The record-union., 1899-11-26
Funeral Of Garrett A. Hobart at Pat
erson, New Jersey.
Brlef But Impressive Services at His Late
Home and In the Church.
An Eloquent Sermon on the Life
Of Deceased Delivered by the
Rev. David d. Magic at the
Church-The Remains Con-
signed to a Temporary Resting
Place in the Receiving Vault at
Cedar Lawn Cemetery.

B1Ened TO a 4eMpoIa1y AsCSSAAA6
Place in the Receiving Vault at
Cedar Lawn Cemetery.
PATERSON, Nov. 25.-The earthly
remains of the late Vice President Gar
ret A. Hobart were consigned to tenn
porary resting place in the receiving
vault at Cedar Lawn Cemetery near
this city to-day. A brief funeral service
was held at the late residence of the
deceased, the officiating clergyman be-
ing the Rev. DR.. Magic.
President Mckinley and his Cabinet
officers and over sixty members of the
Senate and a great many congressman,
who came on special trains, attended
the services at the house.
The service at the house was 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 Pres
ident and his Cabinet, Judges of the
Supreme Court, the honorary pallbear-
ers, immediate friends of the family
and family servants. The Rev. David
D. Magic offered prayer and read a
passage of the Scripture. The Presi-
dent, Cabinet and Supreme Court JUS
ficeS and those present took a last look
at the face of the dead, the casket was
closed, and all that was mortal of Vice
President Hobart was carried out to
the hearse by members of the Senate
police, and the President and his party
went to the Church of the Redeemer,
about two blocks from Carroll Hall. An
immense crowd was in the vicinity Of
the church.
The casket was carried by eight men,
bers of the Capitol police in uniform,
under command of A P. Garden.
The military lined the streets between
Carroll Hall and the Church Of the
Redeemer. The church floral decorations
We're magnificent A band of smilax
over three feet wide and thick enough
to hide the wall ran around both sides
and the front of the main auditorium.
Above the windows the wreath ran un-
broken before the pipes of the great
organ. At the window giant palms
reached up to the smilax. These palms
and the festooning around the windows
We're laden with white flowers, princi-
pally lilies of the valley, orchids and
chrysanthemums. Around the organ
and pulpit lilies were strewn. in lavish
profusion. The fonts before the pulpit
We're covered with American beauty
roses to the hight of nine feet. A large
space before the pulpit was left undeco-
rated. Here the casket rested and many
OF the floral tributes were laid
Seats had been reserved in the church
Tor relatives and intimate friends of the
late Vice President, and Mrs. Hobart.
President Mckinley and members of
MS Cabinet, Chief Justice Fuller and
Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court, members of the United States
senate and members of the House of
representatives Messrs. Alger. Bliss
and Gary, former members of President
Mchinley's Cabinet; the Governor and
state officers of New Jersey; the repre-
sentatives of the city and county Gov
ernment; A. Justin Scott of Ruttlin Col
lege; Henry W. Green, Trustee. repre-
senting Princeton University: renresen-
tatlves of the Republican organizations
OF New Jersey and Passaic County and
various manufacturing and financial
T. HODaTC
had been identified.
PRESIDENT Mckinley sat in the front
pew on the right of the aisle. He was
accompanied by the Secretary of State
and Secretary of the Treasury. On the
left Of the aisle on the front pew were
Mrs Hobart and son, Garret Ho-
bart, and Hobart Tuttle. Immediately
behind Mrs. Hobart and son was David
"a mi Doh
dent were Elihu Root, Secretary of
war; John D. Long, Secretary of the
Navy, and E. w. Hitchcock, Secretary
Of the Interior. Then followed the Sem
ators and Congressman. The Hobart
pew, which is the ninth on the right
side. was filled with floral offerings.
The services at the church lasted
an hour, and were conducted by Rev.
DR.. Magic. They began with an organ
prelude and reading of Scriptures by
the Rev. Charles P. Shaw, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Patter-
son. Then followed the singing of the
hymn Nearer, My God to Thee" by
the Orpheus Club.
The sermon was preached by Rev
DR.. Magic, who said, in part:
I'm this day of national calamity and
into the house of God and bow in sub
mission before the most high God. Gar
ret A Hobart, a man whom this ma
tion honors, a man whom it learned
to trust. has fallen in death. The Lord
giveth, and the Lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord
IF to-day no warlike sound is heard,
none the less do we know this was
given in the service of his country and
its last official duties were done under
the very shadow of death.
This spirit of fidelity and courage
was his by inheritance. The blood which
flowed In his veins was from good Eng
lish stock, and was mingled with the
martyr blood of Dutch and Huguenot
ancestors. He would have been untrue
to all his ancestral tendencies if he had
not served the cause of freedom, of ed
ucation and of God. The ideals of his
home life, under which he was trained,
were of high and holy character.
They guided his life to it's close. Had
he lived as men ordinarily live, he
might have reached the limit of four
score years. He has died in the ripe
ness of his powers; full of honors. not
of years.
''It needs not that I should speak to-
day of his public life and services.
Prominent citizens and the press in all
sections of the land and the proclama-.
ton of the President have done him
noble Justice From the experience and