The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-23
BBASLHY 0BSBQDIHS.
The Dead Chief Justice
Buried Yesterday at
RivervieW.
SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE RITES
Bishop Scarborough Conducts the
Services - Eminent Men
Present.
SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE RITES
Special to the JERSEY Cstp Nears.

TRENTON, Feb. %. 1S97.--Bishop Scar
borough, gowned in purple and white, and
Rector knight, in. white and black, read
the Episcopal Church burial service yes
terday morning, as the body of Chief JUS
tice Beasley twas inferred in Riverview
Cemetery, in a plot adjoining the last
resting place of Ex-Governor George B.
Mcclellan, who in 1878 signed the Chiefs
commission which for the third time made
him the head Of the New Jersey judiciary.
The sky was leaden, making more
dreary the ~lifeless sod of the city of the
dead, and threatening a storm to fill tire
cold and damp air which blew with con-
siderable force as it swept the banks and
the bosom of the Delaware.
The silence Of the carriers in taking
the casket from the hearse was broken
by the Bishop with the words:-"I ann the
Resurrection" AT the words, eight col
leagues On the bench with the departed
Chief barred their heads, marched behind
the clergymen an carriers in slow pro-
cession 10 the grave, the Bishop all the
time informing. The carriage path was
but a few yards from the grave into
which the body was lowered Immediately
without a break In the service by the
Bishop, who spoke in a firm and clear
voice.
The clergymen and the distinguished
jurists met at the grave the mourning
relatives and friends. The Rev. Mr..
Knight concluded the service.
Green carpet was spread on either side
of the grave, while the pile of earth
which stood behind the Bishop and rec
tor was a beautiful mound of palms. The
grave was lined in white. which was re-
lieved by festoons of smilax, in which
orrov a Spd ~ ovnof nr0f10fnxr 1 a Tra
white roses. Beyond the green carpet
were spread great sheets of heavy can
vas, which relieved the mourners from
the dampness Of the earth.
On the black cloth casket, with its
| satin finished m~ouldings, as it was low-
cred there were palms and a huge wreath
of white roses.
The lid of the box which enclosed the
coffin bore a copper plate on which, in
plain letters, was the name Mercer
Beasley."
The services at the house were simple
in character as those at the grave. The
spacious residence was filled with mourn
ers, the great majority of whom were
member of the bar. Governor Griggs
and United States Senator Sewell were
among those present. The Chiefs face
as viewed in the casket was surprisingly
natural. A good sized crowd found in
terest in the funeral from the outside of
the house.
A rumor gained currency that ex-Judge
SlduttC 4 oOdoiSy a AIOt OCCh Ia
formed of his fathers death. The rumor
had no foundation, the Judge knowing
Of both the death and the funeral ar
rangementS.
Included in the services at the. house
by the Bishop was a prayer for the sick,
in remembrance of the son who lay up
stairs so dangerously i'll.
Among those present were-Chancellor
Alexander T. McGill, Supreme Court JUS
tees Depue. Dixon, Van Syckel. Magic,
Lippincott, Ludlow and .Vice-Chancellor
Reed, Who were the pail bearers; judges
Kruger, vice-Chancellor Grey, General
Robert. F. Stockton, General Richard A.
Donnelly Rev. pr Walter A. Brooks;
States District Court, y. s. Attorney !
Judge kebert s MoodraH, Judge +.
Relstab, Judge William M. tanning,
Judge J. Frank Fort of Newark, Secretary
Of State Kelsey, Supreme Court Clerk 3.
Hancock, Speaker George w. Maspher-
son of the House of Assembly, Generai
s. 2; oiAlpsh a JSmss Parker Of Perth
ex-senator Vanderbilt Of Princeton, Hon.
Cortlandt Parker, Hon. Gilbert Collins,
SSaptainH d Parker w ef the United States
Keasbey Of Newark Thomas T. Kinney
dere. RICHARD F. Stevens Of Newark, Major
Flavel MCGEE of Jersey City, Executive
Clerk Edward Fox, Colonel Morris Ham
yredenburgh, Samuel Kalisch of Newark,
ex-President of the Senate Robert Adrain
OF New Brunswick, Schuyler B. jackson,
Dr.. Jchn w. Ward, Frederick Parker.
H. Blackwell. Charles e. Green, Hugh
Hanill, John L.. Kuser, Henry C. Moore,
Colonel Louis Perrine, Colonel Eckford
Moore, Colonel Charles B. Dahlgfen, John
Hutchinson, James B. Dayton, Aaron v.
Dawes w. Holt Apgar, Howell G. Stull,
DR.. Thomas 8. Stevens, Barker Gum
mere, Robert F. Stockton, Jr.; Frederick
William L. Dayton, Mrs. Robert F. Stock
ton, Miss Vroom. Mrs. John H. Stewart,
Miss Stewart, Miss Van Syckel, Mrs.
Frederick C. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Ewing Green, B. NJ. Phillips, o Sykes.
The funeral arrangements were in charge
of G. B.. Cogil1,