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by the soul are growing- more and more numerous every year. The 

 Hst is now a long one, but we have the fondest recollection of them 

 all. There is no disposition to forget a single one, but those who 

 have departed within the past year are the ones whom we propose to 

 speak of more particularly today. 



And what shall I say of them that you do not already know? 

 They were friends of yours, they were brothers of yours. Many 

 of them were contemporaneous with you in the settlement and de- 

 velopment of this state, co-workers for years and years, and, of 

 course, you knew these men better as you knew them longer than I. 

 They were men, speaking of them as a group, that were well fitted 

 for the stations they occupied, well fitted to do the work they did. 

 They were pioneers, all of them, and they were well calculated to 

 make that fight of civilization against barbarism that they were 

 compelled to participate in ; and in doing that they laid the founda- 

 tion of the development of the state, of its industries that we now 

 enjoy, and so much of which is to form their memorial, that which 

 is due to them for the work they did in developing the fruit interests 

 of the state in existence. 



I wish to speak first of our late lamented president, whom you 

 all remember that brief year ago. It seems to me it cannot be a 

 year ago, as I come before this meeting now ; it seems to me as 

 though I could turn around and see him behind me presiding as he 

 did that short year ago. You all remember what a pleasing pres- 

 ence he had in presiding over the deliberations of this society. He 

 was always genial, always humorous, but ever with a quiet dignity 

 that lay behind it all. In the manner of his speech and the look 

 of his eye was reflected the kindness and tenderness that was in 

 his heart. 



He not only did a great work in developing the fruit interests 

 of the state, but he also did a great work in developing the educa- 

 tional and other important interests of the state. I cannot think 

 of any man in whom we can honor ourselves more than we can 

 honor ourselves in the late lamented Mr. Pendergast. He perhaps 

 had opportunities to make himself more conspicuous in life than 

 the other members whose memories we are commemorating now, 

 and perhaps for that reason he occupied a more conspicuous position 

 in the public eye. That might have been largely an accident on 

 his part. Perhaps one of the other men similarly situated would 

 have done as well, though probably not with the same element of 

 popular favor, because of the difference in congenital and character- 

 istic personal presence. 



A year ago at this time Mr. Pendergast and Mr. Grimes were 

 both with us. Mr. Dartt was not with us, because he was already 

 failing in health, which would not permit his coming here. I think 

 that was the first meeting he had missed for a good many years. 

 There were very few meetings of this kind held by this organiza- 

 tion at which he was not present. Mr. Dartt did a great work, 

 not only on his own account, but he did an earnest, enthusiastic and 

 faithful work as superintendent of one of the state stations for the 

 development of fruit. He might not have accomplished all that 

 we would desire ; it is doubtful if any man, even a young man, could 



