The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-11-28
RITES FOR
THE DEAD.
Services Over Hobart's Re-
mains Today.
PRESIDENT AT the FUNERAL.
Members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court,
Senators and Representatives at His
Bier--services at House aud Church
Thousands Saw Remains Yesterday.


the late Garrett A. Hobart, vice presi.
dent of the United States, took place to-
day at Paterson, N. j., services being
first held at Carroll Hall. the Hobart
home, and after that at the Church Of
the Redeemer.
The services at the house were 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 began about p. m. ana
were conducted by Rev. DR.. Magic. who
also delivered an address and prayer at
the church services. %.
The president and cabinet also at
tended the services at tine church, being
conveyed there in carriages, while the
80 pallbearers, of whom eight were per-
sonal pallbearers, walked in the process.
sion.
The body was then taken to the
church.
About O'Clock services were held
in the church, when Dr. Magic deliv.
cred an address.
There were 32 pallbeorers, eight rep
resenting the United States senate,
eight representing the house of repre-.
CtubdIlNtss tlShg POI sOuul Sc
ected by Mr.. Hobart about two months
before his death, and eight of the
senate police, who acted as quarter
bearers.
The president and cabinet went to
the church in carriages, but the 81 pail
bearers walked to the church.
The personal pallbearers were: At
torney General John w. Griggs, Ed.
ward T. Bell, General Joseph W. Gong
don, Colonel William Barber and George
+. Baker, all of Paterson; Franklin
Murphy and j. Franklin Ford OF New
ark and +. A. Walton Of Ridgewood,
N. j.
The pallbearers from the senate We're:
Senators Sewall, Mexican. Mcmillan,
Frye, Daniel, Fairbanks and Cockrel.
The pallbearers from the house of rep.
resentatives were: Henderson OF Iowa,
Gardner of New Jersey, Parker of New
Jersey, Joy OF Missouri, Hepburn of
Iowa, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, McClel.
Ian of New York and Rixey OF 'Vir-
ginia.
The body was then conveyed to a re-
ceiving vault, in Cedar Lawn cemetery.
The interment will be private, at the
convenience of the family.
The scenes at Carroll Hall Friday
afternoon, when the remains of Vice
President Hobart were lying in state
and the public was gwen an opportunity
to view them, were exciting and pa.
thetlc. Long before 2 o'clock, the time
announced 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. The
rEf fNC tlA ne,
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 stepped aside from the room, very
much affected, 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 a few words with him.
That was week before the end came.
AS the throngs filed into the hall
leading to the library the excitement in
creased. Women tainted on the porch |
and at one time half dozen lay in.
sensible on the lawn. They were re.
yived and all, with the assistance OF |
friends, were able to go home. AT the |
SOlhu tuclo was ldluUluB bC6u6. "A
woman about 20 years of age, after |
gazing on the face of the dead vice |
president, stood at the coffin as though |
transtixed. Then she screamed and tell |
forward into the arms of a policeman.
She was placed In chair and revived |
with a glass of icewater brought by a |
member Of the Hobart household. IL |
was estimated that fully $4,000 persons
saw the remains in the four hours they |
were exposed to view. Thousands more |
would have seeu them II the time had |
permitted.
1t was remarked by those who had |
known the vice president that the face |
had lost its pleasant roundness and was |
very thin, showing that ne had suffered |
much. His neck mad also thinned con |
siderably and his hair and moustache
We're gray. He was sadly changed |
from the day he was sworn into the OF.
nee OF vice president Of the United |
States, but there was, peaceful expires.
sion as though he had dropped into
sleep. ..0'....