New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-03
FUNERAL OF DR.. ADAMS.

UNOSTENTATIOUS SERVICES TO BE HELD
A PRELIMINARY NETTING AT THE ASSOCIATION
BuILDING-A PRIVATE SERVICE IN ORANGE YES
TFRDAY-rHE NAMES OF THE PAIL BEARERS.
The public services over the remains of the late
Rev. William Adams. d. D.. LII. D.. will be held
this morning az 1890 o'clock in the Madison
Square PRESBYTERIAN Church. Of which he was
for many years the pastor. Early TINS
morning the remains will be brought
10 New-York in a hearse which will leave Orange
Mountain about o'clock and arrive at the Msdi-
son square Church at o'clock. There will be no
funeral procession TO the church. the friends living
in Orange coming by train to the city.
Private services were held Yesterday afternoon
over the remains OF Dr. Adams at his late residence
Oh Orange Mountain. IL accordance with the wishes
Of the family and the known senti-
ments of the deceased clergyman. these ser
vices were of a very simple character They were
conducted by the Rev. W. VI. Whitaker pastor of
the st. Cloud Presbyterian Church at West
Orange. which DR.. Adams was in the habit of a.
tending during his sojourn at bis summer home on
the mountain Only the members of the family
and friends living in the immediate neighborhood
were present al the services.
As is customary at the d sath Of n member Of the
faculty of the Union Theological Seminary, the
members of the Alumni Association. and the clergy
of the city IN general. lave been invited 10 attend
a special mem0r al service preliminary TO the pub-
lie funeral exercises IL this city THIS
meeting Will be held at 8 o'clock
in the parlors of the Young Mems
Christian Association B1ilding, at Twentythirdst.
and Fourth-ave. No fixed programme of exercises
will be followed but brief addresses Will be made
by of the ministerial associates Of the deceased
clergyman and by some of the recent and present
who are expected to be present Is the
Rev. Or. Forsyth Chaplain of the United
states Military Academy at West Point, who
has lust returned from Europe. DR.. Adams's last
sermon was preached before the cadets at West
Point on the first Sunday Of June. On the follow
ing day began the sickness which ended in his
death.
At the close of this memorial service. the alumni
and Clergy will proceed IN a body to the Madl-
son Square Church. where the funeral
services will take place. The exercises. IN
accordance with Dr.. Adams's earnest
desire. will be very simple and transformations In
character A brief sermon viii be preached by the
Rev Roswell D. Hitchcock d. D., IL. D., who was
the senior associate of Dr. Adams IN the seminary
faculty TIE Rev. Drs. Tucker and Parkhurst. the
former and pre- sent pastors of the church Will also
take part I'm the exercises the close of which the
remains Will be conveyed by the i % m. tralh Oh
the Shore Line Railroad to Mount Auburn Gene
terry, near Boston. for nterment
Among those selected TO act as Dal-bearers are
the following cergymen. a. representatives. Of sew
eral different religious denominations: The
Rev Dr. r. s Storrs the Rev Dr.
Morgan Dix the Rev. DR.. William r. Will
Jams and the Rev. Or. J. a. NJ. Chapman.
The others who have been selected to act As pail
bearers are the professors of the Union Theological
Semin ary; Charles Butler. president of the Board
of Directors of the Union Theological Semi
nary :. H. Pennington. W. d.; General George b.
Mcclellan; Alexander Brown. of Philadelphia ;
and George W Lane. Joseph ". Patterson, Charles
A. Buckley and E. VI. Kingsley, as representa-
tives of the Central and Madison Square
Presbyterian Churches.