The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-09

Short funeral services were held over the
body of Dan l.. Paine in Flanner &
Buchanan's chapel. on North Illinois street,
yesterday morning. at $3.50. During the
morning a large number OF friends called
at the chapel to pay their last tributes of
respect. The services consisted of brief re-
marks by Rev. n. A. Hyde and prayer by
the Rev. ID. r.. Lucas. AT 11:20 the body,
accompanied by a committee appointed by
the Press Club. was taken to Cincinnati TO
be cremated.
In following memorial has been spread
on the Press Club minutes:
Daniel l.. Paine, one of the two active
IRE members of the Indianapolis Press Club.
died at St. Vincents Hospital, at 10 O'Clock
Monday night, May 6, 1895. He was born
IN maj; Maine, Oct; is. lssO. and had lived in
been identified with the art preseryatfye,'
either as copy setter or copy maker. His
first employment in this city, when he came
within the knowledge OF the older men,
bers OF the press In Indianapolis. was as a
compositor- He was capable OF doing more
bread. His fitness led to his employment
in editorial work and this became his oc-
eupation so long as he was able to work.
For twenty years he was critical editorial
writer for the Indianapolis News. Notwith-
standing his more OF less e~xacting duties
and to cultivate the arts. Five years ago
progressive paralysis warned him and his
friends that death had laid hold upon him
and would not release the grasp. Through
those years he was patient. cheerful. ready
for life or death. and lamenting only that
he could not be SO useful as in former
Unable 10 walk or leave his room he yet
held his friends in tender memory by cor
respondence by the occasional appearance
of verses in the public prints.
The distinguishing traits of Mr.. Paine's
character were affection. fidelity and buoy
ancy. He had a wonderful capacity for
frian6ChInC He UaC faithful IN 0pcrN nh1f-
cation. His hope and cheer were boundless.
All his life he sought intuitively the worth
lest things. Although without the SYSTEM
attic training of schools he sought the best
that has been said and done in the world.
He was sensitive to the best expressions
of literature. music and the graphic arts.
He was not an intrusive or d~oginatic critic.
but when appealed to he would give pointed
and helpful suggestions. Many of the
younger men In our profession and Begin
ners in literature here and elsewhere prof
tied by his advice.
our friend was kindly. even benignant.
He carried the sunshine with him and if.
as he persuaded others in their distress
and doubt TO look forward hopefully. he
foliowed the same precept IN MS own life;
his later years. could not diminish the inner
sunshine. which he ever reflected to bright
IN the way for others. His ambitions were
for others rather than for himself. Modest
and simple in a remarkable degree he de-
lighted in the achievements of his friends.
IL is not the lot of many go nearly to ap-
proach perfection. He looked alws VS. up and
not down. forward not back. lending a hand
10 his fellows. and diffusing light In many
a darkcned place"
The body of Mr.. Paine was reduced to
ashes at the Cincinnati Crematory OH Cliff
ton Hills. The Press Club escort was met
at the station by a funeral director with
a hearSe and the crematory officials, and
was driven in carriages TO the crematory.
The casket was placed upon an iron plat
form on wheels and was rolled into an in
closure resembling a vault. The heat was
allowed In the vault and through a window
in the rear the first stages of combustion
could be seen. The casket was burned away
disclosing the human form wrapped in the
charrcd alum paper which. dampened. had
been pressed about the body. The heat was
intense enough TO cause a gaseous dissipa-
ton of the body without the flame touch
ing 1t. The process required three hours.
The ashes will be forwarded to this city to-
day. OF the press committee and others i'm
the escort. Mr.. j. =. Dunn and j. Oscar
Harding returned last night.