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IN MEMORIAM 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 
 BORN AUGUST i8, 185 1 
 DIED MARCH 7, 1921 
 
 COMPILED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE FAMILY 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES L. VanNOPPEN 
 
 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 "There is no death! The stais go doKii 
 To rise upon some other shore; 
 And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown 
 They shine forevennore." 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED 
 1922 
 
GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 An Epitome 
 
 HIS chief characteristics were his i<een sense of duty, 
 his self-sacrifice, his unselfishness and devotion to 
 the interests of his friends and to any cause that 
 enlisted his sympathy. Many men are liberal in money 
 and generous in gifts; he was all that, but in addition 
 gave his time and personal labor at great sacrifice, not 
 seeking by his liberality to private or public charities to 
 purchase immunity from personal effort. 
 
 He gave money and personal effort botii. He did good 
 for the love of it. He sought no praise nor recompense, 
 for the consciousness of the act bore to him its own 
 requital. 
 
 "The bravest lives are those to duty wed, 
 
 Whose deeds both great and small 
 Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread 
 
 Where love ennobles all. 
 The world may sound no trumpet, ring no bells. 
 The book of life the shining record tells." 
 
 C. L. V. N. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 An Epitome vu 
 
 By Charles L. Van Noppen 
 
 An Appreciation 3 
 
 By Charles L. Van Noppen 
 
 A Memorial — Union Theological Seminary .... 13 
 
 The Religious and Benevolent Work of Mr. Watts . 18 
 By Walter W. Moore, D.D. 
 
 Eulogy 25 
 
 By Edward R. Leyburn, D.D. 
 
 Prayer 33 
 
 By Walter W. Moore, D.D. 
 
 Extracts from the Press 37 
 
 Watts-Beall Marriage 49 
 
 The (First) Watts Hospital 55 
 
 The (Second) Watts Hospital 71 
 
 Honors 91 
 
 Resolutions — Sunday-schools, Missions, Educational 97 
 
 Resolutions — Civic and Business 133 
 
 First Presbyterian Church 153 
 
 There is No Death 157 
 
 
GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die" 
 
 AN APPRECIATION 
 
 ^ULLY to appreciate the character of any man it 
 is essential to study his environment; but to 
 appreciate the character of George Washington 
 Watts it is essential to study his environment 
 almost exclusively, for to an extent uncommon 
 even among highly successful men he created his environment 
 as he went along. A constructive genius par excellence, the 
 impact of his powerful personality upon the State of North 
 Carolina has left an impression that traces his spiritual linea- 
 ments more faithfully than anything that he said or wrote. It 
 would be utterly futile to attempt to write the life of Mr. Watts 
 by chronicling merely his personal history; it would be equiva- 
 lent to writing a life of Napoleon by confining one's self to the 
 gossip of the court, ignoring the sweep of the vast events that 
 shook the world beyond the sight or the hearing of the imme- 
 diate entourage of the emperor. 
 
 For the significance of Mr. Watts's life is not in his words but 
 in his deeds. Like most men of action, he was chary of words. 
 When he spoke or wrote it was for the purpose of conveying an 
 idea, never for the mere joy of self-expression; and his language 
 was the simplest and most direct at his command. Modest to 
 a fault, he would have abhorred the idea of exploiting his own 
 
personality through the medium of ornate discourse. He de- 
 tested the expedients often resorted to by lesser men to obtain 
 notoriety. For himself he had little or nothing to say. His 
 works speak for him. 
 
 But it is impossible for an intelligence so powerful and so 
 active to exist for seventy years in any commonwealth without 
 modifying its history profoundly; and he who hath eyes to 
 see can read in the history of North Carolina the record of 
 what George Watts meant to the State. Not that the man's 
 personality is thrust forward blatantly, even there; it is neces- 
 sary to have eyes that see beyond the crudely obvious to com- 
 prehend all that his work meant. 
 
 This work was nothing less than being one of the major 
 forces in the raising of a prostrate commonwealth and the 
 construction of a new civilization on the ruins of one that had 
 perished. When George Watts came to North Carolina, the 
 State was as near to dissolution as a State can come and sur- 
 vive at all. When he died it was richer, more populous, more 
 powerful, and more highly civilized than it had been in its most 
 glorious days of the ante bellum period. A miracle of state- 
 craft had been performed; and it is the purpose of the following 
 sketch to trace briefly the great part taken by George Washing- 
 ton Watts in working that miracle. 
 
 PREP.^RATION 
 
 Nine years prior to the holocaust in Vv'hich the Old South per- 
 ished, in the little town of Cumberland, Maryland, on August 
 18, 1851, a son was born to Gerard S. Watts, a citizen of Balti- 
 more, and Annie, his wife, in the name they gave him, George 
 Washington, they unconsciously bore witness to the stout 
 Americanism that was in the blood of this old English stock; 
 and in sending their son, for his elementary training, to the 
 public schools of the city of Baltimore they testified to their 
 belief in democracy, for Gerard S. Watts was a man of means, 
 able to pay for private tutors had he wished his son to be 
 brought up in that way. In the public schools the boy came 
 into contact with the life of the country as he never would have 
 
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done under private tutorship; and it is therefore probable that 
 even in those early days he gained the first rudiments of that 
 understanding of human nature that he was to exhibit so 
 marvelously in his maturity. 
 
 The war had just ended; but one of the few things it had 
 left untouched in the ravaged South was the renown of the 
 University of Virginia. It still stood high above all the rest. 
 The great universities of the North had not yet climbed to the 
 dizzy eminences they reached a generation later, and Char- 
 lottesville was still preeminently the place for a gentleman of 
 means to send his son. Thither, accordingly, young George 
 Watts was sent, and there he was graduated in 187 1. He had 
 taken a course in civil engineering — which may account for that 
 passion for construction that later distinguished him, and which 
 he showed even in adolescence. 
 
 But his labors as a builder were not to be done with rod and 
 chain, with transit and level. Instead of the uproar of a con- 
 struction camp he was destined to plan his campaigns and to 
 fight his battles at a desk in a quiet office. Not immediately, 
 however; for there was an interval of seven years to be spent in 
 a contact with the great American public which would prove 
 to be even more intimate than that of the public schools. Mr. 
 Watts went "on the road," a traveling representative of his 
 father's tobacco business. Here he undoubtedly supplemented 
 and rounded out his university training with an education in 
 the ways of men and of business that could not have been pur- 
 chased for any amount of money. 
 
 However, not even the strenuous training of the road and the 
 formidable task of learning the tobacco business from top to 
 bottom could distract him from attention to those aspects of 
 life which were deeper and more important even than those. 
 This is evidenced by his marriage at Cumberland, on October 
 19, 1875, to Miss Laura Valinda Beall, whom the newspapers 
 hailed in the quaint style of the day as one of the belles of Cum- 
 berland. The gentleness and quiet culture of her life was an 
 inspiration to all of Mr. Watts's efforts throughout their forty 
 years of wedded happiness. 
 
Three years later Mr. Watts had completed his apprentice- 
 ship. Public schools, university, and the hardest school of all, 
 the school of the road, had left him fit and ready in 1878 to 
 enter upon the larger stage where he was to play so great a part. 
 
 ACHIEVEMENT 
 
 In 1878, in Durham, North Carolina, the tobacco manufactur- 
 ing firm of W. Duke & Sons was struggling under severe handi- 
 caps. It was directed by men of genius and was turning out a 
 good product, but it was choked for lack of capital. Few could 
 see in the little tobacco concern the germ of an organization 
 that would one day overshadow the world. But the elder Watts 
 was one of the exceptional men of his time; he saw in W. Duke 
 & Sons what others could not see — great possibilities, provided 
 capital was supplied. He supplied it, taking in exchange a one 
 fifth interest in the business for his son. 
 
 It was thus that young George Watts came to Durham and 
 that he became affiliated with Washington Duke and his aston- 
 ishing progeny. Seven years later the concern became W. Duke 
 Sons & Company, with George W. Watts as secretary and treas- 
 urer; and five years after that, in 1890, it became the backbone 
 of the American Tobacco Company. This was now building 
 with a wonderfully rapid progression. The little one-horse outfit 
 that the keen eye of the elder Watts had singled out from among 
 hundreds of competitors apparently of equal, or better, pros- 
 pects, within a dozen years was to become a colossus that be- 
 strode the world. No corner of the earth was too remote for its 
 representatives to penetrate. No language spoken by civilized 
 men but included its name in its vocabulary. 
 
 But even the rearing of the gigantic tobacco corporation was 
 not sufl^cient to absorb all the energies of Mr. Watts, and, 
 indeed, after its growth had reached a certain point, not even 
 the major portion of them. He was forever building. Rail- 
 roads, cotton factories, banks, and other enterprises, almost 
 innumerable, sprang up under his hands, struck root into the 
 North Carolina soil, flourished, and grew. He organized the 
 Commonwealth Club at Durham, and out of that came the 
 
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Lynchburg and Durham, the Oxford and Durham, and the 
 Durham and Northern railroads. He had a hand in the crea- 
 tion of the Pearl Cotton Mills, the Erwin Cotton Mills, the 
 Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, the Durham Cotton 
 Manufacturing Company, the Mayo Cotton Mills, the Coolee- 
 mee Cotton Mills, the Golden Belt Bag Manufacturing Com- 
 pany, the Durham Loan and Trust Company, and a host of 
 other enterprises. 
 
 But the list of mere names carries no significance. To say 
 that Mr. Watts organized so many companies and that the 
 companies carried on such and such enterprises is not to touch 
 the heart of the subject at all. What he did was to help to 
 organize a broken and all but hopeless commonwealth — to set 
 it to work again, and to infuse the despairing with hope. For 
 he did not merely organize companies; he breathed the breath 
 of life into them so that they lived and prospered. Around the 
 Watts enterprises sprang up homes, and through the Watts 
 enterprises wealth began to flow into the State. Besides, thou- 
 sands and thousands of men found in them an outlet for their 
 energies and a return for their labors. 
 
 Slowly, during these decades, the State began to revive. 
 Gradually the waste places were built up. Little by little North 
 Carolina emerged from the blackness of her desolation into the 
 light of a new day; and as the full light of dawn burst upon her, 
 as strength and vigor began to pour at flood tide through her 
 once flaccid veins, the builder who had striven so mightily, 
 albeit so quietly, in her behalf, quietly laid aside his tools and 
 entered into rest. 
 
 The final settlement of his account is between him and the 
 Master Builder; but surely mankind, looking upon his work 
 with human eyes, must see that it is good. 
 
 CONSUMMATION 
 In the city of Durham stands a magnificent group of buildings, 
 the property of the citizens of Durham, but in a peculiar sense 
 the property of the poorest among them, the poor who are 
 poorer than the simply penniless, the poor who are bereft of 
 
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health as well as of money. This group is the Watts Hospital, 
 open to any man who needs it, regardless of his ability to pay 
 for its service. It cost in the neighborhood of a million in cash; 
 but it cost more than the money — it exacted of the man who 
 built it a keenness of vision that could see beyond the business 
 of money-making, a largeness of spirit that could grasp the con- 
 ception of stewardship. A million dollars are not easy to find, 
 but easier this than to find the spiritual qualities which are 
 needed before a rich man can rise to so high a sense of his obli- 
 gation to his less fortunate brethren. 
 
 In an old English graveyard there is a legended tomb whose 
 inscription has become famous the world around. It reads: 
 "What I gave, I have; what 1 spent, 1 had; what I kept, I lost." 
 Many men, once dead, are, strictly speaking, not worth the cost 
 of the monuments erected over their graves, for there is no 
 pocket in a shroud. But Mr. Watts was one of those fortunate 
 ones who have discovered the secret of remaining a millionaire, 
 even in the tomb; for his benefactions are his so long as grati- 
 tude springs from the hearts of men. 
 
 Is it any wonder that, as his long life drew toward its close, 
 this hospital became the joy and pride of his heart? He had 
 built huge factories and great banking houses and railroads and 
 many other business enterprises; but those were all a part of 
 the day's work. He neither expected nor desired that men 
 should know him by those things. But into this he put, not 
 merely his genius and his energy, but also his heart. It repre- 
 sented more of the real Watts, the Watts that so sedulously kept 
 out of the glare of publicity, than anything else among the nu- 
 merous enterprises that grew under his hands. 
 
 Not that it was by any means unique. On the contrary, the 
 list of his benefactions during his lifetime is long and impres- 
 sive. From Durham to the Lutheran mission at Guntur, India, 
 he spread his bounty. But this was the thing closest at hand, 
 here he could sec most clearly the benefits that flowed from his 
 charity; and it is here, among his fellow-townsmen, undoubt- 
 edly, that he would have preferred that his good works should 
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It is no part of the plan of this brief sketch to enlarge upon 
 his benevolence. Large donations to the Union Theological 
 Seminary, to Davidson College, to Flora Macdonald College, 
 to Barium Springs Orphanage, to the various benevolences of 
 his church, capped by a bequest of 1 150,000 to the First Pres- 
 byterian Church of Durham and also 1 10,000 to the Durham 
 Y.M.C.A., besides |20o,ooo to add to the endowment of the 
 Watts Hospital, are only the principal items of a splendid list. 
 
 For his service was more than money. It was pioneer work. 
 Never before had a rich North Carolinian risen to so high a 
 standard of generosity. His conception of service to his kind 
 has blazed a path that will surely not remain untrodden. He 
 has given to his State more than money — he has left it an ideal ! 
 
 THE MAN 
 
 But the story is not yet told. Down through the corridors of 
 the ages still thunders the ruthless Apostle: "Though 1 have 
 the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries; . . . and 
 though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains; 
 . . . and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and 
 though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it 
 profiteth me nothing." Napoleon also wrought great works, 
 and plunged into statecraft, and even erected shelters for the 
 friendless; yet after a hundred years his name is accursed. 
 George Watts might have been never so great a business genius, 
 never so mighty a prop to a tottering State, never so generous 
 a contributor of alms, and still have been a man whose foot- 
 steps no God-fearing father would direct his son to follow. 
 
 But George Watts, though a giant towering even among the 
 gigantic race of American business men, never for a moment 
 lost his faith in a Power that was mightier than he. It was 
 grounded in him from infancy. Back in the old home in Mary- 
 land, under the tutelage of a godly father and mother, he had 
 been instructed in the doctrines of the church. His people were 
 Lutherans, and he was confirmed in that faith in 1868, in the 
 Second Church in Baltimore; by letter he transferred his mem- 
 bership to the First Presbyterian Church of Durham, but his 
 
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affection for the old church never died, as is evidenced by the 
 fact that later, when he had become a power in the business 
 world, he contributed to it I2000 toward the purchase of an 
 organ and $4000 for a parsonage, and at different times he gave 
 a total of $31,000 to that church's mission in India. 
 
 It was in Durham, however, that his religious life developed 
 to its fine flower. There he became the mainstay of the church 
 he had joined, and he was chiefly responsible for the building 
 of the three successive edifices known as the First Presbyterian 
 Church. All of these progressive works received his loyal sup- 
 port, and his contributions to foreign missions, in particular, 
 were regal in their magnificence. Missionaries were maintained 
 by him in Korea, in Cuba, in Africa; and his donations to that 
 cause run far into the hundreds of thousands. Nor did he forget 
 the fundamentally important work of his church in the less 
 developed regions of this country, for, on the books of the Home 
 Mission Board, he is credited with vast sums given to prosecute 
 that work. Royally generous was he also toward the old minis- 
 ters, worn out in the service of the Lord. The ministerial relief 
 fund of the Presbyterian Church in the United States was enor- 
 mously increased by his benevolence. 
 
 However, if there was one phase of church work dearer to 
 his heart than another, one would not go far astray in judging 
 that the Sunday-school was his favorite. To this work he gave 
 unstintedly, both of his time and of his means. His was a famil- 
 iar figure at both state and national conventions, whilst at 
 Tokio, Japan, he was elected as one of the vice-presidents of that 
 great international, or world, Sunday-school association which 
 met there in the summer of 1920. 
 
 While on this tour with Mrs. Watts to the Far East, Mr. 
 Watts visited the mission stations in Korea in which he was 
 so largely interested. It seems that some six years prior thereto 
 the Japanese had closed the mission schools in Korea because 
 the Koreans would not agree not to teach the Bible in these 
 schools. Thus when Mr. Watts visited Soonchun, Korea, in 
 the summer of 1920, the missionaries prevailed upon him to pay 
 a visit to the governor-general, Baron Saito, and to speak to 
 
him about this matter. Mr. Watts did this, and in March, 1 92 1 , 
 the schools were reopened with permission to teach the Bible, 
 and it is noteworthy that the schools of the Southern Presby- 
 terian Church are the only ones to which this permission has 
 been given. 
 
 This, it is true, might have been called by the Apostle 
 "bestowing my goods to feed the poor," and perhaps also his 
 services as Moderator of the Synod of North Carolina and the 
 perpetual gifts of his time and energy to furthering the work of 
 his church might come under the same classification. 
 
 But there is one test that cannot be rejected, for it cannot be 
 simulated successfully. That was the humble piety of his 
 daily life. George Watts did not put on his religion with his 
 Sunday coat, as is the practice of so many. It was an every- 
 day affair with him. Not that there was anything approaching 
 ostentation about it. It was far too genuine for that. But 
 quietly, as he did everything, he walked with his God quietly, 
 that is, as long as there was no need for demonstration. But 
 on a matter that touched his religious principles he could, if 
 necessary, be anything but quiet. No slinking, hole-and-corner 
 Christian was he. While he was not the type of man to go out 
 of his way to seek trouble, yet he was most emphatically not of 
 the type to step one inch out of his way to avoid it, if it was a 
 matter of morals or of religion. 
 
 Yet he had also the gentleness of the true Christian, espe- 
 cially with children. He was intensely fond of young people, 
 and although he lived for seventy years he never grew old; for 
 his heart was the heart of youth, and this made him a joyous 
 and acceptable companion to youth, wherever it gathered for 
 innocent merrymaking. Utterly free from pomposity, he never 
 regarded it as beneath his dignity to exercise his ingenious mind 
 in devising amusement for the young people; and his strong 
 sense of humor enabled him to stage ludicrous situations that 
 captivated both boys and girls. 
 
 One daughter, Annie Louise, now Mrs. John Sprunt Hill, was 
 his only child, and her children, George Watts, Laura 
 Valinda, and Francis Faison, were the delight of his life. The 
 
great captain of industry was to them only an indulgent and 
 delightful grandfather when they were small, the merriest of 
 playfellows, romping with them like a child himself; and, as 
 they grew older, still their companion; especially did he enjoy 
 walking with them to and from school, listening seriously to 
 the problems of adolescence, and gravely advising them about 
 their childhood difTiculties. 
 
 But his ability to relax was not confined to occasions when 
 he associated with the very young. He was keenly interested 
 in almost all forms of athletics and outdoor sports, and, while 
 not a fanatic on the subject, an enthusiastic follower of the 
 national game of base-ball. 
 
 But the sport that was peculiarly his own was golf. He was 
 an excellent player, and his tall and well-proportioned figure 
 with its athletic stride was known to most of the clubs where 
 the royal and ancient pastime is followed, from Poland Springs, 
 Maine, to Palm Beach, Florida, in a surprisingly large number 
 of these clubs he held honorary membership. 
 
 On April 26, 191 5, A4r. Watts was greatly bereaved by the 
 loss of his wife. But time, the great healer of sorrows, 
 somewhat assuaged his grief, and on October 25, 19 17, he was 
 again married, and Miss Sara V. Ecker, of Syracuse, New York, 
 became his bride. This union, like the first, was marked by 
 harmony and happiness. 
 
 Strong in the contests of life, far-seeing, tireless in pursuit of 
 an end, bold yet idealistic, generous and tender, the finest trib- 
 ute to George Watts yet remains to be paid. Let it be phrased 
 in the words of the Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore as, standing over the 
 mortal remains of this noble man, he spoke as follows: "As we 
 remember how he labored to teach young and old the will of 
 God and the grace of Christ, and how he set in operation forces 
 which will continue that blessed work through all the future, 
 we are grateful for that great promise of God's word: 'They 
 that be teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, 
 and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever 
 and ever.' " 
 
 Charles L. VanNoppen. 
 
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"It is more blessed to give than to receive' 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 
 A MEMORIAL 
 
 'HE Board of Trustees of Union Theological 
 Seminary lias suffered an irreparable loss in the 
 death of its honored and beloved President, Mr. 
 George W. Watts. As an expression of our ap- 
 preciation of his unparalleled services to the 
 Seminary, as v^ell as of our personal affection for him, the Board 
 places on its permanent records the following Memorial of his 
 life and work : 
 
 He was born at Cumberland, Maryland, August 18, 1851, and 
 died at Durham, North Carolina, March 7, 1 92 1 . Of a thought- 
 ful and earnest nature, he set before himself in his youth a high 
 ideal of life and pursued it steadily. Notwithstanding the 
 handicap of somewhat delicate health in his boyhood, he devel- 
 oped studious habits, attending the public schools of Baltimore 
 from 1839 to 1868 and the University of Virginia from 1868 to 
 1 87 1, and so trained the powers of a naturally quick and vigor- 
 ous mind that by the time he entered business as a salesman for 
 his father's firm he possessed the qualities which foretoken suc- 
 cess. He was a man of clear intelligence, sound judgment, sys- 
 tematic habits, steady industry, and inflexible integrity. 
 
 At the age of twenty-seven he purchased an interest in the 
 business of W. Duke Sons & Company, and moved to Durham. 
 Here it soon became evident that he was not only a creative 
 force in the business world, a public-spirited community builder 
 
and leader of civic progress, and an open-handed philanthropist, 
 but also and above all an upstanding, outspoken, exemplary 
 Christian, seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteous- 
 ness, making religion the paramount concern of a busy life, and 
 working tirelessly for the cause of Christ. He was always pres- 
 ent at every service of the church, not only on Sundays, but also 
 at the mid-week meeting, unless providentially hindered. For 
 over thirty years he superintended the main Sunday-school of 
 his church, putting the same enthusiasm, energy, and system 
 into this work that he did into his business. During the same 
 long period he went every Sunday afternoon, through fair 
 weather and foul, and taught a Bible class in the Mission School 
 at Pearl Mill. Every Friday night he went to the same 
 Mission to conduct the prayer-meeting. It would not be easy 
 to find a parallel for such arduous and self-denying Christian 
 work carried on through so many crowded years. 
 
 No less remarkable were his interest and activity in the work 
 of the church at large and in all manner of philanthropic and 
 educational enterprises. He was a frequent attendant at meet- 
 ings of the church courts, presbytery, synod and general assem- 
 bly, always present at the beginning of the sessions and always 
 remaining till the close. He was equally faithful and regular 
 in his attendance on the meetings of the various boards of 
 church institutions of which he was a member, and gave a great 
 deal of time to arduous committee work. 
 
 He became a member of the Board of Trustees of Union Sem- 
 inary by appointment of the Synod of North Carolina in 1894, 
 was elected President of the Board in 1905, then reelected an- 
 nually till 1911, when by unanimous action he was made the 
 Permanent President, and continued in that office till the end 
 of his life. Since 1904 he had been a valued member of the 
 Executive Committee, the most important committee of this 
 body. During the twenty-seven years of his official connection 
 with the Seminary he served the institution with unwaver- 
 ing loyalty and love, with unsurpassed wisdom and energy, and 
 with unequaled munificence in the use of his means for the 
 strengthening and enlargement of its work. 
 
