New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-14
G.. VANDERBILT'S FUNERAL.
SERVICE TO BE HELD AT ST. BARTHOIr
OMEW'S AT ID A. VI. TOMORROW.
THE REV. DR. GREER AND BISHOP POT.
TER TO OFFICIATE-THE ARRANGE
MENTs MADE-MRs WANDER
RILT FRUSTRATED
RILT FRUSTRATED

MENTS MADE-MRS. WANDER
BTLT FRUSTRATED
The funeral Of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will be
held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at st.
Bartholomew Protestant Episcopal Church.
Madison ave. and Forty -fourth-st. The Rev Dr.
David II. Greer rector Of the church, will off,
ciate. assisted by Bishop Potter. The final ar
engagements for the funeral, save a few details
were made yesterday William X Vanderbilt
nov head Of the family, has taken entire charge
Of everything. as Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt ia
Frustrated from grief. and is unable TO take any
active part in the arrangements. II was neces-
sary to have physician in constant attendance
upon her yesterday, and while there f. nothing
serious anticipated. the shock and sense Of loss
have overcome her She was stronger last
evening
The funeral IS to be held at s.. Bartholomew
for the reason that Cornelius Vanderbits
mother always took deep interest in this
church, and he himself was a pewholder there
Just previous TO the church exercises short
service Of prayer Will be held at the house for
members OF the family. at which Or. Greer viii
also Oficate.
William X. Vanderbilt Z. Y. ". Rossitsr.
treasurer Of the New-YOrk Centrah Chauncey
NJ Depew. and J. Aldred. the undertaken. met
at the house about 10 o'clock in the forenoon
and arranged the details for the funeral After
this conference it said that the service
will be extremely simple There will be no IN.
usual floral decorations. There viii be no tickets
OF admission to the church for the funeral.
number Of pews will be reserved for the family
and the associates Of Mr.. Vanderbilt In the Va
rious business and charitable organizations in
which he was directly Interested The pegs
opening off the two side asles are 10 De thrown
open to the public A number Of policemen
will be on hand and arrangements will be made
so that the friends o the family will have no
difficulty in securing seats. outside the church
the police will maintain order and keep back the
curiosity seekers
THE MUSICAL PROGRAMME.
The musical programme is TO be- entirely In
charge If Richard Henry Warren, the organit
As the body is carried into the chur b. Mr. War
rem will play the Chopin funeral march There
will he singing by a choir of sixty voices and
the following soloists: Mackenzie Gordon ten
or: Mrs Theodore Toedt, soprano. Miss Edith
J. Miller alto. and Leland Langley. BARITONE
The pallbearers who will walk behind the
coffin as it Is carried into the church will be
John Hone. George r. Fearing. Chauncey VI.
Dcpew Frederick Bronson j. Perpont Morgan.
II. b. Ledyard Samuel r Barger ". Bayard
Cutting. George Croker and George Maccul-
loch Miller
Immediately after tho church service me
coffin will be taken 70 West Forty -second-st.
Here a special ferryboat will be waiting 70 con-
vey the funeral party To staten Island fof the
burial in the family mausoeum al Ne"-Dorp
The party will be- confined strictly 10 the I'M
mediate family and intimate friends. Twenty
coaches will be waiting when the ferryoodt
reaches Staten Island.
The body Of Mr.. Vanderbilt reposed All Gay
Yesterday on the bed in which he died. death
mask was made by representative Of Au-
gustus ST Gaudens The art Of the emoalmer
eliminated every trace Of the agony he passed
through in his dying moments, and, garoed@
the habiliments Of the sepulchre, he seemed 70
no asleep. His face was serene and the feat
ures were composed. The pallor alone told that
he had passed from this life owing 70 the wish
Of Mrs. vanderbilt, the body was not placed IN
the coffin Yesterday She wished 20 delay this
&C long as possible and so the body will remain
as II was until some time this afternoon when
il will be placed in the coffin which Is 70 oe ~
hardwood. copper lined and covered with BLACK
cloth. II Will have silver plates, handles ana
ornaments
The house Of sorrow was a house OF sNence
Yesterday. The blinds were drawn, and all VINO
entered or departed from IT did 50 as quietly as
nossible All Of Mr.. Vanderbt's children eS-
cent Albert Gwynne Vanderbilt, who IS no"
travelling somewhere in China we're al ne
house No word was received from the boy OF
the other side Of the world, and It is hardly eX-
pected that he will get the sad news for seveE"'
DAYS He has been telegraphed 70 al every
point that he would be likely 10 touch. ne VIII
come home at once IT IS expected The o'heF
four chidren-Cornelius Vanderbilt. IT, MIS-
Harry Payne Whitney, Reginald and the da1sn'
fer Gladys-spent the day with their mother
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt r., was not AZ 'he
house. III health kept her at Newport II "Ss
said.
A STEADY STREAM OF CALLERS.
While Mrs Vanderbilt saw no one YESTERDAY
aside from her children and the imIneu'Se
members Of her family, there was s'eeu'
stream Of callers al the house all day. Inv
postman was there three times, ana ea'h u"'.
he left small mountain Of mall. livery 'e
moments messengers arrived win teIes' ""''
and many Of them brought whole ouhdies -
once None Of these messages ~ con1o'e"e
we're given to reporters. Mrs NanderoiI s''-
She did not care to make them known JUST nO'
The messages Of coincidence that have peeh
ceived have come from all over the WIZ,
from rich and poor alike. Huge hora' p'''
have also been received at the house.
Flags were at half-mast on the three s''~'
hotels near the Vanderbilt house. ana ~
streamers Of Grape fluttered from the doc.
the house yesterday. in memory %, the oe
man on the towers Of the Grand CenFai go