The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-22
FUNERAL
Many Fellow Club Members
Attend the Services at
His Parents House.
DIR. LlMEBURNER'S INDIGNANTLY
Wanted a Carriage to Ride to the
Dying Lad-Dr. Hollisler Got
There on a Wheel.

The funeral of young Howard Griffin,
vino was. killed last Saturday on the
Boulevard while finishing a ten mile BIZ
cycle race. tool place this morning at
eight o'clock from his parents residence,
No. Ill Pearsall avenue. The remains
we're taken to Pennington to be inferred
in the family plot.
The funeral services were held last
evening at his parents residence. Rev.
Charles. ]. Allen, of the Greenville Re-
formed Church, offered prayer, after
which the Rev. c. F. Hull, of the Linden
Avenue Methodist Church., preached the
funeral sermon. About eighty members
of the Greenville Republican League Club
marched to the house to pay their last
respects to the dead. Also members of
Aetna and Arcanum wheeling clubs were
there, each of the clubs sending floral
tributes, on which were these words, I'VE
mourn our loss"
The stories as to how young Griffin was
killed are so conflicting that it is very
difficult to find out precisely how it hap
pened, but the one most generally told
is that when crossing the finish line
Griffin was in a bunch of about ten riders.
Policeman Burke's horse became SO
frightened when the first two or three
riders passed him that he began to
prance around just as young Griffin came
along. Grifin's shoulder struck the flank
of the horse and he went over the handle
bars into the road.
When Griffin was picked up and carried
into the park several messengers were
despatched for doctors, William Vaughn
a very close friend of Griffin's ran to DR..
Tim phr1r orss ho7,ca on Donforfb
and asked him to hurry down to Schuet-
zen Park, telling him what mad hap
pened. Vaughn says that DR.. Limebur-
ner told him to send for his (Griffin's)
family physician, as he could not go. In
the meantime, Theodore Ennis, another
of Grifin's friends, had set out to find a
doctor to attend young Griffin. who was
rapidly sinking. He also went to DR..
L~imeburner's house, and implored the doc
tor for humanity's sake to come to
Griffin. as he was dying. DR.. Limebur-
ner asked Ennis if he had a carriage to
take him to the scene of the accident,
otherwise he would not go.
In the meantime Griffin had been car
ried upstairs in the hotel and laid on a
blanket. Policeman Thon had been dis
patched to DR.. HOLSTERS house on Ocean |
and Danforth, and not finding |
him home rode down to DR.. Lambert's
house. Finding DIR. Lambert absent also
he returned to DR.. HOLSTER, who a
arrived home. He stated in /
just as few words as possible what had
at the park, whereupon the
Doctor jumped from the supper table and
mi his wheel rode to the scene,
but while Policeman Thon had been hunt
ing up DR.. Hollister, Sergeant Reardon
and Captain Nugent had concluded that
the best thing to do was send Griffin to |
the City Hospital. After Griffin's fathers
consent had been gained the patrol wagon
lifted into it. Sergeant Reardon, who
had beer taking care of Griffin, said: ,'.Ill |
drive that wagon to the hospital, and |
Policeman Clemens tanning Griffin |
In the wagon n Grifin's father on thej
seat, the Sergeant whipped up the horse
time he left the park untfl he reached
the Hospital, where Griffin was found to
be beyond recovery.
When. Sergeant Reardon heard that
Griffin was dying he ~telephoned to the
Fifth precinct station for them to send
inform her that her son was diving. Sh
out with all possible speed, but her
son was dead before she reached the
The doctors in the hospital
say that if Griffin had been brought there
after the accident occurred he
and -three-quarters before Griffin
professional attendance.
Ihe Rev. Charles Allen will preach a
sermon in memory of Griffin next Sun
lay evening in the Greenville Reformed
Danforth and Ocean avenues
The members of several of the clubs that
Griffin was connected with will 90 In a +
to the church.