The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-23
MORTON MARYE
SLEEPS IN DEATH
Auditor OF Public Accounts
Passes Away After Long
Illness.
FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON
Kept Practiced Hand on Finan-
cial Pulse OF Virginia for
Twenty-seven Years.

After life's ftful fever, close to four
score years old, Morton Marye, for
nearly twenty-seven years Auditor of
Public Accounts of Virginia, sleeps
well. The gallant soldier. the faith
full citizen. the incorruptible public
servant, the loyal friend and tried
counselor, breathed his last at 1:15
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
II is proverbial that the public is
ungrateful; that long wears of cark-
ing care and grinding toll are for
gotten when the hand lies nerveless
and still. when the tongue is silent
when the brain which wrought for the
Commonwealth for a genera ton works
no longer, when the great heart is
stilled. Yet the officers of the State
went about the Capitol with bated
breath yesterday, and the flag of Vir-
gtnia fluttered at half mast and the
scene of Colonel Marye's labors for so
many years was closed and silent.
Faithful Official.
For twenty-seven years Morton
Marye kept his practiced hand on the
financial pulse of the Commonwealth.
He scrutinized every claim; friend and
zoe We're alike to him when 1t came
to auditing accounts against Virginia.
he has saved untold thousands Of pub
lie moneys by his disallowance of
claims which he regarded as Illegal
or unjust. And in twenty-seven years
not one breath of suspicion has tainted
the record of the official who handled
millions of the money of the people
of the State.
Early In life he gave one of his legs
to Virginia's cause. For nearly half
century he had gone his painful
way among his fellows a mute re-
mlnder of the cost of the struggle to
which he devoted his early manhood.
No man is better known among the
local officials of the State. Nearly
every man in public life has at ono
time or another had some official bust
ness with his office. He has won the
respect of all who have known him.
There is no one who withholds words
of praise for the public record of the
man who is gone,
Funeral To-day.
The funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 1880 o'clock at the Church
of the Holy Trinity, and the burial
will be in Hollywood Cemetery. Inc
pall-bearers will meet at the home,
1901 Grove Avenue, at 3:15. They will
be as follows:
Active-Edward L, C. Scott John r.
IillilcS, ooii4i IoaS, w lllIdIll L. Slllltn,
Frank B. Watkins. James Vass, j. B..
Woodward and ]. II. Johnson. These
a1e the eight Oldest clerks in the
auditors office in point of service.
Honorary--William Hodges Mann
Governor of Virginia: David c. Rich
ardson Mayor of Richmond; William A.
Anderson, ex-Attorney-Genera G.. Lee
Moore chief clerk to the Auditor;
Judge James Keith. president of the
Supreme Court Of Appeals; Judge r.
II, Cardwell, of the Supreme Court of
Appeals: Judge r. Carter Scott, of the
Circuit Court of the city of Richmond: ::
Judge John Fl. Ingram. of the Law and
Equity Court of the city of Richmond; !;
Judge S. B. Witt of the Hastings Court
of the city of Richmond: General
Charles j. Anderson, John Lamb, repre-
sentative in Congress; j. Taylor ELY
son, Lieutenant-Gove of Virginia;
Joseph Button. Commissioner If Insur-
ance; Asher W. Harman, State Treas
urer; Judge John G. Dew, Second Audi,
tor; John L. Williams, John F. Branch,
f. b. Addison, James n Boyd, James
H. Drake James b, Pace, Treasurer of
Richmond; Colonel Archer Anderson,
Samuel G. wallace. Colonel John B.
Purcell, DR. George Ben Johnston, DR.,
Christopher Tompklns, Hill Carter,
Henry r. Wiclsham, w. w Scott, law
librarian of the supreme Court of APP
peals. Colonel John S, Harwood, War
ren p. Taylor edwin z. Coz, John Al
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