Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-11-29
LAST RITES FOR THE DEAD
Body of Vice President Hobart Laid
to Rest in the Presence Of High
Dignitaries of the Nation.
PATERSON WAS A CITY OF MOURNING.
Business Houses Were Closed and Flags
Were at Half Mast-The Church Floral
Decorations Were Magnificent, Fonts
Before the Pulpit Being Covered With
American Beauty Roses Nine Feet High.

Paterson, N. j., Nov. 26.-Because of
the funeral of Garrett A. Hobart, vice
president of the United States, Satur-
day, business houses, with few eXcep-
tions, were closed and many private
residences had flags at half mast be-
sides other mourning emblems. The
bells of the churches started tolling at
sunrise and at nine o'clock all the bells
of the city began marking the minutes.
The church floral decorations were
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 windows giant palms reached
up to the smilax. These palms and the
festooning around the windows were
laden with white flowers, principally
lilies of the valley, orchids and chrys-
anthemums. Around the organ and
pulpit lilies were strewn in lavish pro-
fusion. The fonts before the pulpit
was left undecorated. Here the casket
rested and many of the floral tributes
were laid.
Seats had been reserved in the
church for relatives and intimate
friends of the late vice president and
Mrs. Hobart; President Mckinley and
the members of his cabinet; Chief JUS
tice Fuller and the associate justices OF
the supreme court of the United States;
membe of the house of representa-
tives; Messrs. Alger, Bliss and Gary,
former members of President McKin-
ley's cabinet; the governor and other
state officers of New Jersey, and repre-
sentatives of the county and city gov.
| ernmentS.
The service at the house was brie1
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, Garrett 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, immediate. friends of the
family and the family servants. Rev
David D. Magic offered prayer and rea6
a passage of Scripture. The president
cabinet and supreme court judges and
those present took a last look at the
face of the dead, the casket was CLOSED
and all that was mortal of Vice Presi
dent Hobart was carried out to th'
hearse by members of the senate police
President Mckinley and his cabine
officers and over 60 members of the sen
ate and great many congressman wh'
came on special trains attended tn
services at the house. After the hous
services the body, inclosed in an oakeI
casket with silver ornaments and al
most hidden with flowers, was takel
from the house, and the president AM
his party went to the church of tn
Redeemer, about two blocks from Car
roll hall. An immense crowd was il
the vicinity of the church.
President Mckinley sat in the from
pew on the right of the aisle. He wa
accompanied by the secretary of stat
and secretary of the treasury. On tn
left of the aisle, in the front pew, wer
Mrs. Hobart and son. Garrett A. He
bart, and Hobart Tuttle. Behind tn
president were Elihu Root, secretar
of war, John d. Long, secretary of th
navy, and E. A. Hitchcock, the secrs
tary of the interior. Then followe
the senator's and congressman.
The services at the church lasted a
hour and were conducted by Rev. D.
Magic. They began with an orga
prelude and reading of Scriptures b
Rev. Charles P. Shaw, pastor of til
Second Presbyterian church of Pate
son. Then followed the singing of tt
!, hymn Nearer Ny God to Thee" D
Magic then preached the funeral Sc
mon and offered prayer. This was fo
lowed by the anthem, weary Hands
after which the benediction was pr
nounced by DR.. Magic.