The San Francisco call., 1897-01-19
Last Tributes Laid on the
Bier of Mrs. J. A.
Lees.
Burial of a Woman Who Was
Thoroughly Good and
Charitable.
The Clergy, B.nch and Bar, Mar
chants and Municipal Officers
Were in Attendance.

Surrounded by her sorrowing family
her bier covered with sweet, delicate,
flowers, all tokens of the great love borne
her by friends who wept sincerely that
she had passed away, Mrs. Jane Amelia
Lees lay yesterday in the draw1ng-room
of her late home at 1922 Pine street.
The lovable wife, mother and friend had
many callers, who paid her their last re-
spects and accomp panied her to the grave.
The old home in which she and her ven-
erable husband have lived for score or
years, and in which they have brought up
their children, was entirely inadequate to
accommodate those who wished to be In
attendance and give a glance of farewell
TO the deceased.
Early in the day floral tributes began
arriving, and long before the hour set for
the ceremony the parlors OF the house were
overcrowded with pieces that were tri-
umphs of the florists art. and fragrant
tokens from sad-hearted ones the de-
parted had left behind.
Two floral offerings, monuments in
themselves, were there from the upper
Office" where the men under Captain
Lees hold headquarters, and fro m the
officers of the police station proper. Each
of four companies of patrolmen was also
represented by superb offerings. These
we're irrespective of two magnificent
by William and Robert Pinkerton, Cap
tain Robinson and Sergeant Lindheimer
and Captain John Curtin.
The small flowers, violets, cut roses and
hand bouquets, filled up the interstices
between the larger offerings, so that the
casket barely peeped out from beneath
the mass OF verdure and colors.
CAPTAIN Lees, the chief mourner, saw
many of his friends and hers around the
casket of his loved one yesterday. During
| the four decades he has been one OF this
City's representative men and one OF its
executive officers he has come in contact
with almost every one worth knowing,
| and they joined with him in bis sorrow
| Aside from the leading bankers merch-
ants, attorneys, Judges and municipal Of
| ficers of the present and of days past, 1T
must have been gratifying. TO HIM if he
| saw through his feverish eyes the COM
rades who worked their way up through
| life with him in his profession but who,
one after the other, dropped out as time
placed it's limit on their term of servitude
and EN- blazoned their names on the re-
| tired list.
| There was ex-Chief of Police Burke, now
nearly rs years of age, who handled the
department. when there were but only
fifty officers on the force. Ex-Captain
! Short, VINO is on the shady side of S9years
| of age, came with his word OF consolation.
Ex-Captain Douglass, Washington Irving
ex-Sergeant Harmon and ex-Sergeant Duf-
field were some of the relics of the days
when Captain Lees was himself youth
and their companion.
The religious ceremonies were conducted
| by Rev. Horatio Stebbins, himself a COM
| panion in youth of Captain Lees and 8
dear friend land adviser OF the deceased.
| There was but prayer and later on a
benediction prior to the conveyance of the
remains to the cemetery at Laurel Hill.
| The choir, consisting of Mrs. Martin
Schultz, Miss Xena Roberts, Alfred Will
kie and J. +. Fleming, led by Martin
! Schultz, rendered Jesus, Lover of My
| Soul" and "Thy Will Be Done"
The pallbearers were: Chief of Police
Patrick Crowley, Reuben H. Lloyd,
! Thomas w. Walkin vton, DR.. John Night
| ingale, General w. II. L. Barnes, CITY and
| County Treasurer A. c. Widber. Judge