The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-17
NATIONS JOIN IN PAYING TRIBUTE ID
 MEMORY 0F GORGAS
Memorial Service for Great Alabamian Held in Wash ington Under Auspices of
 Southern Society
Bx Associated Press

t Washington January l6.--The nations of Latin America, through their diplo- matic representatives, joined with the United States. France and Great Britain tonight in paying tribute to the memory of the late Maj. Gen. William Craw- ford Gorgas former surgeon general of the United States army and the leade. in the successful fight against yellow fever.
 Memorial service ili honor of General Gorgas who died last July in London. were held in the n--merican building under the auspices of the Southern So- ciety of Washington, which thereby hon. ored thes memory of a product of the south. The speakers included Secretaries
 Baker and Daniels, Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harris, Ambassador Jusserand of France. Maj. Gen. Fl. k. Bethel. mil itary attache of the British embassy, Ambassador Pezet of Peru, Minister de Cespedes of Cuba Minister Elizeldo of Ecuador. Charges d'Affaires DeFevre of
 Panama and Director General Rowe of the Psn-American union. Messages were read from the presidents of number of Latin-American governments.
 Adiutant General Harris presided at the meeting and before introducing the
  Gorgas, showing how intimately it had been connected with yellow fever. He described how yellow fever" which ill 1853 had driven the beautiful Amelia Gayle from her home in Mobile. Ala. to the nearby military station where she first met Lieut.. Josiah Gorgas. g years later carried the son of this couple to Fort Brown, Texas. where he met and saved from that scourge the young girl who as his wife shared his life and who as his widow TOW mnurnS hse loss BAKER PAYS TRIBUTE Secretary Baker paid trobute to the work of General Gorges in eradicating yellow fever from the Panama canal zone. declaring the former surgeon gem eral made the building of the Panama canal possible land saved, it's construc- l ton from being marred by having along 1 it's banks the graves of tens of thousands 1 of victims of the pestilence of the jungle 1 which for ages had imposed the sentence of death upon those who sought to join the two oceans"
 l General Bethell, sreaking for the coun- ' try in which General Gorgas died, de- clared that This is the glory of the saver,
 not of the destroyer" and that Panama l is his memorial and his monument' 1 Panama as a nation paid it's tribute l through J. F. LeFevre. charge daffaires I of it's legation here, who declared that | the Gorgas Tropical institute for re- search, established by the government of l Panama as tribute to the services or | General Gorgas. was both "a temple to science ard a shrine to the great san 1 itarian.
 i've intend to create that memorial ' i said Mir LeFevre. ito remind the future | generations Of the brilliant general who ! never knew what it was to retreat; who 1 did not sllbdue nations hut won their hearts and who was n conque-or though
 he did not conquer peoples but di-
 BENEFACTOR TO RACE Msniet.r ko r'e~-o 7cs '-,, .haN .it 1 was in Cuba where General Gorgas' | brilliant career. so full of notable and 1 useful achievements. reached that high
 point at which he ceased merely to be 4 distinguished servant of his own be- 5Aoved country. to become benefactor 1 to all the human race"
 The memory of General Gorgas is dearly cherished by the Cuban people and his name is revered as those of Ithat republics own national heroes
 and 1iberators, said the minister. kidding:
 "Goreas honored the United States ''he America but his fame and his work { Aow belong to the world and his living epul may well look down upon them
 svith serenity. A. de Alencar, the Bra-
 Han ambassador. in message sent 4 to the gathering. said that mo coun- iitry has greater reason than Brazil F \ be- gratiffed for the achievements of | ifssneral Gorgas.' for through his work. { s(id the ambassador, "came the full \ )lment of Humbolts propnecy tha.
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