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MEMORIAL 
 
 OF 
 
 THOMAS ARTHUR DOYLE, 
 
 MAYOR 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF PROVIDENCE. 
 
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 Prepared and Printed by Authority of the City Council. 
 MDCCCLXXXVII. 
 

 
 PRINTED BY THE 
 
 PROVIDENCE PRESS COMPANY, 
 
 PRINTERS TO THE CITY. 
 
RESOLUTION 
 
 To Print a Memorial of the Proceedings in Connection with 
 THE Obsequies of the Late Mayor Thomas Arthur Doyle. 
 
 [Approved November 6, iSS6.] 
 
 Resolved, That the City Clerk, under tlie direction of Messrs. Stone, 
 Millett, Phillips, Pierce, Marcy, Perrin and Whipple, of the Common 
 Council, and Aldermen White and Root, be hereby authorized to arrange 
 and print, for the use of the City Council, a memorial of the proceedings 
 in connection with the obsequies of the late Mayor Thomas Arthur 
 Doyle, together with the addresses delivered at the session of the City 
 Council held October 28, 1886, the expense thereof to be charged to the 
 appropriation for contingencies. 
 A true copy. 
 
 Witness : 
 
 HENRY V. A. JOSLIN, 
 
 City Clerk. 
 
THOMAS ARTHUR DOVLE. 
 
 Thomas Arthur Dovi.e, Ma3'or of the city of 
 Providence, died at his residence^ June 9, 1886. The 
 mournful intelligence of his death was announced to 
 the citizens of the city of which he had for so many 
 years been Mayor, by the striking of the fire alarm 
 bells, followed by the solemn tolling of the church 
 bells. 
 
 On the following day, the Acting Mayor, Gilbert 
 F. Robbins, convened a special meeting of the Com- 
 mon Council at the same hour of the regular meeting 
 of the Board of Aldermen, and officially announced 
 to the City Council the death of Mayor Dovle, by a 
 message as follows : 
 
 *No. 272 Beiieflt street, nearl5' opposite George street. 
 
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 City of Providence. 
 Executive Department, City Hall, 
 June ID, 1886. 
 
 Gentlemen of the City Council : 
 
 It becomes my painful duty to announce to you the death 
 of Honorable Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of this city, which 
 occurred at 9.26 o'clock last evening. His long and faithful 
 service of eighteen years as Mayor, and his great interest in 
 the welfare and prosperity of the municipality, has made him 
 prominent in the position which he has for so many years 
 filled with the highest honor to himself and the people he 
 represented. 
 
 Faithful to the trust imposed upon him as a Chief Magis- 
 trate, zealous in guarding every interest of the city, he 
 reckoned no public duty too onerous, but devoted the 
 best years of his life to unremitting labor for the advance- 
 ment of its position to the highest rank among the cities of 
 the Union. 
 
 In recognition of his faithful services, and as a fitting 
 tribute to his memory, revered alike by all the citizens of 
 this city, I recommend that the City Council take appropri- 
 ate action by the appointment of a committee to make 
 arrangements for his funeral, and to report a suitable minute 
 to be placed upon the records of the City Council. 
 
 I have therefore convened you at this time that you may 
 take action thereon. 
 
 GILBERT F. ROBBINS, 
 
 Acting Major. 
 
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 The City Council unanimously adopted the fol- 
 lowing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Acting Mayor, Gilbert F. Robbins, 
 with Aldermen Stillman White and Henry T. Root, and 
 Messrs. Alfred Stone, Thomas A. Millett, George R. Phillips, 
 George L. Pierce, P'^red. I. Marcy, Daniel Perrin and William 
 L. Whipple, of the Common Council, be hereby appointed a 
 joint special committee with authority to make arrangements 
 for the funeral of Thomas A. Doyle, late Mayor of the city, 
 and to draw upon the City Treasurer for any expense attend- 
 ing the same. 
 
 Resolved, That the said committee prepare and submit 
 an appropriate minute in respect to his memory, to be 
 inscribed upon the records of the City Council. 
 
 Resolved, That the City Hall be closed for the trans- 
 action of business on the day set for the funeral. 
 
 Upon moving the passage of the aforegoing resolu- 
 tions in the Common Council, Mr. Stone spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 Mr. President : — Wc are called together by the President 
 of the Board of Aldermen and Acting Mayor of the city, 
 to perform the solemn duty which devolves upon us in this 
 hour of the city's sorrow. 
 
 We were not surprised and yet were startled at the tolling 
 of the bells which announced the departure of the foremost 
 man in this city, and the birth of a soul in the great unknown 
 which lies beyond. I speak advisedly, Mr. President, when I 
 
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 speak of the death of Thomas A. Doyle as the departure of 
 the foremost man of this city. Who has filled for more than 
 a generation a more conspicuous place in the annals of our 
 beloved city than he } Who has been a more potent factor 
 in its growth and development .-' Called to serve the city as 
 a member of this branch of the government just thirty-six 
 years ago, he has been in its continuous service as a mem- 
 ber of the Common Council, of the School Committee, or as 
 Mayor from June, 1852, to June, 1886, with only an occasional 
 intermission, and in those years when he was not in office 
 the affairs of the city were ever uppermost in his mind. He 
 was called to the office of Mayor during the fierce struggle 
 for the existence of the nation in June, 1864, when the popu- 
 lation of the city was only 54,000, and he has lived to see 
 peace restored to the land, and the city grow to a population of 
 120,000 people. In that period nearly all of the school houses 
 which are now in use were built, including the High School; 
 this hall has been erected at a cost of more than a million of . 
 dollars, and water has been introduced to our homes — a bless- 
 ing far outweighing all other improvements — and' largely 
 due to his influence and aid. All of our sewers have been 
 built, the mileage of our streets has more than doubled, the 
 present most efficient police system has been created, the 
 fire department has become by its unsurpassed facilities and 
 superior organization so effective that no city has been more 
 exempt from large fires than ours, and the whole aspect of our 
 city has changed beyond even /its most sanguine expecta- 
 tions, and what man among us was more sanguine than he .-* 
 There is not one of us here but has differed from him 
 in the course of his or our official careers, and yet who 
 of us ever found in him other than a most valiant defender 
 
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 of that which he believed to be right and for the best 
 interest of the city ? Who was ever more sturdy in the 
 defense of a position which he had taken, and who more 
 gracefully submitted to defeat, unless there was a matter of 
 large principle involved in the questions at issue ? 
 
 He was peculiarly a friend to young men, and the attach- 
 ments which he formed to those many years his jimior were 
 more numerous than that of any man I ever knew. His 
 frank and open cordiality, his pleasant and winning address, 
 his power to attract men, his wide-spread acquaintance, — I 
 think he knew more persons whom he could call by name 
 and who had a personal history familiar to him than any man 
 in this community, — all these things gave him a hold such 
 as few men — yes, I may say, such as no man among us 
 possessed. He filled a large sphere in this city. He domi- 
 nated in this hall, and yet he had his disappointments and 
 trials, like the rest of us, and now, as the day has come when 
 his sceptre is laid aside, it devolves upon us, as the represen- 
 tatives of the city he served so long and so well, to perform 
 the last sad rites which the citizens of this community will 
 expect and demand at our hands. In furtherance of that 
 object, I desire, Mr. President, to move the passage of the 
 resolution, from the Board of Aldermen, and suggest that 
 seven be added to the committee on the part of the Council, 
 in order that each ward may have a representative on the 
 committee. 
 
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 Mr, Whipple, of the Tenth Ward, in seconding 
 the passage of the resolutions, addressed the Council 
 as follows : 
 
 Mr. President : — We are called together upon a solemn 
 and serious occasion — the removal from our midst of one 
 whom we all loved to honor and respect. His wise counsel, 
 pleasant smile and genial disposition won for him our admi- 
 ration and esteem. In my own case, Mr. President, entering 
 this Council nearly three years ago, and having previous 
 to that time an extremely limited experience in legislative 
 bodies, I naturally had many misgivings as to my success as a 
 representative of the ward and people who had honored me 
 with an election to a seat in the Common Council. In the 
 various matters pertaining to the demands of the large and 
 growing section of the city covered by the territory which, with 
 my colleagues, I have the honor to represent, we have often 
 needed advice, and an outline of the travel which certain 
 subjects would naturally take, and the information when 
 sought from our late Mayor was always cheerfully imparted, 
 and if my efforts in this body have been partially successful, 
 I attribute it in a great measure to the sterling advice always 
 by him so freely given. 
 
 The young and new members, especially, have lost a friend 
 whose place it will take years to fill. On the eve, as we are, 
 of a great celebration, marking the two hundred and fiftieth 
 anniversary of the settlement of our city, what man would 
 have taken more interest and felt more pride in the exercises 
 on that occasion, and who could, in more impressive language 
 than he, speak of the growth of the city in the last few 
 years .•• As Chief Executive of the second city in New Eng- 
 
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 land, he was regarded by his brother Mayors of the other 
 cities as one whose counsel was to be sou<^ht. An enduring 
 friendship invariably marked the many friends whom he had 
 made in public and private life. May the life and example 
 of our beloved friend and Mayor, Hon. Thomas A. Dovle, 
 hover over our city, and the work inaugurated under his wise 
 administration reach a complete success in the near future. 
 
 Immediately upon the adjournment of the Board 
 of Aldermen and Common Council, the committee 
 organized by the choice of Alfred Stone, Chairman, 
 and elected Henry V. A. Joslin, City Clerk, to act as 
 Secretary. 
 
 The committee at once preferred a request to the 
 family of Mr. Dovle that, inasmuch as he had been 
 Mayor for so many years, and had in other positions 
 been connected so intimately with the municipal gov- 
 ernment, his obsequies might be under the direction 
 of the City Council, and as the representatives of that 
 body they desired to take the entire charge of the 
 funeral ceremonies. This request was acceded to, 
 the day set for the funeral being Monday, the four- 
 teenth day of June. The Acting Mayor then issued 
 the following proclamation : 
 
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 City of Providence, 
 Executive Department, City Hall, 
 June ID, 1886. 
 
 It is my painful duty to announce officially to the citizens 
 of Providence, the death of Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of 
 the city, which occurred at his residence on the evening of 
 the 9th instant. 
 
 The City Council has appropriately recognized his long and 
 faithful service as Chief Magistrate of this city by the 
 appointment of a committee to arrange for his obsequies, and 
 Monday, the fourteenth instant, has been set for the day 
 of his funeral. 
 
 His remains will lie in state in the City Hall on Saturday, 
 the twelfth instant, from twelve o'clock noon until nine 
 o'clock in the evening, during which time the several depart- 
 ments of the City Government in the City Hall will be closed 
 to the transaction of public business. 
 
 On Monday, the day of the funeral, in respect to the 
 memory of the late Mayor, all business of every department 
 of the City Government will be discontinued, and I recom- 
 mend that the citizens abstain, so far as practicable, from 
 their usual avocations between the hours of twelve o'clock 
 noon and three o'clock in the afternoon of that day. 
 
 GILBERT F. ROBBINS, 
 
 Acting Mayor. 
 
 On the morning of the twelfth of June his remains 
 were removed from the old homestead on Chestnut 
 
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 street* to the City Hall, under the escort of the First 
 Light Infantry Regiment, of which he was for a long 
 time an honored member, and were received by the 
 committee of arrangements. The catafalque had 
 been set up at the foot of the main staircase, amid 
 appropriate draping and surrounded by a profusion of 
 flowers and growing plants, and within the catafalque 
 was placed the casket containing the body of the 
 honored dead. 
 
 From the hour of opening the main doors of the 
 City Hall until the hour of closing, thousands of the 
 people of the city and elsewhere — men, women and 
 children — solemnly and with silent tread passed by 
 the body to do it honor. 
 
 On Monday, the day of the funeral, a procession 
 was formed at the City Hall, and to the mournful toll- 
 ing of the church bells marched solemnly and rever- 
 ently to the First Congregational Church in the fol- 
 lowins: order, where was held the funeral services : 
 
 ORDER OF PROCESSION: 
 
 Mounted Police Patrol. 
 
 Chief of Police Benjamin H. Child. 
 
 Police Department in three Companies. 
 
 Ciff Scrgi'a)it : 
 Edward S. Rhodes in charge of the Procession. 
 
 * Corner of Bassett street. 
 
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 FIRST DIVISION : 
 
 Clifford A. Harrington in charge. 
 Committee of Arrmigemejits of the City Council : 
 
 Alfred Stone, Chairjnan, 
 Stillman White, 
 Henry T. Root, 
 Thomas A. Millett, 
 George R. Phillips, 
 
 George L. Pierce, 
 Fred. I. Marcy, 
 Daniel Perrin, 
 William L. Whipple. 
 
 Acting Mayor: 
 Gilbert F. Robbins. 
 
 City Clerk : 
 Henry V. A. Joslin. 
 
 The Board of Aldo'men 
 
 George E. Martin, 
 Thomas B. Ross, 
 Charles F. Sampson, 
 John W. Briggs, 
 
 George H. Burnham, 
 Franklin A. Chase, 
 John M. Brennan. 
 
