The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26


Americana Wealth OF Flowers in
Funersal Decoration-Th City OF Pat
erson Wore Its Most Sornbre Garb-A
Touching and Eloquent Eulogy OF the
Dead Statesman.
Paterson, N. J., Nov. 25.--With the
impressive services of the Presbyte-
rian church and with the dignity due
to his high office all that is mortal Of
the vice president. Garret A. Hobart,
was committed to the earth this after
noon. The president, secrtary of state,
John Hay, Chief Justice Fuller, For
mer Vice President Levi p Morton,
Former Secretary of War Alger, Sec
retary Of the Interior Hitchcock, the
supreme court judges, members Of the
senate, members of congress and the
vice presidents personal friends filled
the beautiful Church of the Redeemer
and with moistened eye and bowed
head testified silently and eloquently
to his worth as statesman, friend
and neighbor
Through the west window from the
center of the stained glass maltese
cross pierced shaft of crimson light
that shed it's light around the cata-
falque and bathed the orcheds, marcis-
sus blossoms and white roses in bright
tints. The eye of the clergyman trav-
eled along the shaft of light to the
cross as he repeated the words:
The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away; blessed be the name of
the Lord"
The chief magistrate of the country
bowed his fsead in his hands. He was
visibly agitated. There was scarcely
a dry cheek in the crowded elifice and
the widow was apparently the most
composed.
which was omitted in Difference to the
wishes of the deceased. could never
have caused the impressiveness of this
scene. The imposing and solemn strains
of Chopin's funeral march filed the
edifice with its solemn melody as the
casket was brought up the aisle on the
shoulders of the stalwart members of
the capitol police and placed on the
bier prepared for it in front of the
pulpit. Following it came the pail
bearers, members of the senate Fol-
lowing them came the family, the
widow and her son, the president, the
cabinet dignitaries and intimate
IEleHuS. lHey all SAT close around the
casket.
On every side of it the floral offer
ings were banked in a wealth of beau
ty and color. The funeral services
were opened by Rev DR.. Charles S.
Shaw. who read a portion Of the 90th
Psalm, verses 1-12. This was fol-
lowed by a selection from Job xiv.
reading from the 18th chapter of
Corinthians I. After a prayer 60 male
voices filled the church with the beau
tiful melody Of Nearer, My God, to
Thee"
A Day of Grief.
The sermon was preached by Rev. DR..
David Magee, who said in part:
TN this day of national calamity and
grief it is fitting that we should come
into the house of God and bow in SUBJ
mission before the most high God. Gar
ret A. Hobart, a man whom this nation
honors. the man whom it learned to
trust, has fallen in death. The Lord
giveth and the Lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
III to-day no warlike sound is heard.
none the less do we know this life was
given in the service of his country and
it's last of the duties were done under
the very shadow of death.
This spirit Of fidelity and courage
was his by inheritance. The blood
which flowed in his veins was from
good English stock and was mingled
with the martyr blood of Dutch and
Huguenot ancestors. He would have
been untrue to all his ancestral ten
dencies il he had not served the cause
of freedom, of education and of God,
the ideals of his home life, under which
he was trained and which were of a
high and holy character. They influ-
enced and guided his life to its close.
Had he lived as men ordinarily live ne
might have reached the limit of four
score years. He died in the ripeness
of his powers, full of honors not of
years.
1T needs not that l should speak to-
day of his public life and Services.
Prominent citizens and the press in all
sections of the land and the proclama-
ton of the president have done him
noble justice. From the experience and
training of many of the duties in his
native state he entered on the high du-
ties of the vice president of the United
States. The office was to him no sine
cure much less mere waiting on prov
idence, but trust which he had re-
ceived from the nation, in which lie
would be found faithful. 1t became evil
dent at once, not merely that he pos
sessed the dignity and capacity to pre-
side over the deliberations of the SEN
ate, but that he intended to do his
duty with fairness and kindness. His
brief term of service has gained for him
the respect and friendship of the whole
senate, irrespective of section or party,
and given to the offices he filed in
creased honor and influence.
ITO the president of the United States
he gave true affection, unchanging con-
dence and constant support. I may be
permitted to say even in this presence
that in private interviews, speaking of
the president, the words he most fire.
quently used We're, He is a good man.
and I may be permitted to add that
am sure, no more sincere mourner than
the president of the United States.
Genial, kindly, hospitable. none ever had
fewer enemies, Indeed, it may be ques-