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It was largely his liberality that made possible the removal 
 of the Seminary to Richmond twenty-three years ago. Since 
 this move was made the attendance of students has increased, 
 notwithstanding the general decline in the number of candidates 
 for the ministry, the faculty has been enlarged, new professor- 
 ships have been established, besides a well-endowed special Lec- 
 tureship and a Fellowship of graduate study, the assets of the 
 Seminary have quintupled, and it has secured an admirable 
 material outfit, including eleven substantial buildings. The 
 main building of the group was the gift of Mr. Watts, and by 
 action of the Board of Directors is to bear his name through all 
 the future. A little later he provided also the beautiful Chapel. 
 Nor was that all. Being himself a member of the Board and 
 of its Executive Committee, and therefore thoroughly familiar 
 with the work of the institution and its value to the church as 
 the main source of her supply of ministers and missionaries, he 
 made repeated contributions to its permanent funds. Thus, 
 besides his gift of $50,000 for Watts Hall and $20,000 for the 
 Chapel, he provided in succession $60,000 for the endowment of 
 the presidency of the Seminary, 1 10,000 as a repair fund for 
 Watts Hall and Chapel, $30,000 for the supplementing of the 
 salaries of incumbents of inadequately endowed professorships, 
 and $50,000 for the endowment of the Professorship of Reli- 
 gious Education. His generous interest in the Seminary con- 
 tinued to the end, and in his will he made it a bequest of $50,000. 
 The aggregate amount of the benefactions mentioned is $270,- 
 000. This summary includes only his larger gifts to the insti- 
 tution; it takes no account of the help he gave it in various 
 other ways, such as his contribution of $5000 toward the pur- 
 chase of the Westwood property, his provision of Professor Gil- 
 mour's salary, and his annual provision of $3000 for a number 
 of years to enable the Seminary to dispense with the fees for- 
 merly collected from the students. 
 
 He was the greatest benefactor the institution has ever had, 
 and this Board records its profound gratitude to God for raising 
 up such a friend for the Seminary at a critical period of its his- 
 tory. Realizing its vital relation to all the work of the church 
 
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and seeing at close range its needs and possibilities, he gave to 
 it frequently and freely of his consecrated wealth, so that to all 
 our people we may say : Here he made his investments in living 
 voices for Christ, and through the successive bands of young 
 ministers going forth from this Seminary he will be preaching 
 the Gospel through all time to come. He being dead yet 
 speaketh. 
 
 Mr. Watts was a great steward of God. Besides his generous 
 gifts to the Seminary he made large donations to other educa- 
 tional and religious institutions, orphan asylums, schools and 
 colleges, to Sunday-school work, to the great causes of home 
 and foreign missions, to hospitals and all forms of relief work. 
 A specially striking and beautiful feature of his largess was 
 that all his benevolences were benevolences in the literal mean- 
 ing of the word. His heart went with them. There was nothing 
 cold or detached about them. Numerous and varied as they 
 were, there was in them all the warmth of personal knowledge, 
 personal interest, and personal sympathy. We place on record 
 our witness that the most valuable contribution he made to the 
 well-being of Union Seminary was the influence of his own per- 
 sonality. He exemplified to us the right combination of busi- 
 ness capacity and Christian character. We admired him for his 
 quiet force, his great abilities, the swiftness and sureness of his 
 mental grasp, and the far-reaching scope of his vision. We 
 admired him for his courtesy, skill, and dispatch as our presid- 
 ing officer. We admired him as a preeminently successful man 
 absolutely unspoiled. We honored him for his unaffected hu- 
 mility and modesty. We loved him for his big warm heart and 
 his sunny disposition. The Christian fellowship of the mem- 
 bers of this Board has become a proverb throughout the church. 
 To no man who ever served on the Board was this fellowship 
 more refreshing and gladdening than to him. The touch of 
 reserve which is not unnatural to the wary business man in the 
 marts of trade was here cast off entirely. From the moment he 
 set foot on this campus he was unrestrained, buoyant, beaming, 
 happy in the affection of his trusted colleagues on the Board 
 and his trusted friends on the campus. He never seemed more 
 
light-hearted and gay than on his visits to the Seminary. Little 
 wonder that we reciprocated his confidence and affection with a 
 deep and warm personal love. To us he was not merely the wise 
 counselor, the faithful trustee, and the generous benefactor of 
 the Seminary, but also our dear personal friend. It is with a 
 sense of wistful loneliness that we recall to-day that alert strong 
 figure in the chair, that beaming face in the Chapel, and those 
 genial greetings which for so many years have lifted and cheered 
 and strengthened us in our endeavor to discharge aright the 
 great trust committed to us by the church. We lament the loss 
 of a colleague of loving heart and large vision and liberal hand, 
 but we thank God for the privilege of laboring with him so long 
 in the Lord's work. This Seminary is the lasting memorial of 
 his greatest work for the Gospel. "If you seek his monument 
 look around." We rejoice that his influence abides and will 
 ever abide in this beloved school of the prophets, and we hum- 
 bly pray that his mantle may fall on us who remain, that we 
 may emulate his consecration and zeal in the service of our 
 Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
 
 To the members of his family we express our profound sym- 
 pathy in their bereavement, commending them affectionately 
 to the God of all grace and comfort. 
 
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'Few men are both rich and generous" 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT 
 WORK OF MR. WATTS 
 
 BY 
 
 Rev. Walter W. Moore 
 
 EORGE W. WATTS was a great gift of God to 
 our generation. From beginning to end his life 
 was one of sound principles and solid achieve- 
 ments and beneficent influence. Born and reared 
 in a Christian home, of a thoughtful and earnest 
 nature, he set before himself in his youth a high ideal and pur- 
 sued it steadily. Notwithstanding the handicap of somewhat 
 delicate health in his boyhood, he developed studious habits and 
 so trained the powers of a naturally quick and vigorous mind 
 that by the time he entered business as a salesman for his fa- 
 ther's firm he possessed the qualities which foretoken success: 
 clear intelligence, sound judgment, systematic habits, steady 
 industry, and inflexible integrity, so that when his first great 
 business opportunity came to him, at the age of twenty-seven, 
 he was ready for it. This was the purchase of an interest in the 
 business of the now famous house of W. Duke Sons & Com- 
 pany. When he moved to Durham and entered upon his new 
 duties it soon became evident that, like other able members of 
 that firm, he was a creative force in the business world. Under 
 their joint efi'orts the business grew with amazing rapidity, 
 passing quickly from its original territory and establishing itself 
 not only throughout America, but in every part of the civilized 
 world. 
 
With the increase of his means Mr. Watts, like his associates 
 in the firm, engaged in other large enterprises, including banks, 
 railroads, and manufacturing companies. Throughout his en- 
 tire business career he was prominent also as a public-spirited 
 citizen and community builder, as shown, for example, in his 
 zealous leadership or active cooperation in all the improvements 
 that have marked the civic progress of Durham and the promo- 
 tion of the comfort and convenience of its people. The most 
 notable of these services to his own community was his splendid 
 benefaction in the erection, equipment, and endowment of 
 Watts Hospital. 
 
 But after all is said, the most valuable contribution he made 
 to the well-being of Durham was the influence of his own char- 
 acter and personality. The city is not an old one. It has made 
 its marvelous growth for the most part in the last forty years. 
 Its citizens can never be thankful enough that during this for- 
 mative period, when their character as a people was being 
 moulded and their ideals as a community were being fixed, so 
 many of the men who have controlled its capital and directed 
 its energies and determined its business life have been men of 
 God, not only correct men but religious men, not only men of 
 sound morality but of pronounced religious faith. The people 
 of Durham have been greatly blessed with material prosperity, 
 but they are a thrice happy people in the fact that, amid the 
 rapid increase of their wealth, their leaders in business have not 
 been indifferent to the things of the mind and the heart, have 
 not undervalued character and culture; and that the man whose 
 memory they honor as their model citizen, the noblest exponent 
 of their life, was not only a capable and successful man of af- 
 fairs, but a man of living faith and pure character and abound- 
 ing benevolence — a golden-hearted gentleman, an open-minded 
 philanthropist, an exemplary Christian. 
 
 This phase of his character and influence deserves special 
 emphasis, for he really obeyed the Lord's injunction to seek first 
 the kingdom of God and His righteousness; he made religion 
 the paramount concern of a busy life; he was a tireless worker 
 for the cause of Christ. He was always present at every service 
 
of the church, not only on Sundays but also at the mid-week 
 meeting, unless providentially hindered. For over thirty years 
 he superintended the main Sunday-school of his church, putting 
 the same enthusiasm, energy, and system into this work that he 
 did into his business. During the same long period he went 
 every Sunday afternoon, through fair weather and foul, and 
 taught a Bible class in the Mission School at Pearl Mill. Every 
 Friday night he went to the same Mission to conduct the 
 prayer-meeting. It would not be easy to find a parallel for such 
 arduous and self-denying Christian work carried on through so 
 many crowded years. 
 
 No less remarkable were his interest and activity in the work 
 of the church at large and in all manner of philanthropic and 
 educational enterprises. His relation to some of these may be 
 briefly mentioned. He became a member of the Board of Trus- 
 tees of Union Theological Seminary by appointment of the Synod 
 of North Carolina in 1894, was elected President of the Board 
 in 1905, then reelected annually till 191 1, when by unanimous 
 action he was made the Permanent President, and continued in 
 that office till the end of his life. During the twenty-seven 
 years of his official connection with the Seminary he served the 
 institution with unwavering loyalty and love, with unsurpassed 
 wisdom and energy, and with unequaled munificence in the use 
 of his means for the strengthening and enlargement of its work. 
 
 It was largely his liberality that made possible the removal 
 of the Seminary to Richmond twenty-three years ago. Since 
 this move was made the attendance of students has increased, 
 notwithstanding the general decline in the number of candi- 
 dates for the ministry, the faculty has been enlarged, new pro- 
 fessorships have been established, besides a well-endowed spe- 
 cial Lectureship and a Fellowship of graduate study, the assets 
 of the Seminary have been quintupled, and it has secured an 
 admirable material outfit, including eleven substantial build- 
 ings. The main building of the group was the gift of Mr. Watts, 
 and by action of the Board of Directors is to bear his name 
 through all the future. A little later he provided also the beau- 
 tiful Chapel. Nor was that all. Being himself a member of the 
 
Board and of its Executive Committee, and therefore thor- 
 oughly familiar with the work of the institution and its value 
 to the church as the main source of her supply of ministers and 
 missionaries, he made repeated contributions to its permanent 
 funds, his gifts aggregating $300,000. 
 
 He was the greatest benefactor the institution has ever had. 
 Realizing its vital relation to all the work of the church and 
 seeing at close range its needs and possibilities, he gave to it 
 frequently and freely of his consecrated wealth. Here he made 
 his largest investments in living voices for Christ, and through 
 the successive bands of young ministers going forth from this 
 Seminary he will be preaching the Gospel through all time to 
 come. He being dead yet speaketh. 
 
 Besides his generous gifts to the Seminary he made large 
 donations to other educational and religious institutions, to 
 orphan asylums, to schools and colleges, to Sunday-school 
 work, to the great causes of home and foreign missions, to hos- 
 pitals and all forms of relief work. A specially striking and 
 beautiful feature of his largess was that all his benevolences 
 were benevolences in the literal meaning of the word. His heart 
 went with them. There was nothing cold or detached about 
 them. Numerous and varied as they were, there was in them 
 all the warmth of personal knowledge, personal interest, and 
 personal sympathy. It was so with his gifts to the Watts Hos- 
 pital, to Union Seminary, to Davidson College, to Flora Mac- 
 donald College, to Barium Springs Orphanage, to Lees-McRae 
 Institute, to the causes of ministerial relief, home missions, and 
 foreign missions. Take the last-named cause for illustration. 
 Not only did he make an annual contribution of $13,000 for 
 many years for the support of the missionaries of the Soonchun 
 station in Korea, eventually making it permanent by an en- 
 dowment fund of $256,000; not only did he support mission- 
 aries in Cuba and Africa, eventually creating an endowment for 
 the latter of $48,000; but to all the missionaries he was a loyal 
 and sympathetic friend, especially those whom he supported, 
 invariably and promptly answering their letters, and aflfection- 
 ately interested in all that concerned them. 
 
No part of the church's work appealed to him more strongly 
 or engaged more of his time and thought and personal effort 
 than that of the Sunday-school. He was enthusiastic and in- 
 cessant in his activities as leader, organizer, teacher, and 
 superintendent. His contributions to Sunday-school equip- 
 ment and support were frequent and free-handed, such as the 
 substantial and convenient building which he erected for the 
 Sunday-school of his home church at Durham and the endow- 
 ment he provided for the department of Sunday-school Teacher 
 Training at Union Seminary, The last great religious gath- 
 ering he attended was the World's Sunday-school Convention 
 at Tokio, Japan, during the summer of 1920, and his last public 
 address was the account he gave of that convention to his own 
 school at Durham. 
 
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EULOGY 
 
 BY REV. EDWARD R. LEYBURN, D.D. 
 
EULOGY 
 
 DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL OF MR. GEORGE W. WATTS 
 BY REV. EDV^/ARD R. LEYBURN, D.D. 
 
 For seventeen and a half years his pastor 
 
 FEEL very much more like sitting beside the 
 bereaved family to-day, mourning with them 
 over the loss of this dear friend and brother, 
 than standing here undertaking to speak about 
 him. The feeling of my heart and the heart of 
 this vast assemblage is voiced by the Psalmist in the Twelfth 
 Psalm and first verse: "Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; 
 for the faithful fail from among the children of men." God- 
 liness and faithfulness : these are the two words which best sum 
 up Mr. Watts's life and character and career. 
 
 Gifted with unusual talents and abilities and resources and 
 influence, he used them all faithfully for the glory of God and 
 the blessing of his fellow-man. Those who were not personally 
 acquainted with Mr. Watts admired him for his great liberality, 
 and he was known and honored from one end of our land to the 
 other for his large and numerous gifts to the church and its edu- 
 cational institutions, and to philanthropy. But those of us who 
 knew him intimately admired him most because of the larger 
 and richer gift of himself, his time, his interest, his energy to 
 the cause of Christ. 
 
 He put God and the things of His kingdom as the first con- 
 cerns of his life. This is illustrated by an incident which oc- 
 curred a few years ago. One of the large business corporations 
 with which he was connected was passing through a critical 
 period in its history, and there was an important meeting of its 
 
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board of directors to be held in New York City on a certain 
 date. On that same date there was to be a meeting of the 
 board of directors of Union Theological Seminary, of which Mr. 
 Watts had been a member and President for years. Without a 
 moment's hesitation he decided to go to the Richmond meeting 
 and look after the interests of the Seminary, and left his large 
 business interests to be looked after by others. 
 
 Mr. Watts loved his church, and showed his love and loyalty 
 by being present at every service, not only on Sundays, but also 
 at the mid-week prayer-meeting, unless providentially pre- 
 vented from being there. In fact, he is the only man whom I 
 have ever urged not to come to church so much, for I felt that 
 after superintending the Sunday-school in the morning, throw- 
 ing his whole soul and strength into it, as he did with everything 
 he undertook, then attending the morning preaching service, 
 then going down to the Pearl Mill Mission and teaching a Bible 
 class there in the afternoon, he ought not to come out to church 
 again at night. But when I remonstrated with him and urged 
 him to take more care of himself, he would reply that he needed 
 the worship for his own spiritual good, and that as a member 
 and officer of the church he felt that his influence and example 
 might help to make others more loyal and faithful to the church 
 and its services. 
 
 He was the best Sunday-school superintendent with whom 1 
 have ever been associated, putting his business energy and en- 
 thusiasm and system into its work, and at the same time keep- 
 ing the spiritual aims and nature of the work uppermost and 
 foremost, and impressing his teachers continually with the fact 
 that their great business was to lead souls to Christ and train 
 them for His service. In addition to superintending the main 
 Sunday-school of his church for over thirty years with marked 
 ability and success, he went down every Sunday afternoon dur- 
 ing all those years to the Pearl Mill Mission, through fair 
 weather and through storm, through heat and through cold, to 
 teach a Bible class in that Mission. Thus this great man, who 
 was closely identified with the World's Sunday-school Associa- 
 tion and a member of the International Committee, and who 
 
was so highly esteemed by that body that they held a special 
 prayer-meeting for him during his illness, devoted his own 
 precious time and strength through all these years to teaching a 
 class in a mission Sunday-school. This was characteristic of 
 the man, and one of the reasons why he was so greatly beloved 
 by all who knew him, of every class and condition. In addition 
 to teaching this mission school every Sunday afternoon, he and 
 Mr. Leo D. Heartt, another saint of God who has passed to his 
 reward, went down every Friday night for fifteen or twenty 
 years to conduct the prayer-meeting in this same Mission, keep- 
 ing up this work until the Mission secured a pastor of its own 
 who took charge of that service. Those of us who have heard 
 him teach his Bible class and lead these prayer-meetings re- 
 member with what clearness and force and aptness of illustra- 
 tion he applied the great truths of God's word to the present-day 
 needs of those to whom he spoke. Often during the pastor's 
 absence from home he conducted the mid-week prayer-meeting 
 of his church, and these meetings were always times of spiritual 
 refreshing to all who attended them. 
 
 Mr. Watts was a very busy man, and he did not hesitate to 
 let it be known that he had no time to waste, and yet I never 
 knew him to be too busy or too much engrossed with business 
 to be willing to stop and have a conference with his pastor or 
 any of the representatives of the church's work who wanted 
 to consult with him about the interests of the kingdom. He 
 was a modest man, who made no parade and desired no pub- 
 licity about what he was doing and giving. He gave not only 
 with liberality but with cheerfulness, esteeming it a privilege 
 to use what God had entrusted to him for the advancement of 
 His kingdom. And yet he never gave carelessly or indiscrimi- 
 nately, but as a faithful steward of God he examined carefully 
 into the merits of every appeal that was made to him, and if the 
 cause did not commend itself to his judgment, no amount of 
 argument or appeal could induce him to give a penny to it. 
 
 I shall not undertake to enumerate to-day the different activ- 
 ities of the church at large with which Mr. Watts was connected 
 as a director. A very large part of the time of his busy life was 
 
devoted to looking after the work of the church and its institu- 
 tions. The great number of representatives here to-day from 
 the different educational institutions of the church and its dif- 
 ferent executive departments, in addition to the representatives 
 from the numerous business enterprises and civic organiza- 
 tions to which he belonged, witness to the high esteem in which 
 he was held, and the great value which was placed upon his 
 counsel and advice. 
 
 Mr. Watts needs no material monument to perpetuate his 
 memory, for he will continue to live on and exert his influence 
 in the lives which he has blessed and in the hearts which he has 
 cheered. Through the lips of the ministers who received their 
 training through his liberality, through the many missionaries 
 in foreign lands for whose support he has made perpetual pro- 
 vision, and through his many home mission workers in the des- 
 titute parts of our own country, he will continue to preach the 
 blessed Gospel of God's dear Son to untold multitudes as the 
 years go by. In the buildings which he has erected at Union 
 Seminary and Davidson College and Barium Springs and the 
 endowment which he has provided for these and many other 
 institutions of learning, he is continuing to prepare men and 
 women for the service of God. Through his large gifts to the 
 Endowment Fund of Ministerial Relief he will continue to 
 bring joy and comfort and cheer to the hearts of God's aged 
 and infirm servants worn out in the work of the Master, and to 
 bless the widows and little orphan children of those who have 
 been called to their reward. In the beautiful and imposing 
 group of buildings which he has erected and endowed on the 
 outskirts of this city he will continue the beautiful ministry of 
 Him who went about doing good, healing the sick, and relieving 
 the sorrowing and suffering children of men. No other man 
 whom we have ever known has so many worthy monuments to 
 perpetuate his memory and to carry on his work of glorifying 
 God in blessing mankind. 
 
 I shall not, of course, undertake to speak in detail on this 
 occasion of Mr. Watts's beautiful life in the home. It is enough 
 to say that he was a perfect Christian gentleman, who lived his 
 
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religion in all the relations of life seven days in the week. Con- 
 sequently those who knew him best and who associated with 
 him most intimately appreciated him most fully and loved him 
 most devotedly. 
 
 May the God of all grace and comfort, the blessed Saviour, 
 the Elder Brother, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Triune 
 God of the Covenant, comfort and cheer and sustain these dear 
 ones till they, too, reach the Father's House of Many Mansions, 
 and are reunited with the loved ones, so many of whom have 
 gone up in recent years from this beautiful hilltop to walk with 
 the Saviour and with each other on the hilltops of eternal glory. 
 
 No other preeminently successful man of our time has exem- 
 plified more strikingly than Mr. Watts the right combination 
 of business capacity and Christian character; and he has set in 
 operation forces which will carry on his beneficent influence till 
 the last syllable of recorded time. 
 
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PRAYER 
 
 BY REV. WALTER W. MOORE 
 
PRAYER 
 
 AT THE FUNERAL OF MR. GEORGE W. WATTS 
 BY REV. WALTER W. MOORE 
 
 jLMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly Father, Who 
 alone art the Author and Disposer of our lives, 
 from Whom our spirits come and unto Whom 
 they return, we acknowledge Thy sovereign 
 power and right both to give and take away as 
 seemeth good to Thee; and we pray that unto all Thy righteous 
 dealings we may yield ourselves with due resignation and pa- 
 tience, being assured that Thy wisdom never errs and Thy love 
 never fails. Remembering to-day all Thy love to us in our Lord 
 Jesus Christ and all the promises of Thy grace, we would resign 
 ourselves into Thy hands, to be taught and sanctified by Thee, 
 that while we mourn we may not murmur nor faint under Thy 
 chastening, but hold fast the assurance of Thy mercy and the 
 blessed hope of everlasting life through Him Who died and 
 rose again, even Jesus Christ, our Lord. We pray Thee for His 
 sake to enable us so to heed Thy holy word that we through 
 patience and comfort of the Scriptures may have hope, and to 
 so fill our hearts with Thy love that we may cleave more closely 
 to Thee Who bringest life out of death and Who canst turn our 
 grief into eternal joy. 
 
 We bless Thy name for all those who have died in the Lord 
 and who now rest from their labors, having received the end of 
 their faith, even the salvation of their souls. We thank Thee 
 for every life of living faith and loving sympathy and helpful 
 
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service. Especially we call to remembrance Th}' loving-kind- 
 ness to this Thy servant. For all Thy goodness that withheld 
 not his portion in the joys of this earthly life, and for Thy guid- 
 ing hand along the way of his pilgrimage, we give Thee thanks 
 and praise. Most of all we bless Thee for Thy grace that kin- 
 dled in his heart a living faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 made his life a benediction to our time. We magnify Thy holy 
 name for the assurance that, his trials being ended and death 
 passed, with all the dangers and difficulties of this mortal life, 
 his spirit is at home and at peace in our Father's house. Grant, 
 O Lord, that we who rejoice in the triumph of Thy saints may 
 profit by their example, that becoming followers of their faith 
 and patience we, too, may enter into the inheritance incorrupti- 
 ble and undefiled and that fadeth not away; through Jesus 
 Christ, our Lord. 
 
 When we remember the strong and beautiful and beneficent 
 life of Thy servant, in the home, in the church, in the com- 
 munity, in the State, in the world at large, how he adorned the 
 doctrine of God, our Saviour, how he witnessed and worked 
 for Thee, how he let his light so shine that men glorified our 
 Father in heaven, how he taught Thy truth and lived it, how 
 we loved him for his loving heart and leaned on him for counsel 
 and strength, it is inevitable that we should grieve for the great 
 loss we have suffered. We mourn before Thee together, O Lord 
 — the members of his immediate family who knew him best and 
 loved him most, the wide circle of relatives whose affectionate 
 intimacy with him has extended through years, the large num- 
 ber of personal friends whom he had long honored with his 
 confidence and affection, his associates in business, his co-work- 
 ers in the community, the teachers and pupils of his Sunday- 
 schools, his fellow-members in the church, his fellow-citizens 
 in the State, hundreds of people also who never saw him but 
 who loved him for his great heart and his Christian benevolence, 
 boys and girls in orphans' homes, aged and indigent servants 
 of God, relieved, comforted, and cheered by his munificence, 
 young men and young women of vigor and promise in schools 
 and colleges, missionaries of the Cross in distant lands, patients 
 
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in hospitals — all mourn to-day the departure from this world 
 of one of God's noblemen. 
 