 Members of the Common Council : 
 Rathbone Gardner, President, Daniel F. Hayden, Clerk. 
 
 William B. Avery, 
 James Randall, 
 Charles D. Rogers, 
 Augustus S. Miller, 
 
 John M. Rounds, 
 Arthur H. Watson, 
 Fitz Herbert Peabody, 
 f Henry C. Armstrong, 
 
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 William E. Clarke, 
 James McNally, 
 Frederick E. Anthony, 
 William K. Klanding, 
 David Burton, 
 Dexter Gorton, 
 Henry Cram, 
 Alfred S. Potter, 
 Ephraim K. Moulton, 
 Thomas M. Rounds, 
 Benjamin E. Kinsley, 
 Joseph H. Fanning, 
 
 Ira Winsor, 
 Silas H. Manchester, 
 William W. Batchelder, 
 Edwin Lowe, 
 Edwin Winsor, 
 Albert G. Carpenter, 
 Hoffman S. Dorchester, 
 Edward D. Bassett, 
 Francis W. Miner, 
 John J. Devenish, 
 Fergus J. McOsker, 
 John Casey. 
 
 City Officers : 
 
 City Auditor, James M. Cross. 
 
 City Treasurer, Benjamin Tripp. 
 
 City Solicitor, Nicholas Van Slyck. 
 
 Judge of the Municipal Court, Joseph E. Spink. 
 
 Superintendent of Health, Charles V. Chapin. 
 
 Recorder of Deeds, Gustavus A. Williamson. 
 
 Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, George A. Steere. 
 
 Deputy Chief Engineer, Holden O. Hill. 
 
 ASSISTANT ENGINEERS. 
 
 James M. Baker, 
 Stephen S. Shepard, 
 
 Lcander M. Walling, 
 James Golding. 
 
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 Superintendent of Public Buildings, Obadiah Slade. 
 
 Superintendent of Lights, Samuel B. Swan. 
 
 City Engineer, Samuel M. Gray. 
 
 Superintendent of Public Schools, Horace S. Tarbell. 
 
 Harbor Master, James T. P. Bucklin. 
 
 Overseer of the Poor, George W. Wightman. 
 
 Inspector of Buildings, Spencer B. Hopkins. 
 
 Sealer of Weights and Measures, Oliver E. Greene. 
 
 City Registrar, Edwin M. Snow. 
 
 Inspector of Steam Boilers, James H. Munroe. 
 
 Gauger, John E. Burroughs. 
 
 Justices of the Police Court, Elias M. Jencks, 
 
 Joseph S. G. Cobb. 
 
 Surveyor of Lumber, Nathaniel C. Bushee. 
 
 Public Administrator, Jonathan G. Parkhurst. 
 
 Inspector of Milk, Edwin E. Calder. 
 
 Inspector of Kerosene, William D. Child. 
 
 Commissioners of North Burial Ground, Oren Westcott, 
 Gorham Thurber. 
 
 Viewer of Eences, John H. Cottrell. 
 
 Board of Public Works, Charles E. Carpenter, Clinton D. 
 Sellew, Charles H. Hunt. 
 
 Commissioners of Dexter Donation, Benjamin B. Knight, 
 William B, Greene, George W. R. Matteson. 
 
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 Commissioners of Sinking Funds, Daniel E. Day, Oliver A. 
 
 Washburn, Jr., Jesse Metcalf. 
 Commission on Railroad Terminal Facilities, William God- 
 
 dard, Samuel S. Sprague, Harvey E. Wellman. 
 License Commissioners, Samuel H. Wales, William H. 
 
 Bovven, Jabez C. Knight. 
 Assessors of Taxes, George P. Tew, Charles Dudley, Elisha 
 
 H. Rhodes. 
 
 Trustees Hartford, Provitlence and Fishkill Railroad, Henry 
 
 Lippitt, Henry W. Gardner. 
 
 Trustees Springfield Railroad, Royal C. Taft, Robert Knight. 
 
 Superintendent of the Dexter Asylum, John M. Knowles. 
 
 Superintendent of Parks, James B. Hathaway. 
 
 SECOND DIVISION. 
 
 Aurion V. Chevers in charge. Walter A. Prcsbrey, Assistant. 
 
 Ex-Mayors of Providence, Hon. Jabez C. Knight, Hon. 
 
 George L. Clarke, Hon. A. C. Barstow. 
 Mayor of the City of Newport, Hon. John Hare Powel ; 
 Aldermen Newton and Weaver ; President of the 
 Common Council Waters and Council- 
 men Read and Austin. 
 
 Committee of the City Council of the City of Pawtuckct. 
 
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 Mayors and Ex-Mayors of New England Cities : 
 Ex-Mayors Franklin and Slocum, of Newport. 
 Ex-Mayor Frederick O. Prince and James C. Tucker, Super- 
 intendent of Public Buildings, Boston. 
 Mayor William Greene, Fall River. 
 Mayor R. Henry Hall, Taunton. 
 Mayor Charles C. Dame, Newburyport. 
 
 Mayor John M. Raymond, Salem. 
 Mayor Frederick Fosdick, Fitchburg. 
 
 Corporation Counsel Driscol, New Haven. 
 
 Rev. A. J. McLeod, Groton. 
 
 United States Senators from Rhode Island. 
 
 United States Representatives from Rhode Island. 
 
 Judges of the United States Court. 
 
 United States Officials : James H. Coggeshall, U. S. Marshal ; 
 
 John McWilliams, Collector; C. H. Henshaw, 
 
 Collector of Internal Revenue. 
 
 Thomas Coggeshall, Postmaster of Newport. 
 
 Governor of Rhode Island and Staff : 
 His Excellency George Peabody Wetmore. 
 
 Personal Staff, Colonels Melville Bull, Charles A. Wilson, 
 
 W. P. Sheffield, Jr., Frank G. Harris, T. A. 
 
 Barton and Isaac L. Goff. 
 
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 General Staff, Adjutant General I-Ilisha Dyer, Jr., Quarter- 
 master General Charles R. Dennis, Jud<;e Advocate 
 General George Lewis Gowcr, Surgeon 
 General John C. Budlong. 
 
 Oflficers of the State of Rhode Island : 
 
 Joshua M. Addeman, Secretary of State. 
 
 Edwin Metcalf, Attorney General. 
 
 Samuel Clarke, General Treasurer. 
 
 Samuel II. Cross, State Auditor. 
 
 Ellery M. Wilson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 T. H. Stockwell, Commissioner of Public Schools. 
 
 J. M. Pendleton, State Board of Charities and Corrections. 
 
 Rev. Daniel Leach, of the State Board of Education. 
 
 Thomas J. Morgan, State Normal School. 
 
 Senator and Representatives of Providence : 
 
 Senator Stephen A. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Representatives William A. Harris, 
 
 John Carter Brown Woods, Henry P. Richmond, 
 
 John W. Tillinghast, Charles A. Hopkins. 
 
 Otl>er State Officials. 
 
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 THIRD DIVISION. 
 
 John A. Tillotson in charge. 
 Clerks of the several departments of the City Government 
 
 Harvey F. Payton, 
 Otis F. Clapp, 
 Joseph D. Fitts, 
 Lester W. Tucker, 
 Frank W. Cole, 
 Irving S. Wood, 
 Walter G. Stackpole, 
 William G. Wheelock, Jr., 
 Charles G. Cloudman, 
 Charles A. Harper, 
 Louis B. Vaughn, 
 George R. Harper, 
 Frank A. Williamson, 
 Harvey G. Shaw, 
 David E. Howard, 
 
 Nathaniel G. Totten, 
 George W. Bruce, 
 John T. Small, 
 William C. Bourn, 
 William F. Janes, 
 Christopher G. Whitford, 
 Osborn W. Frecse, 
 Albert C. Winsor, 
 Samuel B. Burnham, 
 William D. Bullock, 
 Edmund B. Weston, 
 Arthur C. Williams, 
 John S. Rogers, 
 Edwin R. Jones, 
 George W. Braman. 
 
 FOURTH DIVISION. 
 
 Augustus J. Winship, Jr., in charge. 
 
 Horace S. Tarbell, Superintendent of Public Schools. 
 
 School Committee : 
 
 Anna E. Aldrich, Adeline E. H. Slicer, 
 
 James M. Taylor, Freeborn Coggeshall, Isaac H. Southwick, 
 
 Jr., Charles H. Parkhurst. 
 
 Thomas E. Studley, Zcchariah Chafee, Jr., Merrick Lyon, 
 
 William Caldwell, Hezekiah W. Monro. 
 
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 J. William Rice, Emulous Rhodes, George E. Barstow, 
 
 William F. Morrison, James G. Vose. 
 Henry A. Howland, John C. Thompson, Charles H. Leonard, 
 
 John R. Gladding. 
 Richard M. Sanders, Albert C. Day, John A. McCloy, Lester 
 
 S. Hill, Albert F. Blaisdell. 
 Martin C. Day, Hunter C. White, John W. Case, Arthur W. 
 
 Dennis, John G. Massie. 
 Amos M. Bovven, Alfred A. Harrington, Moses H. Bixby, 
 
 Henry W. Rugg. 
 Samuel H. Webb, William N. Johnson, William Y. Potter, 
 
 Orsmus A. Taft, Henry A. Blake. 
 Alexander M. McCaughin, John Randolph, Thomas J. Bannon. 
 Teachers in the Hi^h School, and Principals of Grammar 
 
 Schools, 
 David W. Hoyt, 
 
 Rosamond R. Leavens, 
 
 Benjamin Baker, 
 Will C. Ingalls, 
 Arthur C. Barrows, 
 John DaboU, 
 Henry O. Tripp, 
 William T. Peck, 
 Walter G. Webster, 
 Walter K Jacobs, 
 William C. Burwcll, 
 Alice D. Mumford, 
 Rebecca E. Chase, 
 Harriet C. Peirce. 
 
 Harriet L. Hay ward, 
 Ellen Dodge, 
 Ellyn A. Clarke, 
 Elizabeth J. Chase, 
 Bessie G. Merriam, 
 Helen S. Joy, 
 Elizabeth C. Shepley, 
 Agnes F. Williams, 
 Martha B. Teel, 
 Lizzie E. Olney, 
 J. Milton Hall. 
 
 [The I..i(Jy Teachers were rurnisheil with seats in the Church, arul did nut march with the 
 
 processir)n.j 
 
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 Albert J. Manchester, 
 Joseph E. Mowry, 
 James M. Sawin, 
 Levi W. Russell, 
 
 George E. Church, 
 George F. W^eston, 
 Eli H. Howard, 
 Frederick W. Wina-. 
 
 FIFTH DIVISION. 
 
 John H. Cottrell in charge. 
 Ex- Aldermen of the City from i<S64 
 
 Silas A. Sweet, 
 William V. Daboll, 
 William Spencer, 
 Elisha C. Mowry, 
 J. Lippitt Snow, 
 Alfred Metcalf, 
 Henry C. Clark, 
 John B. Anthony, 
 
 James E. Cranston, 
 ]3enjamin N. Lapham, 
 Edwin A. Smith, 
 David Ballou, 
 Charles E. Gorman, 
 Robert E. Smith, 
 Henry R. Barker, 
 and others. 
 
 Ex-Councilmen of the City from 1864: 
 
 Frank. Mauran, 
 Benjamin C. Gladding, 
 Reuben A. Guild, 
 Smith S. Sweet, 
 Benjamin B. Adams, 
 Charles N. Harrington, 
 Thomas J. Hill, 
 John Kendrick, 
 William B. Remington, 
 Stephen Cook, 
 Russell M. Earned, 
 
 Charles L. Thomas, 
 Allen Greene, 
 Raymond G. Place, 
 Francis M. Smith, 
 Archibald B. Rice, 
 George H. Jencks, 
 Freeborn Johnson, 
 Joseph B. Mathewson, 
 Henry C. Bradford, 
 Jerothmul B. Barnaby, 
 William W. Paine, 
 
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 C. Sidney Smith, 
 David Cady, 
 Lewis W. Anthony, 
 Jonathan L. Spencer, 
 EHsha i\I. Aldrich, 
 WilHam W. Douglas, 
 Horatio Rogers, 
 Parley M. Mathcwson, 
 Henry L. Parsons, 
 Hugh Ham ill, 
 John Morris, 
 James Provan, 
 James B. Foyer, 
 Francis M. Dimond, 
 Joseph Whelden, 
 James Arden, 
 George H. Pettis, 
 Dexter B. Lewis, 
 John L. Draper, 
 James H. Butler, 
 Charles F. Phillips, 
 James H. Tower, 
 William C. Barker, 
 Charles E. Harris, 
 William H. Miller, 
 
 Richard Hayward, 
 J. Lewis Pierce, 
 Charles H. Bartlett, 
 Jeremiah S. Parish, 
 George A. Rickard, 
 John Behan, 
 William W. Brayton, 
 Charles F. Hull, 
 Thomas D. Deming, 
 Samuel N. Smith, 
 Frank S. Arnold, 
 Henry ¥. Richards, 
 Edward R. Wheeler, 
 William A. Spicer, 
 William L. Stokes, 
 Edward M. Babbitt, 
 William F. Kenney, 
 Dennis O'Reilly, 
 James G. Whitehouse, 
 D. Russell Brown, 
 John A. Carty, 
 James K. Trask, 
 Leonard F. Joslin, 
 William S. Johnson, 
 and others. 
 
