The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-23
MR.. KENNHYS' FUNERAL.
Grand Army Rites at the
Bier, and no Priest
Present.

IIGSGlll.
The burial of the late Freeholder James
Kenney took place from Odd Fellows
Hall, Hoboken, yesterday afternoon at
two O'Clock
The funeral pageant was the largest
ever witnessed in Hoboken, and fully
1000 men-politicians and members of
different societies. testified their respect
for the deceased by marching fully two
miles in mud and slush. There were also
sixty coaches in line, and the entire page
ant was fully mile in length.
Mr.. Kenney's body had been lying in
state at Cranes Hall since the time of his
DEATH and it was visited by thousands of
his friends. Yesterday morning at nine
O'Clock the body was taken from Cranes
and removed to Odd Fellows Hall,
when it was placed in the casket and
rested on catafalque.
The casket was of red cedar, oak trim
mings, and covered with black silk vel
vet. The handles were of sterling silver.
On the lid of the coffin were inscribed in
silver the G.. A. r. badge, with the words,
Charity, fraternity and Loyalty" In
the middle of the lid the following words
were inscribed
.....-........-.. ........,......-..-......
JAMES KENNEY,
DIED DECEMBER II, 1889,
Aged "A years, months and days.
...-...--..'.-....-- -.-...... .-.,----........
The coffin was wrapped in the Stars
and Stripes.
THE SERVICES.
AT exactly two o'clock the G.. A. r.
ritual was said. Chaplain Alberts offered
a short prayer and the usual rites were
performed. After that the Lyra Singing
Society and the Hoboken Quartette
Club, in all one hundred voices, sang ap-
propriately. Commander Gaeyer, of
Major Woerner Post, No. 81, G. A. r.,
then spoke feelingly of the noble traits of
the deceased, and said that in the death
of Mr. Kenney they had lost one whom it
would be hard to replace.
After Mr. Gaeyer had finished the diff
ferent societies and the public were al
lowed to have last look at the deceased
before the casket would be sealed.
FIVE THOUSAND MoURNERs.
The crush at this time was awful and
it is estimated that in and about the hall
there were congregated five thousand
people. Every one wanted to get into the
hall, and it required the combined efforts
of Sergeant Edmonston and twenty
officers to keep the crowd back.
Theditferent societies passed the bier in
this order:-Hoboken Fire Department,
Jefferson Association, Lyra Singing So
ciety, Hoboken Quartette Club, Sons of
Veterans. The last TO view the remains
were the G. A. r.
THE PROCESSION.
The hall was then cleared and the coffin
deposited in the hearse and the procession
moved in the following ORDER
Police escort of twenty men under Ser
geant Edmonston; &. A. r. men, 100
strong; Sons of Veterans, 100 strong; Ho-
boken Fife and Drum Corps, eleven ex-
chiefs of the Hoboken Fire Department,
the Hoboken Fire Department, 500 strong
and the Jeffersonian Association of the
First Ward, 200 strong. Each member of
these societies Wore white gloves and
badges inscribed ''We mourn our loss"
After the societies were fifteen
coaches for the use of the Freeholders and
the Jefferson Association. Then follow
ed the hearse drawn by four black horses.
On each side of the hearse were the eight
pall-bearers, Freeholders Tierney, Pfing-
stem, Hennessey and Pairson, L. Lloyd,J.
King, G. Hicks and j. Harksen, represent
ing the Hoboken Fire Departments; Il.
Price, W. Bathie, f Shaler and Peter
Boncelet, representing the Jeffersonian
Association, and George Weaver, James
Ryan, William Taite and Henry Dennis,
representing the &. A. r.
THE FLORAL OFFERINGS.
Following the hearse were two car
riages filled with floral offerings. That
of the Board of Freeholders was marvel
of beauty and design and was very sug-
gestive. 1t was three feet in height in
the form of chair, representing the
vacancy in the Board. On the back of
the Board of Freeholders." No. | Engine
sent large shield, on which was in
scribed "Hoboken Engine Co. No. ]" and
the Jefferson Association sent floral
clock three feet high, The hands pointed
to the hour of Mr.. Kenney's death.
After the coaches containing the floral
offerings came those containing the
sisters and other immediate relatives of
Mr.. Kenney, and about sixty other
coaches.
The procession moved up Washington
street TO Third street, to Newark. to
Washington, to Fourteenth, to Willow
avenue, and to Sixteenth street, where
most of those on foot took coaches to the
place of internenG in the Firemen's Plot
in the Hoboken Cemetery.
One of the features of the procession
was one-legged Grand Army man, who
hobbled along the whole route on
crutches.
Among the mourners We're noticed
Senator-elect Edward +. Mcdonald
Mayor Grassman, Director Bruggeman
Counsellor John A McGrath, Free
holders Donnelly, Hennessey. German,
Pfingsten. Pairson, Tierney, Ellis, Kim
merly and Noonan, eX Sheriff Heintze,
Warden Grimes, Jailer Birdsall, John
Boyd, the members of the Hoboken
Council and Police Commission Water
Registrar Lohman, Recorder McDonough
and almost all of the city officials.
They Had the Bottles.
In the Second District Police Court this
morning Henry Fawkes, of Bayonne, ac-
cused John Schaeffer, aged nineteen, and
Harry Sherman, aged fourteen years,
with having robbed him of bottles con-
tanning milk. When the two young men
were arrested four bottles, identified by
Fawkes as his, were found in the milk