 But we bless Thee that while we mourn we may also rejoice. 
 We rejoice in all the memories of such a life and in its blessed 
 influence which abides and will ever abide. We recognize the 
 fact that the gift of such a man to our generation is a blessing 
 from the hand of God that calls for profound and abiding grati- 
 tude. We recognize in him a fulfilment of the ancient promise 
 of Thy word that "a man shall be as an hiding place from the 
 wind and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry 
 place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." In the 
 strength of his character and the kindness of his heart he was 
 like a great rock affording shelter to many from the sweep of 
 calamity. In the outflow of his benevolence he was like rivers 
 of water in a dry place. We bless Thee that the streams of it 
 have not only flowed copiously through his own community, 
 but that they have gone far and wide through this land and 
 other lands and even to the ends of the earth, pure, refreshing, 
 life-giving. We thank God for a man who was both a rock and 
 a river, both a shelter and a source of fertility. 
 
 We recognize gratefully Thy goodness in giving to this com- 
 munity during its formative period, when its character as a 
 people was being moulded and its ideals as a community were 
 being fixed, a leader who, with all his sagacity and skill and 
 success in practical afi'airs, remained throughout a Christian 
 idealist, high-souled, golden-hearted, sympathetic, benevolent, 
 devout. As we remember how he labored to teach young and 
 old the will of God and the grace of Christ, and how he set in 
 operation forces which will continue that blessed work through 
 all the future, we call to mind that great promise of God's word: 
 "They that be teachers shall shine as the brightness of the fir- 
 mament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars 
 for ever and ever." 
 
 And so, with hearts subdued and sorrowful, yet believing, we 
 give this great life back to God, thanking Thee for all that it 
 has meant to us, and praying of Thee that comfort in our 
 bereavement which Thou alone canst give. Lay Thy hand of 
 
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healing on all these stricken hearts. Speak to them as to Thy 
 disciples of old, "Let not your hearts be troubled. In my 
 Father's house are many mansions. 1 go to prepare a place for 
 you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again 
 and receive you unto Myself, that where I am there ye may be 
 also." Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 who, according to His abundant mercy, hath begotten us again 
 unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the 
 dead. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead 
 our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the 
 blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every 
 good work to do His will, working in you that which is well 
 pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory 
 for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
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EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS 
 
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 'There is a prince and a great man j alien this day in Israel" 
 
 lEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS, aged seventy, 
 one of the South's great business men and 
 philanthropists, died at his home on South Duke 
 Street, this city, yesterday morning at 10.25 
 o'clock. His death was due to cancer of the 
 stomach, with which he had suffered for something like a year. 
 He was actively connected with a large number of business 
 enterprises, including banks, railroads, and manufacturing 
 plants. He has given of his finances without stint to the cause 
 of religion and education, in addition to which he did many 
 deeds of charity of which the world never knew. He was the 
 State's largest individual taxpayer and wealthiest citizen. 
 
 Mr. Watts had been in ill health for the past year. In the first 
 stages of his illness he went to a hospital in Baltimore for treat- 
 ment and an operation. After some months of treatment he 
 returned home with improved health. His physicians, however, 
 sent him to Europe in the hope of complete health restoration. 
 Late last summer Mr. Watts sailed for Europe. He toured 
 through many countries, but more especially in the Orient, 
 where he had invested large sums of money to promote mis- 
 sionary work. 
 
 Returning home late in 1920, Mr. Watts appeared to be in 
 much better health. Within less than two weeks afterward, 
 however, his illness attacked him with renewed violence. He 
 began a game battle for life, assisted by specialists, surgeons, 
 and physicians. Despite his age he fought off the inevitable 
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for weeks after physicians had admitted their inability to con- 
 quer his affliction. Until the end Mr. Watts maintained a 
 cheerful frame of mind and indefatigable spirit. 
 
 Although not unexpected, Mr. Watts's death came as a dis- 
 tinct shock to his relatives and many friends. The news spread 
 rapidly, and yesterday afternoon many institutions with which 
 he has been affiliated either as an official or benefactor lowered 
 their flags to half mast. Last night telegrams of sympathy and 
 condolence were reaching the city from various parts of the 
 United States. 
 
 Although the funeral arrangements have not been completed, 
 it is known that the service will be held to-morrow afternoon at 
 the home. The services will be conducted by Dr. David H. 
 Scanlon, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by 
 Dr. W. W. Moore, of the Union Theological Seminary, and Dr. 
 E. R. Leyburn, of Rome, Georgia, former pastor of the First 
 Presbyterian Church in this city. The interment will be in 
 Maplewood cemetery. 
 
 Surviving the deceased is his wife and one daughter, Mrs. 
 John Sprunt Hill, of this city. Also one brother, James H. 
 Watts, of Baltimore, and one sister, Mrs. Charles B. King, of 
 Charlotte. He leaves three grandchildren, George Watts Hill, 
 Laura Valinda Hill, and Frances Faison Hill. 
 
 The deceased was probably the greatest philanthropist that 
 North Carolina has produced. His charities reached around the 
 globe. In December, 1909, he gave to Durham the new Watts 
 Hospital, which represents an outlay for buildings of about 
 1500,000, and he also endowed it heavily with about $500,000 
 more. The hospital was the "apple of his eye." For many years 
 he was President of the Board of Trustees of this institution. 
 
 Several years ago Mr. Watts built a handsome Sunday-school 
 room for the First Presbyterian Church in this city at a cost of 
 many thousands of dollars, and it was largely through his 
 efforts that the new Presbyterian Church was built. 
 
 Mr. Watts was actively interested in foreign mission work. 
 He personally supported ten missionaries in Korea, two in Cuba, 
 and one in Africa, and some years ago secured the permanent 
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support of these missionaries by providing endowment of sev- 
 eral hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Watts while attending the 
 World's Sunday-school Convention in Japan last fall paid a 
 visit to the mission field in Korea. 
 
 The deceased was also a large contributor to many colleges 
 and schools. Among his largest gifts were donations to Union 
 Theological Seminary, Davidson College, Flora Macdonald 
 College, and Agnes Scott College. He was probably the great- 
 est benefactor of Union Theological Seminary. The President 
 of the Seminary, in speaking of Mr. Watts's donation, said: "It 
 was his unprecedented liberality that made possible the removal 
 of the Seminary from its former isolated and disadvantageous 
 location to its present admirable site in the suburbs of Rich- 
 mond, where it has experienced a large increase of attendance 
 and an improvement in facilities so great that it has now an 
 equipment second to that of no other institution in its class. 
 The main building of the Seminary was erected through the 
 munificence of Mr. Watts," and by the action of the Board of 
 Directors is to bear his name through the future. 
 
 Mr. Watts had been a resident of Durham forty years. He 
 came here to handle a part interest in the great tobacco manu- 
 facturing industry which afterward was incorporated as W. 
 Duke Sons & Company. While he was one of the most efficient 
 in the group of men who built up the industry as one of the 
 greatest tobacco houses in America, his interests have for many 
 years not been consigned along one line, and his ability and 
 capital have entered into much that constitutes the greatness 
 and prosperity of this city. 
 
 Mr. Watts was born at Cumberland, Maryland, August i8, 
 185 1, a son of Gerard S. and Annie E. (Wolvington) Watts. He 
 was reared at Baltimore, attending the public schools there from 
 1859 to 1868, and from 1868 to 187 1 as a student of civil engi- 
 neering in the University of Virginia. However, it has been 
 along manufacturing and industrial lines that his career has 
 been made. His father was an extensive wholesale tobacco 
 dealer, and from college the son went on the road as a salesman 
 for G. S. Watts & Company. 
 
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In the meantime Mr. Watts had been traveUng for the to- 
 bacco house of G. S. Watts & Company from 1871 to 1878. In 
 the latter year he came to Durham, and at once used his ideas 
 and his enterprise to stimulate the growth of the Duke firm, and 
 subsequently aided in organizing and incorporating W. Duke 
 Sons & Company, in which he became a stockholder and Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer. This business joined the American To- 
 bacco Company in 1890. 
 
 It would be a difficult matter to describe fully and adequately 
 all the many activities and influences that have radiated from 
 Mr. Watts since he took up his residence at Durham. In 1884, 
 when the Commonwealth Club of Durham was organized, he 
 was elected its first President. This club under his presidency 
 collected the capital and furnished the faith and enthusiasm 
 which brought about the building of the Lynchburg and Dur- 
 ham Railroad, the Oxford and Durham Railroad, and the Dur- 
 ham and Northern Railroad. These railroads gave Durham 
 what is most required, adequate transportation facilities, and 
 insured for all time the substantial prosperity of the city as a 
 commercial center. 
 
 Mr. Watts erected the Loan and Trust Building of Durham 
 and has been interested in practically every development enter- 
 prise of the city in the past thirty or thirty-five years. He was 
 President of the Pearl Cotton Mills, Vice-President of the 
 Erwin Cotton Mills, a Director of the Seaboard Air Line Rail- 
 way, Vice-President of the Golden Belt Manufacturing Com- 
 pany; had interests in the Durham Cotton Manufacturing 
 Company, Mayo Cotton Mills, at Mayodan, North Carolina, 
 the Cooleemee Cotton Mills, the Golden Belt Bag Manufactur- 
 ing Company, the Durham Loan and Trust Company; was a 
 Director of the Fidelity Bank, the Virginia Carolina Chemical 
 Company, Southern Cotton Oil Company, Republic Iron and 
 Steel Company, and many other companies. He was also Presi- 
 dent of the Home Savings Bank, of Durham. 
 
 What he has done to stimulate business growth and enter- 
 prise is matched by his public-spirited citizenship and his im- 
 portant contribution to the institutions of the city and State. 
 
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He erected the Watts Hospital at Durham, and has made large 
 contributions to the orphan asylums at Barium and the Eliza- 
 beth College, also to the Union Theological Seminary, at Rich- 
 mond, Virginia, he being President of the Board of Trustees 
 and Vice-President of the Board at Davidson College. Mr. 
 Watts was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and had been 
 superintendent of its Sunday-school continuously since 1885. 
 
 On October 19, 1875, he married Miss Laura Valinda Beall. 
 Their only daughter is the wife of John Sprunt Hill, of Durham. 
 Mr. Watts was married the second time, on October 25, 191 7, 
 to Miss Sara V. Ecker, of Syracuse, New York. 
 
 Durham Morning Herald, March 9, 1921. 
 
 VAST ASSEMBLAGE OF PEOPLE 
 AT WATTS'S FUNERAL 
 
 FINAL TRIBUTE PAID DECEASED BY DR. LEYBURN 
 
 Beautiful simplicity marked the funeral services held yester- 
 day afternoon for George Washington Watts, Durham's multi- 
 millionaire philanthropist, who died last Monday morning. 
 
 The services were held in the Watts home on South Duke 
 Street, with hundreds of friends and relatives in attendance. 
 
 Every detail connected with the funeral was carried out in 
 the manner which the family believed Mr. Watts would have 
 wanted it had he himself planned the arrangements. The sim- 
 plicity of the service was in keeping with his natural modesty, 
 and the assemblage made up of men and women from every 
 walk of life was a voluntary testimony of the esteem in which 
 he was held. Multi-millionaires, statesmen, bankers, lawyers, 
 ministers, and men of more humble professions and employ- 
 ment mingled their grief and parting respect for the deceased 
 humanitarian. 
 
 During the services business operations in Durham were at a 
 standstill. Practically every industry and place of business 
 was closed between the hours of 2.30 and 4 o'clock. 
 
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The more than 200 tributes and the more than 100 telegrams 
 of sympathy and condolence for the bereaved family were an 
 even greater attest to the love and friendship in which the de- 
 ceased was held. 
 
 Attending the funeral from out of the city were many promi- 
 nent people. Among them were: Mrs. Charles B. King and 
 sons, Charles Banks and George Watts King, of Charlotte; 
 Governor Cameron Morrison, of North Carolina; Lieutenant- 
 Governor W. B. Cooper, of Wilmington; Mr. and Mrs. James 
 H. Watts, of Baltimore; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Watts, of New 
 York; Misses Minnie and Retta Wolvington, of Baltimore; 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. Augustus Mason, of Hagerstown, Maryland; 
 Dr. George Scholl, of Baltimore; Dr. W. W. Moore, of Union 
 Theological Seminary; Dr. E. R. Leyburn, of Rome, Georgia; 
 Dr. C. G. Vardell, of Flora Macdonald College; Dr. Curry, of 
 Davidson College; Dr. Martin Turnbull, of Union Theological 
 Seminary; James B. Duke and Frank L. Fuller, of New York; 
 Dr. M. L. Swineheart, of Korea; Henry Sweets, of New York; 
 Rev. S. L. Morris, of Atlanta; Mrs. Rufus L. Patterson, of New 
 York; Judge R. W. Winston, of Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. Al. 
 Fairbrother, of Greensboro; A. M. Scales, of Greensboro, and 
 William R. Miller, of Union Theological Seminary. 
 
 The services were opened by Dr. David H. Scanlon, pastor 
 of the First Presbyterian Church. The sermon was delivered 
 by Dr. E. R. Leyburn, who was for seventeen years Mr. Watts's 
 pastor, and Dr. W. W. Moore offered prayer. 
 
 Interment was made in Maplewood cemetery. 
 
 Durham Morning Herald, March 10, 1921. 
 
 DEATH OF MR. WATTS 
 
 Durham is to-day in the solemn hush of the deepest grief. Not 
 only does this city mourn the death of George Washington 
 Watts, one of its foremost citizens, but the State and the nation 
 
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as well. He was known for his sterling qualities of mind and 
 heart; and the friends who knew and loved him were not con- 
 fined to Durham, or the State of North Carolina, but extended 
 in foreign lands. In civic as well as in religious activities he 
 was a paragon of piety and public-spirited philanthropy. 
 
 He was led through the furnace of lingering affliction and 
 bodily sufi'ering, in which his golden patience was refined from 
 the dross of complaint. He died the death of a life-long Chris- 
 tian, and his end was like unto the departure of the saints of 
 old. His works will live after him, in the Watts Hospital, the 
 care of orphans, church activities, and his influence in the for- 
 eign missionary field. 
 
 From the formative period of his youth, and his coming to 
 Durham forty-three years ago, to the last hours of his useful 
 career, he belonged to the number of those who "point to better 
 worlds and lead the way." With his fine instincts of an exalted 
 citizenship he carried his wholesome, manly, and inspiring creed 
 into the practical aflfairs of daily life. Everybody loved "George 
 Watts," as he was familiarly called by intimate friends. 
 
 It would have been difficult to find a better exemplar of in- 
 flexible integrity and uncompromising devotion to duty. He 
 possessed in the fullest degree the cardinal virtues which cluster 
 around the home, and in the broader fields of activity he was 
 always alert to the best interests of his fellow-man, according 
 to his convictions. Modest as a maiden, the good deeds he did 
 were never known to the world and will never be estimated. 
 
 He was largely instrumental in bringing to Durham three of 
 the present great branches of railroads which center here, to 
 say nothing of his activities and influence in many of the great 
 enterprises of this city in which he had a hand in shaping and 
 pushing to success. The acuteness of his mind was nothing 
 short of genius — an intuitive perception by which he went 
 straight to the heart of things. It is, perhaps, in religious activ- 
 ities, and the service of his Master, that he wrought with greater 
 zeal and loving affection. Many will rise up and call him 
 blessed. There was a suave charm of manner in his strongly 
 individual personality which made it easy for him to win and 
 
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retain strong friendships, for he "held his patent of nobility 
 direct from the Almighty." His fidelity and loyalty were con- 
 spicuous characteristics which blossomed in every relation of 
 life. 
 
 The death of Mr. Watts is nothing short of a calamity to 
 Durham. Those who knew him best and longest deplore his 
 death most. Now that he has "outsoared the shadow of our 
 night," the perspective in which his character appears gives us 
 a deeper appreciation of his virtues and a keener realization of 
 our loss. There was knightliness about his mind and manner 
 which suggests the tribute to the dead Hamlet: 
 
 "Good night, sweet prince, 
 And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest." 
 
 J. A. Robinson, in Durham Morning Herald, .March 8, 1921. 
 
 A GENEROUS SOUL 
 
 There will be wide-spread regret at the death of Mr. George W. 
 Watts, of Durham. A native of Maryland, he came to Durham 
 as a young man to become a member of the firm of W. Duke 
 Sons & Co., then a young and growing company engaged in man- 
 ufacturing smoking tobacco. 
 
 Quiet, modest, an earnest church worker, diligent in business, 
 he was welcomed for his worth and fine spirit. The company 
 with which he was associated rapidly grew to be the greatest 
 tobacco concern in the world, he became very rich, and yet al- 
 ways he remained the same unassuming quiet gentleman he was 
 before riches enabled his generous soul to find expression in 
 large gifts to benevolence. 
 
 His first notable donation was the establishment of the hos- 
 pital which bears his name. In many other ways he gave 
 money, and much money. But best of all he gave himself in 
 good works in Christian labor and in Christian service. 
 
 JosEPHUs Daniels, in News and Observer, March 8, 1921, Raleigh, N. C. 
 
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WATTS-BEALL MARRIAGE 
 
'Blessed their life whose marriage prospers well" 
 
 WATTS-BE ALL 
 
 ,N the evening of Tuesday, the nineteenth inst., 
 a brilliant marriage was celebrated at Cumber- 
 land, Maryland. The happy contracting par- 
 ties were Mr. George W. Watts, of this city, and 
 Miss Laura Valinda Beall, of Cumberland, 
 Maryland, one of the most beautiful and amiable young belles 
 of the Queen City. Much before the appointed hour there were 
 assembled at the Lutheran Church a large number of the friends 
 of the youthful pair, and at eight o'clock, the hour fixed for the 
 ceremony, every seat was filled. The bridal party arrived 
 shortly after the appointed time and with much difficulty ef- 
 fected an entrance into the church. They approached the altar, 
 preceded by the ushers, viz., Messrs. Bruce and Glesson Porter, 
 of Cumberland. These were followed by Mr. H. E. Roberts, of 
 this city, who escorted Miss Mary Lynn, of Cumberland; Mr. 
 James H. Watts, of this city, a brother of the groom, and Miss 
 Eugie Bausch, of Piedmont, West Virginia; Mr. L. Albert 
 Carr, of this city, and Miss Helen Beall, of Cumberland, a sister 
 of the bride; Mr. Charles N. Parkinson, of this city, and Miss 
 Nannie Cushwa, of Hagerstown, Maryland, and Miss Clara 
 Watts, a sister of the groom. Next came the happy pair who 
 were so soon to become husband and wife. The bride was at- 
 tired in white silk trimmed with point lace, and the bridal veil 
 was looped with natural orange blossoms. The bridesmaids 
 were all in white, and each carried a beautiful bouquet. The 
 
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groomsmen were in full dress suits. The officiating clergyman, 
 Rev. R. C. Hollowaym, of Cumberland, read the Lutheran 
 service, which was very impressive. The ceremony over, the 
 newly wedded couple and attendants, accompanied by many 
 friends, repaired to the residence of William R. Beall, Esq., the 
 father of the bride, where a handsome reception awaited them. 
 Numerous congratulations were tendered and a sumptuous 
 collation served, after which the happy young couple embarked 
 upon the 1 1.30 train for an extended tour through the West. 
 Upon their return to this city the parents of the groom will 
 give a reception, at which, no doubt, the happy couple will re- 
 ceive the congratulations of their numerous Baltimore friends. 
 Their future residence will be in this city. Among the many 
 invited guests from Baltimore were noticed Mr. and Mrs. G. S. 
 Watts, parents of the happy groom; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wol- 
 vington. Miss Allie Wolvington, and Mr. John M. Wait. 
 
 From the Baltimorean, October 30, 1875. 
 
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'What greater ornament is there to a son than a father's glory; or what 
 to a father than a son's honorable conduct" 
 
 DEATH OF 
 GERARD SNOWDEN WATTS 
 
 On the evening of February 26, 1905, at his country home, 
 "Beverly Farm," near Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Gerard Snow- 
 den Watts passed away, aged eighty-two years and four 
 months. 
 
 He was born in Baltimore County, in 1823. In young man- 
 hood he was identified with the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., after- 
 ward settling in Cumberland, Maryland, where he engaged in 
 merchandising, there marrying Miss Annie E. Wolvington. In 
 1858 he moved to Baltimore, where he established the firm of 
 G. S. Watts & Co., doing a very extensive business, known 
 throughout the country. As a business man he was energetic, 
 enterprising, and efficient. In 1890 he retired from active 
 business, spending the time since at his beautiful country 
 place. 
 
 Mr. Watts became a member of the Second Lutheran Church, 
 Baltimore, forty-six years ago, serving most of this time in the 
 Council. During all these years he has been faithful, loyal, lib- 
 eral toward all of its undertakings. Outspoken, positive, con- 
 scientious, he was a true friend and follower of God. Sympa- 
 thetic, sincere, he withheld his hand from no truly philanthropic 
 enterprise. 
 
 His support was general and continuous toward every benev- 
 olent interest of our General Synod, both at home and abroad. 
 Through his liberality, together with that of his son, George 
 W. Watts, of Durham, North Carolina, Watts Memorial Col- 
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lege, Guntur, India, was made possible. His sympathy and 
 substantial help were rendered toward the educational help of 
 our Lutheran Church in the South, implanting and nourishing 
 Elizabeth College, Charlotte, North Carolina, bearing the name 
 of Mrs. Watts. 
 
 Mr. Watts's home was one of abounding hospitality. Joy 
 was scarcely joy to him unless shared by others; a home, too, 
 where God was honored, reverenced, and loved. Such men of 
 prayer, consecration, and lifelong loyalty are too uncommon. 
 
 A wife, daughter, and two sons, with many others, mourn his 
 loss. His body, lying in our beautiful Louden Park, awaits 
 God's call on the resurrection morning. 
 
 D^D 
 
THE (FIRST) WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
"/ was sick and ye visited me" 
 
 THE (FIRST) WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 ITS INAUGURATION LAST NIGHT — A LARGE TURNOUT — PRESENTED 
 
 TO THE TRUSTEES — PATRIOTIC SPEECHES — 
 
 A HAPPY TIME 
 
 J>AST night was an eventful one in Durham. There 
 was enacted at Stokes Hall scenes never before 
 witnessed in our city. It was the inauguration 
 of the Watts Hospital and the transfer of the 
 >^ v^.^^^ property to the trustees. A singular coincidence 
 is the fact that on the eve of the anniversary of George Washing- 
 ton, 163 after his birth, a namesake, George Washington Watts, 
 presented to Durham the best equipped hospital in the South. 
 The ladies — God bless them — had transformed the stage of 
 the hall into a bower of loveliness. The Durham orchestra 
 furnished fine music and everything had a pleasing effect upon 
 the immense crowd that packed the hall from stage to rear of 
 gallery. Surrounding the president of the meeting, Rev. L. B. 
 Turnbull, and the speakers, were the Board of Trustees of the 
 hospital, members of the Durham Medical Academy, and prom- 
 inent citizens. Mr. Turnbull made the announcements. Rev. 
 W. C. Tyree opened the exercises with a most fervent prayer. 
 Mr. Watts, the donor, made the following presentation speech: 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: This is rather an unusual and 
 peculiar position for me, first, to make a public address upon 
 any subject, and, second, upon a subject referring to my own 
 acts. 
 "Seventeen years ago next month I came among you with 
 
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my wife and baby and all I had. I burned the bridges behind 
 me, casting my lot here 'for better or worse.' Durham was then 
 a small town with about 2500 inhabitants, but then, as now, it 
 was a live, wide-awake, thrifty place; the people, as always 
 before and since, were hospitable and kindly disposed toward 
 the stranger. I had never seen the faces of but three residents 
 of Durham previous to our coming here, yet we were warmly 
 welcomed, received into your homes, invited to your churches, 
 and encouraged in every way to make ourselves part of the com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 "From that day to the present we have cheerfully recipro- 
 cated the feelings as then expressed, and we have endeavored 
 to become fellow-citizens with you; we have to the best of our 
 feeble abilities striven to aid in the growth and progress of the 
 town, have been jealous at all times of her good name and re- 
 joiced in her continued advancement and progression in num- 
 bers, education, morality, and wealth. To-day we have among 
 your numbers some of our closest, warmest, and dearest friends. 
 What success we have achieved has been in your midst. 
 
