Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-17

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Professor Benjamin Mason, was buried in the
rims OF the hotel. A telegram from st. Louis,
| however, treasured him as to his mothers
safety She had been sojourn1ng in that CITY
with some friends, and thus escaped the dis
aster, Professor Benjamin Mason was born
in New York, in 1924. and was
educated at the New York Uniyer-
| slty, where he was contemporary Of
Rev. DR. Howard Crosby, Aaron J. Wander
pool, William Allen Butler and other we'll
known men. On graduation he began his
career as teacher in the old Mechanics Insti-
| tue school, of which he became vice PRINCIPAL
| He was next placed at the head of a school at
Astoria, l.. l., where he remained until 1861
In this year he established the Yonkers Mill
! tary Institute, which was hourishing institu-
| ton under his management for twenty years
During 1881 he was superintendent of public
schools IN Bloomfield, N. j., and left that post
to become professor of English literature in
the German-American Teachers Institute, of
Milwaukee He had just returned from short
vacation to begin his second wear of service in
this institution, and was staying at the NewhalI
House because he was a personal friend of the
lessee Mr.. Antisdel. He leaves three sons and
a daughter, residents of this city.
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
The recent terrible calamity formed
the subject of discourse in nearly every
church IN the city yesterday morning.
At the First Baptist Church, Rev. A. f.
Mason preached an eloquent and touch
ing sermon in memory of Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Johnson. The interior of the
church edifice was deliberately. decorated
with beautiful flowers, an elegant pillow
of Gala lilies on bed Of flowers, bear
ing words, Gin Death not Divorced"
and many other appropriate floral de-
signs being particularly noticeable.
nofZ 10, T..
they die, and the people shall be
troubled at midnight and pass away"
Mr.. Mason paid an eloquent tribute to
the memory of the dead victims. In
speaking of the Newhall House, he said
he had lived there six months and knew
that the proprietor had spared no pains
or expense to provide for the safety of
the quests, and it was simply inhuman
to blame him for the disaster. Mr..
Mason thought that if there was a
laoerated heart that had q claim
for public sympathy, it was the sad
heart OF that stricken man, whose
burden seems to him more than he can
bear. The pastor condemned in the
severest language the way In which the
building was constructed, characterizing
1t as mere trap, claiming that the use
| from this time forth, of such a shell for
either hotel or place of public amuse-
ment IS a menace of human life and an
invitation to horrible tragedy The
charging upon the All careful Father of
such disaster is, IN this age of science,
and objectionable impiety. At the Sum
merfeld Church, Rev. J. E. Gilbert
took for his subject, blossoms from the
Newhall Confagration, and Mr.. Hoskin,
at the Union Gospel Church preached a
feeling sermon on the subject, "Saved
by Fire" Rev. s. Halsey, at the
Grand Avenue Church, delivered an ap-
propriate sermon from the text, "Set
| Thine House In Order" "Lessons to
| be Learned from the NeWhall Fire 3"
! formed the topic of the discourse of Rev.
Moritz Eversz, at the Hanover Street
| Church. Father Prescott made an elo-
quent address at All Saints Cathedral.
At all of the other city churches appro-
pirate remarks were made.
THE ELLIOTT oBsEoUIRg.
One of the largest and most impress
sive funerals ever witnessed in Milwau-
kee was that of Theodore B. Elliott at
Emmanuel Church yesterday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. At about that hour the
hearse which had carried the remains
from the residence of Eugene w. Elliott,
139 Sixteenth Street, preceded by sew
eral hundred Odd Fellows, came in
sight and the usual maneuvres were
gone through in removing the casket
to the church, the interior of
which was densely packed and the
vicinity of which was thronged.
The remains were borne into
the church by Rufus Allen, Jr., T. Fl.
Brown, John Bentley and David Adler,
of the Odd Fellows, and Judge Mann,
d. E. Hooker and David Ordway, of the
Bar Association, as bearers. AS the SOL
emn cortege moved slowly up the
center aisle, all was as still as death.
Upon the platform were Rev. John n.
Freeman, pastor of the church; Rev.
Amos A. Kiehle, Of the Calvary Presby-
| terrain Church, and Rev. James E. Gil
bert, Of the Summerfeld Methodist
Church. Before them and directly above
the dead, was d profusion of floral en-
plems, some OF them symbolical of the
Order of Odd Fellowship, and others
bearing appropriate inscription from
friends holding his memory. Rev. A. A.
Kiehle read biblical selection, followed
by the song "Jesus, Lover of my Soul"
which was a favorite with the deceased.
Rev. j. E. Gilbert then delivered a fer
vent prayer, which was supplemented
by a choir chant The usual services
followed.
THE KNOWN DEAD.
The bodies so far recovered number
fifty. as the following shows:
taken TO the morgue. --..........-.-......16
Received from the ruins ............26
OluCo u46u. 1900. 49,. ......s--- b
Dead not taken to mOrgue. 5
1OIdI ..--.........-...-... %
This does not include the fragments
of bodies found. About forty people
reported as missing are yet unaccounted
for, which swells the list to ninety. 1t
is almost sure thing that over 100 peo-
pie lost their lives by the calamity.
Poor but Happy.
An old Irish couple who have grown