The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-29

tives Present-High Esteem In Which the Deceased Was Held Attested by Floral Tributes-A Beautiful EuIOgy by Rev. Dr. smyth.
 , The funeral of Thomas R. Trow- bridge was held yesterday afternoon at 2:S0 from the residence, 353 Temple street It was one of the most largely attended funerals held in New Haven in many years the house being com pletely filled with relatives and friends of the deceased, including his business associates, members of organizations to which he belonged, and those whose hearts his generous benefactions had | touched. A delegation of about fifty members of the Republican league, of which he was first president, was in attendance The floral offerings were most numerous and beautiful and in- cluded a large piece made of chrysan- themums, from the Republican league.
 Among those present were relatives of Mrs. Trowbridge from Litchfleld and nearly all the prominent men of New | Haven with whom MT. Trowbridge had been identified socially and in business. Among these latter were General s. F. Merwin, Henry T. Blake, General Henry S. Peck, Hon. N. D. Sperry, Charles E. Curtis, Charles s. Leete, General E. S. Greeley, Eugene s. Bris- tol, Burton Mansfield, Mayor F. B. Farnsworth, F. A. Betts, President l Timothy Dwight of Yale university, George Watrous, Judge l.. w. Cleave- land and Horace Day.
 Rev. Newman Smyth, D. D., pastor of Center church, of which MT. Trow- bridge was a member, conducted the services. After reading from scripture l that beautiful chapter In which occur ] the words Tn my fathers house are many mansions, etc. Dr. Smyth pro- nounced a beautiful eulogy to the mem- ory of the deceased He spoke, in part, as follows: When a man dies who has lived in the community a life of manifest and manifold usefulness a life well lived, a man honorably known to us all 1t is not necessary as 1t might be with strangers to enumerate the things which he has done, the good that his hands hath wrought These things we might need mention among strangers who knew him not. I shall not, therefore, refer to his life. How manifold and honorable was Mr. Trowbridge's connection with all that pertains to the welfare of the com munity is attested by your presence here. He entered in his youth upon a career, the foundation for which was laid by the integrity and God-fearlng of his father before him. He was a lover of his city and everything per- taining to it's past was matter of in- terest to him. He was also man of the present man of public spirit and although he revered the very ashes of the dead, he loved little children.
 You who have been associated with him know his work, his faithfulness and his love. MT. Trowbridge was also member of an historic church. His church was dear to him as the center and the source of supreme power that shall make this earth more and more like the city of God Those who have been befriended by him, those in the various relations of help and dependen- cy, you are here, you know better than I can tell how much he has been to you in these close relationships of human lives And so we come from various walks and interests and all together we recollect the man himself, not what he | of h yra miss him and we remember him as friend of the poor, a friend of the city, friend of the church, disciple and servant of the Lord and Master of us all. He has gone ot be with his fathers. Come from long line of honorable and God fearing men he goes to be with his fathers. We think of death too of- ten as the break of all known relations and the beginning of life of whose &C., tivity and powers we cease to be com prehensive. Instead of speaking of it as a passage from one world to another, a passage across an unknown ocean to a country unknown, we should think of it as passage from friendship to friendship a going from friends here to friends there, a passing from one circle of friendship to another, and the very passage OI q 1nd1l lIoln OHe lTlenu- ship to another friendship rather binds the two together in a relationship more rich, more tender.
 "He has gone from friends who are thinking of him now to those friends who have been waiting for him, from our farewell to their greeting, from our sadness to their joy, to their full and perfect comprehension of the length and breadth of that love that binds all hearts together and fills all hearts with the fullness of God. Has not his spirit opened it's eye to the light of another morn, to see nothing strange, but the friends there, some not many years from this earth, whose very presence there would make it no strange land. The words spoken there are the same as those spoken here, though spoken in another tongue, father, son, child, daughter, friend, and something of this must have filled MT. Trowbridge's mind as he was making a passage from friendship to another friendship. for he said: If anyone asks how Mir Trowbridge, is, tell them I love my friends, passing away The most glorious possession of any man are the
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