Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06
HE IS AT REST.
Funeral Of the Late General
Neal Dow at Portland.
Services We're Simple In Accordance
With Request Of Diseased.
Gov. Powers, Three Ex. Governors and OtheI
Well.Known Men Among Bearers.

Portland, Oct. 5.-The funeral ser
vices of the late General Neal Dow
were held at the Second Parish church
this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock.
lows: Anthem, reading of Scriptures
by Rev. Leroy S. Bean, prayer by Rev.
d. 3. Randall address by Rev. Dr. Asa
Dalton, address by Rev. A. H. Wright,
address by Rev. r. r. Hack, hymn.
prayer and benediction.
The pail bearers were Governor Pow
ers, Mayor Randall, eX-Gov. Perham
ex-Gov. Dingley. eX-Gov. Selden Con-
nor, ex-Gov. Robe. Judge William l..
Putnam. General Francis Fessenden
eX-Mayor King. eX-Mayor Deerng
Hon VIM. G. Davis, Edward H. Davies
Esq. Chief Engineer Eldridge, ex-Chief
Engineer Spencer Rogers, eX-Chief
A. j. Cummings, eX-Chief Frank Mer-
rill
All the flags in the city are at half
mast, and very many of the business
houses were closed during the hour of
the funeral. The attendance was very
bers Of the present and past city gov
ernments; present and past members
of the Senate and House of Represeh-
tatives from Portland; delegations
from the Grand Army; the 18th Maine
Regiment Association; the present fire
department and veterans of the asso-
citation.
In the course of the principal address
of the afternoon, Rev. Dr. Dalton said
in part:
"A prophet is not without honor, save
in his own country and in his own
house. The truth of the saying is
proved by its exceptions of which Neal
Dow furnished a striking example
The general recognition of Gen. Neal
Dow, his great work and greater worth.
is no less creditable to the people of
Portland. all classes of our citizens.
than to Neal Dow himself.
Distance often imparts a glow to 4
view, both of men and things, which l.
dissipated by coming nearer to them.
The comparatively unknown is mis-
familiar inspection would breed con-
tempt. Not so with Neal Dow. Great
ly as he is honored abroad, he is NOR,
iolIoitu a. iolliN. "ilCiC liio ii'oN
career has been subject to lights NOR.
searching than bent upon a thrcne and
have revealed nothing to his disa,-
vantage. They have served only tt
bring into clearer view his many ad
mirable traits and the sterling worth.
of his character.
Call no man happy till he dies
was a saying of the ancient Greeks.
Neal Dow was happy alike in life and
death. Happy in his ancestry, in his
parents, the home influences and train
ing, which started him in the right
direction. 1t was the pure, serene at
mosphere of the friends which he
breathed from his birth which proved a
tonic to his moral constitution. He
was equally happy in the choice he
made of moral aim in life, which wa
to grow and strengthen by what it fed
upon; happy in the town where he be
gan to carry out his high purpose;
happy in the epochs which seated him.
in the mayors chair and afterward in
the Legislature, where, in 1851, h
achieved the greatest single cuccess OF
his life.
LET others dwell and dilate on his
surely secure to him the widest fame
but to ourselves, we will reserve the
right to claim him as fellow either
whose fame the State and city will
jealousy and proudly guard and yet
perpetuate in bronze or marble. Let
the oilers among us be aroused and in
cited by his incessant activity. Well
might the last words be, i am weary.
who than he had better right to be
weary, not of, but in his work.
The services lasted but an hour anC
were very simple, according to wisi
expressed by the general two or three
days before his death. There was n
attempt at decoration of the church
other than the profusion of flowers
which covered the altar and chancei
The interment took place at Evergreen