Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-25
TIE HOBART FUNERAL
The Dead Vice President Laid to
Rest With Impressive and
Fitting Ceremony.
Statesman and Scholars Gather to
Pay Final Tribute to Distin.
guished Public Servant.
Keen National Sorrow Manifested in
Many Ways Beautiful Floral
Decorations.

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the funeral Of Garret A. Hobart, vice
president of the United States, today,
business houses, with few exceptions,
were closed and many private resi-
dences had the flags at half mast. be-
sides other emblems of mourning.
= The bells of the churches started toll
ing at sunrise and at 9 o'clock all the
bells OF the city began marking the
minutes. In appreciation of the ar
rival of the presidential party and
military escort crowds gathered around
Broadway depot.
Military lined the streets between
Carroll Hall and the Church Of the Re-
deemer, where the public services were
held The church floral decorations
were magnificent. A band of smilax
over three feet high and thick enough
to hide the wall ran around both sides
and front of the main auditorium.
Above the windows wreath ran un-
broken before the pipes of the great or
gan. AT the windows great palms
reached up to the smilaX. These palms
and the festooning around the windows
were laden with white flowers, princi-
pally lilies of the valley, orchids and
cfrysanthemums. Around the organ
and pulpit lilies were strewn in lavish
profusion. The fonts before the pulpit
We're covered with American beauty
roses to height of nine feet. A large
space before the pulpit was left for the
casket.
Seats were reserved in the church for
relatives and intimate friends OF the
late vice president and Mrs. Hobart:
Mckinley and members of the cabinet;
Chief Justice Fuller and associate JUS
tiees of the supreme court of the United
States members of the United States
senate and house of representatives.: ::
Messrs. Alger, Bliss and Gary. former
members of Mckinley's cabinet: the
governor and other state officers of
New Jersey; Representatives of the
county and city governments; Presi-
dent Austin Scott, of Rutger College;
Henry w. Green, trustee, representing
Princeton University; representatives
of the republican organizations of New
Jersey and Passic county and the vari-
GUS manufacturing and financial insti-
tutions with which MIR. Hobart had
been identified. There We're thirty-two
pail bearers, eight representing the
house of representatives; eight repre-
senting the United States senate; eight
personal pail bearers, selected by Ho-
bart two months before his death, and
eight senate police, who carried the
casket.
The personal pail bearers We're Attor-
ney General Griggs. Edward 7. Bell,
Franklin Murphy, Gen. Joseph w.
Congdon. Judge j. Franklin Fort.
George F. Baker. E. A. Walton. Col.
William Barbour.
The senate pail bearers We're William
p. Frye. of Maine; NJ. A. Hapna, of
Ohio; William -and John Kean. New
Jersey; c. w. Fairbanks. Indiana
James Mcmillan, Michigan; John w.
Daniel, Virginia.; F. NJ. Cockrell, Mis-
souri,.
Pail bearers from the house of rep
resentatives We're u. b. Henderson, of
Iowa; John Gardener and r. Wayne
Parker. New Jersey; Charles f. JOY
Missouri: William P. Hepburn, Iowa,
John Dalzell. Pennsylvania; George Nj
B. Mcclellan, New York, and John f
Rixey, Virginia.
A special train brought two compa-
MES of artillery from Governors
Island, in command of Capts. Luig
Lomi and T. B. Adams. The batteries
We're received by Capt. j. d. Hopper OF
the New Jersey Volunteers. and es-
corted to the armory. Both companies
lined the short route of the funera
later acted as escort to the president
and cabinet. Mckinley and party anG
the congressional and other government
representatives arrived at Paterson al
/ O'clock. They were Immediately
driven to Carroll Hall. The service a
the house was brief and simple. 1t wa.
held in the library which was banked
with flowers sent by friends of the deat
vice president. Mrs Hobart, with hel
son. Garret A. Hobart, Jr. sat near tn,
head OF the casket. while near he
were grouped the president and cabi
net, judges Of the supreme court. hon
orary pail bearers, immediate friends
of the family and servants. Rev. Davit
D. Magic offered prayer and read {
passage OF scripture. The president
cabinet, supreme court judges ant
those present took a last look at tn
face Of the dead, the casket was closet
and all that was mortal of Vice Presi
dent Hobart was carried to the hears
by members of the senate police.
An immense crowd had gathered Il
the vicinity of the church when tn
cortege arrived. Mckinley took sea
in the front pew on the right of tn
aisle. He was accompanied by the sec
retary Of state and secretary of tn
treasury. On the left OF the aisle Il
the front pew were Mrs. Hobart an
son and Hobart Tuttle. Immediatel
behind Mrs. Hobart was David Hobar
- family. and behind the preslden