The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-30
All That is Mortal of the Late
Vice President Hobart
La d to Rest.
THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET PRESENT
Simple Private Services at Carroll
Hall Prrrede the Public Cere.
monies at the Church.
Rev. DR.. Magic, Pastor of the Church Of
the Redeemer. Delivers . Short Fu.
neral sermou-Ini ermeut in
Cedar Lawn Csmetery.

PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 22. Vice Pres
day. The family and physicians were
at Mr.. Hobart's bedside when he ex.
pired.
The vice president had been failing
since late Monday afternoon, although
the reports given out at the house were
that he was holding his own.
At midnight he became unconscious
and at o'clock Tuesday morning he
had an attack of angina pectoris, from
which he never rallied.
PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 26.-The clay
of the late Vice President Hobart was
consigned to mother earth Saturday.
The services at the house were brief
and simple. 1t was held in
the library, which was banked
with flowers sent by friends of the
dead vice president. Mrs. Hobart,
with her son, Garret A. Hobart, jr.,
sat near the head of the casket,
while near her were grouped the
president and his cabinet, judges of
the supreme court, the honorary pail
bearers and the immediate friends of
the family and the family servants.
The Rev. David D. Magic offered the
prayer and read a passage of Scripture.
The president, cabinet and supreme
court judges, and those present took Il
last look at the face of the dead, the
n ,,l oil hot
tai of Vice President Hobart was car
ried out to the hearse by members of
the senate police.
The public funeral ceremonies, which
cemetery, took place in the Church of
the Redeemer
The services at the church were of
entirely a religious nature, no military
er fraternal body taking part. Presi-
dent Mckinley and all the mem bers of
his cabinet occupied the front pews on
the right side OF the aisle. Opposite
and filling large part of the church
were ranged the scores of members OF
congress some of whom had journeyed
many hundreds of miles in order to
pay their respect to tho memory of Mr..
Hobart.
The choir of the Church of the Re.
deemer, of which Mr.. Hobart was a
lifelong member, sung Lead, Kindly
Light" and the Rev. DR.. Magic, pas.
tor of the church, read scripture selec
tions appropriate to the occasion,
Another hymn was sung by the choil
and then the Rev. DR.. Magic deliv
cred short funeral sermon.hn which
he did honor to 1.-The power, the
grandeur, the sublimity and the
sweetness of the noble life" of the
dead vice president. At the close O
the services the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate escorted the president, the
members of the cabinet and the JUS
tices of the supreme court out of the
church. The senators and representa-
tives followed. Many spectators gath
cred about the coffin before it wa
closed 20 be removed to its last resting
place beside the grave of Miss Hobar
In Cedar Lawn cemetery.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28-Official Wash
ington is in mourning Saturday TO
the dead vice president. Business il
all the executive branches of the gov
ernment is suspended and the depart
ments are closed. Nearly all 0
the prominent officials of tn
government have gone to Paterson
to attend the funeral of Vic
President Hobart, and flags tn ough
out>the city are at half staff. As a
evidence of the popularity Of the lat
vice president, hundreds of private res
licences Saturday displayed mourning
emblems.