National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-10-22
JAMES wonM1EY,s FUNERAL.


Tho funeral of the late James Wormloy took
place yesterday afternoon at wormley's hotel
The casket, which was Of rosewood, heavily
trimmed along the edges of both top and bot
tom with heavy beading of silver bars and
with silver handles, stood on trostles In the
third or Sumner room Of the fGsr great par.
Tors which extend almost the whole length OF
the west side of the hotel. All Of the parlors
were thrown into one and were filled with
seats for the guests, the rear parlor being re-
served for The family and relatives. There
was n great profIision of floral tributes sent by
friends of the deceased, but the only ones us
played were beautiful pillow of white roses
that lay on the head of the cnsket, and on
which In yiolets were the words mo Ordt-
nary Man." large heart, and cross of white
and tea roses; ON the foot Of the casket large
anchor of roses and vioets, and on the iloor,
leaning against the casket, q huge wreath oil
roses and yiolo,s. On the table near by, where
the officiating clergymen were seated, were
broken column and large cross.
shortly before o'clock p. M the active
| and honorary pallbearers were ushered In and
| given seats fronting the casket. These were as
| follows; Active-Iohn = Cook, John r. Given,
| Isaac Iandlc NJ w Gait OK Mayor James q.
X. II, Gloaves, chief Justic Cartier, and Carter
| A stewart, HonOrary-C. w. SpOnOrd, G. G.
Willard, Orrin q. Staples, franklin rcnney,
Henry Smith, sayies ]. bowen, and j. 7.
| Plumer formerly OF the Riggs house,.
| In the long range Of wide parlors, TO which
admittance was obtained only by card, the
chairs speedily. filed most of those present
being white ladies, aud long before the cere-
| monies began every inch Of standing room
| was occupied. Nearly every gentleman of any
prominence who is now In the city was present
to show respect for the dead man. Besides
nearly every member OF the foreign legation
| In this city, there were present among the
many other well known persons, Mr. w. w.
| Corcornn. Col Basil Norris, U. :. A.; Rear Ad-
miral C.. r. z. Rodgers, aud Rear Admiral
| Thomas o. Selfrldge, IT, S. ~; Hon. Peter
Parker, ex-minister TO China; Commodore aud
Mrs franklin, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ricketts,,
lard
The services were conducted by Rev. Will
lam Warning, pastor of the Bercan Baptist
church assisted by Rev; Samuel Kramer,
chaplain fthe Seatnan's Bethel, on the Navy
Yard. Amer the family and relatives had en-.
tered and taken their places the services were
opened by Rev, Mr., Waring reading selection
prayer by Rev. MIR. Kramer, after which a
choir, under the leadership OF Mr.. Grant, sang
Nearer, My God, TO Thee" Rev. .Waring
then delivered touching sermon IN which
he, pointed out how those OF the faith felt that
this parting Is only for II brief time, and told
how. the deceased had approached death, with
full knowledge that the end was near, and o
his expressing his earnest iaith In the teach
ings of the gospels, and Of his hope in the III,
beyond He then cUmforted the aged wife
and the sister, and the children, and paid I
glowing eulogy to the life work OF the dead TO
Its earnestness and strctness and for the high
aims he had. AMER the sermon the choir SAM
Rest, Spirit, Rest" closing the ceremonies u
the house.
The body was borne to the hoarse by the tel
active bearers, and the procession moved b.
way OF New York avenue to Harmony GENE
terry, where the intermcnt took place. At tn
cemetery Rev Mr.. Warning read the brief BURN
! service of the Baptist church, and, afler Der
ediction by Mr., Kramer, all that was morto
/ of James Wormley was laid away to rest unit
that last day, when all will be called to rende
4 account of their life work here. The corteg
attending the remains to the grave was yer
large, and there were great number OF pr
: vatc carriages.