New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-23
WORLD BETTER
FOR DR.. TRUDEAU
Tribute Paid by Sanato-
rum Trustees to Memory
of Remarkable Man.
| INVALID DEVOTED
HIS LIFE TO OTHERS
DR.. Walter B. James Elected
President of Adirondack Cot
tage Institution at Meeting.

DR.. Walter b. James was elected
president of the Adirondack Cottage
Sanatorium at the annual meeting OF
the trustees held at his home Tuesday
night. The institution was founded by
Edward l.. Trudeau, and a. the meet
ing was the first held since his death
the following resolution was adopted:
1T does not often happen that a
great institution is conceived, brought
into being and carried TO its full frui-
tion by one man. The Adirondack Cot
tage Sanatorium was essentially the
work of DR.. Trudeau, aided, to be sure,
by a group of associates attracted TO
him by his remarkable personality.
Called upon at an early age to face
n life Of invalidsm and suffering and
in constant contemplation of death, not
only was he not affrighted, but he
turned his own adversities and those
of his neiChbors into channels that led
20 useful and constructive work. This
strange optimism in the midst OF APP
palling disaster, this power 10 discover
some good, not only in all men but
even in conditions apparently the most
adverse, was inherent in him and was
one of the chief sources of his strength.
He owed his rare power OF influencing
those about him 10 a simplicity and
freedom from guile that were child
like, to a disregard of self that was
complete, but even more perhaps to a
sympathy for suffering men and women
that radiated from him and was a real
force.
MANY e patient whose disease he
had been powerless 10 check faced the
dreaded last moment almost with con-
tentment because he sat at the beds ide.
The power to penetrate the heart of
modern scientific problems, together
with a rare imaginative faculty in
herited from his Gallo forebears. made
him a torchbearer in the world of sci
ence But to those who lived close TO
him and who worked shoulder TO shout
dor with him he meant far more than
this-a living fame, at which the
chilled souls Of stunned and stricken
men were warmed, to be sent back into
the world again to do their appointed
tasks with added courage, hope and
vision.
o. His genius for friendship was like
a touchstone that by its contact showed
to each man all that was best in him
self and left longing to return to
him.
zone phase of his immortality will
be the lasting influence his life will
have upon generation after generation
of men who may not even know his
name, an indestructible force making
all men a little better because he lived
even though his lie was passed in q
remote village in the woods.
THE trustees of the Adirondack Cot
tage Sanatorium, mindful of the many
years when it was a happiness to aid
him in his great task, mindful of a
close friendship of which now only the
fragrant memory remains and mindful
of the great value that they have them
selves received from their close asso-
citation with his lofty character,
Hereby resolve, That this minute be
ordered spread upon the records of this
meeting and that copy of it be for
warded to the family of the late DR..
Trudeau, bearing the signatures of the
presiding officer and of the secretary"
Other officers elected were DR.. f. r.
Baldwin, vice-p president; George S.
Brewster, secretary and treasurer, and
DR.. +. II. Heise, resident physician.