 SIXTH DIVISION. 
 
 Arthur H. Armington in charge. 
 E. Fred Greene, Assistant. 
 
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 FIRST SECTION. 
 
 Trustees of Public Library, Frank E. Richmond, Benjamin 
 
 F. Thurston, Esq., E. I. Nickerson, George 
 
 F. Leete, Nicholas Sheldon. 
 
 Corporation Brown University, Rowland G. Hazard, Charles 
 
 S. Bradley. 
 
 Trustees of the Rhode Island Hospital, 
 
 Samuel R. Dorrance, Amos N. Beckwith. 
 
 Faculty of Brown University, Prof. B. F. Clarke, Prof. E. 
 
 B. Andrews, Prof. J. H. Appleton, Prof. W. C. 
 
 Poland, Prof. Alonzo Williams. 
 
 Editors of Newspapers, W. B. W. Hallett, Z. L. White, 
 
 Edwin Corbett. 
 
 SECOND SECTION. 
 
 Providence Board of Trade, President Arnold B. Chace, 
 Secretary F. P. Little. 
 
 Commercial Club, Secretary Mortimer H. Hartwcll. 
 
 Mechanics Exchange, Secretary W. F. Cady, M. GolJrick. 
 
 Rhode Island Historical Society, Secretary Amos Perry. 
 
 Rhode Island Medical Society, Dr. T. Newell, Dr. G. G. 
 
 Wheeler. 
 Providence Athenaeum, William M. Bailey, Jr. 
 Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 
 Children, Secretary Charles W. Jencks. 
 
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 Field and Staff F. L. I. Rc-imcnl, Col. W. 11. Thornton; 
 
 Acting Adjutant II. B. Rose. 
 Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- 
 mals, Charles H. Thurber. 
 E.x-Commission on City Mall, Hon. George II. Corliss, 
 William M. Bailey, Henry G. Russell. 
 Ex-Water Commissioner William Corliss. 
 Providence Charitable P'uel Society, 
 Robert B. Chambers, William W. Iloppin. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association, President Charles F. 
 
 Taylor, and members. 
 Providence Press Club, Secretary Walter B. PVost, and 
 
 members. 
 
 Providence Art Club, Vice President Courtland B. Dor- 
 
 rancc, and members. 
 
 Rhode Island School of Design, C. B. Farnsworth. 
 
 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, Secretary Cyrus C. 
 
 Armstrong, and members. 
 
 Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, 
 Samuel W. Brown, of the Finance Committee, 
 and members. 
 Public Parks Association, Dr. T. Newell, and members. 
 Butler Hospital, Secretary John C. Pegram, and other mem- 
 bers of Corporation. 
 Union for Christian Work, President William T. Crandall, 
 and members. 
 
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 Brownson Lyceum, President John Carr, Secretary E. J. 
 
 Cooney, and T. W. Murphy. 
 Franklin Lyceum, President Charles B. Kimball, and mem 
 
 bers. 
 
 Home for Aged Men, Henry J. Steere. 
 
 Rhode Island Homoeopathic Society, President George 
 
 B. Peck, and members. 
 Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic 
 
 Industry, Secretary C. W. Smith, and members. 
 
 Roger Williams Monument Association, Amasa S. Westcott. 
 
 Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical Society, B. B. Hammond. 
 
 Butchers and Marketmen's Association : 
 
 President H. K. Clark. 
 
 Vice President John F. Abbott. 
 
 Secretary C. E. Harris. 
 
 Assistant Secretary Joseph Holmes. 
 
 Edwin Tetlow, L. B. Darling, Jr., and other members. 
 
 Samuel Whitley, C. C. Carpenter and H. R. Handy, of the 
 
 Executive Board. 
 
 Rhode Island Veteran Citizens Historical Society : 
 
 Secretary Frederic Denison, and members. 
 
 Providence Veteran Firemen's Association : 
 
 George W. Cady, and members. 
 
 Infantry Veterans, Lieut. Col. A. C. Eddy, Capt. J. Harry 
 
 Welch, Capt. Eben W. Waterhouse, Lieut. John J. 
 
 Jencks, Lieut. John Kendrick, Lieut. 
 
 Andrew J. Gale. 
 
Tllli DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 27 
 
 SEVENTH DIVISION. 
 
 Walter F. Sladc in char<;c. 
 
 Clcrp:y of the City of Providence 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Geo. Herbert Patterson, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 H. W. Conant, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 D. G. Rice, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 H. A. Plake, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Daniel Henshaw, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 C. W. Holm, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 0. E. Paker, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 T. P:. l^rown. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 George McC. Fiskc, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 C. W. Huntington, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Alfred Manchester, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 L. Osier, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 John E. Wildey, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 W. IP Pullock, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 L. K. Dunham, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 S. W. Field, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 E. K. ludlcr, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 William Douglas, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 A. R. Pradbury, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 James Andem, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 William Crookes, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 J. C. Stockbridge, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 I. H. Wood, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 H. S. Inman, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 J. S. Collins, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Wesley L. Smith, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 J. 1^. Stansbury, 
 
 Rev, 
 
 , J. S. Swain, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 W. H. Stetson, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Ivlward Mills, 
 
 Rev. 
 
 N. T. Whitakcr, 
 
 
 and others. 
 
 Citizens of the City and State. 
 
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 I'HE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 Acting Pall Bearers, Police Lieutenant Eugene Stevens, 
 Policemen Anson M. Grover, and H. C. Blood. 
 
 Honorary Pall Bearers : 
 Mayor F. C. Saylcs, of 
 Pavvtucket, Jesse Met- 
 calf, Francis W. Car- 
 penter, Fred E. Keep. 
 
 Honorary Pall Bearers : 
 Ex-Mayor William S. 
 Hayvvard, James W. Taft, 
 Marshall Woods, Still man 
 White. 
 
 Acting Pall Bearers, Policemen A. Frank Mowry, J. K. 
 Tripp, and H. H. Place. 
 
 EIGHTH DIVISION. 
 
 Captain Augustus J. Winship in charge. 
 
 Twenty-five carriages, containing family, with Mayor's Clerk, 
 
 Mr. Charles A. Gibbs, and Mayor's Messenger, 
 
 Mr. John G. Locke. 
 
 Platoon of Police. 
 
 After the procession entered the church, the Rev. 
 Thomas R. Slicer and the Rev. Augustus Woodbury 
 preceded the body down the aisle, Rev. Mr. Slicer 
 reciting the opening sentences of the King's Chapel 
 Liturgy. The casket was deposited on the draped 
 standard before the pulpit, and the services were 
 proceeded with as follows, the King's Chapel Liturgy 
 being used : 
 
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 Anthem, "Cast Thy Burden on the Lord " . Mendelssohn. 
 
 First Congregational Choir. 
 
 First Lesson, Pslams xxxix and xc. 
 
 " Lead, Kindly Light " Dykes. 
 
 High School Chorus. 
 
 Second Lesson, John xiv and 1 Cor. xv. 
 
 " We Lay us Calmly Down to Sleep," . . Schumann. 
 
 High School Chorus. 
 
 Hymn 876, Adelaide A. Proctor. 
 
 (Read by the Pastor, at the request of the Family.) 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 " Whate'er My God Ordains is Right," . Kelley. 
 
 First Congregational Choir. 
 
 Benediction. 
 
 Funeral March, .... Beethoven, Op. 26. 
 
 Organ. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of the services, the Grand 
 Master of the Grand Lodi^c of A. F. and A. Masons 
 assumed the further charge of the remains, and a pro- 
 cession was arranged in the following order and pro- 
 ceeded to Swan Point Cemetery : 
 
 W.-. Grand Marshal of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, 
 Cyrus M. Van Slyck. 
 
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 AIDS : 
 
 W.-. Stephen F. Fisk, Thomas L. Walling, William N. Otis, 
 
 John G. Massie, William J. Bradford and 
 
 W. Howard Walker. 
 
 American Band, twenty-five pieces, Bowen R. Church, Leader. 
 
 St. John's Commandery, No. i, K. ■. T.\ E.-. John Heathcote, 
 
 Commander. 
 
 98 Sir Knights. 
 Calvary Commandery, No. 13, K. ■. T. '. E. •. Cyril Babcock, 
 
 Commander. 
 
 75 Sir Knights. 
 
 Master Masons representing various Lodges, Louis E. 
 
 Cady, Marshal, 75 brethren. 
 
 St. John's Lodge, represented by 
 
 George W. Pettis, Worshipful Master. 
 
 George Fuller, Senior Warden. 
 
 A. G. Bates, Junior Warden. 
 
 Nelson Viall, Treasurer. 
 
 J. P. Walker, Secretary. 
 
 Albert H. Cushman, Chaplain. 
 
 A. K. Hale, Senior Deacon. 
 
 W. H. Hawkins, Junior Deacon. 
 
 George W. Chase, Senior Steward. 
 
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 31 
 
 William Nichols, Junior Steward. 
 
 J. A. Smith, Marshal. 
 
 W. C. Shurtleff, Sentinel. 
 
 Richard Chadwick, Tyler. 
 
 Officers (jf the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, in carriages : 
 
 M.-. W.-. Newton D. Arnold, Grand Master. 
 
 Rev. and R.-. W. •. Wilham N. Acklcy, Dejjuty Grand Master. 
 
 li. . W. ■. George 11. Kenyon, Senior Grand Warden. 
 
 R.-. W.-. J. B. Borden, Acting Junior Grand Warden. 
 
 R.". W.'. Richard W. Comstock, Acting Grand Treasurer. 
 
 R. ■. W. •. Edwin Baker, Grand Secretary. 
 
 R.-. W.-. Fayette Bennett, Second District Deputy Grand 
 
 Master. 
 R.-.W.-. William T. C. Wardwell, Third District Deputy 
 
 Grand Master. 
 R.-. W.-. Dc.xter II. Potter, Fourth District Deputy Grand 
 
 Master. 
 R. . W.-. Zenuer M. Jencks, Fifth District Deputy Grand 
 
 Master. 
 
 Rev. and W. •. Henry W. Rugg, Grand Chaplain. 
 
 W.-. Benjamin A. Reynolds, Senior Grand Deacon. 
 
 W. •. William II. Perry, Junior Grand Deacon. 
 
 Bro. Samuel G. Colwcll, Acting Grand Steward. 
 
 Bro. Jonathan Allenson, Acting Grand Steward. 
 
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 R.-. W.-. Albert L. Chester, Grand Sword Bearer. 
 
 W.-. C. Henry Alexander, Grand Pursuivant. 
 
 R.-. W-.- John P. Luther, Grand Lecturer. 
 
 W.-. Charles L. Kenyon, Grand Musical Director. 
 
 W.-. John W. McKnight, Acting Grand Tyler. 
 
 W. •. E. W. Clark, Bearer of the Great Lights. 
 
 W.". Hiram Brown, Bearer of the Book of Constitution. 
 
 The following were in carriages with the Officers 
 of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island : 
 
 M.". W.-. Abraham H. Howland, Jr., Grand Master of 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Messrs. Samuel C. Lawrence, Charles A. Welch, Sereno D. 
 
 Nickerson, Percival L. Everett, William Sewall 
 
 Gardner, William Parkman and Charles 
 
 C. Dawe, all the Past Grand 
 
 Masters of Massachusetts. 
 
 Edward P. Burnham, Past Grand Master of Maine. 
 
 Henry Endicott, Past Senior Grand Warden of Massachusetts. 
 
 General A. P. Moriarty, Third Assistant Grand Secretary of 
 
 the Supreme Council. 
 
 Eugene H. Richards, Master of Joseph Warren Lodge, of 
 
 Boston, and Generalissimo of Boston Commandery, 
 
 of which the late Mayor Doyle was the only 
 
 honorary member. 
 
 Zechariah L. Bicknell, Grand Standard Bearer of the Grand 
 
 Lodge of Massachusetts. 
 
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 33 
 
 John L. Stephenson, Past Commander in Chief of Massa- 
 chusetts Consistory. 
 W.-. E. W Clark, Bearer of Great Lights. 
 W.-. Hiram Brown, Bearer of the Book of Constitutions. 
 Grand Deacon. M.-. W. •. Grand Master. Grand Deacon. 
 Grand Sword Bearer. 
 
 BEARERS : BEARERS : 
 
 Lieutenant Stevens, 
 
 Officer Herbert C. Blood, 
 Officer Albert F. Mowry, 
 
 ALL MEMBERS OF THE 
 
 Masonic Order. 
 
 Officer John K. Tripp, 
 Officer Henry H. Place, 
 Officer Anson M. Grovcr, 
 
 ALL ME.MBERS OF THE 
 
 Masonic Order. 
 
 The Family in Carriages. 
 Members of the City Government in Carriages. 
 
 PALL BEARERS. 
 
 General Samuel C. Lawrence, of Medford, Past Grand Master 
 
 of Massachusetts. 
 
