The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-09
AN IMPOSING FUNERAL
Prominent Men and Employees
Attend the Services in Mem
ory Of Austin Corbin.

NEW YORK, June g., 18s6-St. Barth-
olomew's Church. Madison avenue and
Iorty-fourth street, was crowded to the
| doors at 10 o'clock this morning when
funeral services were held over the body
of Austin Corbin, who was killed at New
port, n. H. last Thursday in a runaway
accident.
The body of the church was reserved
for the officers and directors of the Long
Island Railroad Company and of other
concerns in which Mr.. Corbin was inter-
ested Delegations from his farm at
Babylon, L. l. arrived early.
Engineers and other employees of the
railroad attended in a large body. The
Corbin Banking Company was represents
ed by nearly every employe.
The attendance of representative men
of the city was conspicuous. Among
the first to arrive was Chauncey Depew,
a friend and business associate of Mr..
Corbin for many years. Daniel Lord, ex-
Governor Cornell, George W. Quintard,
Coils P. Huntington and John D. Grim
minis followed Immediately after
Others present were Mr., and Mrs. Al
fred T. Dicks, J. F. Dorset, Daniel Lord,
Robert W. Rolston, Henry W. Maxwell,
j. Roger Maxwell, Daniel Chauncey, Al
bert Allen, E. e. Rice, Mayor Gleason,
| L. w. Locke, William G. Davis, Russell
Sage, August Belmont and W. Bayard
| Cutting
| The floral decorations were beautiful.
| Roses, orchids. lilies of the valley and
| palms concealed the pulpit. The chancel
| was filled with floral tributes in the shape
| of wreatlls, crosses and pillars from
| friends and relatives of Mr. Corbln.
| Noticeable was one immense standing
| wreath six feet in diameter, composed of
pink orchids and moss roses. presented
| by the employees of the Corbin Banking
Company. Another beautiful emblem
/ was a broken column of white roses from
| the employees Of Mr.. Corbin's farm at
Babylon. The engineers Of the Long Is
! land road sent a huge cross of American
| beauties and white roses, and other em-
| pioyes of the road sent a wreath OF
roses and orchids, which had the word
| President in the centre.
The usual services for the dead, ac-
! cording to the Epfscopalian ritual were
conducted by Bishop Williams of Rhode
/ Huntington, rector of Grace Church, and
/ the Rev. DR., R. c. Booth, assistant rec
/ tor of st. Bartholomew
The immediate relatives of Mr.. Cor
| bin who were present at the funeral were
| his son, Austin Corbin, Jr., who is d
| student at Harvard, who supported his
| mother; Mr.. George s. Edgell and his
| wife, the eldest daughter of Mr.. Corbin
1 and Miss Annie Corbin.
| The coffin stood at the head of the
centre aisle hidden beneath a wreath OF
/ roses and orchids.
The pallbearers were Cornelius Wander.
| bilt, William e. Chandler, Sir RodercA
| Cameron, General B. F. Tracy, Dumoni
/ Clark, ]. Rogers Maxwell, Charles M
! Pratt, j. G. K. Duer, A. N. Parlin ane
| w. B. Kendall.
| r The interment was at Woodlawn,
A squad of police from the East Fifty,
| first street station looked after the large
crowd, which stood about the entrance
/ of the church, and the best of order was
maintained Expressions of regret at this
untimely ending of the man by his in
| defatigable ability had, in great part, de-
| veloped the resources of Long Island
4 were universal.
Young Corbin Edgell, Mr. Corbin's
grandson, who was thrown from ths
| coach in the fatal drive, is still in
critical condition, but the surgeons have
/ hopes of his recovery