia Typographical Union, No. 1O1.
was held yesterday afternoon at Typo
graphical Temple, which was taxed to
its capacity by the large audience Of
fellow-craftsmen and visitors gathered to
pay homage to the dead
The auditorium was decorated with
American flags and the stage banked with
palms and ferns. At the rear of the
stage on large tablet was printed the
roll of the departed. set off with electri-
cal effects among many flowers.
The memorial committee that prepared
the decorations and arranged the pro-
gram is composed Of Will F. Burchfield,
chairman: Benjamin A. Lineback, 7. Wal
ter Sharp, J. W. Reynolds, Alexander
Gordon.
The following young ladies acted as
| ushers: Misses Martha Feehan. chair
man: Leta NJ. Wheeler. Mary T. Hayden.
Mary f. Raglan. Emma f. Conway
Rev DR.. J. W. Frizzell of Ingram Me-
mortal Church delivered the invocation.
after which Secretary George E. Seibold
read the roll of the dead. as follows:
Otho Dousherty, W. S. OBrien. George
r. Brandon, Francis D. Wallace. w E.
a. Pagan. William A. Ball. L. 4. McDer-
mott, J. l.. Sim. Daniel ]. Hegarty. II.
c. Underwood. Milo *. Huntsberry Will
liam H. Higgins. Herman ]. Martin,
James l.. Harper. Charles NJ Warren,
II. \. McPike. Edgar a. Balso. Jeptha
NJ. Israel. Ella NJ. Heness. J. l.. Glen
DENIM. William A. Dodge. c. w. Den
ham.
President Kids Tribute.
President Frank A. Kidd paid a tribu1e
to the departed members in whose mem
DRY printers and friends had gathered
He sair. in part. I'VE knew them in.
tn1ately and loved them in life as we
| revere their memory in death because OF
| their steadfastness in the faith of era f,
fraternalism and their fidelity to the
principles of trades unionism and the
| universal brotherhood that is slowly but
| surely forming among the worlds work
| ers. They were not always satisfied with
their material rewards. but ambition fol-
| better things did not embitter their sense
or justice or pervert their Judgment.
They wrought we'll in the Workshop
OF intellectual endeavor, putting into en-.
during form the thoughts OF the bright.
est minds for the information of all the
people for all time to come. They lived
upright lives. and loved their God. theil
country. and their fellow men,
| Public Printer Heard.
| President Kidd then introduced Public
Printer Samuel B. Donnelly. who told OF
the progress of the printers organization
| and said: lover fifty years ago one
| Of its ideals was the establishment of a
home for the care of members who be-
came incapa citated either through sick
ness or age to care for themselves. Now
| that ideal Is realized beyond the greatest
| expectations in the splendid union print
ers' home at Colorado Spings. Cola
monument to the unselfshness of the
| members in providing for those who are
unable to provide for themselves" He
| told of the memorial services Of the
New York union. of reading the names
| of those who had gone to their reward
and the pleasant memories recalled of
their lives.
Vocal and instrumental music in keep
| ing with the spirit Of the occasion fol-
lowed.