Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-26
a SPLENDID TRIBUTE.
Resolutions by Savings Bank Assn Of
Maine on Late William G. Ellis.

The annual meeting of the Savings
Bank Association of Maine was held in
Portland Feb. q. The officers elected for
the ensuing year were: President, Ed
ward A. Noyes; vice president. Frederic
c. Gushing; treasurer. A. A. Montgomery;
secretary, w. G. Boothby; executive
council, Edwin Stone. John A. Morrill,,
william D. Sewall Norman L. Bassett,
Charles H. Bartlett.
The following tribute and resolution OF
sympathy upon the death of William G
Ellis, former Deputy Bank Commissioners,
was presented and adopted:
William G. Ellis:
A Tribute and Resolution of Sym
pathy.
ton, William G. Ellis. for 10 years clerk,
assistant examiner and deputy commits
sioner In the office of the State Banking
Department has been claimed by death.
Devoting himself continuously to the in
terests of the banking institutions OF the
State during more than one-third of his
entire life. he knew their officers, their
employees, their strength and their weak
nesses their aspirations, their wants and
their secrets as no other one man in the
State ever knew them He was Jealous
for their good fame and untiring In his
efforts to promote their usefulness. He
died as he iived-in the harness His
sudden illness and death was an mspeak-
able shock. That he should be taken
from the thoughts OF all of us, so init
mately and completely had he become
part of the banking system of the state
Other officials might come and go, nut
il did not occur to any one that ElilS
would leave the department.
It is not given man to remain here long.
When we count the ages that are past
and contemplate the evidence OF ages
/ 4 hot
span of human life is at best compare
lively short. few years more or less
count but little in the aggregate of time,
so be it the individual has done well the
work that falls to him to do, and 1t is
fruitless to mourn their loss. Rather
should We turn to what the indlvidual mas
accom- piished as one OF the human race
while awaiting the call to another SpneFe
Grievous as is the parting with those
we love il Is infinitely better than never
to have had their affection, and their
memory is a solace that inose VINO nave
not experienced 1t can little appreciate.
! And SO when we look back upon the
life of one whose work brought him INTO
the closest touch with us, whose constant
activity marked him as ore VINO never
shirked a duty. whose big heart ana
cheerful spirit made him always WEI
come visitor and helpful compahloI ~ IA
Iife's way. whose loyalty to his associates
adm to the institutions with Wnich ne
! came in offacial contact never MaVereq,
chastened though we may be by his SUD
den going away, we may cherish win
pleasure and profit the memory or MS
active, painstaking life. And so intimate
| was his association with the savings
| hanks of the State that We snail often
SOC In the minds eve VIII Ellis still con-
smiling with us and watching over MS. as
We see in the twilight the familiar gaze
OF a near and dear one who has gone oe,
! fore and left with US only a hahoWea
memory.
The State Association of Maine savings
Banks therefore Resolves:
That this Association reveres the mem
orv of William c. Ellis as that or one
who faithfully performed his tasks While
| among us and went to meet his creator
| with full right to the consciousness Oh d
/ life we'll spent cut shorter than we IN
| our human wisdom would nave nao IT,
! but complete if a life devoted to the ser,
| vice of his fellow-men, prolonged uIitii
| they shall have reaped rich reward ana
| been inspired by noble example may De
| said to have been complete;
That we synpathize with those 10 "hori
| he was bound by ties closer even than
| those that bind man to the mass or ms
| fellowrnen, and assure them that Ire
sIrch as his is a precious thing to treas
ure in the memory .o,,
/ That these resolutions be spread upon
the records of this association, ana COPY
! of them sent to his family, and that they
| be given. to the press as public reeog-
nition of his faithful service.