 Nicholas Van Slyck, Charles R. Cutler and Lyman Klapp, 
 
 Past Grand Masters of Rhode Island. 
 
 James H. Armington, of Brooklyn, and Hon. George M. Car- 
 penter, Past Deputy Grand Masters. 
 Samuel B. Swan, Past Master of St. John's Lodge. 
 Samuel G. Stincss, Past Master of Corinthian Lodge. 
 
 Upon arrival of the procession at the cemetery gate 
 they moved with slow step within the entrance way, 
 the cemetery bell tolling forth a mournful succession 
 5 
 
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 of peals. As it entered the gate the following Psalm 
 was said, the Grand Master saying the first and each 
 alternate verse, and the brethren responding: 
 
 PSALM XXV. 
 
 1. Unto Thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul: my God, 
 I have put my trust in Thee: O let me not be confounded, 
 neither let mine enemies triumph over me. 
 
 2. For all they that hope in Thee shall not be ashamed ; 
 but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to con- 
 fusion. 
 
 3. Show me Thy ways, O Lord, and teach me Thy paths. 
 
 4. Lead me forth in Thy truth, and learn me : for Thou 
 art the God of my salvation ; in Thee hath been my hope 
 all the day long. 
 
 5. Call to remembrance, O Lord, Thy tender mercies, 
 and Thy loving kindnesses, which have been ever of old. 
 
 6. O remember not the sins and offences of my youth ; 
 but according to Thy mercy think Thou upon me, O Lord, 
 for Thy goodness. 
 
 7. Gracious and righteous is the Lord ; therefore will He 
 teach sinners in the way. 
 
 8. Them that are meek shall He guide in judgment : and 
 such as are gentle, them shall He learn His way. 
 
 9. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto 
 such as keep His covenant, and His testimonies. 
 
 10. For Thy Name's sake, O Lord, be merciful unto my 
 sin ; for it is great. 
 
 11. What man is he that feareth the Lord .-* Him shall 
 He teach in the way that He shall choose. 
 
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 12. His soul shall dwell at ease, and His seed shall inherit 
 the land. 
 
 13. The secret of the Lord is among them that fear Him ; 
 and He will show them His covenant. 
 
 14. Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord ; for He 
 shall pluck my feet out of the net. 
 
 15. Turn Thee unto me, and have mercy upon me ; for I 
 am desolate, and in misery. 
 
 16. The sorrows of my heart are enlarged : O bring 
 Thou me out of my troubles. 
 
 17. Look upon my adversity and misery, and forgive me 
 all my sin. 
 
 18. Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and 
 they bear a tyrannous hate against me. 
 
 19. O keep my soul, and deliver me : let me not be 
 confounded, for I have put my trust in Thee. 
 
 20. Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me ; 
 for my hope hath been in Thee. 
 
 21. Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. 
 
 With Thee is the well of life. 
 And in Thy light shall they see Light — 
 
 Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 When the procession came to the grave, the band 
 played a dirge while the circle was formed. The 
 body was laid in the centre ; the Stewards crossing 
 their rods over the foot, and the Deacons over the 
 head, retaining their places to the end of the ofifice ; 
 the mourners within the circle at the foot of the 
 body and the Grand iMaster and officers at the head, 
 when the Grand Master said as follows: 
 
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 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 Grand Master — We brought nothing into this world ; and 
 it is certain we can carry nothing out. 
 
 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be 
 the Name of the Lord. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — Lord, let me know my end, and the 
 number of my days ; that I may be certified how long I have 
 to live. 
 
 Response — Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears 
 consider my calling ; hold not Thy peace at my tears. 
 
 Grand C/iaplain — For I am a stranger with Thee, and a 
 sojourner, as all my fathers were. 
 
 Response — Oh, spare me a little, that I may recover my 
 strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — Man that is born of a woman is of few 
 days, and full of trouble. 
 
 Response — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut 
 down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — Seeing his days are determined, the 
 number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed 
 his bounds, that he cannot pass. 
 
 Response — Turn from him, that he may rest till he shall 
 accomplish, as an hireling, his day. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut 
 down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch 
 thereof will not cease. 
 
 Response — But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man 
 giveth up the ghost, and where is he } 
 
 Grand Chaplain — As the waters fail from the sea, and 
 the flood decayeth and drieth up ; 
 
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 Response — So man lieth down and riseth not; till the 
 heavens be no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out 
 of their sleep. 
 
 Then was said by all the brethren : 
 
 Yet, O Lord, have compassion on the children of Thy 
 creation ; administer them comfort in time of trouble, and 
 save them with an everlasting salvation. Amen ; so mote 
 it be. Amen. 
 
 Grand Master — Man goeth forth to his work and to his 
 labor until the evening of his day. The earthly labor of our 
 brother is finished, and the work of his immortal life begun. 
 Therefore, according to our ancient custom, we are here 
 assembled at the request of his family to commit his body to 
 the grave. 
 
 The body was then laid in the grave, the band play- 
 ing a dirge. 
 
 Then the Grand Master said the Committal, and at 
 the words, "earth to earth;" "ashes to ashes;" "dust 
 to dust," the Senior Grand Warden with a trowel, 
 cast earth three times upon the body. 
 
 Grand Master — God in His wisdom having separated the 
 soul and body of our brother, we therefore commit his body 
 to the ground, — earth to earth; ashes to ashes; dust to 
 dust, — in hope that he shall rise again in the resurrection at 
 the last day, when the glory of the Lord shall bring to light 
 all who are under the darkness and shadow of death ; causing 
 the earth and sea to give up their dead, no more to see 
 corruption. 
 
38 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 Response — Amen ; so mote it be. Amen, 
 
 Here the public grand honors were given, the 
 Grand Master saying : 
 
 His body we leave in the earth. His memory we cherish 
 in our hearts. His spirit hath returned to God who gave it. 
 
 All exclaim — The will of God is accomplished. Amen; 
 so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 After which the Grand Master deposited the sacred 
 roll in the grave, saying : 
 
 May our departed brother find mercy in the Day of Judg- 
 ment, and be numbered with the saints of the Most High 
 and Glory Everlasting. 
 
 Response — Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 Here the Grand Master deposited the lambskin in 
 the grave, saying : 
 
 Naked came I into the world, and naked shall I return. 
 Here we have no permanent Lodge or place of abode ; but 
 we look for one to come. Not trusting in ourselves, but in 
 God, Who preserveth the living and enliveneth the dead, we 
 hope to pass an Everlasting Day of blissful brotherhood in 
 a Lodge superior to the Canopy of Heaven, clothed with 
 Garments of Glory and Robes of Salvation. 
 
 Here the Masonic funeral hymn was sung to the 
 air of Pleyel's Hymn, the brothers marching once 
 around the grave, and casting into it a sprig of ever- 
 green : 
 
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 39 
 
 Solemn strikes the funeral chime, 
 Notes of our departing time; 
 As we journey here below, 
 Through a pilgiimago of woe. 
 
 Mortals, now indulge a tear, 
 For mortality is near! 
 See how wide her trophies wave 
 O'er the slumbers of the grave! 
 
 Here another guest we bring; 
 Seraphs of celestial wing. 
 To our funeral altar come, 
 Waft our friend and brother home. 
 
 Lord of all ! below, above. 
 Fill our hearts with truth and love; 
 When dissolves our earthly tie. 
 Take us to thy Lodge on high. 
 
 Amen. 
 
 Then the Grand Master, standing at the head of 
 the grave, cast a sprig of evergreen upon the body, 
 saying : 
 
 The evergreen which once marked the temporary resting 
 place of our departed brother, we deposit with him in the 
 earth as the symbol of our belief in that better, that immor- 
 tal part, which must survive the grave, and which Divine 
 Inspiration assures us shall never, never, never die. 
 
 Then was sung by the choir, consisting of Bros. 
 Herbert E. Brown, Andrew B. Eddy, D. C. H. 
 Tinkham and William W. Flint : 
 
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 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 PSALM CXXX. 
 Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord ; Lord, 
 hear my voice. 
 
 let Thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. 
 If Thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done 
 
 amiss, O Lord, who may abide it .-' 
 
 For there is mercy with Thee ; therefore shalt Thou be 
 feared. 
 
 1 looked for the Lord ; my soul doth wait for Him ; in His 
 word is my trust. 
 
 My soul fieeth unto the Lord before the morning watch ; 
 I say, before the morning watch. 
 
 O Israel, trust in the Lord ; for with the Lord is mercy, 
 and with Him is plenteous redemption. 
 
 And He shall redeem Israel from all his sins. 
 
 Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord : 
 
 And let light perpetual shine upon him. 
 
 Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 Then the Grand Chaplain and all the brethren said 
 together as follow^s : 
 
 Our Father, which art in heaven, 
 
 Hallowed be Thy Name. 
 
 Thy kingdom come. 
 
 Thy will be done in earth 
 
 As it is in heaven. 
 
 Give us this day our daily bread. 
 
 And forgive us our trespasses. 
 
 As we forgive them that trespass against us. 
 
 And lead us not into temptation : 
 
 But deliver us from evil. Amen. 
 
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 41 
 
 Grand Chaplain — O Father of mercies and God of all 
 consolation, we beseech Thee to give strength to the weary, 
 aid to the sufferers, comfort to the sad, help to those in tribu- 
 lation ; rest to the faithful departed ; and unto us and every 
 other soul that is afflicted, grant Thy mercy, grant relief, 
 grant refreshment in this and every other time of need ; 
 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 
 Response — Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — Almighty God, unto Whom all hearts 
 be open, all desires known, and from Whom our afflictions 
 are not hid; look down in mercy and pity upon the house- 
 hold from which Thou hast now taken away our brother, 
 heal the wounds thereof and comfort Thy servants, for unto 
 Thee, O Lord, do we lift up our souls. Manifest Thyself 
 unto them as a God near at hand, who ever waiteth to be 
 gracious ; and help them ever to hold fast by Thee, to rest 
 in Thy love, and to trust under the covering of Thy wings ; 
 through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 
 Response — Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 Grand Chaplain — Unto God's gracious mercy and pro- 
 tection we commit you. 
 
 The Lord bless you and keep you. 
 
 The Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be 
 gracious unto you. 
 
 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you 
 peace, both now and forevermore. 
 
 Response by the Brethren — Amen ; so mote it be. Amen. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of the Masonic ceremonies, 
 children from the High and Grammar schools who 
 
42 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 had joined the procession when it entered the Ceme- 
 tery, marched by the grave, and as they passed, each 
 scholar cast into the grave loose flowers, completely 
 filling it to the level of the ground. 
 
 On the fifteenth day of June, the Rev. Thomas 
 R. Sheer, pastor of the First Congregational Church, 
 extended to the Acting Mayor an invitation to the 
 City Council to attend a Memorial Service upon the 
 late Mayor, on Sunday, June 20, 1886, which invita- 
 tion was accepted and the City Council attended the 
 services. 
 
THOMAS ARTHUR DOYLE. 
 
 A SERMON, MEMORIAL, 
 
 BY 
 
 Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, 
 
 Pastor of the First Congregational Church. 
 
SERMON. 
 
 " Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in Thv holy 
 hill? 
 
 " He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh 
 the truth in iiis heart. 
 
 " He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neigh- 
 bor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. 
 
 "In whose eyes a vile person is contemned ; but he honoreth them 
 that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 
 
 "He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward 
 against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be 
 moved. " — Psalm xv. 
 
 These words of the fifteenth Psalm phrase the Philosophy 
 of Life as it appeared to the Hebrew worshipper of the 
 Immutable Righteousness of God. Hear how this same 
 permanent type of character appears to modern philosophy 
 looking out on life. Says Herbert Spencer: "Not as adven- 
 titious will the wise man regard tlie faith that is in him. 
 The highest truth he sees, he will fearlessly utter ; knowing 
 that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right 
 part in the world ; knowing that, if he can effect the change 
 he aims at — Well ! If not — Well .vlso ! though not so 
 well!" 
 
 We come into this sacred place to worship not alone with 
 prayer, but also in the celebration of those human virtues 
 which manifest God's Righteousness upon the plane of 
 common life. 
 
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 I am to speak to you of that public official, that private 
 citizen, that upright man, who, on Monday last, was carried 
 to his grave. I am not here to recite the biography of 
 Thomas Arthur Doyle by recounting those incidents which 
 in succession marked his span of years. Rather have we 
 come to portray in this brief hour those characteristics which 
 indeed constitute his life. For he only lives who thus sur- 
 vives. He dies indeed, whose virtues do not outlast the 
 failing of his strength. 
 
 The social system is like the planetary system in this : 
 each member of it holds a threefold relationship. Each 
 planet revolving on its axis, with whatever inclination, holds 
 its being by virtue of certain laws resident in itself but rela- 
 tive to other bodies like itself. It is a part of a series of 
 orbs which constitute a separate system centreing in its 
 sun ; but it is also part of that larger sidereal heavens — a 
 small part — yet necessary. 
 
