Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-06
PACKER AT REST.
Asurs To ASHES. DUST TO Dusr
Funeral OF the last MALE usir to the tacHtr
name and Estatc-frominent REQ
pie Present.

Ii was funeral day az Mhuch Chuhk
yesterday. ThcIo were scarcely dozen
people on the streets, aud oil the shopS
| and stores we're closed as It 1t wero
Sabbath day, while the saloons had not
only doors but windows barred, as II To
| show how much more respect they paid tue
| dead than the law. The only sound was
| that OF spiteful engine whistles and the
| monotonOus rumble VI the heavily laden
| coal trains passing in seemingly endless
| line. The dull lsaden mist hid the tops oi
| the sharp bills, thinly clad with snow, rut
/ did not quito conceal the granite column
| that marks the last resting place ot tue
| Packer family in Upper Mauch Chunk
cemetery. Hardly three years have
| elapsed since II was reared over
the grave Of the founder of the
name and fortune, but to day 1t
towers over the last resting place oI the
| last direct heir in the mails line ot the
greatest estate ever accumulated by
| Pennsylvania.
The hour of the funeral had been do
| layed until the after noon to accommodate
| the host of friends of the late President
Packer from other cities At II o'clock
special trains lett Philadelphia and New
| York to convey them to Maucb Chunk,
and they were preceded 10y another special
from Easton, while many more came IN
the other direction from Wlkesbarro and
the Hazleton and MahanOy regions. The
company assembled included all the lead
ing officials and hundreds of employees Of
the l.. V. railroad President Roberts, Of
the L. Il. r.; Kem aud Gowen, Of the I.
Il r.; Gov. Abbot, Of New Jersey; ex Gov.
Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, aud many bankers,
merchants, judges AID leading men Of
New York aud Philadelphia ; and promi.
uent Democrats from all parts of
the state. Upon assembling at the
residence OF deceased, the company
slowly filed through the main entrance
and the reception room into the study
where the remains were laid out. In
Difference to the expressed wish Of the
family, who desired the funeral TO be as
unostentatious as possible, no flowers were
sent save one large piece, and the only
flowers in the room were 4 little bed OF
roses aud pinks, upon which rested a
white lily. The metallic casket was cover
ed with black cloth and the handles were
of oxidzed silver as plain as possible.
Upon the plate was the name aad dates oil
birth aud death. The face was not
emacated, but was slightly diScolored aud
the features had a pinched and drawn
look, as il death had only come after acute
J pain aud suffering. In the right hand was
| pldCtl luo ulaCh kDil ucAAcl GluC HutSu
Mr.. Packer always carried.
The services, being held in the l.ttlt
room, could not be witnessed by a tenth
of those who had come, many from long
distances, to attend them. The CGremO'
MES we conducted by the Rev. Marcus 4
TolmaD, rector of 81. Marks church. as
: sisted by Bishop VI. 4. DeWolfe Howe, o
Central Pennsylvania, and Bishop White
! head, of New Jersey. The Lehigh Vale,
glee club, made up from the employees o
! the company in the Office at Mauch Chunk
rendered the musical part OF the service
which consisted of the hymn, "Abid
; With Me-" and an anthem set to plaii
!, cnaut. Tho pail bearers were the Hon
: Samuel J. Randall. r. \. Lam berton, LII
j D., Hon. Eckley B. Coke, II. s. Goodwin
r. II. Sayre, g. B. Newton, J. II. Fan
. Shave, \. G., Broahead, jr., l. w. Morris
John Taylor. William Stevenson, Fred
Murcur, L. b. Byiugton, !. II. Wilhelm
n Lentz, A. IL. Fatziuger, +. B. Morris, {
10 II. Webb, L. B. Ely, II. b Moore, A. v
IN Butler, A. w. L3iseuriug, Lafayett
As Lentz, John Painter, Allen Craig. w.
N Heatou, L. b Lsisonring, c f BroC
head, J. L. Stedman aud George i
Blanchard.
The service over, the remains were take
out aud placed in sleigh, Mrs. Pack'
a having asked that no hearse be uset
Black cloth was placed on the bottom, an
the casket was left uncovered. A sleig
y followed with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sket
Edward Lockhart and Mrs Rathbun, ar
& then the members of Carbon Lodge
o Masons, of which he had been membe
= followed it as escort each wearing a spri
u of evergreen tied in the button hole with
Q knot OF blue ribbon Up the steep hill Il
y long line slowly moved, and it reaohC
u nearly the whole distance from Tia
!r house to the cemetery. The body VI
10 slowly deposited in the grave by the sic
VI Of the father and mother, and his brothe
, Robert, whose remains had been remove
IL thther from Sayre within mont
20 Bishop Howe and the Rev. Mr.. Tolma
III flashed the ceremonies, and then DR..
L A. Lamberton, past grand master Of Il
u grand lodge of the state of Pennsylvani
IL conducted the beautiful burial service
Y the Masonic order. His brother Masoi
y passed by the open grave and cast upt
~ the casket their sprigs of eyergreens, al
10 the ceremony was over. The day W
~ long be remembered in Mauch Chunk.