 "It has been my desire for several years to show my appre- 
 ciation of your fellowship and kindness, and to do so in such 
 a manner as would benefit our people and glorify the name of 
 the Master who has placed in my hands means with which to 
 honor Him and the responsibility as one of His stewards. I 
 have carefully considered the needs of our community and 
 sought to learn what was best to be done. Education is well 
 provided for in our beautiful and well equipped Trinity College 
 and our graded and private schools, second to none in the State. 
 The imposing and commodious Hotel Carrolina, a structure of 
 which every citizen is proud, is all that we could wish in that 
 line. The energetic, pushing men of the community have stud- 
 ded the town with manufacturing plants, large and small, which 
 give employment to all who wish to work. Churches are upon 
 all our streets. But, my friends, times come in our lives when 
 we cannot do what we would. Our brains refuse to study or 
 enjoy the educational advantages we have. The body cannot 
 toil, the shop or office, store or factory has no attraction for us. 
 
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The comforts and pleasures of the CarroHna no longer allure 
 us. The sanctuary is beyond our reach. The fell hand of dis- 
 ease is upon us. Our doctors, God bless them, are then our best 
 friends; they serve us skilfully, linger by our bedsides and min- 
 ister to us. Yet often their almost superhuman efforts and 
 most intelligent attentions are thwarted because of the environ- 
 ments of the sick one, or lack of knowledge of those left in 
 charge, or possibly because there is no one to leave in charge. 
 
 "Three years ago I was for a short while a patient in a hos- 
 pital, and only then did I fully learn the invaluable services of 
 her we term a trained nurse. With her womanly gentleness 
 given to her by God, augmented by years of study, reflection, 
 and experience, she becomes almost a heavenly visitant, an angel 
 of mercy at the bedside of the sick. She knows his needs, she 
 realizes his condition, her hand is always ready to make him 
 comfortable, her earnest sympathy encourages him, her firm- 
 ness stimulates him, and her training enables her to faithfully 
 carry out the physicians' instructions. More than once I have 
 been told that her services are more valuable than physic. 
 
 "This experience directed my attention and reflection to hos- 
 pital work. I have studied the subject during my leisure hours 
 and examined hospitals whenever possible. My visits among dif- 
 ferent conditions of people in our community convinced me of the 
 benefits to be derived from an institution of this character here. 
 
 "I now have the pleasure of informing you that my desire has 
 culminated in a finished group of buildings on West Main 
 Street, furnished and equipped for the purposes of a hospital. 
 The construction and furnishing, as far as possible, have been 
 done by our own home people. 
 
 "The hospital consists of five buildings: the Administration 
 Building in the center, 38 x 36 feet, two stories and basement; 
 Male and Female pavilions, each 31 x 62 feet, one story high; 
 a Surgical Building, 17 x 27 feet, at the rear of the Administra- 
 tion Building, and a low one-story building containing the Au- 
 topsy and Mortuary and carriage shed. The first four of these 
 are connected by corridors, enclosed in winter, and the last 
 entirely isolated on lower ground at the rear of the east pavilion. 
 
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"Upon the first floor of the Administration Building are 
 located reception room, medical ofTice, matron's room, dining- 
 room, and surgical ward. Upon the second floor are two 
 special pay wards, two chambers for nurses, bath-room, lava- 
 tory, and closets. In the basement are kitchen, store-rooms, 
 heating apparatus, and laundry. 
 
 "The east and west pavilions each contain a free ward with 
 seven beds, two pay wards, one bed each, diet kitchen, linen 
 closet, patients' clothes closet, medicine closet, bath, and lava- 
 tory. 
 
 "The ground contains 4.55 acres. The architects. Rand & 
 Taylor, of Boston, Massachusetts, make hospital architecture 
 a specialty. They have planned a very simple yet comprehen- 
 sive and complete contagious ward, to be located later on the 
 rear of the lot. They have endeavored to produce, as far as 
 possible, an ideal small hospital, having all the absolute essen- 
 tials of a large institution yet so carefully and economically 
 studied as to be possible under such conditions as surround us. 
 
 "The total number of patients' beds are twenty-two, includ- 
 ing two in the surgical ward. These beds are the same as those 
 in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and were designed by Dr. Hurd, 
 superintendent of that institution. 
 
 "The heating, ventilating, and sanitary arrangements are all 
 worked out in the most complete manner, every precaution 
 being taken to produce the most perfect conditions in all sick 
 wards of which modern hospital science is capable. The sani- 
 tary appliances are all of the simplest, strongest character, 
 everything open and accessible. 
 
 "The heating is with steam, and in the wards is indirect; the 
 air-ducts, both inlet and outlet, are proportioned to their use. 
 All beds have special ventilation in addition to the top and 
 bottom vents of the rooms, — the surgical ward and operating 
 room having extra ventilating capacity. 
 
 "The entire buildings are lighted by electricity from our 
 town plant. Electric bells and speaking tubes connect every 
 department, and telephones bring the hospital in connection 
 with all sections of the town. 
 
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"The finish is absolutely plain with rounded edges and curved 
 inner angles, every dust-catching and dust-retaining member 
 being eliminated. 
 
 "Although no money is wasted upon the exterior of the insti- 
 tution, we wished to have as pleasing an effect produced as pos- 
 sible. The architects have adopted a simple Renaissance style, 
 having in the low pitch and broad overhang of the roofs a 
 Spanish feeling, capable of producing a stately as well as pic- 
 turesque effect. 
 
 "The buildings and equipment have cost about $30,000 (a 
 detailed statement will be furnished in the first published report 
 of the trustees). What remains of $50,000 I will place as an 
 endowment on the hospital, which will yield probably $1200 
 annually. It will require at least $4000 — I trust that some of 
 the other speakers may indicate to you the necessity of raising 
 sufficient revenue and how to do it. 
 
 "This is not an institution for the exhibition of brilliant sur- 
 gery and specialties in diseases by renowned experts. It is sim- 
 ply a cottage hospital, a home for the care and treatment of 
 those sick and injured citizens of Durham who are deprived of 
 the favorable conditions that are necessary for their comfort 
 and the successful management of their maladies. The pure 
 air, sunlight, good food, and careful nursing which this institu- 
 tion will afford will of themselves save many lives which would 
 be sacrificed under the poorer sanitary conditions of many 
 homes and boarding-houses. 
 
 "There is one thing to which I desire to call your attention. 
 As far as I can learn it is the only hospital in the State or this 
 section (not receiving government assistance) which has a real 
 charity feature connected with it. In Wilmington, Raleigh, 
 and Danville patients are required to pay five dollars per week 
 for admittance to the charity wards. We propose to give all 
 persons in need care and treatment absolutely without price; 
 yet it should be borne in mind that the service is not necessarily 
 free. All those who are able to pay for their care and medical 
 attendance will be expected to do so. The doors of the hospital 
 are always open, however, and are open for all. 
 
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"Our physicians from the beginning have heartily taken up 
 the work and will give freely of their time and ability. The 
 work is just begun. Do we realize what the proper conduct of 
 this hospital means to them? The medical and surgical staff, 
 which includes all members of the Durham Academy of Medi- 
 cine, pledge to this institution their faithful and continued 
 service, absolutely without hope of any reward whatever except 
 the consciousness that they are exemplifying those humane and 
 chivalrous traits which are not tradition only, but are a living, 
 daily record with the medical profession everywhere. They 
 enter upon the arduous work cheerfully, hopefully, and 1 bid 
 them God-speed; but unless this hospital differs from every 
 other occasions will arise when they will especially need the 
 steadfast confidence of all good citizens. For, give of their time 
 and skill as faithfully and freely as they may, poor human 
 nature will sometimes refuse to respond, remedies will fail, and 
 life goes out, perhaps without any apparent cause. Then when 
 the baffled physician is himself bewailing the impotence of hu- 
 man knowledge and human effort, let us see to it that he is not 
 further depressed by the criticism or ingratitude of the thought- 
 less and unworthy. We must do more than give our money and 
 our service; we must remember to be loyal in our support of 
 those who are the special instruments to carry out the work of 
 this, our institution. 
 
 "Great care has been taken to arrange the administration of 
 this hospital so that it shall never be managed by a few persons 
 who may lose sight of the fact that it is built for and belongs to 
 the people. Party politics, sect, nor clique can obtain control; 
 the trustees are appointed by the several religious bodies. Hos- 
 pital Aid Association, Academy of Medicine, Town Commis- 
 sioners, Trinity College, and the donor. 
 
 "In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, it gives me pleasure to place 
 in your hands, as a representative of the citizens of Durham, 
 this deed of gift. May the door of Watts Hospital never be 
 closed to the suffering for lack of liberal contributions, of will- 
 ing service, or kindly sympathy. May it ever be conducted in 
 the true Christian or Christ-like spirit, where all distinctions of 
 
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class or creed fade away in the one universal desire to bind up 
 the wounds, to relieve the pains, and strengthen the courage 
 of our common humanity." 
 
 Here Mr. Watts presented the deed to the President, Mr. 
 Turnbull. 
 
 To this graceful speech Mr. C. B. Green responded in behalf 
 of the town and accepted the generous gift. He spoke of the 
 epochs in the history of men, towns, and communities. This 
 was one of them. The scenes of to-night will be indelibly im- 
 pressed upon the hearts of all the people. Time might destroy 
 the beautiful building, but the philanthropic spirit, the Christ- 
 like charity thus manifested will live on and on when these 
 bodies shall have returned to the dust from whence they sprung. 
 "The people of Durham thank you, yea, thrice thank you for 
 this beneficent gift." 
 
 Rev. J. C. Kilgo made the address. It was a stirring and elo- 
 quent effort. Great ideas ruled the world. Mr. Watts had 
 great ideas and had set a living example which would live and 
 grow. Speaking to Mr. Watts he said: "You do not know what 
 you have done. You have made a revelation of yourself to us; 
 we know you better than we ever did before. You have sur- 
 rendered yourself to us; it will not be Mr. or Colonel, but plain 
 George Watts; you have become the property of your fellow- 
 men. God bless you." 
 
 The meeting was then thrown open to citizens who desired to 
 express themselves. Dr. A. E. Yates said his remarks were im- 
 promptu but on paper. Education, religion, and high-toned 
 journalism were the great factors in this life. He spoke of our 
 churches. Trinity College, and the magnificent Watts Hospital, 
 and what a blessing they were to humanity. His remarks were 
 at times witty and produced much good feeling. 
 
 R. B. Boone spoke from a sense of high appreciation for the 
 man who had so much of the image of his Maker in him. It was 
 a great institution. When the idea was first born in the mind 
 of the donor, there was by his side a gentle spirit, not seen, but 
 who encouraged and helped it on. The honors were partly hers. 
 
 H. A. Foushee spoke of those in "single cussedness," and pic- 
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tured Durham fifty years hence when the Watts Medical Uni- 
 versity would be a great institution in the then great city of 
 Durham. Its blessings would go on through all generations. 
 He was glad we had such citizens who could accomplish such 
 grand works. 
 
 Dr. A. G. Carr made a humorous little talk in behalf of the 
 medical profession. It was a splendid, well-equipped institu- 
 tion. We can now have the best of medical care and operations 
 performed without going away from home. 
 
 Captain E. J. Parrish spoke of the great responsibility the 
 transfer of this institution carries with it. He urged the organi- 
 zation of Watts Hospital Associations. The annual payment 
 was only two dollars. Every citizen should join and thus carry 
 on the grand work. 
 
 The by-laws governing the trustees and the hospital were 
 read by the Secretary of the Board, Mr. J. L. Markham. 
 
 The benediction was pronounced by Rev. J. W. Wellons, and 
 the large audience dispersed with warm Christian hearts and 
 a just pride in the noble gift and work Mr. Watts has made 
 and put on foot. 
 
 Durham's appreciation can best be shown by standing close 
 to this institution. 
 
 Daily Sun, Durham, February 22, 1895. 
 
 THE (FIRST) WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 AN HOUR SPENT AT DURHAM'S HAVEN FOR THE SICK — CLOSE OF 
 THE FIRST YEAR — THE BLESSINGS ARE SEEN IN MANY WAYS — 
 EQUIPMENT AND MANAGEMENT — THE EXAMPLE OF GEORGE 
 WATTS AND HIS UNDERLYING MOTIVE WORTHY OF WIDE EMU- 
 LATION 
 
 I SPENT an hour this morning at the Watts Hospital. It has 
 been open just a little over a year, and ever since its doors were 
 open I have intended to visit and to tell the readers of the News 
 and Observer something about its perfect equipment and be- 
 neficent work. Every traveler on the North Carolina Railroad 
 as he enters Durham from the west has admired the good taste 
 
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that the exterior of the hospital presents. The plan is a simple 
 Renaissance style, giving in the low pitch and broad overhang 
 of the roofs a Spanish appearance which provides a stately as 
 well as picturesque effect. The interior arrangements, planned 
 with a view to the special needs for which the generous donor 
 founded it, are even more perfect and complete. The finish is 
 plain, with rounded edges and curved inner angles, every dust- 
 catching and dust-retaining member being eliminated. 
 
 The hospital consists of five buildings: the Administration 
 Building in the center, 38 x 36 feet, two stories and basement; 
 Male and Female Pavilions, each 31 x62 feet, one story high; 
 a Surgical Building, 17 x 27 feet, at the rear of the Administra- 
 tion Building, and a low one-story building containing the 
 Autopsy and Mortuary, and carriage shed. The first four of 
 these are connected by corridors, enclosed in glass in winter, 
 and the last entirely isolated on the lower ground, at the rear 
 of the east pavilion. These commodious and well constructed 
 buildings stand in an enclosure of nearly five acres, which is 
 being beautified by grass and shrubbery. 
 
 From the moment you enter the front door you are impressed 
 with the sweetness and cleanliness, the laundry and kitchen 
 being as bright and as cheerful-looking as the neat reception 
 room or the office of the doctors. The pay wards and the free 
 wards are models of neatness and comfort. At the head of each 
 bed (there are twenty-two) is an electric bell by which the 
 patient can summon immediate attendance, and an electric 
 light which gives light to the patient without disturbing those 
 in adjoining cots. The beds are the same as those in the Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital, and were designed by Dr. Hurd, superin- 
 tendent of that institution. 
 
 The heating, ventilating, and sanitary arrangements have 
 been worked out in the most complete manner, every precaution 
 having been taken to produce the most perfect conditions in 
 all sick wards of which modern hospital science is capable. 
 Particularly are the sanitary appliances to be commended. 
 They are all of the simplest and strongest character — every- 
 thing open and accessible. 
 
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There is not a method of ventilating, a surgical instrument, a 
 comfort or convenience — in a word, there is nothing that could 
 add to the completeness that is wanting, and I was astonished 
 at the many devices of ventilation, heating, and for surgery 
 that the donor had provided, and provided in a way that chal- 
 lenges admiration of the skill in arrangement as well as in the 
 generosity that prompted the gift. It is evident that Mr. Watts 
 gave as much time in planning as in money to make this lovely 
 ideal hospital. 
 
 Not long ago friends asked Mr. Watts what influenced him 
 in the beginning to build the hospital, and he said: 
 
 "Three years ago I was, for a short while, a patient in a hos- 
 pital, and only then did I fully learn the invaluable services of 
 her we term a trained nurse. With her womanly gentleness, 
 given to her by God, augmented by years of study, reflection, 
 and experience, she becomes almost a heavenly visitant, an 
 angel of mercy at the bedside of the sick. She knows his needs; 
 she realizes his condition ; her hand is always ready to make him 
 comfortable; her earnest sympathy encourages him; her firm- 
 ness stimulates him, and her training enables her to faithfully 
 carry out the physicians' instructions. More than once I have 
 been told that her services are more valuable than physic. 
 
 "This experience directed my attention and reflection to hos- 
 pital work. I have studied the subject during my leisure hours, 
 and examined hospitals whenever possible. My visits among 
 different conditions of people in our community convinced me 
 of the benefits to be derived from an institution of this char- 
 acter here." 
 
 Mr. Watts has given |50,ooo to the hospital. The total cost 
 of the ground, buildings, furnishings, and advancements for 
 expenses was $29,944.68 — say $30,000 in round numbers. In 
 addition to paying this sum out in cash Mr. Watts has given 
 I9000 in Durham & Northern Railway bonds (6 per cent.), 
 $5000 in Rocky Mount Mills bonds (6 per cent.), and $6000 in 
 Riverside cotton mill stock. The interest from these stocks 
 and bonds gives an income of about $1200 per year; the city of 
 Durham appropriates I900 per year, and the other expenses, 
 
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approximating $4000 per year, are met by pay patients (this 
 brought in I708.53 the first ten months), the aid association, 
 and other donations and gifts. 
 
 The hospital is managed by a Board of Trustees as follows: 
 George W. Watts, President; B. N. Duke, Vice-President; John 
 L. Markham, Secretary; Leo D. Heartt, Treasurer; W. W. 
 Fuller, E. J. Parrish, Dr. A. G. Carr, M. A. Angier, Rev. J. C. 
 Kilgo, L. A. Carr, W. L. Wall, and S. T. Morgan, representing 
 every church and every benevolent organization in Durham. 
 There is no sectarianism about the hospital. Nobody asks any 
 questions about church. The measure of need is the measure 
 of help extended. One of the nurses is a Catholic, and she is as 
 efficient and as popular as any Presbyterian in a community 
 in which there are few Catholics. 
 
 The Durham Academy of Medicine give to the hospital, 
 without charge, their services, and are as faithful in minister- 
 ing to the suffering poor as to any millionaire patient. Regu- 
 larly two of them are in charge two months at a time, alternat- 
 ing in such manner that at no time do two take their turns at 
 the same time. They feel a great pride in the institution, hav- 
 ing long felt more keenly than the other members of the com- 
 munity the need of a place for the treatment of those who 
 needed quiet and skilled training. Sixty-eight persons were 
 treated the first ten months, and there were twenty-seven sur- 
 gical operations, forty-seven discharged cured, eleven im- 
 proved, and only two died. This attests the ability of the 
 attending physicians. 
 
 The matron. Miss Florence McNulty, is now absent on a 
 short leave. The trustees have put on record that "she is wise 
 in her management of all details pertaining to the hospital. 
 Physicians, patients, nurses, servants, and all who come into 
 communication with her acknowledge her master hand in di- 
 recting affairs." 
 
 A Lady Board of Visitors, of which Mrs. Bessie Leak is Pres- 
 ident and Mrs. James A. Robinson Secretary, visit the hospital 
 regularly, and have been very helpful in their supervision and 
 encouragement. 
 
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One of the good agencies of the hospital is a training school 
 for professional nurses, and there are now several young wo- 
 men under training, and instruction and lectures are given by 
 all the members of Durham Academy of Medicine. 
 
 I have thus gone into particulars about the arrangement of 
 this hospital, its management, its first year's useful work, for 
 two purposes: 
 
 I. To show how much good a generous rich man can do 
 when he mixes his money, his brains, and his heart. Mr. Watts 
 did not build this hospital by his money alone. He saw the 
 need of a place where those who could not have the quiet and 
 best attention at home could be tenderly nursed back to health 
 and strength, and a place where the lack of money would not 
 debar any one. When he gave the hospital, in a formal pres- 
 entation speech, Mr. Watts used these words (and they are an 
 index to the motives that actuate his life) : "It has been my de- 
 sire for several years to show my appreciation of your fellow- 
 ship and kindness, and to do so in such a manner as would bene- 
 fit our people and glorify the name of the Master who has 
 placed in my hands means with which to honor Him, and the 
 responsibility of one of His stewards." There never yet lived a 
 man, poor or rich, who thus felt his responsibility to God, who 
 did not find or make a way to help or to lift up his fellow-men. 
 
 Mr. Watts is one among the few rich men who regards him- 
 self as one of God's stewards, has it in his heart to "glorify the 
 Master." He has done it in a way that the Master would ap- 
 prove, for this hospital has already brought hope and health to 
 many, and will be a place of refuge and a haven of rest for the 
 sick of earth for all time to come. While not inappreciative of 
 commendation of his fellows, Mr. Watts finds his chief grati- 
 fication in the knowledge that he has been the means of bringing 
 back health to the sick and giving release from deformity or 
 injury to those who stood in need of the surgeon's knife. And 
 in this further fact: that the usefulness of this hospital will not 
 end with his life, but will stand as a place of help to the sick of 
 generations yet unborn. In these feelings of love for his fel- 
 lows and stewardship for the Master, Mr. Watts has the sym- 
 
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pathy and active help of his wife, who seconds all the generous 
 deeds that are associated with his name. On the occasion of 
 the formal presentation of the hospital R. B. Boone, Esq., turn- 
 ing to Mrs. Watts, said: "Madam, I present to you the grati- 
 tude of this community for the beneficent influence of your 
 Christian life over that of your husband, which influence is evi- 
 denced by the gift of to-night. You inspired the benediction, 
 your husband bestowed it. Honors are even." 
 
 2. I hope that the example of Mr. Watts here in Durham 
 (as well as the example of the late John Rex, who bequeathed 
 money to found the Rex Hospital in Raleigh) will induce 
 wealthy men in other towns and cities to forever associate their 
 names with a public hospital for their towns. There are twenty 
 towns in the State that need such a hospital. The man who 
 founds, even if he does not endow, a hospital in his community 
 is the Good Samaritan to those of his own and future genera- 
 tions. 
 
 JosEPHus Daniels, in the Newi and Observer, 
 Raleigh, North Carolina, March 17, 1896. 
 
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THE (SECOND) WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
'They serve God well who serve His creatures'' 
 
 THE (SECOND) HOSPITAL IS TENDERED 
 
 CITY AND COUNTY TAKE IT OVER FORMALLY — LARGE CROWDS PRES- 
 ENT — EXERCISES HEARD BY MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE 
 ■ — SOME OF ADDRESSES MADE — NUMBER OF VISITORS FROM 
 RALEIGH AND GREENSBORO — SOMETHING IN DETAIL OF THE 
 GREAT INSTITUTION — FEATURES OF DAY 
 
 'HE WATTS HOSPITAL yesterday became the 
 property of the city and county of Durham by 
 formal tender of its donor, Mr. George W. 
 Watts, and upon one condition only, that it be 
 used as a hospital and be open always to the 
 indigent sufferers of Durham. 
 
 The joy of the hour was greater than the author of that good 
 gift had hoped. He thought there might be a coterie of personal 
 friends and professionalists who might go out and inspect the 
 premises, share with him the enthusiasm of his proffer, but he 
 did not expect half the number who came and trod upon each 
 other's feet for standing room to hear the exercises. Three 
 times as many stood entirely outside, caught a desultory word 
 and sentence, joined in the applause, and imbibed the spirit of 
 the occasion, which was among the half dozen biggest things 
 ever done in Durham. 
 
