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contact is real. He rejoices with those who rejoice. He is present at the weddings of the sons and daughters of his friends. He weeps with those who weep. He attends the funerals of those who have crossed over the river. He sits up with the dead, visits the sick, aids the widow and orphan. In doing tliese things he never counts the cost in time or labor. He is a poor man, but finds enough money to spare to needs that are greater than his. His sympathy is always on the alert for those who labor. He thoroughly believes in higher wages, shorter hours of labor, and more conxforts and more opportunities for those who do labor. Knowing these few simple facts about Ren. Lacy, one knows and understands the man and his popularity. He may not be a great man, but he is a good man. He has his faults, but others may tell of these. I shall not. 1 will leave this to his enemies, with the certainty that the public will never be enlightened on that side of his character by any North Carolinian. Ben. Lacy ' s career is an inspiration and a hope to every toiling boy in the State. For years he has been a great sufferer from asthma. A great many nights he sleeps not at all, or only from exhaustion after weary coughing. Day after day, after passing nights of wakefulness and suffering, I have seen him in his office at his desk at work with a smile on his face and a ready greeting to everv one who called, whether on business or just for a chat. Patience, cheerfulness, industry, helpfulness — these make a combination out of which success can alwavs be wrought. This lesson Mr. Lacy teaches. Love of his fellow-men, of his comnumity. of his State, of his country, this endears him to us all. May he have long life in which to serve the people well and to add to the comfort and cheerfulness of life. CH. RLES P.. AYCOCK.
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Benjamin Rice Lacy IH.W ' E been asked by the young men conducting the Ac.ko.mkck in write a siiort sketch of the life and character of my friend, Benjamin R. Lacy, to whom this issue of the Annual is dedicated. They have furnished nie with a few facts relative to ?ilr. Lacx ' s life. He was born in the cit ni Ralei.yh on June 19, 1854. He is a son of the late Reverend l)rur - Lacy, a distin!.;uishe(l and learned Presbyterian minister, who was f(ir several years President of Davidson College. Both of Mr. Lacy ' s grandfathers were Presbyterian ministers. On his mother ' s side he comes of a long line of notaljle preachers. At the age of 15 he went into the Raleigh and Gaston R. R. shops in Raleigh as an a])])rentice. P ' or about fifteen years he was a locomotive engineer. He became a prominent member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and holds his connection with that compact and wisely managed organization. As a member of the Broth- erhood, he served for a number of years on the Grievance Committee, and his wise and considerate conduct in that delicate position gained for him and he now holds the love and confidence of the men to a degree rarely e(|nalle(l, and he always enjoyed the respect of the officials of the railroads. He served six years as Commissioner of Labor, having been first appointed to that office by the late Governor Elias Carr. He has twice been elected State Treasurer, being nominated to that high office the last time by acclamation. Mr. Lacy spent some months of his life on the plains of Te.xas and in the South west. where he became acquainted with r anch life, and contributed his part In the history of those brave men who combine sound judgment with an attractive dare-devil recklessness. These meager facts furnished to me dn not make Mr. Lacy ' s career or his character understandable. To those of us who know hnn best, he yet remains something of a mystery. Simple in his life, a (|uiet and orderly man, with only such knowledge of books as he has picked up at intervals in a busy life, what is it that has won for him such distinguished lionors. and enables him to count the whole population as his friends ? An intimate association with him for four years has solved this cpiestion for me to my entire satisfaction. He is, in the first ])lace, a man of fine natural .sense, but beyond and above this, he is possessed of a warm he;irt which never lires in serx ' ice for nthers. Tic takes the minutest interesl in all lliat (.-nncerns his frii ' uds and ac(|n;iinl;mces. He knows children, mU (inl h sij;lu and faN ' nr, hut 1) ' name, lie knnws the working people nf ilu ' i-niiiiiiunitN in which lu ' li -es and calls them by their Christian names, not as ,1 m.atter of cimdescensidn nv patronage, bin ;is a ni.-irk of his sense of i ' (|uality and friendliness, lie is nn terms of friendship and intimacy with tlie learned and powerfid. He sees things from tlie point of view of the wage-earner, and realizes how the employer looks at the matter from his nosition. I lis concern aboiU the interests of those with whom he comes in
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