Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-28
IN PRESSIVE SERVICES
Performed Over the Remains of George
Bahen.
Father Richards Pays n Touching
Sympnthy-TnI<en TO Richmond.

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college associates and representatives of
all denominations from all sections of the
| city, mass was celebrated this morning at
| Trinity Church over the remains Of young
Geo. ID. Bahen. There was an air of deep
| sadness over the whole assemblage. The
black covered casket containing the ema.
| clated body of the once muscular athletic
| favorite rested in the middle aisle near the
| chancel rail- three large lighted candles
| on either side throwing their rays on the
| mass of flowers with which the top and
head of the casket were hidden.
Father Richards, president of the col
lege acted as chief celebrant of the mass.
with Rev. Fathers Stafford and Corbett
acting as deacon and sub-deacon respec-
| to the impressiveness were vested priests
| from the college and acolytes. In COM
memoration of the season of Christ's forty
| days of suffering the candles of the side
affairs We're draped in black, making the
scene still more effective. Magnificent
floral tributes off from the casket sent
their perfume over the assemblage.
Though it is not usual in the Catholic
Church to eu,ogze the dead, Father Rich
ards remarks on the dead ones sterling
qualities constituted eulogy in the purest
sense He was accompanied from the altar
| to the casket by the priests and acolytes,
who retired on the completion of the
sprinkling.
Though death, at all times" said the
gret comes upon all when he selects as
his mark one in the first bloom of youth.
full Of hope and courage and ambition.
Death Defeated.
'Tn the case OF the dead before us,
though" he continued, death was deprived
of his attending fear. George had not only
been endowed with physical strength, that
| made him the pride of his associates, but
his spiritual being was superlatively pure.
His courage to resist all that was I'M
chaste was equal and exceeded his physi-
cal endowments. He not only had the
courage to keep his own heart clear, but
| had the courage in addition to reprove 9TH
ers for impurities. deep and reverend
devotion for all that is good was upper
| most always in his mind, His superior
courage led him and kept him in the mar
| row path.
deaths approaching footsteps wringing in
his ears his courage was sublime. All the
impatience incident to such suffering as
he endured was absent. The smile that
endeared him to all was with him to the
last. Geo. Bahens life was a model one,
and his death patient and beautiful"
Taken to Richmond.
Among the most handsome of the floral
| tributes sent We're magnificent easel from
the Columbia Athletic Club, a wreath of
beauty from his classmates, wreath of
roses from the class of '95 and '96. red ivy
cross from the class of 81 cross from '0S
| and anchor from the third-year class, first
section. The tributes went to the depot
with the remains, which they will accom-
pany to Richmond, the home of the de-
ceased. The remains left on the 1927 train
for Richmond.
The body of young Bahen lay in state
from yesterday afternoon until the funeral
hour this morning. Members Of the Society
| of Jesus sat up with the corpse during the
night. The pallbearers We're selected from
| the class of '96, of which deceased was a
member, and the class a whole accom-
panied the body to the depot. 1t was in
tended by the university to send a commit
tee to Richmond, but Mr.. Bahen the father
of the dead boy considering the incon-
venience that would result to the students,
| requested that this be not done.
The flower bearers were taken from the
several classes of the college.
Tribute to the Dead.
The Junior class of Georgetown Univer-
sity today appointed A. ]. Smith, J. F.
O'Brien and ]. H. Dugan committee to
prepare resolutions of respect to the late
George Bahen. The resolutions presented
and adopted pay a tribute to Bahen's
noble qualities, both of heart and mind,
his integrity of character, his loyal attach
a friend ever to be loved and honored,''
and the class tender to his bereaved par
ents Our deepest sympathy and con-
dolence in this their affection"