 Persons skilled in the manipulation of crowds guessed looo 
 to be there. Those more skilled set the figures higher. From 
 the car line a steady stream of vehicles, horses and buggies, 
 phaetons, landeaus, automobiles, and cabs, kept the traffic up 
 until after the ceremonies began, and many walked all the way. 
 It was hospital day and the people were there. 
 
Raleigh sent up a large delegation of physicians, among them 
 being Doctors Richard Henry Lewis, Hubert A. Royster, Al- 
 bert Anderson, W. S. Rankin, A. W. Goodwin, Delia Dixon 
 Carroll, and Miss Orchard, of the Rex Hospital. From Greens- 
 boro came Doctors J. W. Long and B. B. Williams, the first 
 named of these being one of the most noted of state surgeons. 
 Many other physicians from counties adjacent were there, the 
 difTiculty of obtaining their names being all the greater by rea- 
 son of the jam at the general entrance door. 
 
 At 2.45 Captain E. J. Parrish, chairman of the committee 
 on arrangements, made a brief introductory address stating 
 the object of the exercises. In presenting Rev. E. R. Leyburn, 
 of the Presbyterian Church, Captain Parrish said he felt that 
 such a ceremony as that which had for its object the reception 
 of a gift like this should be opened with prayer, and Mr. Ley- 
 burn offered a petition which covered the spirit of giving and 
 the spirit of receiving. Mr. Watts was then introduced, and in 
 a speech of five minutes turned over to Mr. James H. Southgate 
 the deed to the property, adding the first instalment of the 
 donation, $100,000, and giving his personal pledge of enough 
 cash to balance the interest on the other $100,000. Long ap- 
 plause greeted this announcement. It lasted a full minute and 
 again did it appear that more friends and better friends were 
 behind the munificent offering of one man to all men. 
 
 The spirit of all the speeches yesterday was most harmoni- 
 ous. All struck independently upon the same idea and treated 
 it their own way. The acceptance of so large a gift was no 
 easy ceremony, and representatives of all elements of the coun- 
 ty's life spoke feelingly of the new duties the institution opens 
 to every person in the city. 
 
 The printed program, marked for its brevity, was followed. 
 The responses came in their order, and music divided the speak- 
 ing periods into short whiles. When the ceremonies were de- 
 clared complete the people were invited to go through the 
 buildings to inspect them, and the real magnificence of the in- 
 stitution was thereby gained. But a moment's hesitation at 
 any one of the buildings was possible. A perfect labyrinth of 
 rooms, closets, wards, toilets, and all accessories was met. 
 
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The lobby where the exercises were held probably seated 
 300 people. The speech of Mr. Watts offering the institution 
 is printed elsewhere, and Mr. James H. Southgate arose to 
 the response for the Board of Trustees. "Thirty years ago," 
 he smiled broadly, "when I was an old man, there were but two 
 places which Durham people could visit daily, the post-ofTice 
 and the railway station. It was about this time that we learned 
 of a young Marylander who was to come here, purchase an in- 
 terest in the W. Duke & Sons factory, and be one of us. I 
 remember well the young stranger, younger and better looking 
 then we were, because he wore a tailor-made gown, or, I should 
 have said, suit, and we didn't. He was as quiet as a girl and 
 as gentle as two girls. He was sober that day, and I might say 
 now that it has been more than thirty years since we took one 
 together. He came here then and projected his life rightly. 
 
 "As old men and members of the old Commonwealth Club 
 we used to plan for the city's future, and there were laid such 
 foundations that no one of the two or three generations to 
 come will be able to build such superstructures as to break these 
 foundations down. And since coming here his life has radiated 
 its goodness in all directions, until his gifts are felt in Union 
 Theological Seminary, in Elizabeth College, in Barium Springs 
 Orphanage. And to-day there is no city whose philanthropies 
 have been so great as those of our own Durham. 
 
 "That philanthropy has been constructive and preventive. 
 It is over the entire world, and comes to tell us that we grow 
 better with the years. There is one man, Mr. Kennedy, willing 
 $25,000,000 to education; there is the great generosity of Mr. 
 Carnegie, of which you have read so much; another man tells 
 us that we have the hook-worm in the South and gives a million 
 to fight it; we find another giving largely for the fight against 
 pellagra, and all for that preventive purpose characteristic of 
 giving. Let this great wave of philanthropy roll on. And, 
 changing the figure, let it be a river which widens and deepens 
 on its sweep. 
 
 "I want you young men to-day to study the life of this young 
 Marylander. He has always been on the right side, and from 
 such a pinnacle his words and deeds fall with the added gravity 
 
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of one standing upon such heights. I want you to look upon 
 him as one of the State's noblest philanthropists, who has taught 
 us how to spend and how to give. 
 
 "We accept this great institution, Mr. President, and from 
 this day let us set it apart and pray that it shall ever produce 
 the fruit of soundness in men." 
 
 MAYOR GRISWOLD 
 
 Following music by the orchestra, Mayor Griswold rose to a 
 short acceptance on the part of the city of Durham through the 
 Board of Aldermen, of which board he is ex-officio chairman. 
 He referred to the first report of Mr. Watts, in which it was 
 prophesied that the institution now about to be abandoned 
 would prove inadequate to the growing needs of the county and 
 the immediate vicinity. He referred to the high Christian 
 character of the giver, and pledged the city's best to enter as 
 properly in the spirit of receiving as the philanthropist had 
 done in the giving. 
 
 MR. BROGDEN 
 
 County Attorney W. J. Brogden, for the Board of Commis- 
 sioners, accepted the hospital and traced the growth of the com- 
 munity idea from the first to its high expression in the great 
 institutions. 
 
 He defined religion, science, and brotherhood as the great tan- 
 gible triumvirate which put mankind in condition to redeem or 
 be redeemed. The first must move men to something better, 
 science must tell them what it is, and brotherhood must direct 
 the goodness in the right channels. With these principles the 
 philanthropist becomes the prophet. He is the seer, gazes into 
 the "dreamy yet to be," when he hears the voice of the "ever- 
 lasting now." 
 
 Mr. Brogden took over for the county commissioners the 
 county's part of the gift, and declaring that nature is full of 
 redemption and that this hospital is redemptive in its aims, he 
 closed his ten minutes address, which was applauded among the 
 most heartily of them all. 
 
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DR. A. C. JORDAN 
 Dr. a. C. Jordan responded for the County Medical Society. 
 He was reminiscent for a moment, and rehearsed the gifts of 
 Mr. Watts and spoke of the County Medical Society's joy in 
 the new institution. He read the resolutions passed by that 
 body thanking him for the institution and pledging the society 
 to proper effort to manage the large trust reposed in them. 
 
 Elsewhere appears the complete text of Dr. J. C. Kilgo's 
 written remarks uttered in such fine taste and excellent Eng- 
 lish. Mr. Watts's written remarks, terse, exactly to the issue, 
 will also be found in another column. 
 
 HOSPITAL OFFICERS 
 It was announced that the following officers of the hospital will 
 be known in connection with the institution : George W. Watts, 
 President; John Sprunt Hill, Vice-President; Professor A. H. 
 Merritt, Secretary; P. W. Vaughan, Treasurer. 
 
 THE TRUSTEES 
 The Board of Trustees will be composed of George W. Watts, 
 F. L. Fuller, B. N. Duke, and John Sprunt Hill, appointed by 
 Mr. Watts. Appointed by the mayor and representing the 
 Board of Aldermen will be Alderman R. L. Lindsey, and upon 
 the Hospital Aid Association's vacancy of one man J. Ed. Stagg 
 is named. Dr. N. M. Johnson represents the Durham Medical 
 Society, Professor A. H. Merritt is Trinity College's appointee, 
 P. W. Vaughan represents the Baptist Church, Rev. E. R. Ley- 
 burn the Presbyterian, Captain E. J. Parrish Trinity Church, 
 and Dr. J. M. Manning the Episcopal. 
 
 The charter provides for twelve trustees and it can be 
 changed only by the legislature. But at the next general as- 
 sembly application will be made for an increase in the number, 
 and it will, of course, be granted. The Board of Lady Visitors 
 will be composed of Mesdames J. S. Mesley, L. L. Morehead, 
 J. Harper Erwin, C. W. Toms, Q. E. Rawls, B. L. Tyree, J. C. 
 Michie, W. C. Barrett, J. S. Hill, W. D. Carmichael, George W. 
 Watts, and J. S. Carr, Jr. 
 
FACTS ABOUT HOSPITALS 
 For a sort of ready reference there have been compiled a few 
 short facts about the hospital which will be interesting to pre- 
 serve. They follow: 
 
 This new Watts Hospital is situated just northwest of the 
 city limits, on a beautiful eminence overlooking Trinity College 
 and West Durham. The architect is Bertrand E. Taylor, of 
 Boston, one of the best known hospital architects in the world. 
 He built more than two hundred hospitals in the United States 
 and other countries. 
 
 The contractor is John L. Wilson, of Richmond, Virginia, 
 who built the Jefferson Hotel at Richmond, Mutual Building 
 at Richmond, and many other expensive buildings in the South- 
 ern States. During the past few years he has devoted his at- 
 tention almost entirely to reinforced concrete structures. 
 
 The Watts Hospital is a thoroughly fire-proof structure, built 
 of reinforced concrete and brick. The main building is three 
 stories high and the other buildings two stories high. The total 
 cost of land and buildings to date is $217,000. In the early 
 spring a nurses' home is to be built, which will bring the cost 
 up to about 1250,000 for land and buildings. The endowment 
 of building, given entirely by Mr. Watts, is $200,000. The 
 building at present will accommodate seventy-one patients, and 
 as soon as the nurses' home can be built it will accommodate 
 ninety patients. It is, therefore, four times as large as the pres- 
 ent hospital. 
 
 Its equipment is as good as any hospital in the United States 
 so far as it goes. It is beautifully situated on a high hill about 
 one half mile northwest of Trinity College, and overlooks the 
 entire city of Durham. It is in the center of a well-graded plot 
 of land consisting of twenty-five acres. Upon twelve acres of 
 this ground there is a fine growth of oak and hickory trees. For 
 detailed description of each building call upon Mr. George W. 
 Watts or visit the buildings themselves. 
 
 This gives no detail, and minutis is one of the wonders of 
 the institution. Near the general entrance will be observed the 
 superintendent's office, the private office, and one moves but a 
 
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few steps until one begins to comment upon the doors. They 
 are all of ash, prettily painted, and inviting. Nobody would 
 ever fail to open one of them. The telephone system is very 
 ingenious. Instantaneous connection with all parts of the 
 building follows the pressing of the correct button, and it is the 
 best that such an institution could find. When one emerges 
 from the first suite of offices one goes into the nurses' parlor, 
 and from there to the patients' examination room. From there 
 is wound the way to the resident physicians' rooms, but there 
 will be none of these until the graduation of young physicians 
 next spring. There will be two then. 
 
 Passing along, the attention is directed to the floors, every 
 particle of which is of the most enduring concrete. The thought 
 of fire bankrupts the imagination, but there hang the significant 
 twenty-three extinguishers which could wrestle with any blaze 
 that could reasonably be expected to start there. Going on, the 
 nurses' dining-room, a place that looks like a modern hotel, will 
 be seen, and the serving room, a bailiwick laid ofi" for those who 
 are on sentry all the time, is next met. 
 
 The maternity room, well lighted, with noiseless chairs and 
 lights for gas or electricity, a rolling screen, and sterilizers 
 plentiful, was seen by the visitors, and a place known as the gen- 
 eral sitting-room was then viewed. The interesting baby room, 
 with attachable bed-baskets and a private suite for the nurses, 
 came among the never-ending number of divisions in the build- 
 ings. Private rooms for ladies, linen closets, the children's ar- 
 cade and balcony, constructed so as to make impossible their 
 falling over, connect the three-story building with the charity 
 wards. All of these fixtures are of copper, the best possible 
 metal, and have an undoubted quality of endurance and stabil- 
 ity. The two-story building has duplicate rooms, and what is 
 seen below is also viewed above. The general ward room with 
 six beds, equipped with all the furniture, rolling chairs, and 
 screens that the best ones have, shows upon what scale the insti- 
 tution can take care of those not able to provide for themselves, 
 and there is a convalescents' dining-room. 
 
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WILL HAVE DIETITL'\N 
 
 This hospital is to have a dietitian, one person whose sole care 
 is the kind of food that the patients shall be entitled to use. She 
 is not to be a nurse and will have no other duties than those 
 pertinent to the convalescents or the more ill patients require 
 as to diet. The dietitian will be here soon, and just as iMr. 
 Watts would not purchase any but the best fixtures for his hos- 
 pital, so did he act in the choice of people, and his head of this 
 new department will have all necessary credentials. 
 
 THE OPERATING ROOM 
 The ward in which the operations are done is one among the 
 last in the excursion through the hospital. There is perhaps 
 the most interesting and complete room of them all. Equipped 
 with a great sterilizer in which all instruments are dipped pre- 
 paratory to use, there are individual sterilizers all about it so 
 that an instrument dropped or anywise infected may be imme- 
 diately dropped into those basins nearer and used again. The 
 tables work easily and are adapted to all kinds of position. Ad- 
 joining or near by is the anesthetic room and not far away the 
 X-ray, which can be made a dungeon in darkness with a simple 
 touch of the fixtures in the room. 
 
 Not a more up-to-date feature is found than the big mattress 
 disinfector, something very new here. The instrument par- 
 takes greatly of the nature of a great boiler, and the bed and its 
 clothes are put into it. When thoroughly steamed and all 
 germs put to a finish, in the superabundance of care the clothes 
 are not again exposed to the room through which they were 
 taken, but are carried through another. And this big mattress 
 machine has one end in the pure room while the other is in the 
 infected one. 
 
 There is the gildless mortuary room, one of the morbid mem- 
 ories that one must carry, but a necessity. Patients die some- 
 times despite the hospitals and the skill. An isolated ward is 
 reserved for those contagious diseases which find their way into 
 the hospital despite all efforts to thwart them. No such cases 
 are admitted, but once broken out there is this room which will 
 
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give the patient treatment, yet all of the hospital community 
 complete separation from the diseased man. There is a lab- 
 oratory fitted up in connection with the institution, and it is 
 adapted to the experiments that the doctors will make. 
 
 Away from the hospital and connected with the walk the 
 engine-room and laundry are noticed; but these were not vis- 
 ited yesterday. Electric irons for the laundresses are provided, 
 and the engine-room is ready soon to run the hospital with elec- 
 tricity. To the west of these the best half of the twenty-five- 
 acre site is being developed for a park to be used by the hospital. 
 The front is bare now, but gardeners are getting it ready for its 
 carpet of green next year, and by the close of the next summer 
 it is expected that the campus will be as beautiful as everything 
 else about the place is. 
 
 Circular troughs, running so as to carry all water to a certain 
 point, have been provided and the drainage is perfect. There 
 will be no washing, and the front of the hospital campus will 
 soon be alluring in its attractiveness. 
 
 The excursion through the buildings is now finished, and one 
 feels impelled to ask who are to be physician-in-charge and all 
 of the heads. So far as the hospital itself goes there will be no 
 head. The Durham County Medical Association will direct 
 the institution, and what physicians are brought here will be 
 under their direction. Each physician will be assigned to what- 
 ever work is laid out, and persons having their own physicians 
 and coming there will not be denied their ministrations. There 
 will be no visible head, and a harmonious working is assured. 
 Miss Wyche is head nurse, and there will be something like 
 twenty in that institution. 
 
 Such, briefly, are the inside features of the sanatorium. Of 
 the man and his impulses everybody in Durham and North 
 Carohna well knows. Christian charity and pagan philan- 
 thropists have had their champions since history began to write 
 their deeds, and neither has been willing to admit that the one 
 antedated the other. The great gifts of the enormously rich 
 find their authors divided, a pious Rockefeller on the one side 
 and a doubtfully religious Carnegie giving as freely without 
 
regard for the thing men call religion. There is an irreligious 
 Stephen Girard and his college pledged to the secular spirit 
 solely, but there is a more splendid expression in a score of 
 really religious men who heed the still small voice within them. 
 There is an egoist who protests that all of these generous gifts 
 in hospitals, asylums, and their kindred are but the assertion of 
 selfishness where the community assumes the attitude of the 
 individual and declines to harbor the sick, the maimed, and 
 imbecile. 
 
 All of these disagreeing factors searching for the secret 
 springs of human action might well agree that there is in our 
 midst one man who has accepted the Nazarene's simple dictum, 
 that a kindness to one of the least of men is a ministration to 
 the greatest of men; that no personal equation has entered into 
 this broad charity. It is a corporate Good Samaritan, the con- 
 crete expression of human service, an inspiration founded in 
 the aspiration to be the chief among men — and their servant, 
 and lastly the gift of love out of the pure heart of George W. 
 Watts, of Durham. 
 
 George W. Watts, in turning over the hospital to the city of 
 Durham, said: 
 
 "Fifteen years ago, February 21 next, we presented to Dur- 
 ham the hospital on Main Street, containing twenty-one beds 
 and costing 130,000, with an endowment of |20,ooo. 
 
 "For some three or four years afterward we were much dis- 
 appointed in the failure of the public in general to make use of 
 the institution. Yet the reasons now seem obvious. But few 
 of the smaller cities or larger towns had hospitals, and their 
 uses were not only not known, but misapprehended by the large 
 majority of our citizens. They were regarded as places where 
 the sick were taken to die, and those in need of surgical atten- 
 tion to be mutilated. Time was required to correct this im- 
 pression and educate the people as to the true intent and pur- 
 pose of the hospital. 
 
 "Those in charge and our medical fraternity continued faith- 
 ful in advocating the advantages to the sick of such a place. 
 Those who had been patients were pleased and told others of 
 their experiences. The hospital then began to grow in popular 
 
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favor, until there ceased to be room for the applicants. This 
 required, in the spring of 1906, an additional two-story build- 
 ing, containing eight wards with the necessary baths, kitchens, 
 etc. Even this, however, did not supply the demands and the 
 opportunity of doing the greatest amount of good, so we began 
 to think of bigger and better things. The matter was carefully 
 considered for many months and discussed with my family. 
 We concluded that a new hospital, to meet all the demands for 
 years to come and modern in all respects, might be erected for 
 about 175,000. Then the architect was sent for and a location 
 sought. He disapproved of an addition to the old hospital be- 
 cause of lack of room as well as the noise and smoke from the 
 street and trains. Sentiment for the old place was hard to over- 
 come. The present location was selected after careful inspec- 
 tion of all the available sites near Durham. The architects 
 submitted plans; these were changed as other useful features 
 were suggested, until the final plans had grown several times 
 larger than originally contemplated. Work was started in May, 
 1908, and now, after nineteen months, we bid you welcome to 
 the consummation of the first group of buildings, which we 
 believe you will find as nearly complete as a small hospital can 
 be. Much work yet remains to be done on the grounds ; this will 
 be continued until the grounds are as complete as the buildings. 
 
 "It is our desire and purpose to erect next year a nurses' home 
 on the north side of the main building, similar in outward ap- 
 pearance to the general pavilion now on the south side. 
 
 "We also hope from time to time, as the demands for more 
 space grow, to add other pavilions, or wards, in conformity to a 
 plan for a large group of buildings. 
 
 "In response to a desire expressed by many it may not be 
 amiss to give approximately the cost, as follows : 
 
 Land, grading, drives, fencing, etc $25,000.00 
 
 Buildings 1 74,000.00 
 
 Furniture and equipment (not including what we 
 
 can use from old hospital) 14,000.00 
 
 Water pipings, etc 2,800.00 
 
 X-ray and clinical laboratory (estimated) 1,200.00 
 
 Total I2 1 7,000.00 
 
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"And now, Mr. Chairman, it is a great pleasure to hand to 
 you, as the representative of the trustees and the people, the 
 deed for this property, to be yours as long as it is used exclu- 
 sively for a hospital for the sick, at which board, attention, and 
 nursing shall be free to the indigent sick of Durham City and 
 County. May it ever be conducted in the true Christian or 
 Christ-like spirit, where all distinctions of class or creed fade 
 away in the one universal desire to bind up the wounds, to re- 
 lieve the pains, and strengthen the courage of our common hu- 
 manity. 
 
 "In addition, Mr. Chairman, I hand you securities amount- 
 ing to $100,000 to be added to the endowment. At a convenient 
 time I will increase the endowment to |20o,ooo, and until this 
 is done I shall contribute in cash sufficient to make the income 
 from this source as if the amount of the endowment was already 
 
 |200,000." 
 
 President J. C. Kilgo, of Trinity College, made the following 
 address : 
 
 DR. KILGO'S SPEECH 
 
 "The event which calls us together to-day creates a new date 
 in the calendar of Durham. These splendid buildings, occupy- 
 ing the summit of this hill and overlooking our city, appeal to 
 every noble impulse of our minds and inspire in us all a gratitude 
 which we cannot express. The brick and mortar and timber 
 which have gone into their construction are visible and can be 
 easily reckoned in their commercial values and estimated in 
 their architectural form. But as expensive as they are, they do 
 not constitute the real material out of which this superb hos- 
 pital has been built. Into these walls has been put an invisible 
 material which was not dug out of the clay or cut out of the 
 forests, nor can it be measured in cubic yards and valued in the 
 terms of the market. 
 
 "Here the things which do appear were made of the things 
 which do not appear. Faith, hope, and love have gone into 
 every piece of material that is in these buildings, while they are 
 the eternal foundation that holds these walls in place and gives 
 to them incalculable worth. These are the things that shine 
 
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with immortal splendor from these walls and stir in us the deep- 
 est feelings of thankfulness. 
 
 "Nothing seems surer in the world than that goodness is 
 steadily winning its battle. Its advance has been and is still 
 slow and oftentimes apparently not at all, but in events like this 
 is proclaimed its progress, and faith is given another indisput- 
 able reason for its hopes. Listening to voices of sorrow, wit- 
 nessing the struggles of men, and seeing the desperate powers 
 of evil that are at work on all sides, one is apt to grow despond- 
 ent and yield himself to gloom and to despair. But the world 
 has come a long distance of progress from the reign of paganism 
 and brutal disregard of human needs to this moment and to this 
 place. It is a long distance from the savage custom of slaugh- 
 tering the captives of war to the patient and expensive care in 
 well-ordered hospitals of the wounded enemy taken on the field 
 of battle. 
 
 "Freedom has come a long journey from the days when in 
 Attica there were three slaves to every freeman, and in Sparta 
 seven Helots to every free citizen. Rome in the vainglory of 
 its greed, lust, and blind brutality boasted that when the Colos- 
 seum, that temple of bestial shame and wild savagery, fell, 
 then Rome would fall, and when Rome fell the world would 
 fall. But the Colosseum has fallen and Rome has fallen, yet 
 the world abides and in the place of the temple of human 
 slaughter are schools and asylums and hospitals and churches. 
 These things tell the story of human progress and assure the 
 faith of those who truly believe in the triumphant destiny of 
 truth and righteousness. 
 
 "Such deeds as this are therefore of deep and far-reaching 
 meaning. It is common enough to think of them as monuments 
 which will gratefully perpetuate the memory of those who do 
 them, and this is inevitably true; but the minds from which 
 they spring do not so intend them. Deeper and mightier 
 motives inspire such noble work. It is also easy to see the im- 
 mediate benefits which will flow from them, and this is full of 
 assurance and encouragement, yet it is far from summing up 
 the total outcome. They have their places in the wide sweep 
 of patriotic and sanctified labor to make this world a better 
 
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world, to take from the shoulders of mankind something of the 
 load that is crushing out life, to drive away some of the clouds 
 that make the way of human history dark and dangerous for 
 those who must go along its roughest parts, to add some new 
 force to the powers that are making for universal good, and to 
 unite with the Saviour of mankind in the vast enterprise of hu- 
 man redemption. In this larger perspective this hospital had 
 its birth, and in this larger setting alone can the meaning of its 
 buildings and equipments and ministries be correctly read. 
 
