Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-02

Memorial resolutions upon the late Charles w. Comstock of Norwich and Montville were presented and passed at a meeting of the New London County Bar association here at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the su- delivered by Attorney HadIai A Hull of New London.
 Attorney William H. Shields. presi- dent of the association presided, and Judge Lucius Brown was clerk.
 Attorney Lee Roy Robbins of this city, who was, the law partner of Mir. Comstock, presented the resolutions, which were ordered placed in the rec ords of the meeting.
 Referring to entry into the legal pro- fession a call, a voice, an inspira- tion. Major Hull went on to speak in part as follows:
 achievements and success we record today. had his boyhood dreams. The voice may come to one in Tennessee cabin; to another upon the hills of To our<brother Comstock the voice of ambition came in the open, in the hills of his native town of Montville. The first coveted prize was to be won in the Free Academy of Norwich, an in- stitution whose advantages I well re- member to have coveted as a country boy in a nearby town. One of those innumerable establishments builded in wisdom and generosity. which have contributed to the veal and honor of the nation. The lure of ambition is the obstacle she places in the path of her subjects. Lack of money and means was the first obstacle to be overcome by our brother Comstock. From him I have heard the story of his early struggles. Upon ancestral woodland, with the loan of his fathers team and an axe. he literally hewed his way through the Norwich Free Academy. The boy who is willing to carve his career through cordwood and timber may be trusted in manhood to con- tinue the carving process into the re- zion of destiny. It takes but little trudging along by the side of a yoke of oxen to market his wares, part of the procession ever moving on under the personal command of Ambition herself. Equipped with the training of the Academy and as he believed. de- nied the privilege of college training, he entered the exacting apprenticeship of the law.
 The good Dame Fortune put him under the tutelage of the late Judge Lafayette s. Foster where as at the feet of Gannaliel. he labored through the recorded experiences of mankind which we call the law.
 If Mark Hopkins on one end of log and a bey on the other end constituted university. then our brother Com stock had the advantages of a uni VeTSity. NO system or DnllOSOpny or of science can in merited discipline and training excel1 the body of learn ing denominated the law. Judge Eos ter attorney, advocate. legisla tor and judge of our superior and supreme courts had occupied positions of the greatest trust and responsibility. To the discharge of these responsibilities he had brought learning of a high or der as well as courage of conviction. In the senate of the United States, not wfthstanding the threats of ostracism by partisan leaders. which were after wards carried into effect. he refused to lower his standing by conferring on the ignorant black man of the south the elective franchise on more liberal terms than were granted to the edu- cated white man of Connecticut
 It would be difficult to find a man better qualified to fit student to he- come a lawyer. worth to be. as the American lawyer Is. ex-officio. a part of our government. The influence of