The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-25
Many Friends View
the Remains of
Vice President.
WOMEN FAINT ON LAWN.
Police Powerless to Main
tain Order on the
Premises.

New York, Nov. 24.--The funeral of
the late Carrot A. Hobart, vice presid
ent OF the United States will take place
tomorrow 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 are in
tended for the family, the president
and his cabinet, members of the SEN
ate and House of Representatives of
the United States and intimate per-
sonal friends of the family. They will
be begun at p. m. and will be COM
Quoted by Rev. DR.. Magic, who also
will deliver an address and prayer at
the church services. The president
and cabinet will also attend the SER
vices at the church, being conveyed
there in carriages, while the 80 pail
bearers, of whom eight are personal
pall-bearers, will walk in the process
sion.
The scenes at Carroll hall this after
noon, when the remains of Vice Pres
ident Hobart were lying in state and
the public was given an opportunity to
view them were exciting and pathetic.
Long before 2 O'Clock, the time an
nounced for the openin gof the doors
of the Hobart home to the public, fully
5000 persons were crowded into Ellison
and Carroll streets. Lines were formed
by a squad of police, but the force was
entirely too small to maintain any
semblance of order.
Women were in the majority. All
classes were there-from those in Mr..
Hobart's social class to the street. beg
gar, and all were given the same OPP
portunity to take a last look at the
face of one whom they had learned to
esteem. The first person to see the re-
mains after they had been removed
from the room where Vice President
Hobart died to the library, was At
torney 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 af-
fected, he said: 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 filled into the hall lead
ing to the library the excitement in
creased Women tainted on the porch,
and at one time half dozen lay insen-
sible on the lawn. They were revived,
and all, with the assistance of friends,
were able to go home.
This kind of excitement was not con-
fined to the outside. At the coffin there
was a fainting scene. A woman about
20 years old after gazing on the face
of the dead vice president, stood at the
coffin as though transf1xed. Then she
screamed and fell forward into the arms
of policeman. She was placed in a
chair and revived with a glass of
water. 1t was estimated that fully
II, 900 persons saw the remains during
the four hours they were exposed to
view.
Thousands more would have seen
them, but the doors to Carroll hall
were closed promptly at o'clock. Dur
ing the ceremony, e. T. Bell, president
of the First national bank of Paterson,
and one of the executors of the Hobart
estate. stood at the head of the cas-
ket Others in the room, representing
the family were J. w. Cleveland, Ed
ward A. Walton, Gen. Congdon and Col
Bright The room bore the fragrance
of flowers sent by friends.
The interior of the house was guard
ed by all the detectives from police
headquarters, and no one was allowed
to linger at the casket. 1t was re-
marked by those who had known the
vice president that the face had lost it's
pleasant roundness, and was very thin,
showing that he had suffered much.
His neck had also thinned considerably
and his hair and moustache was gray.
He was sadly changed from the day he
was sworn into the office of vice presi-
dent of the United States, but there
was a peaceful expression, as though
he had dropped into a sleep.