58 GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD 



Our departed friend, as every speaker has reminded you, gave 

 himself almost without reserve during his residence in Washing- 

 ton and, as I have been told, throughout his long life to the 

 advancement of good works. This title of remembrance is as 

 comprehensive as it is honorable ; he was a helper of his fellow- 

 men. Time, money, effort, thought, suggestion, influence, the 

 acquisitions of a long life and the experience of a versatile career, 

 were at the service of any one who needed them. All classes and 

 conditions of men were his clients ; the writer, the editor, the 

 preacher, the artist, the inventor, the investigator, the arbitrator-, 

 and the statesman turned to him for counsel, and never went 

 empty away. Men of science trusted his good sense, men of 

 affairs knew his sagacity, men of education depended upon his 

 advice, philanthropists and men of religion were sure of his sup- 

 port. At home everything was for others ; his books, engravings, 

 etchings, and, in summer, his grounds, with their shrubbery, 

 shade trees, and flowers, were given to hospitality. Nothing for 

 display, but everything that strangers might be friends and that 

 neighbors might become more friendly through the amenities of 

 social intercourse. 



In the city of his choice it was natural that a man of such 

 breadth, of such varied observations in other lands, and of such 

 eagerness for information should be best known as the founder 

 of a society whose field is the world, and which believes that 

 nothing human is alien, nothing in nature barren or dry. What 

 plans he suggested, what persuasiveness he employed, what suc- 

 cesses he won in bringing to the front the makers of geography 

 the interpreters of the earth, air, and sea, are all well known to 

 one who has spent a winter in this capital, and best of all to you 

 who are here assembled. 



In the world at large he was regarded as an original promoter 

 of that epoch-making invention which in twenty years has not 

 only revolutionized the processes by which speech can be heard 

 at a distance, but has completely changed the business usages of 

 every eountry where civilization is found. To those who knew 

 our friend only as a business man or only at a distance, this gives 

 him fame. But there are others, like the speaker, who came 

 near to him during the latter years of his life, and never heard 

 him speak of business or allude to his successes, who never met 

 him when his mind was not alert to promote a cause, to render 

 a service, to encourage merit, to remove perplexities, or to find 

 the right man. These seemed to be the occupations not of leis- 