 "While we as citizens of Durham and the recipients of this 
 munificent gift cannot and do not wish to restrain self-congrat- 
 ulations, yet it may not be amiss to remind ourselves in this 
 hour of gratitude and joy that this donation brings to us new 
 tasks and demands of us all new and larger fidelity to human 
 welfare. It is a true cause for thanksgiving that we have in our 
 midst a home where our suffering may receive the ministry of 
 wise experts and the patient care of the faithful nurse. But we 
 are charged with the care and the support of this superb hos- 
 pital, than which there is none better in the South, if there is a 
 single one so excellent. The measure of its service will be the 
 degree of our fidelity to our duty. If in the place of verbal 
 praise we bestow substantial support, we shall not only extend 
 good, but we will make our gracious benefactor doubly glad 
 that he trusted us. We must keep ourselves reminded that 
 out of the success of one effort springs another and a larger 
 effort. 
 
 "Into these elegant halls will come an unbroken line of weak 
 and suffering men, women, and children in search of health and 
 a longer life. Their faces will be pale and their bodies trembling 
 with disease. Some must go down into the operating room, 
 where they will come face to face with death. The many ele- 
 gant rooms that have been provided with scientific care are 
 to be the scenes of sufferings and weary waiting. The glee of 
 this happy hour will soon be hushed in behalf of the sick, and 
 the groan of pain will take the place of our laughter. When 
 we pass along the way in our evening drives, the quiet dignity 
 of these buildings should be a message of sympathy addressed 
 
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to our conscience, and not one of us should be so dead to truth 
 and mercy as not to hear the voice. To remember our sick out 
 here will make us a people with deeper souls, larger hearts, wider 
 spirits, and diviner servants. I am much disposed to reckon 
 the Watts Hospital into our system of education, where the 
 people of Durham are trained in mercy, in human sympathy, 
 and Christly love. 
 
 "But far beyond our borders must the service of this institu- 
 tion be extended. As the years multiply and the ministry in 
 this place goes on, this will become less and less a Durham in- 
 stitution. We may to-day call it ours, to-morrow it will as truly 
 belong to all this region, and any sick man may equally call 
 it his, though he may not be able to speak a word of our lan- 
 guage. From this beautiful summit will go forth a light of hope 
 that will penetrate into the sick room of the palace and fall 
 with cheer on the poor bed of the pale child in the mountain 
 cabin. It will shed forth a light that will make clearer the way 
 of that heroic servant, the country physician, who toils away 
 without facilities to serve the people among whom he lives. 
 But far better still, this hilltop will be radiant by day and by 
 night with that heavenly light which the Saviour of mankind 
 shed nearly two thousand years ago on the hills, in the valleys, 
 and along roads of Judea, and which has shone brighter and 
 brighter to this good day. Here is an altar of mercy upon which 
 the light of His healing grace rests with ceaseless splendor. 
 
 "1 heartily congratulate our people in our city who have so 
 many causes to be thankful for the things they have, and to 
 show their gratitude by deeds of kindness that shall be known 
 and read of all men. 1 congratulate the sick who may come 
 hither with confidence and get from this institution all that it 
 has to give. I congratulate our faithful physicians that they 
 have at their command such rare instruments and agencies to 
 do the work to which they have been called and dedicated. I 
 congratulate those unselfish women who have given themselves 
 to the task of nursing the sick that they have such an elegant 
 home, such exceptional opportunities to study their profession, 
 and such excellent chances to minister to the suffering. 
 
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"And while I would not mar this hour with words of flattery, 
 yet gratitude, justice, and truth unite to demand that I sin- 
 cerely congratulate him, our fellow-townsman, Mr. George W. 
 Watts, not only that he has come into larger resources of wealth, 
 but especially that his heart is rich with the feelings of brother- 
 hood, that his ear is open to the groan of the sick, that his eyes 
 cannot look undimmed upon the suffering, and that his hand 
 cannot shut itself against the call of helpless men. These are 
 things that give him a regnant place in the esteem of all good 
 men, and while we value as best we can this great plant which 
 to-day he gives to us, more than it all we value the man whose 
 heart conceived it and whose hand built it, and from him we 
 would learn something of the lesson of good will which he seems 
 so well fitted to teach. And I am sure that all present and all 
 absent will unite truly with me in expressing our assurance of 
 esteem for him who has wrought so well among us in the years 
 that he has lived in our midst. In every good work he has stood 
 in the hottest part of the line of battle, his voice has joined our 
 voices in the hymns we sing in our temples of holy worship, his 
 prayers have been united with ours that the God of us all would 
 keep us in the right way, his fine simplicity of spirit and living 
 has made him one of us, while his quiet and steadfast faith in 
 Christ has given us an inspiring example of Christian living. 
 With gratitude we take his gift, and with joy Vv'e give him, if it 
 is possible, a larger place in our thankful hearts." 
 
 The Morning Herald, Durham, North CaroHna, December 3, 1909. 
 
 WATTS HOSPITAL OPENING A 
 BRILLIANT EVENT 
 
 THOUSANDS VIEW THE VARIOUS ROOMS AND LISTEN TO ADDRESSES 
 
 THAT MARKED THE EXERCISES — GENEROUS DONOR WILL 
 
 MAKE ENDOWMENT $200,000 
 
 More than looo people fell over themselves literally this after- 
 noon crowding into the varied rooms of the new Watts Hospital 
 
in their efforts to hear all of the addresses and take their small 
 part in the ceremonies that marked its opening. 
 
 Its generous author's formal presentation had a sentence in 
 it that indicated a change of community attitude toward sana- 
 toriums. When he gave the first hospital that stands next to 
 Trinity College, he said he was greatly disappointed in the way 
 the people received its advent. A corporate Good Samaritan 
 (though he didn't intimate as much) was welcomed, not as an 
 inn where the pain-worn traveler stopped for rest, but as a sec- 
 ond-rate butcher shop where exquisite tortures were inflicted by 
 medical tyros. The donor himself said the first idea of the public 
 was that the hospital was a place where men were mutilated, 
 mostly by experimentalists, and the public feared them. That 
 was a decade and a half ago. He had lived to see interest stim- 
 ulated in modern medical science and had been forced to en- 
 large his gifts. Later he conceived the present plan, which is a 
 finality with to-day's ceremonies. 
 
 In presenting the hospital Mr. Watts first off"ered the deed to 
 the property and then laid down a certificate for 1 100,000, which 
 will be its first endowment. He followed this with the an- 
 nouncement that the institution would need cash, and from 
 time to time he meant to furnish it, the amount that a $200,000 
 endowment would mean. 
 
 The hospital was received by James H. Southgate in an elo- 
 quent resume of a successful life, one which he said has been 
 projected rightly in every interest of the city. He spoke of Mr. 
 Watts's benefactions here, at Barium Springs Orphanage, Union 
 Theological Seminary, and Elizabeth College, all for the com- 
 mon good and with no thought of himself. "He belongs to that 
 young race of men," Mr. Southgate said, "who in our old Com- 
 monwealth Club used to plan, when Durham was but a manu- 
 facturing shanty, with the station and the post-office as the 
 city's visiting places daily, a young race of men who laid such 
 foundations that no one, two, or three generations of men can 
 build such superstructures as to crush those foundations. Look 
 at that Maryland boy," Mr. Southgate continued, "and see one 
 of the State's, one of our nation's, most noble philanthropists." 
 
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Referring to the wave of philanthropy that sweeps the coun- 
 try, he said: "Let it roll on. We are living in an age of the 
 greatest giving that the world has ever known, and from this 
 day let us set apart this magnificent institution that it may pro- 
 duce the fruit of soundness in men." 
 
 Mayor Griswold spoke very briefly in accepting the building 
 for the Board of Aldermen, declaring that in spite of the popular 
 fear of the hospitals, Mr. Watts had announced in his first re- 
 port in 1905, marking the tenth year, that the building now 
 deserted for the new hospital had grown inadequate. 
 
 County Attorney W. J. Brogden accepted the hospital for 
 the county commissioners. He declared that to be truly philan- 
 thropic, religion, science, and brotherhood must conspire in the 
 human heart. 
 
 Dr. A. C. Jordan, for the Medical Society, praised the gift 
 and read resolutions that the Medical Society had passed in 
 accepting the gift. The doctor declared that the opening of the 
 institution sets a new date in the Durham calendar. The brick 
 and mortar in the sanatorium may tell its material worth, but 
 he said no estimate of its significance could be made. Faith, 
 hope, and love in unmeasured degree are in all of the bricks and 
 walls. The gift, he said, imposes the obligation to live up to its 
 fine spirit and makes receiving it in itself a high duty. 
 
 Dr. Kilgo said that the builder of this institution did not 
 dream of erecting a monument to himself, but had done it any 
 way, and "united with the Saviour of mankind in the redemp- 
 tion of mankind. The measure of service of this institution will 
 be the degree of fidelity to our duty. I wished when 1 penned 
 that line that I could rivet it upon your consciences." 
 
 The address of Dr. Kilgo was immediately followed by an in- 
 spection of the hospital. 
 
 There was nothing to be added to the day. Fine weather, 
 fine interest, short and inspiring addresses, and the simple giv- 
 ing that makes one believe that there are folks who are impelled 
 to do things from purely altruistic motives, all left the good 
 taste in the system that will not leave with the break of crowd. 
 
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FACTS ABOUT THE WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 The Watts Hospital was designed by the late Bertrand E. 
 Taylor, of Boston, who died before it reached completion, and 
 was the last of a chain of more than 200 which he erected in this 
 and the old countries. It was built by John T. Wilson, of 
 Richmond, the builder of the Jefferson Hotel and Mutual Build- 
 ing, of Richmond, and many other handsome structures in the 
 South. His class of work is almost entirely reinforced con- 
 crete, and of this the new Watts Hospital is made entirely, being 
 thoroughly fire-proof and of brick where concrete isn't used. 
 The main building is three stories, but the accessories are two 
 stories, and form now a sort of triangle, and not connected with 
 the hospital building except by a kind of arcade. The laundry 
 and engine-room are together, the laundry being over the 
 engine. 
 
 The hospital is beautifully situated over a twenty-five-acre 
 campus, half a mile west of Trinity College and the highest 
 place about the city. It is easily seen by travelers, and even 
 at that distance can be seen to be a magnificent institution. 
 To the rear of the building Mr. Watts is developing a park of 
 twelve or more acres, something that will be a rendezvous for 
 those who live there and those who come to be with their sick. 
 
 THE HOSPITAL 
 The sanatorium itself is the admiration of every man who has 
 seen it, and there is said generally to be nothing in all the South 
 its superior. New Orleans and Baltimore are accredited with 
 having no better. Though designed for 175,000 originally, its 
 first cost has gone to |2 1 7,000 for site and buildings, and a trip 
 through it will relieve any possible impression of extravagance 
 in the work. Mr. Watts may be said to have been its superin- 
 tendent. The plans were the architect's, but his own mind has 
 evolved the structure and equipment to its present degree of 
 magnificence. 
 
 WILL BUILD NURSES' HOME 
 Mr. Watts has determined to erect next spring a nurses' home, 
 which will be in appearance, externally, the exact replica of the 
 
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chanty wards in the building that sits farthest south. When 
 completed, the chain will be one beautifully symmetrical, and 
 the cost will be run up to $250,000 for buildings alone. 
 
 One lonely ward is set off for the contagious disease patients. 
 None of such will be taken, but it can't always be avoided, and 
 treatment of such will always be necessary. There is a chemical 
 laboratory, a dietitian's room, this lady being an expert in the 
 foods allowed convalescents and there for no other purpose. 
 There is every other room that anybody ever thought necessary, 
 and nobody who has gone through the building has been able 
 to make a suggestion as to one of its needs. 
 
 ITS CONTROL 
 
 There will be no visible head to the institution. It is as much 
 the county's as the city's, and the Durham Medical Society will 
 control it. What they do in the way of operations, employment 
 of other physicians, and the like will be their own concern. Mr. 
 Watts gives this institution to the ill-fortunate of his county 
 with the simple recommendation that no worthy poor be shut 
 out from its blessings. He builds a nurses' home that none may 
 be denied their comfort in their poverty. And all of this is done 
 with the true charity that is not puffed up. 
 
 The simple ceremonies which the public witnessed to-day 
 were in keeping with his desires. No show at the Academy of 
 Music would be permitted, and everything was had at the home 
 of the hospital. Representing every phase of life that will have 
 actual share in the hospital's blessings there was some one to 
 make a speech of acceptance for the gift, which is one of the 
 largest that any resident of North Carolina has ever been able to 
 make in behalf of the least of men. 
 
 Greensboro Daily News, December 3, 1909. 
 
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HONORS 
 
"/ am among you as one that serveth" 
 
 GEORGE W. WATTS 
 
 ELECTED MODERATOR OF THE SYNOD 
 
 OF NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 'he synod honored itself in the nomination of 
 George W. Watts as its Moderator. Dr. Hill 
 disqualified a good many of the brethren by say- 
 ing that it was necessary, on this occasion of 
 feminine numerousness, to have a good-looking 
 man as Moderator. There were other pleasant things said about 
 Mr. Watts, but what we should like to have understood is that 
 the Synod of North Carolina did not elect him because he is a 
 rich man who has given of his means to the causes of the church. 
 It has recognized what has been known about him for many 
 years, his simple, unaiTected piety and Christian zeal. It was not 
 the building of a church for his factory employees and friends so 
 much as the fact that Sunday after Sunday, year in and year 
 out, wet and dry and hot and cold, he is to be found at his post 
 teaching a Sunday-school class there. It is not that he has 
 made large gifts that could not be kept from the knowledge of 
 men, but that the members of the Synod have come to learn 
 through the years that he is guilty of left-handed ignorance of 
 right-hand beneficence. In these days of the revelation of 
 unsavory things about the self-indulgent rich, of dishonest 
 things about those who have hasted to be rich, it is refreshing 
 
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to know a man of Mr. Watts's type. And it is the simple truth 
 that the Synod, while grateful for his benefactions, is more 
 grateful for the abiding influence of his Christian character. 
 
 Presbyterian Standard, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 1, 1905. 
 
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OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA 
 
 March 25, 1921. 
 Mrs. George W. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 As 1 wrote you a few days ago, our Board has determined to 
 confer the Degree of Doctor of Laws upon your husband at the 
 approaching commencement of the University, in recognition 
 of his outstanding services in the promotion of education and 
 the founding of philanthropic and religious institutions. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board held yesterday the recommenda- 
 tions previously made were considered and, by unanimous ac- 
 tion, the Board decided that the lamented death of Mr. Watts 
 should in no way change their intentions, but that the degree 
 which had already, in effect, been conferred, should be an- 
 nounced on Commencement Day, and the diploma, properly 
 engrossed, forwarded to yourself at that time. 
 
 I think that you will be very much interested in learning that 
 this is the third Degree of Doctor of Laws given by Oglethorpe 
 University, the first being to President Woodrow Wilson, a copy 
 of whose acceptance I am enclosing, believing that you would 
 like to keep it for historical interest, and the other will be con- 
 ferred on Bishop Gailor, who preaches our Baccalaureate Ser- 
 mon for us in May. 
 
 The Board asks me to convey to you their genuine sympathy, 
 for they, also, are sorrowed by the loss of so good a friend and 
 so true and loyal a comrade in this great enterprise. 
 
 Heartily yours, 
 
 Thornwell Jacobs, 
 
 President. 
 
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LIST OF CLUBS TO WHICH MR. WATTS BELONGED 
 
 Apavvamis Club, Rye, New York 
 
 Automobile Club of America 
 
 Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Colonnade Club, University of Virginia 
 
 Commonwealth Club, Durham, N. C. 
 
 ^ Country Club, Durham, N. C. 
 
 Quail Roost Gun Club, Durham, N. C. 
 
 Seaview Golf Club, Absecon, N. J. 
 
 Seniors Golf Club, Palm Beach, Fla. 
 
 Tin Whistlers, Pinehurst, N. C. 
 
 Winter Golf League of Advertising Interests, Pinehurst, N. C. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS 
 
 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, MISSIONS, EDUCATIONAL 
 
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'And Jems called a little child unto Him and set him in the midst of them' 
 
 GEORGE W. WATTS AS A SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKER 
 
 ;Y ACQUAINTANCE with Mr. Watts reaches 
 back full twenty-five years and came about be- 
 cause of his interest in the Sunday-school work. 
 1 met him first in connection with the Interna- 
 ^i_^ tional Sunday-school Association. In the early 
 days he became a member of the Executive Committee, repre- 
 senting the State of North Carolina. According to a ruling that 
 was then in force, when anybody had been a member of the 
 International Committee for twenty years, he was constituted 
 a Life Member. Mr. Watts was elected to this position at the 
 Buft'alo Convention, in 1918, indicating that he had served 
 twenty years prior to that time. He was always, ever since I 
 have known him, officially connected with the Sunday-school 
 work of his own State, and was superintendent of his own 
 Sunday-school in Durham. 
 
 I have had opportunity to become well acquainted with this 
 dear brother through years of fellowship and association, hav- 
 ing crossed the ocean and traveled in foreign lands with him. 
 This gave me an opportunity to know him in a very intimate 
 way. I think I have never known a man in my life, of his finan- 
 cial standing in the world and wide connection with great busi- 
 ness enterprises, and with all possessing such large ability as 
 an administrator of great afi"airs and also as a Christian worker, 
 who was as quiet, modest, and retiring as Mr. Watts. While 
 he brought great things to pass, he never sought the credit for 
 
anything he did, but passed it on to others in a gracious way 
 that showed the bigness of his heart and his loyalty to his Mas- 
 ter, of Whom it was said "He pleased not Himself." 
 
 To know Mr. Watts was to love him. His convictions were 
 always strong, and everybody knew he meant just what he said, 
 and yet he was tender as a woman, always ready to lend a help- 
 ing hand wherever needed. This was shown in his munificent 
 gifts for the relief of suffering at home and abroad and his great 
 devotion to the missionary enterprises of the church. His 
 name will live as long as time lasts, because of his consistent 
 Christian life. The influence of such lives never perishes. 
 
 Marion Lawrence, 
 Consulting General Secretary, 
 International Sunday-school Association. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN SUN- 
 DAY-SCHOOL ON THE DEATH OF MR. GEORGE W. 
 WATTS, WHO FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS WAS SU- 
 PERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOL 
 
 We come to-day with one accord to give voice first of all to the 
 deep and sore personal loss which has come to every one of us 
 in the taking away of him whom we have for the thirty-five 
 years of his splendid leadership as our Superintendent looked 
 up to and respected and loved as the very heart and soul of our 
 school. God, the Father, had first place with him always, and 
 he consecrated to His service fully the splendid powers which 
 gave him early in life a leading place among the industrial and 
 financial leaders of the nation. He was one of the commanding 
 leaders of our church, and he devoted not only his means but his 
 personal service and thought generously to every feature of the 
 church work. 
 
 The Sunday-school, however, made the strongest appeal to 
 him. He looked upon it as the institution of the church which 
 not only trained the children and led them to God, but he 
 thought of it as a great Bible school which was for all the peo- 
 ple, a place where all should learn to know God and thus be led to 
 love Him and serve Him. With this conception of the supreme 
 importance of the work of the Sunday-school, he devoted his 
 best thought and interest to it, and so deeply and broadly did 
 he think and work in this field that he became years ago one of 
 the prominent world Sunday-school leaders. 
 
 He brought to this Sunday-school the vision, inspiration, and 
 direction of such a leader, and gave to it in this leadership 
 a very distinctive place among the Sunday-schools of this 
 country. 
 
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The welfare and progress of this school were a passion with 
 him, and he never suffered any of his personal or business in- 
 terests to interfere with his work here among us. Those of us 
 who knew him best felt for years that of all the various activi- 
 ties of his life, his work and leadership in this school had the 
 first place. His cheering smile and affectionate handclasp for 
 thirty-five years made this a happy place for hundreds of girls 
 and boys and men and women. 
 
 Promptness, punctuality in meeting every obligation, and 
 discharging every task with thoroughness as soon as it came to 
 hand, early in life ceased to be senses and became second nature 
 to him. He preached these things here and lived them among 
 us so perfectly as to bring power to this school, and inspiration 
 and blessing and strength to many lives who were privileged to 
 touch him here. His vigorous, forceful, vital, and lovable per- 
 sonality drew us toward him, and inspired us with impelling 
 force to more and more faithful service. His loyalty and devo- 
 tion to this school, and, above all, his deep and abiding faith in 
 our Lord and his love and service for Him, made this a place 
 where little children and men and women learned to love the 
 Master and to consecrate their lives to Him in service. 
 
 We come in deep grief and with a profound sense of our un- 
 paralleled loss in the death of this noble man of God whom we 
 loved so dearly and who has led us so faithfully through all these 
 years. We bow, however, in deep submission to the will of the 
 Almighty God, and with hearts grateful to Him that He has 
 given us through these long years the blessing of the leadership 
 of His great servant and of our noble and true friend. We shall 
 cherish his memory forever, and we pray God that He may 
 give us the strength and will to follow his great example and to 
 honor his memory in carrying on the work which has fallen 
 from his hands. 
 
 William D. Carmichael, 
 Chairman of the Committee. 
 
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FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
 ASSOCIATION IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED 
 
 Whereas, our highly esteemed and beloved Executive Com- 
 mitteeman, George W. Watts, of Durham, passed away on the 
 yth day of March, 192 1 ; and whereas, for more than ten years 
 he was a faithful, generous, and loyal friend to the North Caro- 
 lina Sunday-school Association and to Sunday-school work 
 everywhere : 
 
 Therefore, be it Resolved by The North Carolina Sunday- 
 school Association in convention assembled: That in the 
 death of George W. Watts the North Carolina Sunday-school 
 Association has lost a staunch and liberal friend, the State of 
 North Carolina a useful and distinguished citizen, and our 
 Christian forces a true and faithful leader; 
 
 That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes 
 of this Convention, and a copy sent to the family of our de- 
 ceased brother. 
 
 The above resolutions were adopted at the last session of the 
 State Sunday-school Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina, 
 April 1 2- 1 3- 1 4, 1 92 1. 
 
 D.W.Sims, 
 General Superintendent. 
 
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE SABBATH SCHOOL 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., March ii, 1921. 
 Mrs. Sara V. Watts, 
 Durham, North Carolina. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 Through the International Office I have been advised of the 
 death of your good husband. This is indeed a great shock to 
 me, as it is to the many Sunday-school workers throughout the 
 country who knew your husband and learned to love him. 
 
 My last contact with him was in Tokyo, on the floor of that 
 great convention, as we were raising money for the World's 
 work. He was greatly interested and enjoyed that service seem- 
 ingly more than any of the rest. 
 
 It fell to my lot to make the appeal, and I never will forget 
 the good words he gave to me in appreciation of the way in 
 which the service was handled. 
 
 It is hard to lose loved ones, and this letter of sympathy, I 
 know, is far from being adequate in its consolation, for words 
 are such meaningless things at a time like this. However, I do 
 want you to know that the friends of your good husband 
 suffer this loss with you, and unitedly will hold you tenderly 
 in prayer to the Throne of Grace for the strength that you need 
 in this hour. 
 
 Mrs. Landes joins me in this letter, and we both commend 
 you to the love of our Elder Brother, who knows how to give 
 consolation at such a time as this. 
 
