The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-22
THE LAST SAD RITES.
Captain RentOn's Remains Will
Be Inferred Today.
WITH HoNoRs DUE A PIONEER.
Puget Sound Fleet to Accompany the
Body From Port BlakeIey-Hon-
ors by Masonic Bodies.

The funeral OF Captain William Renton will
be held this afternoon in Seattle, the services
commencing at Port Blakeley, where the body
now lies, concluding with the services in the
Methodist Protestant church, in Seattle, at p.
m, and the interment Immediately following.
1t will be one of the largest funerals ever seen
on the Sound.
The steamer Politkofski will leave Seattle at Q
O'Clock this morning, carrying number OF Ma
sons and old friends of Captain Renton, and will
arrive at Port Blakely within an hour. There, at
1880 o'clock. a short Masonic service ill be
held at the house of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Campbell. The choir of the Port
Blakely church will sing an appropriate
hymn, selected by Mrs Campbell. This service
will bs conducted by Worshipful Master James
Oldfeld, master of the Masonic lodge at Port
Blakeley, assisted by Rev. John +. Damon. The
Masons will then form in line, aud the body will
be carried through the ranks by eight members
OF the order and deposited on board the steamer
Wanderer, which will be escorted by the Michi-
gan, the Sarah NJ. Renton, the Politkofsky and
the Detroit, bearing the relatives and friends,
the Masonic lodges and the employees of the Port
Blakeley mills 1t is expected that 400 or 500 peo
pie will come in this fleet. The boats will land
at Hatfields and Harrington & Smiths wharyes,
at the foot of Washington street. 1t was in
tended to land at the citys wharf, at the foot of
Spring street, but the ship W. II. Lincoln could
not be gotten out OF the way.
Arriving at Seattle at about 1 o'clock. the
funeral party will be met by the Seattle Masonic
lodges in regalia and escorted to the Methodist
Protestant church, on the corner of Pine aud
Third streets. Rev. John F. Damon, for thirty
years the friend of Captain Renton will deliver
the funeral sermon, and Rev. Clark Davis will
also speak briefly over the remains of the old
pioneer. A special quartette choir has been
selected to sing both at the church and at the
Wi ha If
Wheeler, soprano; Miss Zello Barnes, alto; Pro-
lessor f. d. Crandall, tenor; Mr. Myron NJ.
Grout, basso.
The services will occupy about an hour at the
church. Again forming in line the Masons will
escort the body to Lake View cemetery, in the
northern part of the city, where, after many
years of faithful labor all that is mortal of the
pioneer will be laid at rest Every carriage in
the city has been engaged for the funeral cor
tege. Those who are unable to find seats i'll the
carriages at the church will be able TO take the
Second street electric cars, connecting with the
James street cable and Broadway electric line,
and reach the cemetery in advance of the cor
tege.
The honorary pallbearers selected for the oc-
casion are Cyrus Walker, A. A. Denny, Dexter
Horton, II. G. Struye. G. A. Meigs, II. L. Iesler,
Hillory Butler and III. X. Hall, Every one of
these men have known Captain Renton for
many years, and most OF them have been asso-
ciAted scores of times with him in business
matters and charitable and benevolent acts.
The active palibearers will be Masons.
The casket which is to bear the dead pioneers
remains is a solid red cedar casket, covered with
black brosdeloth, with blind drapery. At each
side is q triple-plated extension bar handle. and
all OF the ornaments are silver. On the top is a
silver plate, 5xl0 inches IN size, with the words
in old English letter, captain William Rem
| ton" Near the head is sheaf of ripened and
harvested grain and near the foot the Masonic
emblem of a silver square and compass. The in
side of the casket is lined with cream satin, full
| pleated all around 1t is one of the richest
| caskets ever used in Seattle.
All of the Masonic lodges accessible have been
| invited to the funeral, and ii is expected that
not less than twenty-five thirty lodges will be
| represented.
| Friends all day yesterday were arranging the
| grave and grounds AT Lake View cemetery. The
| earth composing the mound is so mixed with
| evergreens that when it falls upon the box con.
| tanning the coffin there will be an absence of
| that hard, hollow sound that is usually heard
The inside OF the grave has been lined with cot
| ton batting and flowers, and it will seem more
like putting the old pioneer gently to sleep than
| like burying the dead.
The San Francisco connections of the late
| captain arrived last night. Mr.. c. s. Holmes,
| the partner in the lumber firm. will not come to