 The life of our friend was held by this threefold bond. He 
 was first of all a man — a single, self-poised soul. But he 
 was also a man set in a household, a neighborhood, a church, 
 a fraternal order, a city. And he was, beside, a man 
 trusted to carry a part — a large part — of the public care ; 
 and though he was only one part of a complicated political 
 structure, yet he was a necessary part of its integrity, and a 
 buttress of its strength for years. 
 
 I will speak to you, therefore, of Thomas A. Doyle as he 
 appeared in himself — in his own circle, and in public life. 
 I will speak with candor, as of one who lives still ; and with 
 affection, as of one men call dead. 
 
 It is an easy task for men to praise the dead. To some it 
 seems as though death were a sacrifice offered to charity and 
 
THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 47 
 
 kindly judj^ment. Death transfigures the individual, casts 
 his faults into the deep shadow of the grave, and sets his 
 virtues in the illumination of the funeral tapers. This is a 
 credit to our human tenderness; it mitigates the severity of 
 private judgment ; it stays in the right-minded the harshness 
 of public condemnation, and brings forward through retard- 
 ing predjudices, envies and misunderstandings, the private 
 virtues which have been obscured. The strife of tongues is 
 stilled, and dumb lips seem to speak their own defense. This 
 is true even of men of sullied lives and distorted from the 
 right ; so true of such that often the living miss the truth 
 concerning the character portrayed, while the dead are 
 robed for burial in the praises of those whom death has at 
 length made kind. 
 
 But no such dilemma confronts us in this hour. If we 
 were to search this city with a candle, I believe there could 
 be found no man or woman able truthfully to say a word of 
 reproach against this good man's personal character, his 
 individual integrity. This would be noteworthy if he had 
 been only a private citizen ; or a private citizen able to with- 
 draw into the greater seclusion which luxurious wealth 
 allows ; or if he had been a man of letters, unused to the 
 ways of public life ; then all might repeat what they knew 
 by hearsay, and measure his personal virtues by the inten- 
 sity of grief in the few who knew him well. But here was a 
 man who from his boyhood scarcely kneiu zvhat it zvas to be 
 aiofic. Flung upon his own endeavor, a self-reliant boy, 
 choosing the life of a public school, after the preparation of 
 private schools had given him the beginnings of an educa- 
 tion, he took his place among those who were to win or lose, 
 with no seclusion promised them as a future refuge if they 
 
48 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 should not win. The boy who in his fifteenth year began, 
 on the busiest street of his native town, a business life, was 
 shoulder to shoulder with men until he dropped at his work 
 ten days ago. This is the man whose life has been lived in 
 the full glare of the daylight, and for whom in this candid 
 hour no man has to apologise, or to ask from the judgment 
 seat of public opinion a lenient sentence, because he is not 
 here to answer. This is so unusual as to demand full recog- 
 nition. 
 
 What are some of the characteristics of this man .-' What 
 personal traits have bound up his soul with truth ? 
 
 First and best — He had full faith in righteousness. 
 He believed, without boasting, the truth which Emerson has 
 phrased: — "It is of no use to vote down gravitation and 
 morals. What is useful will last, whilst that which is hurt- 
 ful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces, 
 which it must exasperate." Thomas A. Doyle believed that 
 the 7noral order of tJie world is sure. That there is no law 
 of the physical universe more sure. He "loved righteous- 
 ness and hated iniquity." I recall how his eye kindled with 
 quick responsiveness when from this pulpit he heard re- 
 peatedly this article of his personal religious belief, that 
 there is but o)ie kind of rigJiteonsness for God and man; and 
 that in heaven and earth there can be no breach of the moral 
 law without peril to the breaker of the law and disaster to 
 the moral sphere. Those who knew him best have heard 
 him ask, oftener than any other question, this : " Ought this 
 thing to be done } Is it right to do it .-' If so, do it !" He 
 was not a man of expedients — the temporary refuges of the 
 timid and the weak. He made fast to truth and righteous- 
 ness, and held on until the storm subsided and calm days 
 
THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 49 
 
 found him unmoved, where first he cast the anchor of his 
 trust in the immutable law of righteousness. He must have 
 made this discovery early ; men cannot assume such princi- 
 ples at will, 'i'hc self-reliant boy must have inherited some- 
 thing of the fibre of his maternal grandfather, Gersham 
 Jones, on whose tombstone he had read : "An honest man 
 is the noblest work of God." It never occurred to him that 
 " honesty was the best policy ;" that is a degrading code. To 
 his thinking it was not only not "the best policy," but no 
 policy whatever; it belonged to the realm of eternal truth. 
 It did not simply ask the consent of men, but demanded the 
 obedience of men. "What is excellent, as God lives, is perma- 
 nent!" This was the corner-stone of our friends' character. 
 It was this which men called in him, "obstinacy" and a 
 "want of conciliation." It was this which provoked antag- 
 onism — antagonism often from men as right-minded as 
 himself. It was inevitable. The rock which has fallen in 
 the bed of a stream is there, held by the law of God which 
 made it a rock and set it there ; the stream rushes against it, 
 called by that law of God which made streams to flow ; each 
 is obedient ; the rock is not moved ; the stream frets itself 
 into foam, because it must flow, and is impeded. A want of 
 conciliation sometimes prevents a flood of evil ; sometimes 
 causes the right to gather head to bring on a flood of good. 
 But there was mingled with this stern stuff a certain fine- 
 ness of texture which was in strange contrast in the charac- 
 ter of this man. He was absolutely feminine in his sensi- 
 tiveness. He was tender hearted to a fault. He cared 
 for the woes of others more than he could afford, if he would 
 protect himself. But he did never protect himself — from 
 intrusion, from criticism, from the complaint of those who 
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 felt aggrieved. His eyes would well with ready tears for 
 sorrows not his own. What charity is there in this city 
 which intends the bettering of human condition that failed 
 to secure his presence and personal interest .'' It was not 
 simply because he was Mayor of the city, and that he 
 thought the relief of human misery by private munificence 
 conduced to good government, but it was because the 
 misery appealed to a man of tender heart and ready sym- 
 pathy. Whether he was showing interest in the administra- 
 tion of the Reform-school, reading the Scriptures to the lads 
 or instructing them out of the book of his own manly nature, 
 or whether he was watching and promoting the growth of 
 the society which was to relieve children from cruelty, or 
 whether he was visiting in the hospital the sufferers from 
 some terrible disaster like the Calender-building fire — it 
 was always the man you felt, not the Mayor of the city you 
 saw. He became the personal friend of the needy ; in no 
 weak or sentimental way, but in a way to make them feel 
 that the machinery of government was directed by a human 
 heart. 
 
 This was a part of that Native Chivalry which was 
 strongly marked in this true gentleman. His deference for 
 women, his consideration of the poorest who came for 
 advice, reminds me of what Edward Everett Hale said a few 
 days ago of Henry P. Kidder, another layman of our faith, 
 just and chivalric : " He was as considerately and kindly 
 attentive to the poor woman who found her way into his 
 office to ask his advice as to how she could invest her store 
 of sixpences, as to the accredited representative of large 
 commercial interests who came to the great banker for 
 counsel." Just such instances were common in the life of 
 
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 our friend. Lonely women approached him sure of a defer- 
 ence which was in itself a defense. This boy, who was good 
 to his mother; this young man, whose homestead was a re- 
 fuge sought for needed rest, and where the household min- 
 isteries of his sisters were never forgotten nor outgrown ; 
 this man, whose domestic life, through every storm which 
 beat upon it from without, preserved the calm of constancy 
 and a fidelity rare and beautiful ; this was the chivalric gen- 
 tleman to whom no tender human relation seemed a small 
 thing or beneath his notice ; this was the friend to young 
 men, who were better and purer for his friendship. This 
 was the man whose counsel many a woman lives to remem- 
 ber and say : " My friend, my strong stay, is gone ! " Here 
 is an enviable honor : to be enshrined in hearts less sad 
 because their honor and their sorrow were sacred in the 
 presence of a noble man. The young men of this city 
 might forget every other lesson of our friend's life if only 
 they remembered this : the singularly simple, truthful and 
 chivalric regard in this man for all the relationships of life, 
 wherein love made its demand upon loyalty and found a 
 blameless knight's quick response. 
 
 I cannot leave the subject without saying that, within the 
 knowledge of those who knew Thomas A. Doyle well, his 
 busy Yiio. found tiuw for constant personal se) vices, rendered 
 to young men, to graduates of the schools, and to men upon 
 whom intemperance had fastened its power. The wonder is, 
 not that this constant demand upon his strength broke him 
 down too soon, but that the end did not come long before. 
 He must have been stronger in body than he seemed ; or, 
 was it the strength of the soul within ? 
 
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 In all this mere personal side of his life, he was greatly 
 aided by an intuition which was like that we find ordinarily 
 in women of the finer sort. A perception which stood him 
 instead of more extended learning, which no learning can 
 with any certainty bestow. I have spoken of his school- 
 ing, which in the private schools of Luther Ainsworth 
 and Dr. Ferris was followed by the grammar-school in- 
 struction which closed in his fifteenth year. But such 
 a nature as his is always learning. He was constantly 
 acquiring in ways undefined perhaps even to himself ; 
 and by a ready power of assimilation making these acqui- 
 sitions resources to be drawn upon at will. By temper- 
 ament allied to the beautiful in art and the excellent in liter- 
 ature, this boy, early cast upon his own exertions, acquired 
 resources which stood him in good stead in a public career of 
 so many years. When did his public utterances halt either 
 for lame words or feeble thought } In what position was he 
 ever placed when those who knew him felt any shame for the 
 way he bore himself .'' He seemed not to need the labored 
 processes by which studious men acquire from books and in 
 retirement the material for their public utterances. No 
 friend of Mr. Doyle would regard these deliverances of equal 
 worth, or fail to subject their matter to critical comment ; 
 but I speak now of his facility, his quick intelligence and 
 that direct method of his thinking which arose from his sim- 
 ple-minded, candid habit. Of no man can it be said that he 
 is always right. Infallibility is not given to mortals. But 
 when we can say of a man that he sees a moral end clearly, 
 and goes straight to it in his thinking, we have described a 
 rare nature, and one to whom his fellow-citizens do well to 
 confide great interests, and in whom his friends can safely 
 trust. 
 
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 In saying this you will acknowledge I have called you to 
 think of a notable quality in our friend. He was transparent, 
 simple, single-hearted, candid. His friends knew where to 
 find him. They would find him ivhere they left him. His 
 standing ground was no sandy insecurity, into which the 
 weight of responsibility caused him to sink. His obstinacy 
 was not born of contention, but of conviction. His candor 
 was strangely in contrast with the method often seen in 
 debate ; the ends he sought were plainly pointed out to all 
 whose aid or opposition he might expect. He had no debate 
 with his own motives ; he did not look into the eyes of other 
 men to see the direction of his own thought. He knew the 
 state of his own mind without taking account of stock in 
 another man's thought. I tliink his associates in public life 
 will bear out this testimony, often heard in these days past, 
 that the underhand and indirect methods of political trickery 
 were not his methods. His confidence may have been called 
 audacity or egotism ; I should rather call it the "self-subsist- 
 ency " of a soul in complete possession of its own conscious- 
 ness. He was his own master, and no other man's serf. 
 This is better than to be always right, for no man can be 
 wholly right who does not start thus heart-whole and uncor- 
 rupted. 
 
 Men have spoken much since Mayor Doyle's death of his 
 incorruptible public virtue; that no penny of the public 
 money clung to his hands. Directing and urging the e.xpen- 
 ditures of millions of public money, he died comparatively 
 poor. It is well to speak of it ; it is in striking contrast to 
 many instances brought to the notice of the people. This pub- 
 lic servant was faithful as a steward of the wealth of the city. 
 It cannot be too much emphasized. This emphasis appeared 
 
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 in the last election of Mayor Doyle to office. The greater 
 the probability of the city's need of lavish expenditure, the 
 greater need thought the people of a man who knew that 
 good results could only be achieved by generous spending, 
 and who could be trusted to spend all for the city and steal 
 nothing from it. That election was the popular triumph of a 
 man who had no crippling alliances, and who owed no favors 
 to be paid at the expense of his constituents. It was some- 
 thing to the credit of the citizens of Providence that they 
 were convinced of this, and acted upon the conviction. 
 
 But is it not, on the other hand, humiliating, that this 
 example should rise so far above the common political level .-* 
 He stands in singular isolation. What a sad public reproach 
 it is to say " this man held office almost all his life, since he 
 became a man, and died with clean hands ! " Has dishonesty 
 become so common that men sell their souls in the open 
 market and feel no shame ? If that be so, let it be said, to 
 the honor, not of this man only but of the human nature so 
 large in him, that /V cminot be ahvays so. This evil will con- 
 tinue, "until it shall be found to be hateful ; " and the great 
 common sub-stratum of right feeling and right thinking will 
 be reached, and instead of looking up to some signal exam- 
 ple of a man who bore sway honestly, who was trusted and 
 did not steal, who held positions of trust almost unrewarded, 
 and who gained them without dispensing iniquitous bounties 
 to his henchmen ; — instead of standing on a low level of 
 impure politics looking up, we hope for the time when we 
 shall stand as those do who cross the American Desert to 
 the Colorado Plains : they not only sec the mountains afar 
 crowned with light, but they stand upon the level plain and 
 breathe the air of a height a mile above the level sea, hav- 
 
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 ing been lifted to this height not perceiving that they have 
 climbed the slope of a continent. The time will come ; and 
 all honor to any man who shows an ideal to be practicable, 
 as this man has done, whose loss is a bereavement to the 
 j)()litical morality of his State. 
 