 Believe me to be, 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 W. G. Landes. 
 
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CALIFORNIA STATE SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., 
 March 21, 1921. 
 Mrs. Geo. W. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 Just a line to extend the sympathy of the Sunday-school 
 workers of California to you and family during your bereave- 
 ment. I knew Mr. Watts personally, and he has left a rich in- 
 heritance of Christian character to his family. 
 
 Again extending the sympathy of our Sunday-school work- 
 ers on the Pacific Coast, and praying God's blessing to rest upon 
 you and yours, I remain. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 CALIFORNIA STATE SUNDAY- 
 SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 
 C. R. Fisher, 
 General Superintendent. 
 
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MARYLAND SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 
 
 Baltimore, Md., 
 March 1 1, 1921. 
 Mrs. George W. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 Dr. Pearce informs us that one of the pillars of the Interna- 
 tional staff, in the person of your husband, has fallen. A great 
 record of a quarter of a century, however, remains. Your hus- 
 band could not have been in a greater work, as the Sunday- 
 school work is the greatest of which the human mind can con- 
 ceive. 
 
 Please accept, therefore, the deepest sympathy of the State 
 of Maryland in your bereavement. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Abner B. Brown, 
 General Secretary. 
 
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MAINE STATE SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 
 
 Portland, Maine, 
 March 1 1, 1921. 
 Mrs. Sara V. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 I have received word this morning through the International 
 office at Chicago of the death of your husband, who for so long 
 a time was an honored member of the International Executive 
 Committee. 
 
 Please accept the sincere regrets and sympathy of the Maine 
 State Sunday-school Association. All Association workers will 
 feel a deep sense of loss in the passing of your distinguished 
 husband. 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 E. H. Brewster, 
 General Secretary. 
 
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WISCONSIN SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 
 
 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 
 
 March 12, 1921. 
 Mrs. Sara V. Watts, 
 Durham, North Carolina. 
 
 Dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 I am just advised by Mr. W. C. Pearce of your sad bereave- 
 ment. 
 
 Any words Vi'hich I might offer seem like formality, but I 
 wish you to know that I sympathize with you at this time. 
 
 There is only one source to whom we can go in such times, 
 and I am sure the Master would never fail us. 
 
 With very sincere respect, I am. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 William Mainland, 
 President, Wisconsin Sunday-school Association. 
 
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NEW JERSEY SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 
 
 Newark, N. J., March 12, 1921. 
 Mrs. Sara V. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 A letter from Mr. Pearce, our Acting General Secretary, 
 brings us the sad news of your husband's death. Though it was 
 not my privilege to have had fellowship with him personally, I 
 have known through our State leaders of his very excellent 
 character and work, and want to express the sympathy of the 
 State workers of New Jersey as well as my own personally to 
 you and say that we share with you the feeling of the loss of a 
 great and good man in the Master's Kingdom. 
 
 You of course have the comfort and consciousness of his 
 splendid Christian character and the great service he had ren- 
 dered to the cause of Christ. 
 
 Commending you to Him Who careth for you, I am, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Jos. E. Appley. 
 
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMiMlTTEE OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF 
 
 UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 
 George W. Watts 
 
 The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Union 
 Theological Seminary, in session for the first time since the 
 death of Mr. George W. Watts, a member of this Committee, de- 
 sires to place on record its deep and keen sense of sorrow and be- 
 reavement occasioned by his death, which occurred in Durham, 
 North Carolina, March 7, 192 1. 
 
 For many years Mr. Watts was the efficient President of the 
 Board of Trustees of the Seminary, and in addition to his great 
 liberality to the institution he brought to the meetings of the 
 Board the benefit of extensive business experience and the force 
 of his noble Christian character. 
 
 He was likewise an honored and valued member of this Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, and when able to attend the meetings in 
 the interval between the Board meetings, by his genial person- 
 ality, his fine business sense, his deep interest in the things of 
 the kingdom, his large outlook upon the world, he contributed 
 much to the results of the deliberations and the wisdom of the 
 Committee's actions. 
 
 An earnest and devoted Christian gentleman, an active 
 church worker, a most liberal benefactor to the Seminary and 
 to all worthy benevolences, known and honored throughout the 
 church as well as in his own city, he was a faithful exponent 
 of the religion of his Master Whom he served, and his death 
 is mourned by the whole church, and especially by this 
 Seminary. 
 
Be it Resolved: 
 
 1. That in the death of Mr. Watts the Seminary mourns 
 the loss of one who had endeared himself to us all and who 
 combined such deep spiritual power with such fine business 
 ability which he always used gladly for the Master. 
 
 2. That we bow in humble submission to Him Who doeth 
 all things well, and say, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth 
 good in Thy sight." 
 
 3. That we express to Mrs. Watts and to his daughter, Mrs. 
 John Sprunt Hill, our deepest sympathy, and "commend them 
 to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build them 
 up and give them an inheritance among all them that are sanc- 
 tified." 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN 
 CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES UPON THE RE- 
 CENT DEATH OF MR. GEORGE W. WATTS 
 
 The Executive Committee of Foreign Missions desires to put 
 on record its profound appreciation of the noble missionary 
 spirit of Mr. George W. Watts and of his eminent services to 
 the missionary cause. Among his numerous Foreign Mission 
 gifts may be mentioned the annual $13,000 which for many 
 years he gave for the support of the missionaries of the Soon- 
 chun station in Korea, and which eventually he made perma- 
 nent by an endowment fund of 1256,600. He also supported 
 missionaries in Cuba and Africa, and recently donated $48,000 
 as an endowment fund for the permanent support of a mission- 
 ary pair in the latter country. 
 
 To all the missionaries he was a loyal and sympathetic friend, 
 and in an especial manner to those whom he supported, invari- 
 ably and promptly answering their letters and affectionately 
 interested in all that concerned them. 
 
 We warmly appreciate and highly value his public testimony, 
 given on his return from his recent trip to Korea, that the suc- 
 cess and extent of the work there had far exceeded his expecta- 
 tions, and that he considered his missionary investment in that 
 country the most satisfactory investment he had ever made. 
 
 Throughout the years he has been the constant friend of the 
 Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, aiding its work not 
 only by his means but by his wise counsel. For several months 
 he was a member of the Committee, making monthly the long 
 trip from Durham to Nashville and back, and winning the ad- 
 
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miring affection of his fellow-members by the soundness of his 
 judgment and the charm of his personality. In their varied 
 relations with him the Foreign Mission Committee always 
 found him the golden-hearted Christian gentleman, walking 
 humbly in the steps and illustrating the spirit of Him Who 
 came not to be ministered unto but to minister. 
 
 To his loved ones we express our sincere sympathy in their 
 bereavement, and we pray that upon his descendants to the 
 third and fourth generation may rest a double portion of his 
 spirit. 
 
 Egbert W. Smith, 
 Executive Secretary. 
 
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FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF HOME 
 
 MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 IN THE UNITED STATES 
 
 In Memoriam 
 
 George W. Watts, of Durham, North Carolina, 
 March 7, 1921 
 
 In the removal by death from the scene of his earthly labors 
 of George W. Watts, our beloved and worthy fellovv'-worker, 
 the Executive Committee of Flome Missions has lost one of its 
 most sympathetic and noblest friends. About ten years ago he 
 voluntarily assumed the support of Stuart Robinson School at 
 Blackey, Kentucky, and subsequently expressed his purpose at 
 the proper time of taking a worthy part in giving this institu- 
 tion permanent and adequate equipment in appropriate build- 
 ings. Flis benefactions were not confined, however, to this one 
 school. On several occasions of his own accord he made sub- 
 stantial contributions to the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, 
 and in all the great enterprises undertaken by the Home Mis- 
 sion Committee he seldom failed to express his interest by gen- 
 erous gifts. He did not need to be urged and he did not give 
 grudgingly. One of the delightful features of his liberality was 
 the cordial and hearty terms in which he expressed his pleasure 
 in making his contributions. 
 
 The breadth of his sympathies and the magnanimity of his 
 heart did not permit the narrowing of his benefactions to even 
 a few worthy causes. He was a public benefactor and a philan- 
 thropist of world-wide sympathies. His loss will be felt not 
 simply in his community and denomination, but in interna- 
 tional spheres and operations. 
 
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To the world he was known for his conspicuous benefactions, 
 but to his church and to his wide circle of intimate friends his 
 most distinguishing trait was his nobility of character as an ideal 
 Christian gentleman. 
 
 "His life was gentle, and the elements 
 So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up 
 And say to all the world, 'This was a man.' " 
 
 With mingled emotions of sorrow and gladness the Executive 
 Committee records its profound appreciation of his generosity 
 to its work and its high appraisement of his Christian character. 
 
 Resolved: 
 
 That we accept with sincere gratitude his generous bequest 
 to the Executive Committee, and that the same be set aside as a 
 Permanent Fund and designated "The George W. Watts Foun- 
 dation" for carrying on the mission supported by him during 
 his earthly life. 
 
 That this Memorial be entered on our records as the expres- 
 sion of our testimony to his genuine worth as a man and a 
 benefactor for the benefit of future generations — an example 
 of the highest ideals of Christian life. 
 
 That a copy of this Memorial be furnished his bereaved fam- 
 ily with the assurance of our tender sympathy in this their 
 sorrow, shared alike by us and the whole church. 
 
 Unanimously adopted by the Executive Committee in its 
 regular monthly session, April 12, 1921. 
 
 S. L. Morris, 
 Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE LAYMEN'S CON- 
 VENTION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 The Laymen's Convention of the Presbyterian Church in 
 the United States, in session at Greenville, South Carolina, has 
 heard with great sorrow of the death of Mr. George W. Watts. 
 
 We feel that a prince and great man in Israel has fallen this 
 day. 
 
 We would record our high estimate of his character, our pro- 
 found gratitude for his noble service to our church, and our 
 deep sorrow at his loss to our work. Every department of our 
 church work has felt the inspiration of his service, the blessing 
 of his mature judgment, and the help of his princely gifts. 
 
 We extend to his bereaved family our most sincere sympathy 
 in their sore loss. 
 
 May the God of all grace most tenderly comfort them. 
 
 C. A. Rowland, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
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FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 
 MISSION COURT 
 
 MEMORIAL OF MR. GEORGE W. WATTS 
 
 The Board of Directors of Mission Court has since its last 
 meeting sustained a heavy loss in the death of Mr. George W. 
 Watts, a member of this body from the time of its organization. 
 His great abilities, his wisdom in counsel, his deep interest in 
 missions, and his concern for the well-being of our workers in 
 foreign lands made him a specially valuable member of an or- 
 ganization which has for its object the promotion of the health, 
 comfort, and efficiency of our devoted missionaries. We lament 
 the loss of a colleague of large vision and loving heart and liberal 
 hand, a truly great servant of God, honored and beloved by all 
 who knew him. We record our gratitude for all that he did for 
 the cause of foreign missions; we rejoice in his example and his 
 abiding influence, and we pray that we who remain may emu- 
 late his consecration and zeal in carrying out the Great Com- 
 mission. 
 
 Mrs. George Randolph Cannon, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF SESSION OF FIRST PRESBYTE- 
 RIAN CHURCH, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, RE- 
 GARDING THE DEPARTURE FROM THIS LIFE OF 
 RULING ELDER GEORGE W. WATTS, MARCH 7, 1921 
 
 Inasmuch as our Heavenly Father hath removed from our 
 midst by death Ruling Elder George W. Watts, this Session, of 
 which he was an honored and esteemed member for thirty-two 
 years, hereby records : 
 
 First. Its humble submission to the wisdom of God in call- 
 ing our beloved brother to that rest which remaineth for the 
 people of God. 
 
 Second. After years of close and intimate fellowship and 
 service with him, we express our profound conviction that God 
 gives to the church few men, either as members or officers, who 
 are so devoted to duty or faithful and efficient in service as our 
 departed brother was. 
 
 Third. We esteemed him for his wise counsel and broad 
 vision regarding the Master's Kingdom at home and abroad, 
 and having depended on his prudent judgment so many years, 
 we keenly feel our loss and deeply mourn his departure. 
 
 Fourth. It is the sense of this Session that his splendid in- 
 fluence and example will abide for years in the hearts and lives 
 of this people whom he loved and for whom he spent and was 
 spent freely. 
 
 Fifth. We hereby record our deep conviction that his in- 
 telligent interest in the outer provinces of our Lord's Kingdom 
 has done much to arouse and stimulate an abiding interest in 
 the cause of both Home and Foreign Missions. 
 
 Sixth. His unfailing interest in the young, especially in the 
 
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Sunday-school, has left a deep, earnest, spiritual impression, 
 not only on those of his own generation, but through a genera- 
 tion now arising who call him blessed. 
 
 Seventh. We express our deep sympathy to his family, and 
 commend them to the gentle care and abundant love and com- 
 fort of our Heavenly Father. 
 
 Subscribed by 
 
 David Scanlon, Moderator. 
 J. R. Patton, Clerk of Session. 
 
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FROM THE BOARD OF DEACONS OF THE 
 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF 
 
 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian 
 Church, of Durham, the following resolutions were adopted: 
 
 The death of George W. Watts brings him a reward for which 
 he had labored throughout his life, the priceless inheritance of 
 a place among God's elect; but as our friend and co-worker, 
 his passing causes us the very deepest sorrow and a full realiza- 
 tion of our great personal loss. 
 
 From the very earliest period of life he heard the call of 
 Christ, "Follow Me," and until the end was a consistent disci- 
 ple of the Master. His great soul was the key to the earthly 
 possessions with which God had blessed him, and at home and 
 abroad he spent his life in spreading the Gospel and helping 
 those who could not help themselves. 
 
 Few men have lived who reached the heights of Christian 
 development as did our departed friend and associate. We 
 can exalt his memory best by undertaking to carry on the work 
 which was so close to his heart, and this we do under the in- 
 spiring influence and example he set before us in life. 
 
 We extend to the bereaved family our deep sympathy and 
 direct that a copy of these resolutions be sent to them, and a 
 copy spread upon the minutes of this Board. 
 
 T. C. Worth, 
 W. G. Bramham, 
 
 L. D. KlRKLAND. 
 
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First Presbyterian Church (the Second Church) 
 and Sundav-school 
 
FROM THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY, FIRST 
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 Durham, N. C, 
 April 9, 1 92 1. 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 The members of Circle No. 6 of the Woman's Auxiliary of 
 1920 and 1 92 1 wish to express to you their love and sympathy 
 in your recent great sorrow and bereavement. Such lives are 
 greatly missed, but leave behind them an inspiration and an 
 incentive to those coming after, to give forth their noblest pow- 
 ers in the channels of truth and righteousness. He lives with 
 us still with an influence that will continue in force as long as 
 memory endures. 
 
 Yours with much love and sympathy, 
 
 Etta F. Murray, 
 Secretary. 
 
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FROM "OUR FATHERLESS ONES" 
 
 The Annie Louise Cottage was built and furnished by Mr. 
 G. W. Watts and named in honor of his only child, Miss Annie 
 Louise. The little girls, the baby girls, live in that house now; 
 but when it was first built, when Miss Annie Louise was herself 
 a girl, it was the only house we had for girls. The dolls in the 
 house were named Annie Louise; when these little ladies put 
 on long dresses and played grown-up, they called themselves 
 Annie Louise. On the night of Miss Annie Louise's marriage 
 in Durham, the Annie Louise Cottage was made to look very 
 beautiful. A light was hung in every Vv'indow, and just at the 
 time of the ceremony prayer service was held by the little people 
 here. Then the little girls played getting married and being 
 Mrs. Hill. When a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mr. 
 Watts, the grandfather of the baby, made a handsome dona- 
 tion to the home, and the father of the little boy has since kept 
 up this generous birthday donation. The little girls felt almost 
 that this baby, George Watts Hill, belonged to them. They 
 were told if they always remembered his birthday and reminded 
 the superintendent a few days before, they might have a holiday 
 in their house. The twenty-seventh of October is the birthday, 
 and it came on Sunday this time, but the little girls celebrated 
 on Monday. They had a glorious time all day, and were allowed 
 to decorate the playroom for the party. The guests were aston- 
 ished when they came in the evening and found that the decorat- 
 ing in the playroom had been by the little girls themselves. It 
 was a literal bower of autumn leaves. How the little hands had 
 reached so high and had succeeded in making the beautiful 
 branches stay there was a marvel to every one. The sitting- 
 room had been converted into a dining-room, but wee ladies 
 
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hadn't had one peep into it. When the door was thrown open 
 and they were ushered in, it was all so beautiful they couldn't 
 restrain their exclamations. Autumn leaves had been used by 
 older hands for decorations in there. The room was lighted with 
 candles. In the center of the room were two large round tables, 
 and the rest of the space was filled with smaller tables. A color- 
 scheme was carried out in red and yellow. Unless you have 
 tried it, you can't think how beautiful this can be made with 
 autumn leaves. The first course consisted of chicken cro- 
 quettes, beaten biscuit, cheese sandwiches, pickle, and coffee; 
 for the second, fruit, salad, and cake were served. At each place 
 were dainty souvenirs made of gilded nut shells tied with red 
 ribbon. When these were opened a picture of little Watts was 
 found. Nothing throughout the whole day pleased the little 
 girls so thoroughly. It was a happy party of children. We said 
 an early good night, remembering that they never keep late 
 hours. The small boys at Synod's Cottage wished that Synod 
 had a birthday. 
 
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BOARD OF REGENTS, BARIUM SPRINGS, N. C. 
 
 October 1 1, 1921. 
 
 The Board of Regents, in session at Barium Springs, October 
 II, 1 92 1, wish to record our appreciation of the late George W. 
 Watts, of Durham. We were deeply grieved at his death, and 
 wish to bear testimony to the interest he manifested in the Or- 
 phanage and the great value that his life was to this institution. 
 The interest he manifested was a great inspiration to all those 
 who love the home and recognize its value to the fatherless chil- 
 dren of our State. 
 
 We wish to express to his wife and daughter our deepest and 
 most heartfelt sympathy, and pray that the Father of mercies 
 and the God of all comfort will be their stay. 
 
 The interest he manifested in the home, the gifts that he 
 made during his lifetime, and the legacy he left in his will will 
 continue to bear fruit in the lives of those who have been de- 
 prived of parental care. 
 
 Signed by the Board of Regents, 
 
 R. A. Lapsley, Jr., President. 
 Mrs. W. B. Ramsey, Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF 
 DAVIDSON COLLEGE 
 
 George Washington Watts 
 
 1851-1921 
 
 The Board of Trustees of Davidson College desires to place 
 upon its record its appreciation of George Washington Watts, 
 who entered into richly earned rest at Durham, North Carolina, 
 March 7, 1921. 
 
 Reared in a Christian home, receiving the stamp of academic 
 culture in his training, Mr. Watts brought to bear upon the 
 problems of his business career, upon which he early entered, 
 the powers of a well-trained mind, a balanced judgment, and 
 thoroughgoing integrity that won for him a commanding posi- 
 tion among those who have directed the business interests of 
 the South in its most formative and critical period. 
 
 From the beginning of his career Mr. Watts was inspired by 
 a spirit of service that led him to devote his talents and tre- 
 mendous energy to the upbuilding of the city of his adoption. 
 And he left upon its every civic interest the stamp of his per- 
 sonality. 
 
 The center of his interests, however, was his church. Its 
 noble edifice and well-equipped Sunday-school building are a 
 monument to his generosity. But George Watts's life of service 
 as Sunday-school teacher, superintendent, lay worker, ruling 
 elder, humble Christian gentleman was his best and most last- 
 ing gift to his church and community. 
 
 Such a life could not be confined to the environment of city 
 or local congregation, and his constructive brain grasped the 
 
vital importance of missions and education to the extension of 
 the kingdom of God. 
 
 He gave with unstinted generosity, not only his money, but 
 his best thought, to the most remote mission fields, and thou- 
 sands whom he never saw welcomed him on the other side as 
 God's instrument in their redemption. 
 
 It was, however, in the field of education that he recognized 
 the largest opportunities for constructive service. And as 
 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Union Theological Sem- 
 inary he was recognized as the guiding spirit in the plans that 
 have placed that institution in the foremost rank among Amer- 
 ican seminaries. 
 
 Grasping the vital relation of Christian colleges to the king- 
 dom of God, Mr. Watts devoted his fortune to princely gifts and 
 his time and energy to the schools and colleges of the church. 
 He recognized that Davidson College was an opportunity for 
 exceptional service to the whole church, both at home and 
 abroad, and as trustee, benefactor, and loyal friend he gave 
 to the College his very best. 
 
 In placing upon record their appreciation of Mr. Watts, the 
 Trustees would accept as their own the tribute paid by one of 
 the College's most distinguished alumni: "No other preemi- 
 nently successful man of our time has exemplified more strik- 
 ingly than Mr. Watts the right combination of business capacity 
 and Christian character. He was, indeed, a remarkable busi- 
 ness man; but the beautiful thing is that his nature was not 
 dwarfed but enlarged by his devotion to business. The key to 
 his character was his religion; the core of his character was his 
 faith in God." 
 
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RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH OF MR. GEORGE W. 
 WATTS, ADOPTED AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD 
 OF TRUSTEES OF AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, HELD 
 MARCH 15 
 
 The Trustees of Agnes Scott College have learned with sor- 
 row of the death of Mr. George W. Watts, and they wish to 
 express their appreciation of the splendid service which he ren- 
 dered to the causes of Christian education and spreading the 
 Gospel throughout the world. The Trustees would especially 
 record with gratitude his friendly interest in Agnes Scott Col- 
 lege and his financial help in one of the crises of our history. 
 Their sincerest sympathy is hereby extended to his loved ones 
 in this hour of bereavement. 
 
 F. H. Gaines, 
 Secretary of Board. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE MEDICAL AND 
 SURGICAL STAFF OF WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 Whereas death has claimed George Washington Watts, an 
 eminent citizen of Durham whose noble benefaction has made 
 it possible to have in this community the splendid institution 
 for the relief of suffering which bears his name, now, therefore, 
 be it resolved that in his death 
 
 First. The Medical and Surgical Staff of Watts Hospital 
 has sustained the loss of a generous friend who was ever ready 
 to cooperate with them in furthering the efficiency of their 
 labors. 
 
 Second. The City of Durham and the State of North Caro- 
 lina have lost a citizen whose heart was ever responsive to the 
 call of suffering and stricken humanity from all the walks of life. 
 
 Third. That while we extend our sympathy to his family in 
 their sorrow, yet we rejoice in the heritage of the memory of a 
 life of beautiful deeds which he has bequeathed them. 
 
 Fourth. That a copy of these resolutions be spread on our 
 records and a copy be forwarded to his family. 
 
 Robert L. Felts, 
 B. U. Brooks, 
 N. D. Bitting, 
 
 Co7nniittee. 
 
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"The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name 
 of the Lord" 
 
 FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 OF WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 On the death of Mr. George Washington Watts 
 
 It is with a sense of personal loss and deep grief that we, the 
 Board of Trustees of Watts Hospital, take official cognizance 
 of the death of the President of the Board, Mr. George Wash- 
 ington Watts. We esteem it, however, a sacred duty and a 
 great privilege to bear testimony at this sad moment to his 
 noble life and his unselfish service to his fellow-men as revealed 
 in his activity on our Board. For his tender sympathy with 
 his suffering fellow-men and his constant, unostentatious. 
 Christian concern in their behalf, so strikingly evidenced in his 
 unfailing interest in the hospital he founded for their relief, we 
 herewith express our unbounded admiration. We, likewise, 
 pay sincere tribute to his benevolent and wise generosity in 
 establishing and maintaining up to his death the institution for 
 human relief which will cause thousands through the oncoming 
 years to cherish his name in loving esteem and tender gratitude. 
 Inspired by his example and his spirit we pledge ourselves 
 to minister the trust he has left to our care with due regard to 
 his wishes and in accord with his high ideals as to what the 
 Watts Hospital should become. 
 
