The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-11-30
All That Is Mortal Of the Late
Vice President Hobart
Lad to Rest.
IEE PRESIDENT AND CABINET PRESENT
Simple Private Services at Carroll
Hall Preceds the Public Cere-
monies at the Church.
t., or. Magic. Faster of shs Chareh Of
th. Rcassnsr. Delivers a ,shsss Es-
neral Ser srass-Is,srmsns In
Cedar Lawn Csastsry.

PATERSON, n. j.. Nov. 90. Vice Pres
dent Hobart died at $50 a. m. Tues
day. The family and physicians were
n Mr.. Hobart's bedside when he ex.
pred.
The vice president had been failing
since late Monday afternoon. although
The reports given out at the house were
,ha, he was holding his own.
At midnight he BECAME uucon nscious
and a. o'clock Tuesday morning he
bad an attack OF angina pectoris, from
which lie never rallied.
PATERSON, n. j., Nov. &c. 6.-The clay
o, the late Vice President Hobart was
consigned TO mother earth Saturday.
The services at the house were brief
aud simple. 1t was held in
ii. library, which was banked
With Aowers sent by friends of the
dead vice president Mrs. lIoba,t,
with her son. Garret A. Hobart, jr.,
Hi near the head of the casket,
while near her were grouped the
PRESIDENT and his cabinet, judges of
.ae supreme court, the honorary pail
bearers aud the immediate friends of
tie family and the family servants.
Tae Rev. David d. Magic offered the
prayer and read passage of Scripture.
The president. cabinet and supreme
court judges, and those present took a
ast look at the face of the dead, the
easket was closed and all that was NOR
al Of Vice President Hobart was car
red out TO the hearse by mem bers of
the senate police.
The public funeral ceremonies :, which
preceded the interment in Cedar Lawn
cemetery, took place in the Church of
me Redeemer.
The services at the church were of
Entirely religious nature, no military
or fraiernal body taking part. Presi-
dent Mckinley and all the mem bers of |
bis cabinet occupied the front pews ON
the right side of the aisle. Opposite
and filing large part OF the church |
we're ranged the scores OF members of |
Nngress. some Of whom had journeyed
many hundreds of miles in order to
pay their respect to the memory OF Mr..
Hobart.
The choir of the Church of the Re-
tsemer Of which Mr.. Hobart was a
Aie-long member, sung Lead. Kindly
Light" and the Rev. DIR. Magic. pas
Tor OF the church, read scripture selec-
Sons appropriate to the occasion.
ano:her hymn was sung by the choir
and then the Rev. DIR. Magic deliv-
red short funeral sermon, in which
ae did honor to "the power. the
!randeur, the sublimity and the
E.elness of the noble life" of the
s,ad vice president At the close of Z
n. services the ssrgeant-at-arms OF the !
Snaie escorted the president, the {
N-'~Sio . Vi bhC CsDihOb anu tuC JUS |
tees OF the supreme court out OF the {
'aurch. The senators and representa- !
Ives followed. Many spectators gath 2
nsd about the coffin before it was @
Io'ed 20 be removed to its last resting r
pace oeside the grave OF Miss Hobart v
q Oedar Lawn cemetery. /
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26-Official Wash
'E'On is in mourning Saturday for
as dead vice president. Business in
L. The executive branches of the gov. ~
"ansni is suspended and the depart =
.'n's are closed. Nearly all of y
@s prominent officials of the
s"ernmsnt have gone to Paterson a.
attend the funeral of Vice IL
''shdent Hobart and hsTs through ~
~ The city are at half staff. A. an %
"Nsaee OF the popularity Of the late "
'S President, hundreds OF private res 81
''oess Saturday displayed mourning 90 =.
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