PROMINENT CITIZENS MOURN DEATH OF GENERAL STREETER

Appreciation for vigorous qualities which made him for many years one of the leading figures of legal and political life in New Hampshire and in New England was expressed by many prominent citizens of the state and of the nation at the time of General Streeter's death. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE reprints here some of the statements quoted in the Concord Patriot of Dec. 12.

General Streeter was an able lawyer and a courageous and useful citizen. I mourn his death as that of a long time friend. — Wm. H.Taft.

Samuel W. McCall, ex-Governor of Massachusetts : — My friendship with General Streeter dated from his entrance to Dartmouth College, from which we graduated in the same class. I feel a deep sense of personal loss, but beyond that the passing of a man like him constitutes a very distinct loss to those institutions with which he was particularly associated and also to the State and Nation. His great service to Dartmouth College, his eminence at the bar, and the success with which he bore himself in public office, won for him a deserved distinction.

John H. Bartlett, First Assistant Postmaster General: — The death of General Streeter marks the passing of a wonderful generation of men whose place must be filled to insure the continuation of a great state.

Gov. Albert O. Brown: — I regret the death of General Streeter very much and think it is a distinct loss to the state of New Hampshire

George H. Moses, United States Senator: — General Streeter moved forcefully through a generation wherein great and strong men abounded. His life and activities . covered a span which gave him contacts, in his professional life and in public affairs, with the diminishing group of distinguished lawyers and statesmen whose careers have so enriched the annals of our State; and which equally developed associations from him with the younger and still energetic company of those in whom New Hampshire must fix her hopes for coming decades. Among the older, and among the younger as well, General Streeter held a place at once unique and rightful. He was worthy to rank with the giants who were his elders and his contemporaries; and his constantly youthful spirit gave him a proper place in the other group whose members readily gave him their companionship and their confidences and took from him the friendship and counsel which his genial nature and his ripened judgment made so valuable.

General Streeter was looked upon as one who had matured slowly. Yet he was a graduate of Dartmouth before he had become of age, he was a leader in his profession and the chief figure in the most important litigation of his generation before he had been fifteen years out of college, he had presided over the highest assembly which the State contains and was a member of the Republican National Committee before he was fifty. The successes which followed these may have been such as to bulk more largely in the public eye, but they followed naturally in a career which constantly moved on to larger things; and his whole active life was not of early promise and of purposeful and consistent fulfillment.

In such a life there must have been — and there were—many episodes of stress and of stormy adventure. His was a courage which never shrank, and his antagonists, whether in the court room or in the forum of public life, never counted the issue disposed of so long as his resourceful mind and his untiring industry could devise or execute the ultimate stroke. Happily, both for him and for others, the years brought their ameliorations; and the evening of his life was sunny in renewed and strengthened friendships and in the kindly and helpful activities which the partial leisure of his later years gave him opportunity to enjoy. Under such a sky he ended his days on earth, and when the grim malady which had laid hold upon him was unable to shake his courage or to dim his serenity. To his college, of which he has long been the senior trustee and to whose upbuilding he gave more than thirty years of rare devotion, he was unstinted in his attentive" care; and nowhere will his loss be felt more keenly.

His achievements were of a solid order. His mind was always alert. His information was at once broad and deep. He mastered the uncertain seas of European politics not only by the reading of history but by acquaintance with those who were making it: and — to mention only one of many incidents of which I have knowledge — his intimacy with Balfour was an obvious outgrowth of an unconscious preparation through a profound and well-digested knowledge of foreign affairs which led at once to companionship on terms of perfect equality when once the two men had been brought together.

Many years ago, upon quitting a position in which he had served long and with great distinction, a question arose as to General Streeter's successor. He had none. He had made the place unique through his possession of it. So now. He has left a place which none may fill.

He cannot die who serves the truth, Sets high example unto youth. Gives to the world some useful deed. Or labors for a human need; For though his age may pass away And all his flesh return to clay, The good he did shall always give New courage to the young to live.

Edward K. Woodworth: — To one who has had the rare privilege of intimate personal and professional association with Mr. Streeter for more than twenty years, his most marked characteristic was his utter devotion to any cause he undertook to serve, whether professional, civic or philanthropic. He made his clients feel that their cause was his own, and such was the fact. As president of the city's most important social clubs, as chairman of the State Board of Education, and in every other capacity in which he undertook to serve, he gave his best. No other institution was so dear to his heart as Dartmouth College, and I am sure he would rather be remembered for his service to his alma mater than for any other one thing. Unusual talent, unbounded industry and intense loyalty were among the most marked characteristics of the man who will be missed as few others who have gone out from this community.