 We order that a page in our minute-book be inscribed to his 
 memory and that a copy of this expression of our sorrow and 
 esteem be sent to the bereaved family, to whom we extend our 
 deep sympathy. 
 
 Wm. H. Wannamaker, 
 John F. Wily, 
 
 R. L. LiNDSEY, 
 
 T. B. Fuller, 
 
 Committee. 
 
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THE LADY BOARD OF VISITORS, WATTS HOSPITAL 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 In the death of Mr. Watts, whose sympathy, loving-kindness, 
 and generosity have contributed so largely to suffering human- 
 ity in our town and community, by donating to us and endow- 
 ing Watts Hospital, each member of the Lady Board of Visitors 
 grieves with his family. To the hospital his loss is irreparable. 
 His influence and personality inspired every one connected with 
 this institution to do their best, and only by endeavoring to live 
 up to his standards can those in authority attain the ideals upon 
 which he had planned its future. Our aim will be to strive to 
 accomplish what he would have us do. 
 
 The Board of Lady Visitors wishes to express to you their 
 loving sympathy in this bereavement and a desire to serve. 
 May God's blessing abide with you always! 
 
 April 10. 
 
 LiDA D. Angier, 
 Margaret C. Carr, 
 Emily N. Michie. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 
 THE DURHAM YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO- 
 CIATION ON THE DEATH OF MR. GEORGE W. 
 WATTS, WHO WAS A TRUSTEE AND CHAIRMAN OF 
 THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION 
 
 Whereas, the Young Men's Christian Association of the City 
 of Durham, North Carolina, regrets the death and loss of its 
 devoted friend Mr. George W. Watts, a citizen whose life and 
 activities in our midst were such as to reflect the highest ideals 
 of Christian citizenship, and 
 
 Whereas, this institution, since its creation, has always had 
 the whole-hearted support of Mr. Watts, morally, spiritually, 
 and financially, and 
 
 Whereas, as an evidence of his belief in the perpetuation of 
 the work, needs, and usefulness of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association in the City of Durham he bequeathed to this in- 
 stitution the sum of |io,ooo. 
 
 Therefore be it Resolved, that in memory of the support and 
 service rendered by Mr. Watts to this Association, reflecting at 
 all times his high ideals of Christian manhood, this Association 
 create a fund to be known as The George W. Watts Endow- 
 ment, to consist of the bequest made by Mr. Watts, the same to 
 remain intact and the interest only to be applied to the mainte- 
 nance charges of the Association. 
 
 G. Frank Warner, 
 General Secretary. 
 
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YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 March 21, 1921, 
 
 Mrs. Geo. W. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Watts: 
 
 At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Young 
 Women's Christian Association I was requested to express to 
 you their sympathy in your great bereavement. 
 
 To their individual sorrow is added a deep sense of the col- 
 lective loss which they are sharing with the city's various or- 
 ganizations; it will be hard, indeed, to fill the place of a man 
 like Mr. Watts, who, with highest ideals for his community's 
 good, actually identified himself with every movement tending 
 to the converting of those ideals into practicalities, and who 
 consistently furnished an example of devoted, conscientious 
 citizenship. 
 
 With sincere appreciation of his splendid life, and with a 
 lasting sense of the irreparable loss caused by his death, I am. 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Mrs. J. E. Driscoll, 
 Recording Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS 
 
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'He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good" 
 
 RESOLUTION OF DURHAM CHAMBER OF 
 COMMERCE 
 
 'HE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the Durham 
 Chamber of Commerce, having heard with great 
 sorrow of the death of our former fellow- 
 member Mr. George W. Watts, and desiring to 
 place upon record a testimonial of our regard 
 for him, do now in regular session assembled: 
 
 Resolve, that in the death of Mr. Watts we feel that Durham 
 has lost one of its most loyal and useful citizens, whose life was 
 inspired by the highest ideals of public duty, personal honor, 
 and civic righteousness. His splendid concept of good citizen- 
 ship, purity in all walks of life, and devotion to the cause of 
 humanity will always remain as a memorial to his well spent 
 life and as an inspiration to those who were privileged to know 
 him. 
 
 We desire also to give expression to the indebtedness we feel 
 as a community for his many wise, liberal, and beneficent deeds 
 and to our admiration of the high standards of business, social, 
 and religious conduct that characterized his entire life. To us 
 he exemplified the best type of Christian gentleman. Our asso- 
 ciation with him as a member of this Board was a forceful in- 
 fluence, inspiring us to endeavor to perpetuate in this com- 
 munity the noble and worthy things for which his life was spent. 
 Resolved further, that a copy of this resolution be sent to 
 the family of Mr. Watts. 
 
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen, the under- 
 signed committee was appointed to draft a Memorial express- 
 ing the great loss the City has sustained in the death of George 
 W. Watts, who for many years was a distinguished and honored 
 citizen of Durham and a Trustee of the Sinking Fund which 
 from year to year had been created to retire the bonded indebt- 
 edness of the City : 
 
 Resolved, that in the passing of this distinguished man from 
 the business, social, and religious activities of life to the higher 
 life above, Durham has sustained an irreparable loss. Mr. 
 Watts was indeed an humble follower of his Master, and used 
 the wealth which his business sagacity, honesty, and integrity 
 had gained for him to advance the Kingdom of God on earth. 
 His charities were numerous and were directed through those 
 channels which his fine spirituality and judgment suggested 
 would accomplish the most good. Thus he builded and endowed 
 the magnificent Watts Hospital, which will live on through the 
 ages, a memorial to his generosity and sympathy for suffering 
 humanity. Directed by the same spirituality, he provided a 
 fund which would be perpetually used to carry forward mission 
 work in difi'erent parts of the world, in order that the heathen 
 may learn of that religion Vv'hich tells us of the glorious resur- 
 rection prepared for those who love the Lord. 
 
 Resolved, that a copy of this Memorial be spread upon the 
 minutes of this meeting, a copy be sent to the family, expressing 
 the sympathy of the Board, and one to the newspapers of the 
 city for publication. 
 
 Durham, N. C, March 17, 1921. 
 
 John M. Manning, 
 John T. Salmon, 
 'W. T. Minor, 
 
 Committee. 
 
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DURHAM LODGE, B. P. O. E. No. 568 
 
 Mrs. George W. Watts, 
 Durham, N. C. 
 
 Dear Madam: 
 
 At a recent meeting of Durham Lodge of the Benevolent and 
 Protective Order of Elks the undersigned committee was di- 
 rected to convey to you in this form the sentiments of the Lodge 
 upon the recent death of your husband. 
 
 The members of this organization feel that in the death of 
 Mr. Watts they and the entire community have lost a friend, 
 a man whose whole life was inspired by feelings of benevolence 
 and love for his fellow-beings. His long and useful life in our 
 community has always been an inspiration to the men of our 
 fraternity. We regarded him as an ideal citizen, and in his 
 death we wish to tender you our sincere sympathy and con- 
 dolence. 
 
 The wise and judicious gifts which he has made to worthy 
 organizations in the city and elsewhere are a perpetual memo- 
 rial to the love and tender regard he had for humanity. 
 
 As a fraternal organization we share with you the feelings 
 of loss in his death, and assure you again of our sympathy. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 W. G. Wegener, 
 J. W. Spransey, 
 R. H. Sykes, 
 
 Committee. 
 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SEABOARD AIR LINE 
 RAILWAY COMPANY 
 
 [copy OF resolutions] 
 April 21, 1 92 1 
 
 Resolved that this Board receive with profound sorrow the 
 announcement of the death of Mr. George W. Watts, at his 
 home in Durham, North Carolina, on March 7, 1921. 
 
 Mr. Watts was born at Cumberland, Maryland, on August 
 18, 1851, son of Gerard S. and Annie E. Watts. He was reared 
 in Baltimore, Maryland, attending the public schools in that 
 city from 1859 to 1868, and from 1868 to 1871 he was a student 
 of civil engineering in the University of Virginia. From 1871 
 to 1878 he was associated with the tobacco firm of G. S. Watts 
 & Co., and later aided in the organization and management of 
 W. Duke Sons & Co., at Durham, North Carolina, in which 
 company he became a stock-holder and served as Secretary and 
 Treasurer. Mr. Watts was also interested in many other enter- 
 prises throughout North Carolina and the South. 
 
 Mr. Watts was elected a director of the Seaboard Air Line 
 Railway on March 26, 1902, and served the Company continu- 
 ously in the capacity of director for nineteen years. 
 
 His breadth of view, clearness of perception, accuracy of 
 judgment, and above all his correctness of intention and fine 
 sense of honor, commanded confidence and gave force and ef- 
 fectiveness to his counsel and direction. 
 
 He was modest in his estimate of his own powers without 
 being distrustful of them, generous in his appreciation of his 
 associates, and just in all his relations with them. 
 
 Mr. Watts was one of the leading philanthropists of the 
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country, and contributed very largely to religious work both in 
 this country and abroad. 
 
 On behalf of the stock-holders, whose interests he well served, 
 and of the members of this Board, who greatly admired him, 
 we now place on our records our regret at the loss of Mr. Watts, 
 and offer to his bereaved family our sincere sympathy. 
 
 Resolved, that this Memorial be spread upon the minutes 
 of the Board and that a copy be sent to Mr. Watts's family. 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy 
 of resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Sea- 
 board Air Line Railway Company at a meeting held at New 
 York, N. Y., on April 21, 1921. 
 
 Robert L. Nutt, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD 
 
 OF DIRECTORS OF VIRGINIA-CAROLINA 
 
 CHEMICAL COMPANY, MAY 19, 1921 
 
 The Board of Directors of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com- 
 pany sorrowfully here records the death of Mr. George W. 
 Watts, a member of this Board since 1890. 
 
 Mr. Watts was a successful man of business and a distin- 
 guished citizen of the State of North Carolina. 
 
 He was born in Maryland and his early training was had 
 among old-time Baltimore merchants. 
 
 When a young man he moved to North Carolina, where his 
 talents and public spirit found scope in the development of the 
 resources of his adopted State and Section and in augmenting 
 the welfare of its citizens. Moreover, Mr. Watts was faithful 
 to the tenets of his church and most generous in the practice of 
 good works. 
 
 His relations to this Company were marked by a high sense 
 of duty, and he was a good and loyal friend of our late Presi- 
 dent, Mr. Samuel T. Morgan, for many years. 
 
 Mr. Watts's death deprives us of a friendly personality and 
 of a capable associate. 
 
 C. T. Wilson, President. 
 S. D. Crenshaw, Secretary. 
 
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REPUBLIC IRON & STEEL COMPANY 
 
 IN MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 
 We, the Associate Members of the Board of Directors of the 
 RepubHc Iron & Steel Company, have assembled in special ses- 
 sion, this 1 6th day of March, 1921, to acknowledge and make 
 of record the high personal character and business ability of our 
 late friend and associate, George W. Watts, and to express our 
 sense of deep regret over the loss of the personal association 
 we have sustained through his death. 
 
 Our co-worker became a Director of this Company in the 
 year 1918 and served us continuously and faithfully in that 
 capacity to the time of his death. His fidelity to duty was char- 
 acterized by personal sacrifice; as a counselor he was cautious 
 and prudent, and clear-sighted to a degree. As a friend he was 
 generous and kind-hearted. In his death the Company loses 
 the benefit of his broad business experience and initiative. In 
 recognition of his services, business attainments, and of his 
 personal friendship we do hereby 
 
 Resolve, that a page on the minutes of the Board of Directors 
 be set apart for the enrolment of this testimonial. 
 
 We do further Resolve, that to the wife and daughter of our 
 departed friend we tender our deepest sympathy, and beg to 
 express the hope that their great grief may be lightened to some 
 degree by this earnest expression of our high regard for the 
 husband and father whom they have lost. 
 
 John Topping, 
 
 Chairvian. 
 
 Richard Laws, Jr., 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE BOARD OF 
 
 DIRECTORS OF THE FIDELITY BANK, 
 
 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 Whereas, the death of Mr. George W. Watts has removed from 
 our Board one of its most efficient and valued members, one 
 who for many years has aided the Bank by his counsel, his finan- 
 cial aid, and by his loyal and untiring efforts to build up this 
 institution in every way. 
 
 Therefore, he it Resolved: That we deplore the loss of Mr. 
 Watts to this Board on account of his prudent counsel, his wide- 
 spread influence, and his foresight and skill as a banker. We 
 mourn the loss of a companion who was always bright and 
 cheerful, a friendly man, who did not in the turmoil and stress 
 of business relations forget those finer feelings of esteem and 
 respect by which he was held by his associates, and which he 
 ever tendered to them, thereby maintaining a tie that has 
 cemented the Directors of this Bank together by a spirit of 
 cooperation that has been of great value to the institution; 
 
 Resolved further: That we deplore the death of Mr. Watts 
 as removing from this community one of its finest citizens, an 
 example of high Christian character, a man of lofty ideals and 
 of wide-spread benevolences, always true to the best in civic 
 and industrial life, and whose consistent honesty and integrity 
 has adorned a long life of usefulness in our city. We unani- 
 mously adopt these resolutions as an expression of our loss, and 
 direct that a copy be spread on the records of this Bank, and a 
 copy be furnished the bereaved family with our sincere sym- 
 pathy to them in their affliction. 
 
 T. B. Fuller, 
 Jno. F. Wily, 
 Jones Fuller, 
 E. K. PowE. 
 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DURHAM LOAN & 
 TRUST COMPANY 
 
 [Copy of Resolutions] 
 
 Resolved, that this Board receives with profound sorrow the 
 announcement of the death of Mr. George W. Watts, at his 
 home in Durham, North CaroHna, on March 7, 1921. 
 
 Mr. Watts was elected a Director of Durham Loan & Trust 
 Company at the organization of the Company in the year 1904, 
 and served continuously in that capacity until his death. 
 
 While serving as a Director of Durham Loan & Trust Com- 
 pany he brought to that institution the benefit of his great ex- 
 perience and accurate judgment in business affairs, as well as 
 his uprightness of character, fairness of dealing, and far-seeing 
 vision. 
 
 Mr. Watts was also at all times the friend who did so much 
 to create the feeling of unity and mutual confidence that has 
 been so invaluable to the life of this institution. 
 
 On behalf of the stock-holders, whose interests he well served, 
 and of the members of this Board, we now place on our records 
 our regret at the loss of Mr. Watts, and offer to the bereaved 
 family our sincere sympathy. 
 
 Resolved, that this memorial be spread upon the minutes of 
 the Board and that a copy be sent to Mr. Watts's family. 
 
 (Signed) T. C. Worth, 
 
 E. A. Seeman, 
 
 F. L. Fuller, Jr. 
 
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IN MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON WATTS 
 [Resolutions of Respect] 
 
 A man's faith in small things often demonstrates his sound 
 wisdom and keen intellect. This was fully manifested in the 
 life and character of George Washington Watts. With him 
 thrift and saving were virtues not to be despised but fondly 
 cultivated and nurtured. The Home Savings Bank was cre- 
 ated under and by virtue of the laws of the State of North Caro- 
 lina in 1903, with its office and place of business in the City of 
 Durham, and Mr. George W. Watts became its President and 
 was its controlling stock-holder at the time its doors were 
 opened to the public. 
 
 The Bank at that time seemed to be a small institution in 
 comparison with the large and modern banking institutions, 
 and it was at that time that Mr. Watts had begun to reah .- 
 that "Great oaks from little acorns grow." While Mr. Watts 
 was the owner of the majority shares of the stock of the Home 
 Savings Bank, he did not seek to dominate its affairs and alone 
 fix its policies. He was always desirous that the small stock- 
 holders should attend the meetings and fully set forth their 
 views. 
 
 Mr. Watts had accumulated a large part of his holdings by 
 the practice of the strictest thrift. He was eager to make 
 money, but he was more zealous in his determined efforts to 
 save. He felt that the average man — the man who works for 
 his daily bread — ought to be a saving man, and that a bank 
 which thoroughly encouraged the accumulation of savings was 
 an institution which could prove to be a real factor in the up- 
 building of the community life. 
 
 Mr. Watts left the details of the management of the Home 
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Savings Bank to others, though he took a personal pride and 
 pleasure in attending the annual meeting of the stock-holders 
 and presiding over the frequent sessions of the Board of Direc- 
 tors. From the founding of the Home Savings Bank until his 
 death Mr. Watts was the first and only President of said insti- 
 tution. The establishment of this Bank but extended his right 
 arm of helpfulness and usefulness to people who desired to help 
 themselves. 
 
 It is now, therefore, Resolved by the Board of Directors and 
 the stock-holders, by and through the Special Committee, that 
 the Home Savings Bank has lost a valuable and experienced 
 President who always served its best interests without salary 
 or hope of pecuniary reward; a director who gladly cooperated 
 with his fellow-directors to determine the best policies for the 
 institution; and a stock-holder who was unselfish enough to 
 take a personal pride in seeing the Bank grow as a community 
 builder instead of a money maker. 
 
 It is further ordered and directed that a page of the minutes 
 of the meetings of the stock-holders and of the Board of Di- 
 rectors be set apart in honor of the memory of said George 
 Washington Watts; that a copy of these resolutions be spread 
 ! full thereon; and that a certified copy thereof be forwarded 
 by the cashier of the Home Savings Bank to the widow of our 
 beloved fellow-worker. 
 
 Alphonsus Cobb, 
 d. w. sorrell, 
 F. T. Rollins. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED AT MEETING 
 
 OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ERWIN 
 
 COTTON MILLS COMPANY, APRIL 25, 1921 
 
 Whereas our beloved Vice-President, Mr. George W. Watts, 
 was called to his final reward on March 7, 1921, 
 
 Resolved that we, the Board of Directors of this Company, 
 go on record at this time in expressing our deep distress at his 
 death. For nearly twenty-nine years, beginning with the or- 
 ganization of this Company, he served as its Vice-President, 
 and by his wise counsel and active interest, and high ideals 
 which dominated his life, he was of marked assistance in the 
 establishment of the policies of this Company and in the eleva- 
 tion of its standards, and his advice was many times sought by 
 the active management of the Company and found most help- 
 ful. His noble Christian life was an inspiration to the entire 
 community, and his example did much good among our mill 
 people. We feel that this Company was rarely fortunate in 
 having him through so many years as an officer and director, 
 and it was with the deepest regret, and with a sense of profound 
 loss, both in a personal and business way, that we heard of his 
 death. 
 
 Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be mailed to his 
 family and spread upon the minutes of this meeting. 
 
 B. N. Duke, President. 
 
 W. A. Erwin, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
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LOCKE COTTON MILLS COMPANY 
 
 Resolved by the Board of Directors of the Locke Cotton Mills 
 Company in special meeting on this, the 24th day of June, 1 92 1 , 
 a quorum being present, that the members of our Board feel a 
 deep personal loss in the absence of our much esteemed and 
 valued former member of this board, Mr. George W. Watts, 
 who answered our Heavenly Father's summons since our last 
 meeting. That our Company in the passing of our associate 
 has lost a valuable, sympathetic, and ever cheerful and wise 
 counselor from its Board of Directors and in his official capac- 
 ity as Vice-President. That we shall cherish his memory and 
 ever keep fresh the example of his pure and unselfish character. 
 Resolved that these resolutions be spread upon our records 
 and a copy of same be transmitted by our Secretary to his 
 widow and his daughter, Mrs. John Sprunt Hill. 
 
 LOCKE COTTON MILLS COMPANY 
 
 By Thos. H. Webb, 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
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PEARL COTTON MILLS 
 
 Resolved by the Directors of the Pearl Cotton Mills in meet- 
 ing April 25, 1 92 1, that in the passing away of our President, 
 Mr. George W. Watts, on the 7th of March, 1921, our Cor- 
 poration has lost its most honored official head. Through all 
 the years of his intimate connection with our Corporation we 
 have seen his genial smile and felt his sympathetic touch, and 
 his death has brought the deepest sense of sorrow to our Board 
 of Directors and stock-holders. The people who serve these 
 mills and all who live in this community have been blessed by 
 his unfailing interest in, and devoted and untiring administra- 
 tions through, the church and Sunday-school, from which he 
 never absented himself on the afternoon of Sundays when it 
 was practicable for him to be present. Through his teachings 
 and in the example of his godly life he cheered and blessed all 
 with whom he came in contact, regardless of creed or church 
 affiliation; be it therefore further 
 
 Resolved, that our Board of Directors, stock-holders, and 
 associates of this community shall deeply feel his loss, and ever 
 be blessed through loving memory of this godly man and wise 
 counselor. 
 
 Resolved, that this testimony of him be spread upon our 
 records and a copy of same be sent to his bereaved wife and 
 daughter. 
 
 J. Harper Erwin, 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
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GOLDEN BELT MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
 
 Whereas Mr. George W. Watts has been for many years con- 
 nected with the Golden Belt Manufacturing Company in the 
 capacity of Vice-President and Director, 
 
 Therefore he it Resolved that in his death we have lost one 
 of our most respected and beloved Directors, one whose per- 
 sonality has endeared him to us all, and whose attendance at 
 the meetings of this Board has been a source of pleasure and 
 benefit to us. We therefore extend our sympathy to his be- 
 reaved family in their affliction and spread these resolutions on 
 our minutes to perpetuate our sorrow in his death. 
 
 T. B. Fuller, 
 John F. Wily, 
 Committee. 
 
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
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'He was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith' 
 
 1871-1921 
 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 
 Main and Roxboro Streets, Durham, N. C. 
 
 Rev. David H. Scanlon, Ph.D., Minister 
 
 GEORGE W. WATTS 
 Ruling Elder in this Church July 7, 1889, to March 7, 1921 
 
 ^EW men attain the life of fuller purpose as did 
 our beloved brother who ascended from our 
 midst, the past week, to enter upon his promised 
 possession. 
 
 The Father trusted him with princely posses- 
 sions because he was a wise steward in that he was constantly 
 sending them on ahead by investing them in spiritual pro- 
 ductions. 
 
 But what he was was far greater than anything that he ever 
 did. His largest possession was the manner of his life — strong, 
 gentle, trustful, the soul of honor and integrity, the kind of a 
 man that enjoys constant companionship and fellowship with 
 Christ, and lives it out in his daily life and in all his relation- 
 ships between man and man. 
 
 Truly, he brought the faithfulness of Christ to every duty 
 and the tenderness of Christ to every relationship. 
 
 He was modest and simple in his mode of living, and yet the 
 evidence of an elegant Christian gentleman was never lacking. 
 
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This church and all its activities shall, for years to come, show 
 the reflection of his helpful life and service. 
 
 No child has passed through this Sunday-school without re- 
 membering the cordial hand-shake of this prince among men, 
 and no weary soul ever sought in vain the consolations of this 
 Great Heart. 
 
 The ends of the earth have been blessed by his having passed 
 this way. 
 
 "God's finger touched him, and he slept." 
 
 "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, — they rest from 
 their labours, and their works do follow them." 
 
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THERE IS NO DEATH 
 
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THERE IS NO DEATH 
 
 There is no death — 
 
 They only truly live 
 
 Who pass into the land beyond, and see 
 
 This earth is but a school-preparation 
 
 For larger ministry. 
 
 We call them "dead" — 
 
 But they look back and smile 
 
 At our dead living in the bonds of flesh, 
 
 And do rejoice that in so short a while 
 
 Our soul will slip the leash. 
 
 There is no death 
 
 To those whose hearts are set 
 
 On higher things than this life can afford; 
 
 How shall their passing leave one least regret. 
 
 Who go to join their Lord? 
 
 — John Oxenham. 
 
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