The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-25
HOBART OBSEQUIES.
Simple Ceremonies at the House and
Church-Body Viewed by a Large
oOneourse Of People.

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Church-Body Viewed by Large
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NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-The funeral
OF the late Garret A. Hobart, vice pres
ident Of the United States. viii take
place tomorrow at Paterson, N. j., SER
vices being first held at Carroll Hail,
the Hobart home. and after that at the
Church of the Redeemer.
The services at the house are intend
ed for the family. the President and his
cabinet. members OF the senate and
house OF representatives of the United
States and intimate personal friends Of
the family. They will begin at p, m.
and will be conducted by Rev. DR.. Ma
gle. who also Will deliver an address
and prayer at the church service. The
President and cabinet will also at
tend the services at the church, being
conveyed there in carriages, while the
thlrty-two paIl.bearers, Of whom eight
are personal pall-bearers, will walk In
the procession.
The scenes at Carroll Hall this after
noon, when the remains Of Vice Presl-
dent Hobart were lying In state and
the public were given un opportunity to
view them. were exciting and pathetic.
Long before o'clock, the time an
nounced for the opening Of the doors OF
] the Hobart home to the public, the
crowd began to assemble and when the
first rush toward the main entrance be-
gan, fully 5000 persons were crowded
Into Ellison and Carroll streets. Lines
were formed by squad of police, but
the force was entirely too small to
maintain any semblance OF order. Wo-
men were largely in the majority. They
included nll classes. from those in Mr..
Hobart's social class TO the street beg
gars, and all we're given the same OPP
portunity to take a last look at the face
of one they had learned to esteem.
Many Of the women carried infants.
The first person to see the remains Rf-
ter they had been removed from the
room where Vice President Hobart
died, was Attorney General GrIggs. He
shook his head as he noticed the change
In the face Of the dead, and as he step
ped aside from the room, very much az
fected, he remarked: "He has suffered
much-more than any one will know"
Mr.. Griggs was one OF the few men
who saw Mr.. Hobart before he died, but
he only had u few words with him.
That was week before the end came.
AS the throngs filed into the hall
leading to the library the excitement
increased. Women tainted on the porch
and at one time half dozen lay insen-
and all with the assistance of friends
were able to so home. This kind OF
excitement was not confined to the out
side. At the coffin there was a falnting
scene. A woman about twenty years Of
age, after gazing on the face OF the
dead vice president, stood at the coffin
as though transfixed. Then she scream
ed and fell forward into the arms Of
policeman. She was placed in chair
and revived with a glass Of ice water
brought by a member Of the Hobart
household. 1t was estimated that fully
1000 persons saw the remains In the
few hours they were exposed to view,
Thousands more would have seen them
II the time had permitted, but the doors
of Carroll Hall were closed promptly at
6 o'clock. as.
During the ceremony, r. T. Bell,
president OF the First National bank, OF
Paterson, and one OF the executors OF
the Hobart estate, stood at the head OF
the casket. Others in the room repre-
senting the family, were j. w. Cleve-
land, Edward a. Walton, General
COngdon and Colonel Bright, The room
bore the fragrance Of flowers sent by
friends. The interior OF the house was
guarded by all the detectives from po-
lice headquarters, and no one was al
lowed to liDger at the casket.
1t was remarked by those who had
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had lost its pleasant roundness and
was very thin, showing that he had
suffered much. His neck had also thin
ned considerably, and his hair and
moustRche were gray, He was sadly
changed from the day he was sworn
into the office OF vice president OF the
United States. but there was n peaceful
expression. as though he had dropped
Into a sleep.