St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-12
The Body Of the Railroad King Laid at
Best in the Moravian
Cemetery.
Many Men Prominent in the Financial
World Assemble to do Honor
to the Dead.
and the Scenes on the way to
Staten Island.
A Vault Temporarily Receives the
Body--The Reading of the
Will.
The Last of Earth.

were begun this morning, when the body of
the deceased was removed from the ice box,
in which it has rested since Tuesday, to the
coffin OF cedar, covered with black broad
cloth. The coffin was then taken to the
bedroom. The sun had barely appeared be-
fore groups OF people began to gather oppo-
site the house, and when the Rev. Samuel
Cook, the rector of st. Bartholomew Prot
estant Episcopal church, arrived there
shortly after II o'clock the groups had in
creased to a small crowd, which was orderly
and the services of the police were not
needed. AS the hour appointed for the be-
ginning of the home religious services ap-
preached, carriage after carriage drove to
the entrance and deposited the children the
friends and most intimate acquaintance
and the pallbearers OF the deceased. Each
carriage bore cOachman and footnan,
and all OF these wore mourning Gveries.
Shortly before 9 o'clock the immediate
family
LOOKED FOR THE LAST TIME
upon the face Of the deceased. The service
conducted by the Rev. Dr.. Cook was
simple and touching, consisting of prayer
| and few words of remembrance and con-
| ISOLATION. The coffin was then closed, and
Mrs. Vanderbilt retired to the apartment
which she has occupied since the death of
MI. Vanderbilt, The coffin was raised
upon the shoulders of the undertaker's as
sistants, and, preceded by the clergyman
| and the pallbearers. borne down the broad
staircase through the corridor and through
the open doors never more to re-enter. AT
9:45 a. m. the funeral cortege started for
the church. There were no crowds on the
streets through which it passed, and the
police along the line almost outnumbered
+ ,icrl,f A
doors of st. Bartholomew church were
opened, and the porters, bearing upon theiI
shoulders the coffin, passed down the cen.
ter aisle. Preceding the coffin walked the
pallbearers, wearing white sashes. They
were: Chauncey NJ, Depew. j. Pierrepont
Morgan, Charles RapallO, William Turn<
bull, William Bliss, George j. Magee, G,
NJ. Berger, Charles c. Clark, Judge JChs
R. Brady, W. l.. Scott, d. o. Mills and
S. W. Caldwell. Rev. DR.. Samuel Cook,
accompanied by his assistant, Rev. F. W.
Clampett, walked in advance of the process
sion and read
THE WELL-KNOWN LINES
from the burial service, 81 am the resurrec-
ton and the life," etc. Following the coft
fin came the Vanderbilt family, headed By
Cornelius Vanderbilt and wife. When the
music of the funeral march ended the choif
sang Lord let me know my end" After
| the simple service for the dead had been
| read the choir and congregation united in
singing 'Nearer, My God to Thee" the
procession returned to the street. Here
carriages were in waiting to take the coffin
and the mourning family and friends to the
| ferry boats. Probably never within the
history of the city of New York have so
many men prominent in the financial world
assembled to do honor to the memory of
dead associate. No one was admitted to
the church except friends of the family and
the representative of commercial, business,
or educational bodies. AS a natural result
there were less than one hundred ladies
admitted to listen to the service.
Prominent among the business men
were the presidents and heads OF
departments of all the roads with which
Mr.. Vanderbilt had been connected.
The ferry boat Southfield of the Staten
Island line was waiting in the slip at the
foot of West Forty street when the
funeral cortege arrived. About fifty car
riages with their occupants were driven to
the boat, but it was found impossible to
accommodate all of them, and many were
left behind. At 11:45 a. m. the Southfield,
which bore the remains of the old cOmmo-
dore to Staten Island, blew her whistle and
started her
TRIP DOWN THE BAY.
The passage was devoid of incidents.
| Nearly all the members of the Vanderbilt
family remained in their carriages during
| the entire trip The boat landed at Clifton,
S. l., at 1925 p. M, and the procession
again formed and started toward New DOrp,
several miles away. Hundreds of people
came from all parts of the island to see the
funeral, and on nearly all the hotels and
prominent buildings the flags were sus-
pended at half-mast. 1t was after o'clock
when the sorrowful tolling of the bell
upon the Moravlan church at New
Dorp smote upon the ears of
the weeping occupants of the first
few carriages. When the cemetery was
reached the hearse was driven to space in
front of the temporary receiving vault and
the casket was removed and placed in front
of the door of the vault. The bearers di-
vided in two ranks, one on either side OF
the coffin. The relatives stood beside the
pail bearers on the southerly side. The
spectators stood with uncovered heads while
Rev. William H. Vogler, pastor of the
Moravian church, uttered an eloquent
prayer, after which Rev. DR.. Cooke, rector
of ST. Bartholomew church, recited the
Episcopal service for the dead. The casket
was then carried into the receiving vault,
WUtTo IL Was HcIllcIICdlly SCdlCu III plCo-
ence of the four sons of the deceased. When
this was done. the mourners again took
their places in the carriages and were
driven back to Clifton landing. Robert
Pinkerton and force of his men were left
in charge of the vault until the mausoleum
is finished, which it is expected will be
within six months. The Southheld took
the mourners back to New York, arriving
about o'clock.
of Mr.. Vanderbilt was read after the
funeral in the presence of the family, but
it was decided that its contents should not
be made public until after the document
had gone to the surrogate's Office. The
will proves to be longer than had
been generally expected. There was
much speculation during the evening
as to the contents of the document,
but no trustworthy details could be OBJ
tanned. There were present besides Presi-
dent Depew aud John Rappallo, the attor-
neys, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Cornelius and his
wife, William K. and his wife, George Van
derbilt and the sOns-ln-law, William Nick.
Twombley. William Sloane and DR.. w.
Seward Webb with their wives. The only
members missing from the family circle
were Mir. and Mrs. Eliot F. Sheppard, who
are abroad. Judge Rappalo. it is under
stood, drew up the instrument as he
had drawn up the will of the old
commodore. 1t was an hour before
the reading was finished or little after
o'clock. All of the formalities of the occa-
sion being complied with, the instrument
was taken charge of by Judge Rappallo to
deliver to the executors named. 1t is eX-
pected that it will be filed in the surrogate's
office tomorrow. The date of the execu-
ton of the will does not 90 back two years.