Evening journal., 1893-03-04
THE LAST SAD RITES.
The Late Chief Justice Laid
to Rest at Last.
A LARGE MOURNING ESCORT

The Remains of Judge Robinson Inferred
I'm indian River Cemetery Yesterday
Afternoon-crowds OF Friends Attend.
Touching Services at the Church and
Grave.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
GEoRGETowE, March 4-Yesterday
Alfred p. Robinson, chief justice Of the
State OF Delaware, was laid to his long
rest. At IL o'clock the special train
bearing the members Of the New Castle
bar, the Kent county bar, the members
OF the Legislature and the Senate arrived
here. Numbers also came on the reQu-
lar trains, to pay their last tribute Of
respect
The body lay In state in the handsome
parlor Of his home, and was viewed by
hundreds Of people. The casket was Of
red cedar, covered with heavy, black
broadcloth, with oxidized bar handles
and trimmings. On the plate was the
inscription, alfred p Robinson. Chief
Justice of Delaware, aged 81 wears and
10 days" The casket was wreatbed
with smilax, with white ten roses and
purple hyacinths. In the hand of the
dead chief Justice lay beautiful white
Gala lily. On his face rested a perfectly
natural, peaceful expression. MANY
strong men wept as they took their last
look at their old friend Soon after
o'clock the funeral procession formed in
the following order; After the remains
the family and near friends and rela.
tives, IN carriages; on foot followed the
physician, DIR. Q. r ayton, the pail
bearers William II. Boyce. Rob.
ert @. White, Charles w Whi-
ly, Jr., Charles w. Cullen.
Joseph l. Cahall, Edward ID. Hearn. j.
Francis Bacon, and Daniel j. Layton,
members ,of ther Sussex bar The hon
ofarg pzll be9rers, Chancellor James l..
| Wolcott Judge l. Grubb, Judge
Charles M. Cullen, Judge David T. Mar
vel Judge Leonard h. Wales. Judge
John w. Houston, Hon w. +. Causey. Hon.
Charles Il. Richards, Hon. Edward Ridge
| ley, Attorney. General J. r. Nicholson.
Hon. Thomas f. Bayard, Hon. Levi G.
Bird, other members Of the Sussex bar
the Kent county bar. the New Castle
county bar, Governor Reynolds and Sec.
rotary of State Hutchins, the ex gov
ernors James T. Ponder, Charles G.
Stockly and Benjamin r. Biggs, the
speakers of the House and Senate, mem
bers Of the Senate and Legislature. the
state officers, county officers, Clerk of
the Peace Houston, clerk Of Orphans
Court, Colonel Everett Hickman, Re-
ceiver Of Deeds Morris, Prothonotary
Josiah p. Marvel, Sheriff John II. Truitt,
and many others. At the chnrch en-
trance the funeral cortege was met by
the clergymen, Rev. lJ Leighton McKim
and Rev. j. Couper Kerr, U S. A. chap
lain of New Mexico, formerly rector Of
| la ffsI L..r rt.I
service Of the Episcopal Church was
read by Rev. McKim and the prayer by
Rev Kerr. The hymns. Thou Art MY
Hiding Place" and Thy viii Be Done"
were sung. At 2 o'clock the funeral
procession left the church for the ceme
tery at ST. Georges chapel, in Indian
River hundred, 12 miles distant, where the
mortal remains of the late chief Justice
Of Delaware were laid TO fnal rest. The
funeral was very largely attended by
men Of note from every part of the state,
among them being Willard Salisbury,
+. II. Hoifecker. John Biggs, Willard
Hall Porter. j. Frank Ball. Austin T.
Harrington, w. II. Ward, Deputy Attor-
ney General Branch II. Giles, Victor b.
Woolley, p. l.. Cooper J. J Gallager, w.
S. Willis. W. R. Long, Senator Pyle. w.
II. Foulk. John Gallager, Col Enoch
Moore, J. II. Whitman, J. Frank
Blggs Harry Emmons, John p. Dona-
hoe, Wilmington; Samuel Armstrong,
Rising Sun; Col r. T. Cooper,
James Pennewell, J. T. Hoffecker, ].
Alexander Fulton Edward Ridgely, o. II.
b. Day, C. G. Tindall. G. +. Jones, c. b.
Prettyman, Dover, Joseph Shallcross,
Middletown, Joseph Whitlock. Odessa,
State Treasurer Wilbur H. Burnite.
FELTON,. Major Isaac Wooten, Laurel,
Hon. E. l., Martin, Edward Ross. Sea
ford. p. L. Cannon, H. P. Cannon.
Bridgeport, John T. Layton. Frankford.
The special train left Georgetown at 215
yesterday afternoon, enroute for Wash.
ington.
All day the Court House Offices were
closed and the building draped in black
At Hart's Hotel the large flag was
draped and floatcd at half mast
Over the new public school
, building which was erected In 1885,
chiefly through the efforts of the de
ceased Chief Justice. A handsome flag
p draped foated at half mast.
The day dawned warm and cloudy
and rain fell until noon. After that th'
weather was very pleasant.