Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-22
ST. PAUL NEWS.
TIE LAST Sad Rites,

lUG uHDl u1U lllIHD.
The Sequel to the Terrible Jamesport Ac
cident Which Caused the Death of Adam
Gotzian-An Impressive and Imposinf
Ceremonial.
The awful reality of those divine words
'ln the midst of life we are in death" wa.
never made more painfully apparent thar
yesterday afternoon at the Gotzian resi-
dence upon Dayton's bluff. Upon the
streets surrounding the house were scores
and scores of carriages; upon the side
walk and on the lawn, end thronging halls
ana parlors, stairways and corridors were
CROWDS OF people of all ages from the
cnilo 70 the patriarch full of years. and
upon the countenance of each vas
unmlsGaKa BILE impression "
deep sorrow and narrowing grief. And
notwithstanding the great mass of people
assembled. there was hushed and subdued
silence as that of the grave, pervading both
inside the house and on the street, and as
the long string of mourners--they were
all mourners--passed with soft tread and
the head bowed into the presence of death
to look a long farewell upon that face
which but week since was beaming with
gladness in that very room and rejoicing
IN health, there was not sound to disturb
the awful solemnity, save an occasional
sob which would in spite of ell efforts to
keep it back, break from the overweight
heart when fond memory brought back
some one word or deed OF the departed,
which made the loss doubly hard to bear.
Down below, almost at the very feet of
the mourners and theircherished dead, was
the large city with its hurly-burly and
commotion; its arteries thro bling with
the pulsation of business life, the subdued
murmur from which came floating
up ths heights, and penetrated
the chamber of mourning as if it were in
cense from that business life to which the
deceased had contributed SO much vitality.
The entire ssite of rooms on the gror -
floor were found inadequate to ace N
date the large number of people - -
sired to show their respect ..a at..o Je
ment to the deceased q 1ot,eman- and ', con-
sequently they werC kept for the ladies,
ana the sen'i0 Len, after passing through
ana gam for moment upon the much
lc ed lace, passed out upon the lawn.
The corpse was placed in a massive
rosewood casket, with heavy frosted and
FURNISHED silver fittings and ornaments
Upon the top was silver plate with the
simple inscription, adam Gotzian, aged
DO years" Upon the coffin the hand of
friendship, esteem and love had placed
fitting floral amblems, among which were
beautiful harp, contributed by Conrad
Gotzian's family, an anchor by J. Berlain
and family, another anchor by Mrs. Albert
Commick, GROSS and crown
by members of the Dayton
avenue church and Sunday school
and beautiful device asleep" By the pu
pills OF the Sunday school class taught 10y
deceased.
Perhaps the most touching part Of the
whole solemn ana sad ceremonial vas that
when the children with tears gathering in
their young eyes, with paIed checks and
trembling lips looked in upon him ''asleep"
IN his last earthly couch. There was moth
Ing in the appearance Of the corpse 70 in
dioate the painful nature of the death ex-
nept three slight sbgsgiops of the skin bs-
h!na the left EYE and tht.5s5 would not in
any way show that a terrible railroad acoi
dent had terminated valuable life.
The Rev. DIR. Smith performed the fu
neral rites which consisted of reading ap-
propriate scriPtural texts such as II am
die resurrection and the life" 81 know
that my Redesmer iveth" and the goth
psiam. After which the whole assembly
sang "Jesus, Lover Of my Soul" The
reverend gentleman then directed the at
tension of those assembled 10 the 9Th verso
of the 39tA psalm: "Behold Thou hast
made my days as q handbreadth and mine
age is as nothing before thee, verify,
verify, man at his best state is altogether
vanity" The speaker did not preach q
sermon upon these words but simply
stated that he could think Of nothing
more appropriate for the occasion thsn
this 39th psalm, and then went on to give
a short sketch of deceased's life, of who m
he spoke in most eulogistic terms.
He said that the deceased, Adam Gotham
was born in the province of saxweimer,
Germany, on November 9th, 1913, and he
was consequently but forty years of age
when he came to his untimely and
awful end. He was, he said, of sturdy
family, and of one of the noblest races
God has ever permitted to exist upon the
earth. He was courageous, and strong
and simple, when he came to ST. Paul in
1860 at the age of II. There was nothing
remarkable in his career, and only two
stanees-his two visits to his native coun-
try; the first at the marriage of his brother
in 1872, ana the second ten years later when
the speaker accompanied him. Unosten-
tatious and simple as his life has been,
had be lived in other times than ours it
would have been deemed worthy place in
history and romance. Coming TO strange
country as he did at the age of seventeen,
not knowing word of the language, with
out money or influence, he carved out fol-
himself a fortune honorably, and simply
by his bravery and honesty, and this too,
while he was still young man.
Although Mr.. Gotzian had taken nc
prominent part in public affairs the
speaker said he had always been ready
with helping hand for everything per-
tanning to the public veal, and the city
hsd suffered great loss in his sudden and
calamitous death. The church had suf.
fered an irreparable loss in Mr.. Gotzian,
its main stay and pillar, only for whom
the church Mt Dayton's bluff would not
exist, and to-day dark aud heavy
cloud hangs over it which only can
be dispelled by the members prayerfully
fOiiOWincr the footstaps of dacaosa5