Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-03-25

he always gave sympathetic audience.
To his wife he was the faithful. af-
fectionate husband to his children
the wise, firm, yet indulgent parent.
These will miss him as no others will.
Mr.. Hitchins' immediate survivors
are his wife, five sons, two daughters,
two brothers and one sister. OF the
sons three are infants. The eldest son,
J. H. Hitchins, is the resident agent of
the Cumberland and Pennsylvania rail
road company the second, w. f..
Gladstone. is the chief clerk resident
of the Barton and Georges Creek
Valley coal company. The elder
brother, Adam E., is the surviving
chief of both the Hitchins Bros firm
and company, ana John, manifest
clerk at Carlos mines. His sister is
Mrs. William Williams, of this place.
The funeral took place Thursday
afternoon, Rev. H. S. France, of Bal
timore, preaching an appropriate ser
mon. A large attendance and the
closed doors of all the business houses
evinced the popular regret and SYM
pathy. The active pallbearers were
Messrs. J. J. Hoblitzell and w. T.
Oats, of Meyersdale Capt. John
Sheridan, of Mt. Savage C. Roberts,
A. Stewart, A. j. Wilson, F. G..
Beall and J. B. Oder. The honorary
were Hons John Douglas. of Iona
coming, and Lloyd Lowndes, of Cum
berland; Messrs. Thomas Malloy, of
Mt. Savage; A. Hixon. of Phila-
delphia; H. C. Black and Charles
Frick, of Baltimore l.. NJ. Hamilton,
of Cumberland Duncan Sinclair, of
Midlothian; ID. Armstrong, and Will
liam Brown, of Frostburg
Eight beautiful floral designs were
contributed by friends and borne by
Messrs. Daniel Krapf, T. A. Sullivan,
H. S. Keller, James Thomas, Charles
Stewart, Harry Metzger, William Ed
wards and Edward Gross.
The most elaborate of these are
described for the JOURNAL as follows :
PMom-Bride Roses, Lilies and Lily of the
Valley. I'D. Amman
Anchor-Roses and Lily of the Valley. w. r.
Percy.
Easel-with Floral Sickle and Sheaf w. c.
Devecmon.
Wreath-Easter Lilies, Hyacinths, etc, Mrs.
Marion Sper.
Amchor and Cross-Motto, My Friend. John
Chambers.
Scroll Of Ho"or-with initials of Immortelles,
80. H. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. B. Oder
The body was inferred in the family
lot, Allegany cemetery, Rey. Messrs.
Van Arsdale, France and Britt read
ing the words committing it to earth
until the just shall rise in the resurrec-
ton.
SO passed away one who illustrated
in a modest way what is possible of
attainment to men of strong intellec-
tuality. Since he was seven years of
age he had meyer attended school, yet
he grew to be a tirelesS reader of the
best modern literature. The library
collected through forty years of dis
eliminating selection and rejection is
believed to be the choicest assem- blage
of intellectual achievements in the
county. He had read, and re-read the
most thoughtful, and digested the
most profound until it mattercd little
what topic arose he was always ready
with some apt and conclusive observa-
ton from some standard literary
oracle. He was an accurate Judge of
style and loved the pregnant huency
of writer's of the Macaulay type.
Carlyle he called ''jerky," and in gen
eral his criticisms accorded with those
of expert doctors of rhetoric. Much
of his reading was theological, whence
he strengthened the strong religious
bias with which his life began. His
faith in the Immortality of mankind
and the endless. triumph of good life
grew up in his mental constitution
with all the strength infallible logic
can lend. His conduct, so inspired
and so guided, completes the biogra-
ply of that "highest type of man." F.;
christian, and bequeaths to his chill
dren the most precious of hu MAJ
legacies-the memory of just MAJ
made perfect.