New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-17
FUSER1L OF ABNER B1RTLETT
A POEM WHICH HE ORDERED TO BE READ AT
HIS AND HIS WIFE'S BURIAIs.

HE ORDERED To hE ftt.AD ~
HIS AND HIS wIFE's BURIALs
While the funeral OF Abner Bartlett was going
on Yesterday in the vancorlcar apartment-house
", on West Flfty-nfth-st., Miss Bartlett, MS
daughter and Mrs Boldt, wife of George c. BoIdt
OF the waldorf arranged for a service at the same
time In the Savoy Hotel. London. wnlch was at
tended by a large number. of the frlehds anu at
quaintances of the dead man. who happen 10 DE
ot this moment In the English metropolis Inc
or,.t.o .ora ras conducted by the Rev DR.. Thomas
II sill Of St Chrysostom's Protestant Episcopal
Chone The room where the coffin rested was half
filed with flowers sent by the friends ana ADMIRERS
81 Mr. Bartlett and by the employees OF the William
Astor and the John Jacob Astor estates lro" oo'"
OF which offices large delegations attenaei'
Among those present were tho dead mans 'hree
brothers. George f. Gideon and william Bartlett
y, Nev-Relford. Mass. and his son. Abner Bart
lott. Deputy Controller Storrs. Philip Klssam John
D,wney George r. Read. president or the rear
Estate Exchange: William a. Read; George -
Rodt Richard V. Harnett DR.. s. :. Stryker' PhiI-
odephla; j. -. Kssam. J. W. Horner' Henry D.
Ely Berkeley Mostyn. Charles ~ PEABODY Charles
W. West. William Sherman, c. W. BALDWIN repre-
scntng william Waldorf Astor; stephen Wood
FRANKLIN Lord James II. Breslin. y. b. Barry,
= C. Wright James W. King. Robert brennan
and Lawrence Mccormick. OF PhiladeIphia' p"o'Bc
@ R,dt. r.. and Michael Mullen. At the burial
to-day at Greenwood the Rev. DIT Sill VIII CONDUCT
n brief service and the choir VIII sing hoch vi
Ages" and Henry g. Ely will read poem entitled
",yhen I Am Dead" The lines were pasted IN
plIe which was given to Mrs Bartlett by her
sister Mary on her welding day. october q lSti
and vvcrc read 10 her by her husband In Pniiadel-
phla September o. 1889. on the occasion OF 'he uc"'h
~ n cranlchrd Mr. Bartlett LEFT orders that 'he
unes be read AT his burial and at the burial OF MS
wife This Is tho poem:
When dead
would not have the r1lc anf gaping crown
Around me gather. and mid lamon'aton ioud'
Tell Of my virtues. and with vain regret
uen,oan my loss and leaving me- forget;
ilu, would have IN" few ~ kindly near
who when irisfortune came 3 noby dii their part
And ~, by thoughtful deeds their lovo express
These would hive. more no less
when dead
When O m dead.
7 would no, have the high ard s'orioi stone
Placed DER my grive. and then I've i"f' alone;
I.n | would have some things once dd love-
Ere 7 dil leave the Joyous world above
PLACED ser me And each succeeding yea
IA have my friends renew them AMI of nger near.
With loving thoughts upon he dear one laid below.
All talk - tnies departed long ngo.
When I dead
81 dead.
Forgivc-Oh this. pray far mcre than all
The anguish have caused the deed beyond recall
Think Kindly IS I lie - Htill
g, po.,r \ subject FOR nngcroi Will
Think q some generous de.l good word spoken.
OF hearts bound NJ found all sad and broken.
Think gently when the long ID mine.
And gaze upon my 'orn with looks benign
When an dcad