Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-07
DROP FLOWERS ON
CRAVE OF GILBERT
Fellow Attorneys and Judges Pay
Touching Tributes to Dead
+ Lawyers Memory
RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED
Federal. Dauphin Courts, Visiting
Bars and Attorney Generals
Department Represented
RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED

Touching tribute in eulogy and reso-
luton was paid to the memory of Ly
man D. Gilbert yesterday afternoon
by fellow attorneys of Dauphin and
other bars, the Judges of the courts of
Dauphin county. and of the United
States Court for the Middle district.
members of the bar went to the
funeral.
Nearly a hundred lawyers and sew
era1 judges attended. Federal Judge
Charles 3. Wilmer. United States
Court. sat in the audience with Addi-
tional Law Judge s. J. M McCarrell,
James Scarlet, Deputy Attorney Gen
eral ]. E. B. Cunningham, Assistant
Deputy Attorney General William M.
Hargest, Fred w. Fleitz and Robert
X. Young. State Treasurer, a member
of the Tioga county bar.
President Judge George Kunkel was
chosen chairman after Eugene Sny
der, dean of the active practicing at
torneys, called the meeting to order.
Assistant District Attorney Frank B.
Wickersham and B. Frank Mead were
elected secretaries. Thomas s. Har-
gest was named chairman of a COM
mittee to draft resolutions. Serving
with him were Charles C. Stroh. Eu-
gene Snyder, Charles H. Bergner. M.
w. Jacobs BENJAMIN M. Mead, James
M. Lamberton, S. S. Bowman, Daniel
c. Herr, John a. Herman, John Fox
Weiss.
Mr. Stroh presented the resolution
and upon motion of ex-Judge Jacobs
the minute was spread upon the court
records. This set forth in detail the
life and work of Mr.. Gilbert and in
conclusion paid this little tribute to
his memory:
We. as members of the bar of
Dauphin county and as citizens of
Harrisburg, have sustained an ir-
hIa lose Tho living hraath
ing man is no more. For his
charming personality we have but
memory, for his eloquence the
stiffness of the grave; his genial
smile has fed and his YARN,
friendly grip is now the touch of
vanished hand. Another niche
in the silent halls of Time has
been filled with memorial to an
accomplished lawyer, a scholarly
gentleman, useful citizen and
warm-hearted friend and COM
panion.
The eulogies from various members
of the bar followed Among those
was that of BENJAMIN M. Forster, the
oldest member of the Dauphin county
bar. His health would not permit his
attendance, but his touching tribute
was delivered for him by M. Homer
Matter. In concluding Mr.. Forster
wrote:
Was he ambitious? Yes, he was
! ambitious, but not for his advance
ment or that he might obtain power
! for himself-but for his friends. He
declined one high position after an
other and there was no honor or posi-
tion in public life which he could not
have attained. Yet Mr.. Gilbert has left
footprints on the sands of time; foot
prints not to be effaced or washed
away"
In presenting Mr.. Forster's tribute
Mr.. Matter also added his own little
sentiment. He quoted from Black
stones memoir:
''Untainted by the guilty bribe
Uncursed amidst the harpy tribe;
No orphans cry to wound my ear,
My honor and my conscience clear
Thus may l calmly meet my end
Thus to the grave in peace descend"
Here are some of the references to
Mr.. Gilbert'S life, work and person
ality as expressed in the course of the
eulogies
State Treasurer Robert X. Young -
We shall not look upon his like
again.
Charles B. McConkey-"What little
I have learned 1 have learned from
him; his death will be loss to me as
well as to the citizens of Harrisburg"
Fred w. F1eitZ-"For many years
he has stood a very Bayard of the bar
of Pennsylvania"
Federal Judge Wilmer "He was
truly great lawyer, but not only a
great lawyer; he was a prince among
men,"
John A. Herman Truly he had
taught we'll the doctrine of the
brotherhood of man"
John Fox Weiss-"We can certainly
take as our own exemplars those mem
bers of our bar who have passed from
among us during the last twelve
months-from the Olmsteds to the
Mitchells. And Lyman D. Gilbert was
certainly man worthy of emulation
by us ALL
s. S. Bowman He was a cour-
teous gentleman, learned lawyer, and
a devoted friend"