The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-25
VIEWED BY MANY THOUSANDS.
PUBLIC ADMITTED To THE VICE
PRESIDENTS HOME.

Many Affecting Scenes as They Look
ed ON the Face of the Dead-one
Woman Tainted Right at the Cof-
fin-ArFangements for the Funeral.
Personal PalIbearers and Those
who Represent the Two Houses of
Congress.
New York, Nov. 24.-The funeral of the
late Vice President Garrett A. Hobart will
take place at Paterson, N. j., services be-
ing first held at Carroll Hail, the Hobart
home, and after that at the Church of the
Redeemer.
The services at the house are intended
for the family, the President and his cab
met, members of the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States
and intimate personal friends of the fam
lily. They will begin at 2 p. M, and will
be conducted by Rev. DR.. Magic, 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 thir-
ty-two pall-bearers, of whom eight are
cesson
The scenes at Carroll Hall this even
ing when the remains of the Vice Presi-
dent were laying in state, and the public
was given an opportunity to view them,
were exciting and pathetic. Long before
2 o clock, the time announced for the open
ing of the doors of the Hobart home to
the public, the crowd began to assemble,
and when the first rush toward the main
entrance began fully 5000 people were
crowded into Ellison and Carroll streets.
Many Affecting Scenes.
Lines were formed by a squad of police,
but the force was entirely too small to
maintain any sembiance of order. Wo-
men were largely in the majority. They
| included all classes-from those In Mr..
Hobarts social class, to the street beg
gar, and all were given the same oppor-
tunity to take last look al the face
of one they had learned to esteem. Many
of the women carried infants As the
throngs filed into the hall, leading to the
library, the excitement increased. Wo-
men tainted on the porch, and at one time
half q dozen lay insensible on the lawn.
| They were revived and all, with the as
slstance of friends, were able to go home
This kind of excitement was not con-
fined 10 the outside. At the coffin there
was fainting scene. woman about 20
years of age, after gazing on the face
! of the dead Vice President, stood at the
coffin as though transfxed. Then she
| screamed and fell forward into the arms
of a policeman. She was placed in a
chair and revided with a glass of ice
water brought by a member of the Ho-
bart household.
Seen by 10000 People.
1t was estimated. that fully Z, 600 persons
saw the remains In the four hours they
were exposed to view. Thousands more
would have seen them If the time had per-
mitted, but the doors of Carroll Hall were
closed promptly at 6 o'clock.
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 he had suffered
much.
The personal pallbearers are: Attorney
General John w. Grlggs, Edward Bell,
Gen. Joseph w Congdon, Col. William L.
Barber and Gen. F, Baker, all of Pater-
son; Franklin Murphy and j. Franklin
Ford of Newark, and E. A. Walton of
Ridgewood, NJ j.
The pallbearers from the Senate are:
Senators SewaH, Kean, McMilhn, Daniel
Frye, Fairbanks Hanna and CockreH.
The pallbearers from the House of Rep
resentatives are: Henderson of Iowa.
Gardner of New Jersey. Parker of New
Jersey, JOY of Missouri, Hepburn of Iowa.
Dalzell of Pennsylvania Mcclellan of
New York and Rixey of Virginia.