Evening star., 1915-02-22
Association Whose Pupose Is
to Perpetuate Memory of
First President.
JUDGE MAURYS TRIBUTE
TOLATE ALDIS B. BROWNE
Former Treasurer of Organization
Also Subject of Memorial Resolu-
tions-Oficers Elected.

The eighty-first annual meeting o1
the Washington National Monument
Society was held at II o'clock today al
the residence of Henry B. F. Macfar-
land. 12OS 18th street northwest Those
present We're Judge William a. Maury
! Brig. Gen. John NJ Wilson. U. S. A. re-
tired; Admiral George Dewey, L. :. N.
Charles c. Glover, Surgeon General
Francis NJ. Gunnen. U. S. N. retired
| DR. Charles d. Walcott. Edward NJ. Gal
laudet, r Ross Perry, Henry B. F. Mac
farland, Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding,
| Thomas Nelson Page, Herbert Putnam.
William Corcoran Eustis and Frederick
l.. Harvey.
| Judge Maury, second vice president of
| the society, who presided, in taking the
chair, said:
| The chair regrets to announce that
since the last meeting the society has
suffered a severe loss in the death of
Mr.. Adds B. Browne, its treasurer. who
died at his residence in this city the
31st day of May last.
Mr.. Browne attended the meeting
held this day a year ago in APPARENTLY
good health and was one of those who
expressed the grief of the society over
the death of Justice Henry b. Brown.
| its first vice president, in remarks that
did appropriate honor to the memory Of
the lamented dead.
Labored for Public Good.
Mr. Browne was one Of our best
known and most useful citizens and
was always prompt to cooperate in
| measures that made for the public
| good. We, accordingly, find his name
HI-ifh al 1n1n
every movement in this city to pro-
| mote the general welfare. and this
| Notwithstanding the demands of his
large practice in the Supreme Court Of
the United States and other courts
That his felow-citizens SO crowded
him with calls of all sorts illustrates
the remark of Herbert Spencer that
when you want thing done you don't
go to the man of leisure. who has.no
time for anything, but to the busy man
generalization of the philosophers may
be Father sweeping, but 1t contains
enough of truth to support it, as ex-
perience teaches.
The readiness with which Mr..
Browne responded to these calls upon
his time and attention shows that he
was imbued with the spirit of the old
Roman aphorism that he gives twice
who gives quickly.
1T is true that the major part of the
business of our friend lay in the con-
tentons of the forum, but 1t is also
true that however earnest the contest
or however bitter the animosity of the
litigants toward one another he never
emerged from the battle with feelings
other than became a Christian gentle
man, character which, 1 may add,
equally marked him in all the various
relations that made up his life.
Acquaintance Formed at Law School
My acquaintance with Mr.. Browne
began in the law school of the institu-
ton then known as the Columbian
University with which l was at that
time connected. We soon became
| friends and continued such up to his
death. One of my delightful recollec-
| tions of him is the pleasure he seemed
, to take in referring to his law school
ceived there. which he used to say
| often stood him in good stead in his
practice Indeed it is not unlikely that
it was in the law school that his desire
to follow the law as profession be-
| came fixed and crystallized.
| 1t is hardly necessary to say that Mr.
Brownies character and other qualifca-
tons gave him high standing at the bar
I States and of the other courts where
! he practiced. He was. indeed, a model
| of frankness and straightforward deal
| ing in his relations with the courts, re-
IlElSelI part OIL the ma
| chlnery of justice and not merely the
| advocate OF one side only. AS Mr..
EvartS once remarked. the wit of man
| had not been able to discover a better
| way Of getting at justice than the time
! honored arrangement of courts and law
| yers. BY lawyers. however. he meant
such only of high grade, as our friend.
Worthy of Higher Sphere.
Il cannot but think that If his lot
! had been cast in a selfgoverned COM
| munity and not In the District of Co
| lumbia, whose policy is removed from
the sphere of political strife, his public
| spirit would have had still more
splendid development, and would have
afforded shining example of a phase
| of citizenship of which the country
| feels the need-a need which must be
better supplied sooner or later. if our
| federal and state governments are to
| be purged of the graft and Indifference
! to civic duty which menace their over
, throw; SO true is it that free institu-
| tions are worth little unless vitaliZed
by honest, patriotic constituencies.
| Leaving now the practical side of his
| character, so to speak, and turning to
his private life. We find his path one of
almost unbroken sunshine whether we see
| him in the family circle or outside, en-
joying the society of his friends: every
where We meet that same strong. alert
and benignAnt face which 1t grleveS US
| to think will never again be seen in the
| flesh But, in a sense, he still lives in
the example he has left. Indeed las the
, moralist says, when a human influence
has once begun it will never through all
| ages have an end"
Resolution Adopted.
| Remarks in memory of Mr. Browne
| also were made by other members. fol-
! lowing which Mr.. Macfarland offered the
following resolution, which was adopted
The society learned with sorrow OF
the ueath of Adds B. Browne. and de-
! sires to record It's appreciation of his
Il services as one of It's members. and
also as its treasurer.
\ NO member of the society was more
faithful in his attendance upon tts
meetings, or more Jealous in his de-
votion to it's object. AS lifelong resi-