New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-27
FUNERAL or EDWARD CLARKE.
TOUCHING TRIBUTES OF RESPECT FROM PASTOR
AND FRIEND.


AND FRIEND
At the home Of Edward Clarke No. 900 Carroll-st''
Brooklyn, many Of HIS friends and business associates
were gathered Yesterday TO attend his funeral The
services were held In the parlor on the first noor INC
plain black coffin tastefully decorated with clusters
Of flowers The family of the dead man. MISS jennie
Prentss, his adopted daughter and Mr. and Mrs Cyrls
Staples Miss Daisy Clarke, Mr. and MIS- thompson
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Clarke, were seated near the
coffin. Or. Alfred II. Moment, pastor Oh the west
minister Presbyterian Church, OF which Mr. Clarkc was
a trustee was the officiating clergyman
After reading the Church burial service, DIR. Mo
men. spoke In fitting terms Of Mr. Clarke as he had
known him. The saddest feature OF his death, the
minister said, was that he had been taken away be-
fore the work Of his life seemed fully complete, but
when the transformations Christian character OF that
life had been remembered, his death could not be con-
sidered wholly sad. lie man Of splendid I'M
pulses but conservative in his religious views WHICH
indie that his early training had been directed by
Christian mother and based on Gods Word. When
death It not to him as the King Of Terrors.
His Network had been a reality not farce not an
empty show.
The Rev. DR.. Albert j. Lyman, pastor of the South
Congregational Church, Of Brooklyn who had been
neighbor and personal friend of Mr.. Clarke and
HIS family for many years. at the request Of the family
paid a friends tribute TO the memory of the dead
This was not, Dr. Lyman sald the expression Of a
eulogy. His dead friend would never have de-
sired that His life and habits had been Of the SIM
pest character Stcadfast confidence, generosity and
fairness in business had been among the most en-
phatic tests Of the Christian character of the man.
The basis Of his character personal honor Il
have rarely known any one" DR.. Lyman continued
with feeling, in whom this sentiment stronger
1t combined with sympathy in the largest sense Of
that term-a tender heartedncss, delicate scrsbllty,
a responsiveness Of soul The personal charm Of Ed
ward Clarke the union Of these two sentiments
which blended in all HIS relations with his asso-
ciates. I never heard him speak harshy of any one.
lie was Just In his criticisms and his religion was a
loving service. He told me on one occasion that he
felt that no could most efectually perform Christian
work by doing quietly all that he could for others.
One Of the lessons which have drawn for myself from
the life of my friend is the inexpressibe value Of
good and honorable life its incompatible nobility.
Another lesson Las been that business capacity IS not
! inconsistent with delcacy and tenderness OK mind.
Too often those Of who devoted to business feel
| the tendency which makes hard or sordd. We
have time for the amenities Of life; bat his char
acter was always gentle and responslve.'
| Among the friends present many Of the mem
| bers Of the Westminster Church, and the Board Of
Trustees of which Mr. Clarke the secretary OF his
friends there were Mr.. and Mrs. William W. Walsh,
Mr. and Mrs William D. Prentss. Elliott Mccormick.
Richard Laimbeer, the Rev. J. W. Chadwick the Rev
George a. Prentiss, 1. e cummings, Henry OldFhc'
f. S Ewing Mcclellan, Miss Bostwick Miss Hyde, Miss
House, Miss Parsons and Miss Bauver. From The
Tribune with which Mr. Clarke had been so many
years connected, there were Whitelaw Reid, Thomas
n. Rocker, William Winter, Philip II. Fitzpatrick
James G. Cooper. Nathaniel futile, Henry Hall. Ellis
Masters C. W. shafer, George w. Best Joseph Shcarer,
Alfred Farrar l. " Fond, D. D. Lloyd II. H. st. Clair,
f. Lambert, the Rev. Willard Parsons Lemucl E.
Quigg, c. NJ. : Horton, Arthur +. Bowers and Other
| associates
The body buried in Greenwood, who're short
service was conducted by Dr Moment The grave W
a bed Of flowers. As farewell testimonial OF their
sincere respect and affection. Mr.. Clarkes associates
I'M the counting room OF The Tribune had concealed
hhe cod earth OF his resting place with dense covering
Of smilax bOIdered with brilliant clrvsanthcmums.
Through this the family and few Intimate friends
saw the coffin lowered