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coNcERNTNG THE 1"T" *HARRY T. KENDALL

I am going to attempt probably the most difficult job of my fifty odd years of writing. I am going to try and give you a word picture of Harry T. Kendall, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who passed into the Great Beyond just a few short days ago, leaving behind him as priceless a heritage as :rny businessman ever bequeathed to* posterity.

It is entirely fitting that this entire space be devoted to Harry Kendall; for there have been few like him before, and it seems most unlikely that any other of such glittering personality and consequence shall pass this way again. That the lumber industry should produce so remarkable a man, is a high compliment to the industry. Not many industries have done so. His warm friends may argue that there has been none other*of his kind and caliber.

To give you a first picture of Mr. Kendall, let us.watch him as he enters the entrance door of an office. It matters not how big or how small the office may be, how important or how inconsequential the concern it houses, Harry Kendall makes his approach in the same manner. To the 1'ady at the door, be she trained receptionist in the large office or a new steno in a small o;t.;ta is the same Harry Kendall.

He smiles as few other men could smile, puts out his hand and gives the lady a cordial hand-shake, and says: "f am Harry Kendall, and I'd like to se Mr. So-and-So." You can imagine the impression such an entrance makes. 'Ihis splendidly dressed, keen-eyed, white-haired man of distinguished manner and appearance, comes in with a big smile and a hand-shake that ?"1.r him unforgettable.

Everything else that Harry Kendall did in eitJrer his private or his public life, was on a par with this approach. Yet there was nothing artificial about him; not a move or a word would indicate that he was not genuinely glad to shake hands with the girl at the office door, as with the President of some great business enterprise. The man's soul was in his eyes and in his voice, and instinctively people Iiked and trusted him, and gave careful ear when he spoke.

Bigness was written all over the man. When he spoke, it was with a straight tongue and a pl'easing manner. And he was invariably convincing, because he always knew what he was talking about, and was always eminently fitted for whatever subject he gave his thought to. Which is the very essence of success in a business man.

When the writer first met him about 45 years ago, we immediately struck up a friendship that lasted without one word or note of anything except harmony to this day. Without the least ostentation, even in those early days when his salary as a lumber salesman in East Texas was small, he always did the right thing. lle wore the right clothes, knew all about the right manners for social contacts, p'icked up the right fork at the right time at a dinner, and altogether was the kind of persion you instinctively admired, while you could not help liking him as well. Harry Kendall was a gentleman. He was instinctively so.

Ffe never uttered a harsh word, or one of unkind criticism. If he could not speak well of you, he refrained from speaking. He was gentle, whil'e never hesitant about speaking his mind when it came time to talk. He made no mouthy errors whatever the provocation, and his talk was not only fair and just, but uniformly wise. He is one of the few men I ever heard of who never made a mistake in his personal conversation or action. God had simply created him a man of unusual caliber and fine *fl and so he remained.

When I first knew Harry Kendall he was a very thin person. He was more than that-he was skinny. As years passed he took on considerable weight that gave him something of the look of consequence that he naturally possessed. His hair changed, and in time he became white-headed, with a full head of hair that was most attractive, and that lent more impressiveness to his appearance. And so it was that the skinny, un-handsome nuln who used to sell lumber out of Waco, Texas, long ago, became the impressiveappearing gentleman that*he*has been for years past.

Always a worker and always trying to do a better job today than he did yesterday, it was inevitable that he should climb the business hill. And climb it he did in terrific fashion. The important positions he held at the time of his death attest to the fact that he was tireless in his energy, and responsive to a myriad of calls from a great variety of directions. ft was, perhaps, this that brought about his sudden death. Of an age to retire, he instead took upon himself new offices and new places of responsibility, all of which mean work. That he was the victim of work, might truthfully be said. He was day and night busy with a present multitude of duties and responsibilities, when the Good Master touched him and said: "ft is time for rest." And he heeded the*call. *

A restless soul who was always moving, who can say that he would not-if given his choice-have preferred the sudden manner of his taking. He would not have made a

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4 ,rtdJ-l*nun, annp in Aritnlteh happy invalid. So he is gone. And some of the sunshine went out of the lives of a multitude that knew, honored, and loved him, when the sad news came. We know but one thing further. that wherever Harry Kendall is, he is doing the best job that anyone could do, and is the joy of that loving personality there, just here. We shall miss him.