The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-02
BURIED THEIR
FRIEND IN HIS
BELOVED LAND
Remains of Senator
Boggs Inferred.
SAD RITES AT CYPRESS LAWN
SERVICES ARE HELD IN THE
PALACE HOTEL.
Ritual of the Episcopal Church Is
Read by Rev. Robert C. Foute.
Delegation of Legislators
| in Attendance.
SAD RITES AT CYPRESS LAWN
SERVICES ARE HELD IN THE
PALACE HOTEL.

Inc remains of Senator John Boggs Of
Colusa are now reposing beneath the sod
| of his beloved California The funeral
| OF the pioneer, statesman and farmer
I whose name for half a century was al
| most household word throughout the
| state took place from the Palace Hotel
! yesterday morning and all that was
mortal Of this grand character was later
/ lald In its last resting place in Cypress
| Lawn Cemetery For fifty years the name
! OF John Boggs has been to Californians
a synonym for honor and integrity, and
his memory will long be cherished in that
section Of the State which he did SO much
to develop.
Early IN the morning the friends of the
deceased began to assemble In the fam
| lily apartments on the sixth floor Of the
Palace where the remains of the man
whom everybody loved reposed peace
fully in a handsome casket which was
almost smothered with flowers Promi-
Eent among the magnificent offerings was
a mammoth cross composed Of Gala lilies,
violets, maiden bells and ferns, surmount-
ed by a white dove symbolical of the
flight of the soul from the body and bear
ing the inscription, Our Lamented Col
league from the members of the Legis-
lature. Immense pillows made of violets,
maiden bells and a variety of ferns were
placed along the sides of the casket, while
the hundreds of delicately perfumed roses
Of various hues perfumed the air.
At 1915 the Rev. Robert c. Foute of
Grace Episcopal Church stepped TO the
head of the casket and read the beauti-
full and impressive funeral service Of the
Episcopal church, concluding with a
prayer. The remains were then conveyed
TO the Palace court, where the hearse
and carriages were in waiting, preceded
by the honorary pallbeareTs and the leg
islative delegation and followed by the be-
reaved widow and children of the de-
ceased. Following were the honorary
pallbearers, all of them lifelong friends
of the dead: Lieutenant Governor Jacob
H. Neff, Senator q. w. Chapman, Cen
eral N. P. Chipman; E, B. Pond, viii 5.
Colonel George Haager and W. 2. Har-
rington of Colusa, Judge Mcfarland,
John H. Jewett of Marysville, n. d. Ride
out and Senator A. P. Williams.
The legislative delegation was composed
of Senators Boyce, Bettman, Morehouse.
Maggard Sims, Chapman and Dryer,
and Assemblymen Dunlap, Belshaw, Cam
inetu, Glenn and Sanford.
the Southern Pacific station at
Third and Townsend streets, where
a special train was in waiting
to convey the mourners 10 Sy5
press Lawn. AT the cemetery a tent had
been erected by 1.-THE side Of the open grave
to shield the funeral party from the sun
or rain during the brief ceremony at
ground AS the casket was lowered beloFH
the surface DR.. Foute read the burial
service and an improvised choir, COM
posed of friends of the family, sang
PRAYER followed, and as the threatening
clouds overhead began TO SEND forth
warning drops the ciods of earth began
to fall on the coffin that held all that
was earthly of him who was neIa az IIia'
while on earth as one Of Gods Noble
on