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Show H i ' MONUMENT TO DAVID ECOLES. J J The papers of the slate praise David Eccles. They see in his I life's work a mighty task well (lone. One suggests a monument to Lis memory. The industries that he built so firmly arc in part great shafts of enduring material to his memory, but there is one monument that he started that should be completed, and that is the eight-story Hi ' 1 1 Imilding which is to ornament the scene of the TCcclos fire of a year HJ 'j ago. When this structure of modern construction and architecture H , is finished, the inscription should read "David Eccles." H I J The editorial comment of the Salt Lake follows : m i j The Tribune says ft ' j DEATH OF DAVID ECCLES. j j j j "The Buddon death of Mr. David Eccles will make a sensa- V j tion in business circles in Utah. JIo was probably the wcalth- K 4 ieat man in the stato, and had to do with more large inter- 'm ests than any other. He was a welt known citizen, of Immense w ' financial grasp, and of untiring Judtistrj-. Coming to the Unit- I ed States at an early age. the responsibilities of being the t ' bread winner for the family fell upon him at an early day. He had a hard struggle to get a start, and In this was typical of ' many, but after he got that start he made money with rare 1 I rapidity, and It is probable that his wealth at tho time of his I , j death exceeded $20,000,000. j , 1 "Mr. Eccles nover aspired to public station, and took but I j meager intorest In politics or the social life of tho communl-VI communl-VI ' ty. His genius turned almost exclusively to business, lndus-JFI lndus-JFI I ' try and the establishment of profitable enterprises. As such he ut j was a valuable citizen, and filled a large rolo in the devolop-Hri devolop-Hri ment of all this region. Ho will be vastly missed as a man of IHTj i 3 1 enterprise, of great energy and execute o ability and of com-(Jf com-(Jf manding influence in an extraordinary number of business en-ifl en-ifl ' ' J ' terprises." S f The Herald-Republican says H ; PASSING OF DAVID ECCLES. H 1 1 "Not because of the great wealth that was his, exceoding j i j that attained by most, nor by reason of the guise in which H ,,j death came to him. will men ponder with regret the passing of David Eccles. The tribute that Is paid him Is that which ho , no doubt would most appreciate could tho veil be rent asunder H I -for but a moment that ho might hear and understand. His im-H im-H .j menso fortune that runs like the binding thread through the H warp and woof of Utah's commercial fabric, he leaves behind, as I he must, but the keen brain that planned and the capable hands J that executed are stilled and palsied. Of this, his fellow citizens j . are thinking, and the compliment to him lies In their rofleotion I that tho continuance of its work by his stupendous estate can- f) ' l ' not requite for the absence of his master hand. 9,i i Essentially a constructive force, a pioneer in Industry and in 1 I the building of great enterprises, this great commonwealth Jm ' j1 might have advanced without David Eccles, but fortunate it is M i .' for its progress that it was not required to make the effort. SH i ' Those who stood closest to him In life have said that his pleas- ' ure in adding one more Industry to the many he had iustitut- 1 , ed in this stato was his suprem0 enpjoyment; that he prided m ' himself as much on the commercial benefits that came to his JH II state through his energy and acumen as in the success of his n I : own busy life. Bl i j ; 'Death softens and modifies a community's judgment upon ni ' one of its members. The word of nraise that is due a definite MM force is so often withheld until the final personal cataclysm ISJ : either because the hurry of modern life encourages that sort of 111 t I ' procrastination, or because hjs fellows fail to sense the meas- 111 ure of the place occupied by an associate until he has been rlf i withdrawn from it. r Hfl , 'j "Born to an humble home and plunged at an absurdly early Iff"' , ase into the Inevitable struggle for existence, the story of his It. j h'fe reads like the epic of American opportunity so tjpical Is Rjj H of both the cruelties and the rewaids of existence. Had he M I . taken thought of the matter at all. David Eccles as boy and 9 I man would not have considered that he was one of the prime j1 builders of an empire that his industry and capability, while it : brought to him a great fortune, benefited much more than that the crude young state with which he cast his lot, is certain; that ho accepted no more than was rightfully his Is equally true. "Tho burning of rhetorical Incense to men of grent wealth upon their demise Ib not unusual since tho modern method of gauging a decedent's standing by tho value of the estate he devises de-vises Is all to common. Yet Utah may reflect upon the demise of David Eccles with the central thought that he met well the , obligations which great wealth Imposes. "His well known policy of constant re-investment of piof-its piof-its meunt additional business nnd additional employment of idle I hands no loss than added earnings for himself and was a constant con-stant force for the upbuilding of the state. He played his part In the progress of tho commonwealth, played It ably, and of few of us may as much bo said with truth." |