 When we worshi}) the perfect goodness, the eternal right- 
 eousness of God, we are glad to call our adoration noble. 
 It is also noble, and an incentive to nobility, to display our 
 admiration of these qualities in God's servants who serve 
 men in the fear of God, " not doing eye service as men 
 pleasers, but doing the will of God from the heart ! 
 
 But I remember that I am speaking to you from that pul- 
 pit from which for years this friend whom we mourn was 
 accustomed to hear the truth as we hold it in the Unitarian 
 churches. Mayor Doyle was a Congregationalist preemi- 
 nently ; the independence of the individual church was to 
 him not only historically defensible, but it was congenial to 
 his nature, strongly individual as it was. When, therefore, 
 in early life he joined the Westminster Congregational 
 Church he found himself not only in accord with its ecclesi- 
 astical polity, but also deeply convinced of the wholesome 
 truth of its doctrinal teaching. He was a consistent and 
 intelligent believer in the Christian faith as taught by Chan- 
 ning and Martineau. He was thoughtful and studious of 
 these things. He was not a Unitarian by accident or by 
 mistake. No more attentive or constant attendant upon the 
 services of religion has honored the ministry of this church, 
 where for years past Mayor Doyle has been associated with 
 the work of religion. He was twice president and twice 
 vice-president of the society of this church. His member- 
 ship was never removed from the Westminster Church ; both 
 
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 churches had for him a genuine interest. As his pastor 
 these five years past, I recall with pleasure the simple service 
 in which I was inducted into the pastoral office here, and the 
 simplicity, directness and sincerity of Mr. Doyle's address to 
 me in his capacity of president of the society. The kind 
 words spoken then were enforced by many kind acts after- 
 ward. He was a faithful and loyal parishioner ; he was the 
 valued friend of the pastor, as candid in his relations to him 
 as he was kind. I think I never knew a man more accessi- 
 ble to plain speech. He knew what he believed ; he had 
 time, busy as he was, for religious culture ; he made no parade 
 of his religion ; he was free from cant. I believe the truths 
 he held, held him also, and were the motive power of his daily 
 life. He was not only a consistent Unitarian, but he was 
 able to perceive the truths of other faiths. His long friend- 
 ship for the good Catholic Bishop Hendricken witnessed the 
 catholicity of his nature. These men, the same age, dying 
 almost the same day, deserve equal honor for their unselfish 
 zeal for the common good of their fellows. 
 
 I wish to speak to you of one other characteristic which 
 seemed to me beautifully marked in our friend. You all 
 know his urbanity. It was not simply a habit and an in- 
 stinct, but it really arose from a good-will, which no sensi- 
 tiveness to injury could long obscure, nor the rough usage 
 which every man expects in public life could turn aside. 
 He seemed incapable of holding malice against individuals. 
 Some men consider it a sign of strength to entertain preju- 
 dices and assert themselves ; they unjustly contend for jus- 
 tice. It may be a sign of strength in men, but in children 
 it is considered a blemish, not to be capable of quick forgive- 
 ness. No ; it is not strength, but weakness, to make the 
 
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 nature the lurking place of ill-will. " Good-will to men ! " 
 is the Heavenly message. This " good-will " Mayor Doyle 
 had, associated with a largeness of nature that seemed to 
 transfer the blame from men to the cause they represented. 
 I have said that he had almost a feminine sensitiveness, but 
 he cared more for the cause he represented than for himself. 
 No man is fit for public life who cannot rise above men, to 
 the consideration of principles. I talked with Mayor Doyle 
 often about men and measures, and I cannot recall a single 
 instance in which any man was spoken of with a bitter and 
 unforgiving spirit. I am much impressed with this quality 
 in him. I talked with him two nights before the stroke fell 
 upon him which caused his death. I had a communication 
 from him two weeks before he died, and then, as always, 
 measures not men were in his mind as commanding his eager 
 opposition. He was wont always to speak generously of the 
 individual, and to make that careful and necessary distinc- 
 tion between an official and a personal relation among men. 
 The fibre of his texture was close and firm, but there was 
 many a thread of gold inwrought ; and the pattern testified 
 of a fine temper in the forming of it. 
 
 What our brother was to the fraternal Order to which he 
 gave so much time and thought, let his brother Masons tell. 
 This only must be said : he is accredited not only with inter- 
 est in his Order, with painstaking fidelity, but I am told 
 his influence was not slight in urging its moral obligations 
 and Christian spirit. It was to him, as were so many other 
 relations, an instrument to establish righteousness among 
 men. 
 
 I have spoken of my friend with admiration because I 
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 found him admirable. I have spoken most of all of his 
 qualities of mind and heart, because these are the man ; 
 these mould the incidents of his history, incidents known to 
 you all ; these are the qualities to be imitated by young men 
 who find them worthy of honor. 
 
 It has been said he was ambitious. // is true ; and // is 
 ivell. Public life is not a quicksand to be shunned by those 
 who love their fellows. Responsibilities should be divided 
 among many ; but the strong will carry more than their share, 
 and wear out under the load. To be conscious of ability 
 to do good work is the safeguard of a right ambition. It is 
 well for the city of Providence that Thomas A. Doyle was 
 ambitious. Let the cause of public education testify how 
 ambitious for other lads the common-school boy came to be. 
 Let the public institutions show how ambitious the chief 
 officer was to reform the criminal and hopeless. Let the 
 monument which citizens will raise be inscribed with the 
 results of his ambition ; but its surface will miss the record 
 written in human hearts of those numberless kindnesses, 
 those self-denying fidelities that have set aside the ambitions 
 of the public magistrate, to find scope in the humble ser- 
 vice of a loyal, loving man. 
 
 He did, indeed, "fling away ambition," in all its unworthy 
 forms. I think I see him giving loyal heed to Shakespeare's 
 warning, but reading the lines as one who learned their 
 lesson long ago, and found the repetition easy from the 
 pages of his own experience. I look over his shoulder as he 
 reads, to see what has kindled the smile of recognition. 
 The lines are these : 
 
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 " Love thyself last: Cherish the hearts that hate thee. 
 Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
 Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
 To silence envious tongues; be just and fear not, 
 Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy Country's, 
 Thy God's and Truth's." 
 
 He might well have read these lines, and smiled his recog- 
 nition of their truth from his unforfeited and uncorrupted 
 post of honor. There can be not much sadness on his 
 account when we say of him whose loss is so great to us: 
 
 " He gave his honors to the world again. 
 
 His blessed part to Heaven, and slept iti peace." 
 
MEMORIAL SESSION 
 
 CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 October 28, 1886. 
 
MEMORIAL SESSION. 
 
 On the twenty-eighth day of October, 1886, the 
 City Council held a Memorial Session, when the fol- 
 lowing report was received and the Minute accom- 
 panying the report was unanimously adopted: 
 
 To THE Honorable the City Council : 
 
 The joint special committee appointed to arrange for the 
 funeral of Thomas A. Doyle, late Mayor of this city, beg 
 leave to report that the first part of their duty was duly 
 attended to by causing the City Hall to be properly draped, 
 the body to lie in state in the building which had for so many 
 years been his official home, and then borne to the First Con- 
 gregational Church, where appropriate funeral services were 
 held ; after the ceremonies the Masonic fraternity took charge 
 of the remains and committed them to their final resting 
 place in Swan Point Cemetery. The city, through its com- 
 mittee, assumed the full charge and direction of the funeral, 
 and now, in furtherance of the time-honored usage and in 
 accordance with the instructions of the resolution appointing 
 said committee, they submit the accompanying minute. 
 For the committee, 
 
 ALFRED STONE, 
 
 Chairtnan. 
 
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 MINUTE. 
 
 Thomas Arthur Doyle, member of the Common Council 
 from June, 1852, to June, 1855, and from June, 1856, to 
 June, 1857, President of that body from June, 1854, to June, 
 1855, and Mayor of the city from June, 1864, to June 1869, 
 from June, 1870, to January, 1881, and from January, 1884, 
 died June 9, 1886. 
 
 His death closed a life of unremitting toil in the service of 
 his native city. 
 
 Identified in the earliest years of his manhood with the 
 municipal government, he carefully and zealously studied 
 the principles of civil polity and became prominent as an 
 active and fearless exponent of those principles, while at the 
 same time he conceived and urged with untiring energy, 
 aided by the force of a convincing argument, those advanced 
 ideas of municipal growth and improvement which had for 
 their attainment the greatest benefit to the city. 
 
 Not alone was his merit recognized in the inception and 
 advancement of those greater projects which have inured to 
 the city's benefit, but in the smallest details of the govern- 
 ment, his painstaking care and oversight were particularly 
 manifested. 
 
 Persistent to the extreme in the advocacy of those meas- 
 ures which to him seemed best and right for the municipal- 
 ity, he yet so far accorded to those who differed from him an 
 honesty of purpose and an equal right to their opinions in 
 opposition to his, that were it proved to him that he had erred 
 in judgment, no one was readier, or more willing, than he to 
 admit his error and accept the position which had been 
 proved to him to be better. 
 
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 There was no project conceived or inaugurated during his 
 connection with the municipal government which did not 
 obtain his careful consideration and an independent expres- 
 sion of his opinion. The records of the city bear ample and 
 convincing evidence of the successful issue of the great 
 works which he advocated, and which in so great a degree 
 have been instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the 
 city of Providence. 
 
 His conception of duty is best expressed in his own words 
 addressed to the City Council in his first inaugural message 
 as Mayor, and defined the position upon which was based 
 his action, and to which he persistently adhered : " It is. not 
 my nature, however, to falter in the accomplishment of a 
 purpose until I am satisfied that the object sought cannot be 
 
 attained Taking the charter and laws for my 
 
 guide, I shall not shrink from the performance of any duty 
 that shall seem to be required, or hesitate to assume any 
 responsibility that may belong to my position." 
 
 Fearless and independent in the discharge of every duty, 
 no consideration of personal interest could induce him to 
 give his support to any measure which he did not thoroughly 
 believe was for the highest good of the community. This 
 adherence to duty and disregard for self and personal aggran- 
 dizement, together with an entire freedom from the .slightest 
 imputation of seeking or accepting any emolument other 
 than that to which he was justly and legally entitled, com- 
 manded the respect of his opponents, and while they may 
 have rightly opposed the measures which he supported, yet 
 they accorded to him a sincerity of motive in the support of 
 those measures and an honest purpose in their execution. 
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 His long public life is ended, and the record that he leaves 
 to the generations of people of this city will remain an endur- 
 ing memorial of a man kind and generous alike to friends and 
 antagonists, bold and fearless in the performance of duty, 
 and honest in the administration of the numerous trusts 
 committed to his care. 
 
 Of him it is unquestionably recorded that he loved his 
 native city, was true to her interests, and devoted the best 
 years of his life to her faithful service. 
 
 Remarks by Stillman White, Alderman of 
 the First Ward. 
 
 Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen — I move the adoption of the 
 minute, and regret my inability to express in fitting terms 
 the feelings of my heart and the high regard that I person- 
 ally had for Mayor Doyle. While it would be more in 
 accord with my feelings to be a silent listener to those bet- 
 ter qualified to pay a just and proper tribute to his memory, 
 yet I feel that, in an humble way, my duty compels me to 
 bear testimony to a life characterized by sincere and earnest 
 devotion to the duties of the honorable positions to which he 
 was called by his fellow-men. My acquaintance with him, 
 not only in connection with the municipal government but 
 in other positions, gave me an insight into the many noble 
 traits of his character which won my respect and formed a 
 friendship the ties of which were strengthened more and 
 more as I was brought into intimate association with him. 
 His countenance, which so strongly reflected his generous 
 
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 67 
 
 and sympathetic nature, was assurance alike to the stranger 
 and the acquaintance that he was one to whom distress might 
 prefer its suit with confidence of a personal attention and 
 assistance. 
 
 But it is not alone in personal attributes of love and 
 charity to his fellow-men that has endeared him to me and 
 commanded my respect. 
 
 My connection with the city government under his admin- 
 istration has brought mc into intimate relations with him, and 
 I confess to an admiration for his superior executive ability, 
 his dignity in official position and the graceful manner in 
 which he extended courtesies and hospitalities in the dis- 
 charge of his public duties. He seemed by nature fitted to 
 govern, and his quick conception of what was needed for the 
 public good, his hearty and willing support of measures 
 which, in his judgment, would inure to its welfare and pros- 
 perity and his determined opposition to those measures which 
 he thought would result to the disadvantage of the city, 
 equally commanded my respect and esteem. While I have 
 differed from him for reasons which to me seemed right and 
 proper and held views at variance with his, I yet believe that 
 he treated my opposition as being actuated by proper motives, 
 and was no less friendly to me because of that opposition. 
 
