The Pensacola journal., 1914-12-07
MAYES AND LOFTIN
DELIVER EULOGIES
Tributes Were Paid to De
parted Members of Elks'
Order and Special Eulo-
gies Were Pronounced
Upon Lives of A. c.. Fell
and Jas. McHugh-Elks
Present in a Body.

Beautiful and impressive was the
1lks annual memorial service in Key
ser hall yesterday afternoon. The
members of the order met at the lodge
rooms and marched in a body to the
auditorium, entering to the solemn
music Of a march played by tho or
chestra.
The stations and tho lodge altar
were all draped in mourning, and
| Exalted Ruler Kirke Monroe with the
assistance of the other officers con-
Quoted the ritual memorial service OF
the order.
Mrs. Nita Osborn Benn, with piano
| accompaniment by Prof. A. c. Reilly
and violin obligato by Max ]. Helm
| berg, sang beautifully an appropriate
| selection by Schubert. Other musical
numbers were a violin solo by Mr..
! Heinberg, Nearer, My God, to Thee"
and Aud Lang Syne" by the orches-
| ira, and two vocal ssolos by John
! FrenkeL
DR.. VIM. Ackerrnan offered prayer
and delivered the benediction in most
| impressive manner and Morris Levy
recited "Thanatopsis" most effectively.
| The service was in commemoratlon
Of all Of the departed members OF
Pensacola Lodge No. 497, but special
eulogies were pronounced upon the two
|, brothers who died during the past
year-A. c. Fell and James McHugh.
Frank L. Mayes delivered the address
or Mr.. Fell 9nd Scott m ITftin on Mr.
McHug~. NJ .sfn Jos ~ fe rs fCl-
lows:
EULoGY ON A. a. FELL.
Brother Exalted Ruler and Friends:
We have come today to pay tribute
10 those we loved-the departed mem
bers of Pensacola Lodge No. 497s
Benevolent and Protective order OF
EIks.
On the memorial tablet which hangs
upon the walls of our lodge room, fash
toned in solid bronze, new name ap-
pears-the name Of our brother, Alex
ander Gibson Fell
But short time since, when we
spoke that name, his voice, vibrant with
life, answered to the call Today we
call again, and from the voiceless void
of space there comes no answer to our
cry.
To those Of us who knew him and
who loved him, no words of mine can
voice the sorrow that hung on every
heart when death claimed the soul OF
Brother Fell. He was a big man
Dig Of body big Of mind, big Of heart.
There was nothing small about him.
He viewed life with a broad vision.
BY nature he was great in optimism,
great In fellowship, great in devotion
to his family and his friends. In his
relations with the world, he exhibited
more of the virtues and fewer OF the
faults than almost any man yer
knew. II in his heart he haTbored
malice, no friend OF brother ever knew
the fact He was always ready to
amend a wrong, defend a friend, or
forgive a foe.
The companionship that existed be-
tween Brother Fell and his friends,s
and the sorrow they experienced In his
death, I cannot better express now
than in the lines which the poet dedl-
Gates to his dead schoolmate:
The path by which we twain did go,
which led by tracts that pleased US
Through four sweet years arose and
fell,
From flower to flower, from snow to
snow:
And we with singing cheered the way,
And, crowned with all the season
lent
From April unto April went,
And glad at heart from May to May:
But where the path we walked began
To slant the fifth autumnal slope
AS we descended following Hope,
There sat the Shadow feared Of man;
Who broke our fair Companionship,
And spread his mantle dark and cold,
And wrapped thee formless In the
fold,
And dulIed the murmer on thy lip,
And bore thee where 7 could not see
Nor follow, though walk in haste,
And think that, somewhere in the
waste,
The Shadow sits and waits for me.
1t is with kindred emotion that we
look back upon our own broken COM
panionship and contemplate as well