The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-14
Three Impressive Funerals.
LOUIS OAYLORD CLARK.

the family plot of the Clarks in Nyack
Cemetery, Friday afternoon. The funeral
was attended by large concourse of the
friends of Mr. Clark, including many of |
the authors and journalists of New York. |
The services were performed in the little |
Episcopal church at Sparkill, four miles
from the residence of Mr. Carks family in |
Piermont. Simultaneous with the arrival |
of the friends from New York by the 81. |
m. train, the earse and cortege of family |
carriages from Piermont drew up before |
the church door The plain but rich black |
covered, slyer-mounted coffin was borne !
from the hearse into the church by Mr.. !
Hugh Hastings, Mr.. Erastus Brooks, Mr.. |
Whitelaw Reid, Mr. j. f. Cleveland, Mr..
Seavcr and Mr.. Nichols. The widow, the
sons, Mr.. Elliott Clark and Mr.. IQyis eT7
CLARK, the daughters, Mrs. Meckleir Mrs.
Leland, and Miss Julia CLARK, the sonsSn-
law, Mr.. Leland Allen for twenty years
the publisher of the RaickerJocIer Maya
zine, his sister, Miss Curtis, of Brooklyn,
and other relatives and intimate friends
followed the pail bearers and took the pews
which had been reserved for them on the
right OF the aisle, the pail bearers taking
the left. The coffin, adorned with single
large rectangular floral decoration of i'm
mortelles and ivy leaves, was placed on a
low catafalque, covered with black, near
the altar rail. The pews could not seat
the congregation, the larger number of
whom stood in the aisle and vestibule. The
music of an organ voluntary swelled through
the little chapel as the friends were taking
their places, and the officiating clergymen
the Rev. Mr. Hitchcock and the Rev. Mr.
Stitt, in their white robes, entered from the
vestry door
81 know that my Redeemer liveth" was
sung by the choir and the Rev. Mr..
Hitchcock began the burial service by
reading from the lesson, ''Now is Christ
risen from the dead and become the first
fruits of them that slept"
The service was shortened to permit the
return Of the visitors from the city and no
sermon followed the simple and touching
prayers and reading. At the conclusion,
the lid of the coffin was opened and the
friends took their farewell look at the face
of the dead. The procession moved up one
side of the aisle and passed down ON the
other.
Then the lid was closed and locked and
the pail bearers bore the coffin from the
church to the sound of the same low strain
of music that had ushered them in. The
friends followed the hearse in about twenty
carriages up the beautiful carriageway
along the banks of the Hudson TO Nyack.
There the burial service was concluded, and
Louis Gaylord Clark's dust was consigned
to dust.
LAURA KEENE.
Laura Keeene was buried Fk.iay in
Montclair n. J. She was compelled to
quit the stage in July last, her health fail
ing under overwork and consumption set
ting in.
About six weeks ago DR.. Alonzo Clark,
her physician, advised her TO move to some
spot in the country where she could have
the benefit of bracing air and change of
scene. Accordingly she went to Montclair
and took rooms in the Hillside House.
But public house was not just suited to
the invalid, and three weeks ago she re-
moved to a beautiful cottage in the out
skirts of the town facing the heavily wood
ed hills and picturesque scenery that sur
round Montclair. She was treated with
every attention that modern medical science
could suggest, being supplied with reser-
voiTs of pure oxygen gas and the most deli
cate tonics. But her constitution was
broken, and despite every effort, aided by
her strong will, she continued to fail Last
Tuesday, after having been drawn up to the
window, where she could see the sunset
gliding the thickly wooded hillsides, she
died. She was so emaciated that her many
friends would scarcely have recognized in
her remains the once beautiful woman who
had so long been the charm of the Ameri-
can stage.
She was painfully aware of her lost beau
ty-so much so that one of her last re-
quests was that her funeral should be
strictly private, and that no notice of her
death be sent to the newspapers until just
before her funeral, that her theatrical
friends especially might not know of her
death until she had been buried.
About nine o'clock Friday morning the
hearse, followed by one carriage, drove up
to the cottage where she died. The coffin
was borne to the hearse by the undertaken
and his friends. Her two nieces and two
friends entered the waiting carriage, which
followed the hearse to the little Catholic
church.
There the coffin was deposited in front of
the altar, and the few mourners quietly
seated themselves in a front seat
Father Joslin, who has charge of the
Montclair parish, then approached, clad in
sacredotal robes, and said a solemn mass.
Then the remains were buried in the Catho-
lie cemetery.
Fifteen years ago Laura Keene was mar
ried to John LutZ in New York city, but
with the consent of her husband she re-
tanned her maiden name in all her stage en-
Unupmnntg a IF ho,
married life she followed her husband to
the grave in Washington five years ago.
She was known in Montclair only us Mrs.
LutZ.
Having no children, Laura Keene reared
and bore the educational expenses of her
two nieces. BY her will her nieces are made |
her heirs.
GEN. DELAFIELp.
Trinity church opened its doors
on Friday afternoon, to receive the
coflined body of Breyet Major-G Gen. Rich
ard Delafeld, which was met at the en-
trance by the Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, the
Rev. DIR. Frederick Ogilby, the Rev. DIR.
Edward A. Washburn rector of Calvary |
church. pastor of the family of the deceased |
General and the Rev. DIR. Thomas Gal |
laudet, pastor of st. AIMS church for deaf |
mutes The pail bearers were Gems. Bar
nard, Gilmore, Webb, Newton, Tower,
and Abbot.
The services commemorative of the close |
OF half century of honorable public life |
were short and simple. No military bands
made the display of beating muflled drums