 The growth and prosperity of his native city was to him 
 the one question of importance, and that he aided in a great 
 degree in advancing it to the position it occupies is beyond 
 question, for the evidences of his conception of what was 
 to the advantage of the city are to be seen in the improve- 
 ments which he inaugurated and pressed to a successful 
 completion, and which in future years will stand as endur- 
 
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 ing monuments to his ability, and will be referred to with 
 pride by future generations. 
 
 I have spoken of his superior executive ability. The in- 
 stances of which I call to mind where I have had occasion 
 to recognize it and where it particularly impressed me are 
 many. 
 
 In times of great emergencies he was the central figure, 
 neither hesitating to assume responsibility nor shrinking from 
 the performance of duty. His suggestions and advice to 
 those whose particular duty it was to meet these emergencies 
 were the more acceptable in that they were given by one 
 whose judgment was sound, and who was quick to appreciate 
 what at the moment was most needed. 
 
 There are other things that I would say of the man 
 whose services to the city we are assembled to commemorate, 
 but will only allude to the almost lifelong service he has 
 rendered to his native city, as the choice of its people, which 
 speaks in terms more expressive than words of men can do 
 their confidence in his integrity and honesty of purpose to 
 serve the public good. His life service was given to his 
 native city. Who could give more ^ 
 
 Remarks by Augustus S. Miller, Council- 
 man from the First Ward. 
 
 Mr. President — I second the motion for the adoption of 
 the minute. The memorial of our committee is worthy of 
 our commendation. In honoring our late Mayor they have 
 honored themselves. Allow me, in a few words, to add my 
 tribute to the worth of Thomas A. Doyle. We have heard 
 
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 to-night no undue praise. The words spoken have been 
 kind, tender and true. In his lifetime no man was subjected 
 to more bitter and unconscionable criticism than he, yet the 
 unjust condemnations had continual refutation, as year after 
 year his fellow-citizens intrusted to him the duties of the 
 highest office in the municipality ; and, furthermore, as time 
 rolled on, his severest defamers became his warmest defend- 
 ers. 
 
 When on that summer evening, but such a few months 
 since, was heard 
 
 '"The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere," 
 
 the message bore grief, as for a personal loss, to each of his 
 fellow-citizens, touching their hearts as the death of no 
 other public man would have done ; and on that burial day, 
 as the solemn procession moved slowly, with measured tread, 
 through the hushed streets, while the funeral bell tolled, 
 what a sad concourse of people thronged the way, to pay a 
 last tribute to the man whom so long they had honored. 
 
 Our city has witnessed no other such spectacle as that. 
 When the procession escorted his body to the grave, the 
 thoroughfares along the entire route were thronged with 
 thousands who expressed on their every face the sorrow of 
 their loss. 
 
 Apart from the fascination of his presence, attracting 
 every one, the reason of Thomas A. Doyle's popularity with 
 all classes of his fellow-citizens was this: they believed that 
 his first thought was ever for the best interests of his native 
 city, of which he was so proud, and that before its welfare 
 self interests never intruded. 
 
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 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 Of him, more than of most public men, it can be said that 
 the office sought the man. He was supported for Mayor on 
 all occasions by our citizens irrespective of party lines, and 
 recognized by all as the embodiment of independence in 
 politics. 
 
 The character of the man is displayed with great vividness 
 in his eighteenth inaugural and two retiring addresses, all 
 admirable papers. 
 
 In his first inaugural address he said of himself : " Elected 
 without any stipulation as to the course I shall pursue in 
 relation to the affairs of our municipality, I am entirely free 
 to adopt such policy as a sense of duty shall dictate. Tak- 
 ing the charter and laws for my guide, I shall not shrink from 
 the performance of any duty that shall seem to be required, 
 or hesitate to assume any responsibility that may belong to 
 my position. 
 
 " While thus declaring my intention to exercise my own 
 judgment as the Chief Magistrate of this city, I shall at all 
 times be ready to hear any suggestion which any citizen may 
 properly make in relation to the matters connected with the 
 City Government, and at the same time be always willing to 
 listen to any complaint from whomsoever it may come. 
 
 "It is the common experience that no public officer can 
 be faithful to his trust without incurring censure, and that 
 the citizen who clamors loudest for the enactment of a law 
 is often among the first to denounce the officer who enforces 
 it. To this experience I do not expect to find myself an 
 exception, and shall endeavor to bear with calmness any 
 odium that may follow the discharge of duty." 
 
 Retiring voluntarily from the Mayoralty after fifteen years 
 of service he recalled these words, proudly leaving it to his 
 
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 fellow-citizens to say whether in the performance of his 
 executive duties he had followed the course he had thus 
 marked out. 
 
 Could any say that he had shrunk from the performance 
 of any duty which seemed to be required of him, or that he 
 had hesitated to assume any responsibility which belonged to 
 his position ? 
 
 He had incurred censure, as he had anticipated, but the 
 people answered the questions by electing him again their 
 Chief Magistrate after an interim of three years, giving 
 him a majority greater than the number of his opponent's 
 votes, and thenceforward it seemed as though they would 
 have no other man for their Mayor. 
 
 The inaugural addresses of Thomas A. Doyle give in 
 detail the history of this city for more than twenty years 
 last past, and reading them one cannot fail to be impressed 
 with the fact that Providence is largely indebted to him for 
 its continued advancement in prosperity. 
 
 Always alert, quick in his perception of the wants and 
 necessities of the different departments of the City Govern- 
 ment, and ready in judgment of improvements demanded 
 for the general welfare, we find him continually suggesting 
 in his messages works needed to be performed, and mark 
 that but few years elapse before he records, with honest pride, 
 the enjoyment and appreciation of his fellow-citizens in the 
 accomplishment of those objects which he instigated, and 
 with their aid, carried to completion. 
 
 Since I have been a member of the Council I have had 
 occasion to consult with Mayor Doyle on several important 
 matters, and I have wondered, often, at his quick insight of 
 
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 details and ready solution of difficult problems. It may be 
 that, in the doing of a thing, he was over-anxious to have it 
 accomplished his way, but that way was never for personal 
 profit, but for what he considered the welfare of the muni- 
 cipality. 
 
 It is no little praise to say that he lived and died without 
 any reflection upon his personal honesty. 
 
 The last public event in which he took a deep interest was 
 the 250th anniversary of the founding of Providence. 
 
 I recall now the first evening he spent with the committee, 
 and I detract from none in saying that the success of that 
 celebration was largely due to his initiatory suggestions. 
 
 Alas, before the day came for the city to be brilliantly 
 decked in honor of its birthday, we saw it draped in mourn- 
 ing for him who had aided so materially in bringing it to its 
 present proud position among the cities of our land, and it 
 was with heavy hearts that we displaced the emblems of 
 sorrow for those of joy. 
 
 As our Chief Justice so truly and beautifully said, in his 
 historical address : " For years he has been so completely 
 identified with the city that it seems almost like a violation 
 of natural law for the celebration to proceed without him. 
 Our eyes still look for his familiar figure, our ears still listen 
 for his clarion voice, and though baffled and disappointed, 
 still refuse to be convinced that they will see and hear him 
 no more forever." 
 
 The vacant chair will soon be occupied and, as heretofore, 
 men of worth honestly and ably will conduct the affairs of 
 this municipality, but such another Mayor, having so great a 
 fund of advisory and executive ability, our city scarcely will 
 see for many a generation. 
 
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 Remarks by Thomas A. Millett, Council- 
 man from the Third Ward. 
 
 Mr. President — Never iiave I felt so keenly my inability 
 to express in fitting language my thoughts and feelings as on 
 this occasion, for gladly would I render a glowing tribute to 
 the memory of one who so honored every position in life 
 which he held. 
 
 In him we behold a man who, from an humble begfinnino". 
 arose step by step, until he occupied the most exalted posi- 
 tion in the gift of the people of his native city, and well may 
 we ask how this advancement was accomplished. 
 
 Without the prestige that wealth and high social position 
 so often affords to advancement, we are to look for it else- 
 where. It was a natural ability far in advance of the average ; 
 an intelligence that quickly grasped and comprehended every 
 question ; a strong love for his native city ; an honest, un- 
 selfish heart that placed the interests of the public and 
 the well being of the community first of all, that secured 
 his advancement. 
 
 His faithfulness in every duty, combined with his cheerful 
 and cordial greetings, endeared him to the hearts of his fel- 
 low-citizens, and especially strong was this affection in the 
 hearts of the young, whose friend he ever was. 
 
 Well may this community mourn his loss, for to their 
 interests was given his living energies, and it may be said 
 his life. How deep was his hold on the peo])le of this city, 
 whom he served so long and well, let the scenes of his funeral 
 day and the contributions towards his monument tell. 
 
 His noble life is worthy of imitation by our young men, 
 telling to them in unmistakable language that the way to 
 
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 THE DOYLE MEMORIAL. 
 
 honor is by a faithful performance of every duty with an 
 honest endeavor and an unselfish purpose. And we who have 
 been associated with him in public life see his noble life 
 of faithfulness, integrity and virtue stand out clear and bright 
 on the fields of memory, as stands upon the banks of India's 
 sacred river the marble temple erect by the Shah Jehan, 
 pure and spotless. 
 
 But he has gone over the dark river. No more we shall re- 
 ceive his cordial greeting or feel \.\\q warm grasp of his hand. 
 That kind heart which ever felt for others' lives is still, and the 
 voice that so often gave words of encouragement is silent ; 
 yet we may well hope that in a better land than this he has 
 received the welcome greeting, " Well done, good and faithful 
 servant." 
 
 Remarks by Fred. I. Marcy, Councilman from 
 the Sixth Ward. 
 
 Mr. President — I feel, on this solemn occasion, my ina- 
 bility to express in fitting language the sentiments of respect 
 which I held for the late Thomas A. Doyle, and recognize 
 that I am unable to do justice to his memory. 
 
 It was in the ward which I have the honor to represent 
 that he first held office, and it was there that he first mani- 
 fested those qualifications which in after years attracted the 
 attention of the citizens of the whole city. 
 
 What I may say in commendation of his ability will be with 
 regard to his connection with the public schools. It was 
 there that he impressed me with the feeling that no one was 
 
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 75 
 
 more interested, and none more zealous than he in the pro- 
 motion of the educational interests, and affording to the 
 children of this city the best advantages for the attainment 
 of the knowledge which was to fit them for the duties of life, 
 and make them the best citizens of the community. He 
 recognized that the education of the children was the funda- 
 mental principle of good government ; that the advantages 
 to be given them by the establishment of the best schools at 
 the expense of the city were to receive their return in the 
 development of men and women whose influence upon the 
 community would produce results that future generations 
 would recognize as the greatest and most valued gift the 
 city could bestow. 
 
 In early life he was elected a member of the School Com- 
 mittee, being at that time the youngest member, and during 
 nearly all the years thereafter to the time of his death he 
 was connected with that branch of the city government. 
 Not only as a member of the committee and while Mayor 
 of the city did he urge the extension of the public school sys- 
 tem, but he also advocated, both upon the floor of the commit- 
 tee and in his inaugural messages, the erection of school 
 houses, with the most improved facilities for giving to the 
 children of the city the benefits of a free education com- 
 mensurate with the growth and prosperity of the munici- 
 pality. 
 
 The highest branch of free education received his unquali- 
 fied support, and in the High School he recognized the bene- 
 fits of the education which there fitted its pupils, at the 
 expense of the city, to engage as men and women in a more 
 advanced position in the business affairs of the community. 
 His voice was always raised in support of the High School and 
 
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 its assailants were met with his most forcible arguments for 
 its maintenance. 
 
 This interest which he manifested in the public school 
 system was not alone shown by his membership with the 
 committee, but the scholars recognized it. They instinct- 
 ively knew him to be their friend, and his presence in the 
 schools was always welcomed while he secured their confi- 
 dence, as it seems to me, beyond that of any member of the 
 committee I ever knew. 
 
 Wherever he went he was known, and it seemed as if every 
 boy and girl in the city considered him his friend. For 
 every one he had a kindly word of greeting, and this love and 
 respect of the children was undoubtedly one of the greatest 
 causes of his popularity. 
 
 At the time of his burial, what more touching tribute to 
 his memory could there have been than that which was 
 betokened by the strewing of flowers upon his grave by the 
 school children ? That scene to many will long be remem- 
 bered, and though the flowers with which the scholars so 
 reverently covered his casket be long since withered and dead, 
 the memory of their friend will be as fresh and beautiful as 
 were those flowers whose life they typefied. 
 
 In all departments of the city he was interested, and noth- 
 ing in connection with any of them seemed to escape his 
 notice, wherein he thought he could best serve the interests 
 of the city, and the record of service which he has left to 
 future generations will be one of which this city may well be 
 proud. She will be proud of him as her son and will long 
 honor his memory. 
 
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 Remarks by Joseph H. Fanning, Councilman 
 from the Seventh Ward. 
 
