Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-20
THE LATE GEN. HYDE.
An Unusually Impressive Fune-
raj at Bath, Saturday.
City Suspends Business and State
Joins in Honoring Memory.
Distinguished Citizens Act as Bearers Ser.
vices at Swedenborgian Church.

batn, Me-, NOV. 19.-The funeral or
the late Gen. Thomas w. Hyde was
held here, Saturday, and never did this
city appear in deeper mourning. In
the windows of nearly all the stores
appeared pictures of the late general,
while draperies of black and white
were conspicuous in many. Flags on
all the public and many private build
ings floated at half-staff, and CITY hall
was heavily draped with black and
white bunting.
At noon all of the industrial esta-
ishments shut down for the balance
OF the day and at o'clock all offices
and stores closed for two hours At
the time the stores closed the bells of
the local churches began to toll and
this was continued for three hours
At $50 O'Clock. a platoon of police,
the Bath Naval Cadet Band, the Of
ficials and several hundred workmen
of the Bath Iron Works and Hyde
Windlass Works. Post Sedgwick. G. a.
r.. the Bath Naval Veterans Associa-
ton. the Hyde Light Guards and a
squad from the National Soldiers
Home at Togus. marched to Elmhurst
to escort the family of the deceased
general to the temple where the body
lay. nearly covered with flowers.
The floral display was the most pro-
fuse ever seen at such an occasion in
Bath, and equaled. if not exceeded. that
a. the funeral of the late Nelson Ding
ley.
There We're hundreds of floral pieces.
a ,,opno- ban5Snnact po,b
Iron Works, large broken column.
white carnations. smilax: shpyard de-
partment, boiler in white and pink car
nations; engineering department, pro-
pellor and broken shaft, white carna-
tions; Hyde Windlass Works, large
capstan in white carnations. yellow
chrysanthemums and red carnations;
Hyde Light Guards wreath and cycas
leaves and flowers; Kennebec Naval
Veterans, anchor, roses and carnations:
joiners' department, Bath Iron Works,
broken column. white carnations; G..
A. r., wreath. roses and carnations.
The services We're conducted by the
Rev. George II. Dole, pastor of the
Swedenborgian church, of which Gen
Hyde was a member. They consisted
only of prayer. reading from the Scrip
lures and an address from the text:
Inasmuch as you have done it unto
| the least Of these, my brethren. We have
done it unto Me- His remarks. which
We're of considerable length We're
fitting tribute to Baths dead benefac-
tor. and We're delivered in a most i'm
pressive manner.
After the ceremony the following par
ty escorted the body to the grave:
Platoon Of Police.
Bath Naval Cadet Band
Post Sedgwick, g. A. r.
Naval Veterans.
Sons of Veterans.
Honorary Pallbearers in Three Carriages.
The IIearsc. and Squad from the Togus
The Family of Gen. Hyde.
Members Of the Maine Commandery Of
the Loyal Legion.
The Board of Directors of the Maine
Central Railroad.
congressman Boutelle; Littlefield AMI
Employees Of the Bath Iron Works and
Hyde Windlass Works.
The President and Directors of the Bath
National Bank
The Mayor Aldermen and Common Coun-
cilmen of Bath.
The Former Mayors of Bath. officials Of
the Bath Iron Works and Hyde Wind
lass Co.
The Business Men Of Bath.
The bearers We're: Arthur Sewall.
Charles II. Mcclellan and J. B. An
drews of Bath; Gen. ]. Ford Kent
Waterville, regular army. retired; Gen.
Martin S. Mcmahon of New York: Gen.
John Marshall Brown of Portland,
Gen. Joseph S. Smith of Bangor, Gen.
Charles A. Whittier. Francis A. Will
son of Bangor, ex-president of the
Maine Central Railroad Company; f.
b. Nealley of Bangor. formerly of
Bath; the Hon. William p. Frye and
ex-Gov. Selden Connor.
At the grave Rev. J. T. Crosby,
chaplain of the post. made a prayer.
Rev. George II. Dole delivered the ben
ediction. The firing squad from the
National Soldiers Home at Togus. fir
ed a salute and the buglar sounded
taps.