 Mr. President — It is pleasant to pay a tribute to the mem- 
 ory of a friend, but especially so when we know that the life 
 of that friend has been devoted to great and noble purposes. 
 I shall not attempt to review the official life of the Honorable 
 Thomas A. Doyle, late Mayor of the city of Providence, but 
 leave it as recorded in the various documents, which will last 
 as long as the city itself, but shall endeavor to show that the 
 great popularity of the man was owing to the great interest 
 that he took in all educational, charitable and business affairs 
 of the city and state. He was without doubt the most popular 
 person in the city with young people, and when he addressed 
 them upon any occasion he was received with great favor and 
 applause. 
 
 It can be said that when a boy who had passed through 
 our schools reached his majority he would deposit his first 
 vote for Mayor Thomas A. Doyle. 
 
 He has been called upon to make addresses for almost 
 every society that has been organized in this city for the past 
 twenty years, and no one knows how much time was taken 
 for this work in addition to his official duties. To secure 
 the Kindergarten method of teaching was one of his last 
 efforts, and he wished that the Committee on Education would 
 look into its merits and report at once in favor of opening 
 several schools. 
 
 He was also a man of great sympathy, and was always 
 welcomed when he visited those who were in trouble and 
 distress. For many years he made visits, and distributed 
 
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 what he called gifts, to families of deceased members of a 
 society to which he belonged, upon Thanksgiving Day, and 
 many will miss his familiar face upon the return of that day. 
 
 When, upon one of these visits, a remark was made to him 
 that they had made no application for charity, he said, although 
 he knew that the family was in straitened circumstances, 
 that it was not charity, but a gift that belonged to them. 
 
 Although he dispensed these gifts for many years, he 
 always insisted that the names of the persons visited should 
 be kept a secret from the society, showing his great delicacy 
 of feeling, for he said, many of these families have moved in 
 good society and had everything needed until death took 
 away their support. 
 
 The last communication that I received from him, shows 
 that even when his strength was failing, he was interested in 
 everything of any importance, and perhaps as it was one of 
 his last letters, will be listened to with interest : 
 
 April 30, 1886. 
 
 My Dear Sir : — I very much regret that I cannot be present at the 
 inauguration of Arbor Day in Roger Williams Park this afternoon. The 
 air is so chilly that I do not think it prudent to expose myself to its effect, 
 by occupying a seat in the open air during the exercises of the occasion. 
 A speech is entirely out of the question, and my friend, the President of 
 the School Committee, will have to do my part of the talking as well as 
 his own. 
 
 Fortunately he is equal to the occasion, and what he says will be worth 
 hearing. 
 
 Assuring you of my hearty sympathy with you in your good work, 
 
 I am yours truly, 
 
 Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor. 
 
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 79 
 
 This is, perhaps, a good illublialiou ol ihc interest that he 
 exhibited in everything that interested the citizens of his 
 beloved city, and serves to remind us that although he was 
 a man of delicate constitution yet he never hesitated to do 
 all that laid within his power to promote the welfare of the 
 people. 
 
 Is it strange that the people of Providence, with tearful 
 eyes, should fill the streets as the remains of one so much 
 respected and beloved was carried to its resting place, and 
 does not the interest taken for the erection of a monument to 
 his memory show that the people realize that one has passed 
 away whose memory should be cherished ? Has not the death 
 of our friend brought many fond remembrances to our minds 
 of times gone by .■* Perhaps we have had differences of opin- 
 ion with him, yet he, while holding strongly to his own 
 views, was always charitable towards those who were opposed 
 to him. He had very many true friends in the seventh ward, 
 who will ever remember him as a man who was honest and 
 capable. 
 
 As the years fly swiftly by, may we be as faithful to our 
 trust as was our departed friend. 
 
 Remarks by Henry Cram, Councilman from 
 the Fifth Ward. 
 
 Mr. President — After listening to the eloquent words 
 already spoken in eulogy of our lamented Mayor and friend, 
 Thomas A. Dovle, it seems that nearlv all has been said that 
 
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 language can express, but there is this continuous thought 
 in the minds and upon the lips of the people : What was 
 there about this remarkable man that so endeared him to the 
 hearts of his fellow-citizens ? It was simply this : he loved 
 the city of Providence. He loved and trusted the people, 
 and had the most unbounded confidence in the righteousness 
 of their judgment that it was possible for man to have. 
 This was the key-note to his success. For this reason the 
 people in return placed the most implicit confidence in him. 
 No words of eulogy, no monument of stone, can equal the 
 monument built by himself in the hearts of the people who 
 elected him for so many successive terms to the Chief Mag- 
 istracy of this city. No man ever received, nor has any 
 municipality in our land, from Maine to California, bestowed 
 like honor upon a citizen. His deeds and integrity in office 
 have inscribed an epitaph to his memory more indelible upon 
 the hearts and minds of the people of this city for years to 
 come than any artist can design upon his monument. 
 
 Remarks by William B. Avery, Councilman 
 from the First Ward. 
 
 It is with a great degree of reluctance that I rise to say a 
 few words in regard to the late Mayor, Thomas A. Doyle. 
 
 I did not know him personally, but I did officially, and 
 what few words I may say will be in regard to my relation 
 with him as an officer of the City Government, and more 
 particularly in connection with the police department. 
 
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 Antony, in his famous address to the Roman populace, said, 
 " I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." We have buried 
 the late Mayor, and his spirit has gone to the God who gave 
 it. But I feel impressed to add my testimony of the appre- 
 ciation I had for the ability which Mr. Doyle so greatly pos- 
 sessed for the office of Mayor, and I cannot withhold the 
 praise which I so sincerely feel is due to him. As I have 
 said, my relations with him were more intimate in connection 
 with the management of the police department, and I recall 
 to mind the many matters connected with it that showed to 
 me the great interest he took in its organization and success, 
 and it is well known to all the members of this City Council 
 that to him more than to any other man is due the honor for 
 that proficiency which the department has attained and which 
 it merits from all law-abiding citizens. 
 
 It was by his exertions in the first year of his mayoralty 
 that the department was organized upon a plan which had 
 for its object the better protection of the lives and property 
 of the citizens and in accordance with the more advanced 
 ideas of proper municipal government ; and the interest and 
 pride which he had in its inception continued during his long 
 term of office, while he never ceased to speak in terms of 
 praise of the valuable work which the police force rendered 
 to the city. But it was not alone his interest in this depart- 
 ment that impels me to add my tribute, humble as it may be, 
 to the words that have already been spoken of him whose 
 memory we are here to commemorate. In all the depart- 
 ments of the City Government he was interested, and no 
 question came before him that he hesitated to discuss or to 
 give it his opinion, and he was never afraid to assert his con- 
 victions and to stand by them. 
 
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 During my connection with the City Council, vexed ques- 
 tions have arisen and been discussed, but on all these he 
 chose his position and maintained it with an honest purpose 
 and with a true regard for what in his opinion was for the 
 best interest of the city. He stood firm for the city, and 
 considered not the interest of the individual, but the best 
 good of the people. Neither did he consider his own per- 
 sonal gain. Though he died poor, yet he has left an inherit- 
 ance greater than riches, — a record of a life spent in the ser- 
 vice of his native city, honest and above reproach. 
 
 " Lives of great men all remind us 
 We can make our lives sublime, 
 And departing leave behind us 
 
 Footprints on the sands of time, — 
 
 " Footprints that perhaps another 
 Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother 
 Seeing may take heart again. 
 
 " Let us then be up and doing, 
 With a heart for any fate, 
 Still achieving, still pursuing 
 Learn to labor and to wait." 
 
 Remarks by Henry C, Armstrong, Coun- 
 cilman from the Third Ward. 
 
 With a feeling of hesitancy I arise in this presence to pay 
 tribute to the memory of a man — and he was a man in the 
 highest sense of the word — concerning whom so much, and 
 it would seem almost everything, has been said ; but yet there 
 
 is always something one can say regarding such a character. 
 
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 Would that I could iu some adequate degree express my 
 admiration of Thomas A. Doyle. The lesson of his life has 
 taught me there is something of far greater value than money 
 in this world, for he was an honest and true man, and his 
 manliness won for him that which unlimited wealth could 
 not have secured — a place in the hearts of all the people of 
 Providence. His heart and hand were open to every one, 
 and the mind of many a young man who has started upon 
 a career of prosperity will revert to boyhood days and recall 
 with deepest gratitude the incentive given by this remarkable 
 man, who, by his ready recognition, kindly greeting and 
 encouraging words, caused the poorest and most insignificant 
 boy to feel that he really was of some consequence, and that 
 brains, courage and hard work would surely win in the battle 
 of life. If there is one thing more than another that a 
 timid, struggling boy needs, it is encouragement. Thomas A. 
 Doyle always gave it, and this is one of the many reasons why 
 he was an invaluable man in this community. His memory 
 will ever be cherished in the hearts of all who were boys in 
 
 his day. 
 
 Our daily experience in life is like one day going to the top 
 of a high mountain, when everything in nature is lovely in the 
 extreme, and the next day descending into the cold, damp, 
 dark valley, where even a beast would want to lie down and 
 die. But to stand erect, with a sturdy will to resist tempta- 
 tion and be cheerful in the midst of all the adversities of this 
 life, encouragement and help are needed, and it was just this 
 needed encouragement and help that Thomas A. Doyle con- 
 stantly gave to all by his bright example of industry, perse- 
 verance, honesty and buoyancy of spirits. 
 
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 In his death our city has suffered an irreparable loss, but 
 if our young men will emulate his great example, good 
 citizenship will prevail and his life will not have been in vain. 
 He was my friend, and I mourn his loss. 
 
 Remarks by George H. Burnham, Alderman 
 from the Sixth Ward. 
 
 I did not come prepared to make extended remarks, and 
 have no formal speech to express my thought on this occa- 
 sion, but desire briefly to add to what has already been said 
 of the late Mayor Doyle, my humble tribute of respect to 
 his memory. 
 
 Shakespeare causes one of his great characters to say 
 
 " The evil that men do lives after them ; 
 The good is oft interred with their bones." 
 
 I think the life of the late Mayor completely refutes that 
 saying. He had his faults, but who now thinks of them 
 when he is brought to mind, or if remembered, who gives 
 them more than a passing thought. They were such as 
 belonged to his nature, and soon will be forgotton ; and we 
 might even now, while the flowers laid there by loving hands 
 are fresh upon his grave, say his faults are buried with him. 
 
 But recollection of him lives and will live, when that of 
 many a greater man has faded, for his fine presence and cour- 
 teous address made him a favorite of the citizens generally, 
 the humblest of whom was received by him with the same 
 politeness and cordiality accorded to the most prominent, and 
 
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 each of them has a warm coiner in his heart for the memory 
 of the " People's Mayor." His wide experience in city 
 affairs, perhaps, made him hold other people's opinions some- 
 what lightly, and this of course provoked many differences 
 between himself and other members of the government, but 
 these differences were not allowed to disturb personal friend- 
 ships. His official acts were performed in a straightforward 
 and earnest way, and he advocated no measure in which he 
 did not fully believe. He stoutly maintained his opinion in 
 face of the fiercest opposition and no man has been more 
 unjustly or more unmercifully assailed than he, yet the peo- 
 ple of this city, in making him their chief magistrate an 
 unprecedented term by successive re-elections, declared their 
 confidence in him, and their utter disbelief of the malicious 
 tales of his defamers. 
 
 I was intimately associated with the late Mayor, for sev- 
 eral years, in business and other relations, as well as in city 
 affairs, and we have had on these matters many differences, 
 which, however wide, were strictly confined to the subjects 
 causing them. 
 
 I believe it may be as truly said of him, as of any man, 
 that he died at his post, and I also believe that the tributes 
 here paid to his memory, voice the sentiment of the thou- 
 sands of our people, who, on that sad day, thronged the way 
 to the city of the dead and tearfully watched his body borne 
 to its burial place. 
 
 " He In now at rest ; 
 And praise ami blame fall on his ears alike. 
 Now dull in death." 
 
 Heaven rest his soul. 
 
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 Remarks by Acting Mayor Gilbert F. 
 Bobbins. 
 
 I desire to fully indorse all that has been said in eulogy of 
 our late and honored Mayor Thomas A. Doyle. 
 
 My acquaintance with him dates back to the year 1861, 
 when I engaged in business in the same building. Since 
 that time I have known him intimately. But as President 
 of the Board of Aldermen I have been brought more closely 
 in contact with him, and, while I have not always fully agreed 
 with him, there has never been a word which in the least 
 affected our official relations or personal friendship. 
 
 Since his sudden death I look back and can see that he 
 had been failing for some time before it was detected by his 
 associates, and whatever may have occurred during these last 
 years of a life broken in the service of his native city to 
 evoke the criticism of his friends, should be charitably over- 
 looked, and to the failing health be ascribed those acts which 
 may have seemed to be unlike the strong man of other days. 
 
 He has passed away. The people's friend and Mayor has 
 gone, and the tributes that have been here spoken to his 
 memory are not those of fulsome praise, but are honest heart- 
 felt expressions of respect, love, appreciation and veneration 
 for the tried and true man. What he said and the good 
 works he performed will live after 'him, not only in this but 
 in future generations. 
 
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