The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-25
FAREWELL TO LIFE
Last Funeral Rites Over Chief
c. NJ. Jones.
MASONIC AND CHURCH
Services - Long Procession
and Universal Sorrow

4 Yesterday morning the whole city was
| given up entirely to the final obseQuies
OF the late Chas. NJ Jones, chief Of po-
lice and honored citizen. Business was
stagnated, and all the usual affairs OF
a busy city were for the time laid aside
while a whole city turned out to renler
by their presence memorable and last
ing tribute to the inustrious dead. AT
an early hour al approaches to the Con-
sistory cathedral were packed with We
hicles and the sidewalks crowded with
citizens high and low as the standard OF
achievement goes. Col P. M. Hoising-
ton of Newton was Marshal Of ceremon-
les and arrived on the scene after all the
usual esoterfc ceremonies in the building
were completed and the arrangement tsfor
the funeral march ready to be formulat-
ed. Ably assisted by his aides, Very
Eminent Sir Edward wellington Of Ellis
worth and Eminent Sir Thomas @.
Fitch of Wichita there was soon order
Slaughtered out Of chaos and the various
fraternal, social and civic organizations
Earliest on the scene came Mt. OliYet
Commandery No. - in their marching
order Of sets of three and in two divi-
sions, Sir Thomas Griffith in command
Of the first section, and Sir John L. Pow
ell commanding the second. They were
in full regulation dress regalia and present
ed swords diectly in front of the cathed-
raj awaiting orders and so reported to
the grand commander Most Eminen tSir
Edward Hays of Wellington. 1t was a
significant action, and one which from
times ancient has ever been an inviolable
law Of Chivalric or Templar masonry,
the promptness and vigorous response to
duty of the Templars. It was this that
made the crusades possible, and which
for centuries safely guarded the weary
and travel stained pilgrims to the Holy
Sepulcher, and finally snatched from the
Mosiems the power and control Of the
sacred precincts of the tomb of Christ.
So yesterday morning the commandery
which bears the name Of that holy mount
so dear to the memory of the Christian
world, Mt. Olivet, wheeled into line and
were there like stone monuments long be-
fore the rest had appeared to report fo-
duty. Albert Pike Lodge No. 203 was
then in session in their quarters in the
cathedral, as were likewise Wichita
Lodge No. SO over at the Temple on Main
street, and Sunfower Lodge No. s6 at
their hall on Market street.
Finally adj the various bodies were
ready. and the final plan Of march ar
ranged at the cathedral. slightly changed
on the march from the residence to the
cemetery to receive the added features at
the house.
From the cathedral-First Assistant
Chief OF Police Park Massey, in COM
mand of the entire police and detective
forces, the latter marching four abreast
and sixteen strong. Then came Sir p.
H. Hoislngton, marshal Of the day, and
Grand Generalisslmo. mounted on a white
horse. Sanford's Commercial band which
played the dead march at intervals.
Knights Templar in the above explained
double division formation. Officers of the
Grand Commandery in carriages. City Of
ficials and common council in carriages.
The three Blue lodges with officers bear
ing rods and Holy Bibles draped in
mourning. The G. A. r. organizations.
The Woodmen of the World. City fire
department in charge of Assistant Chief
Al. Brownell. Chief Walden being in New
York. The formation from the house to
the cemetery was changed by the adding
OF the carriage of DR.. Slutz after the city
officials. the hearse following his car
riage; the Guard of Honor of eight Sir
knights marching In company front, and
the carriage Of mourners. The Wichita
Consistory No. O. and the Mystic Shrine
also were represented as were the Chap
ter r. A. NJ. and the Council r. and s.
NJ. but as the latter have no street or
maching regalia they merged with the
several symbolic lodges or Knights Tenn
plar. The cortege started east on First
street, the right flank resting on Law
renee evenue which was the Fire Depart
ment. Thence south to Douglas; thence
west to Main: north to Ninth street;
east to Topeka avenue; and then south
to Oak and filling the block in front of
the residence of the late chief up TO Pine
and massed in readiness to resume the
formation. Added to all these which were
largely represented. came carriages bear
inf Masons who could not stand the
march. their families. and a host of citi-
Gems. 1t was a striking procession both
for the great number of the city's best
representative citizens and the long line.
II was conceded to be the longest funeral
procession ever witnessed iinehttyc S
procession ever witnessed in the city. BY
the time the line had reached the resi-
dence. the Methodist church services had
commenced and nearly over.
The Guard OF Honor then on duty re-
tired to give place TO the Grand Com
mandery officials who stationed their out
posts through the yard, in the house and
in the street. with the local commandery
directly in front OF the residence. The
Rev. and Sir knight w. B. Slutz delivered
one OF the most eloquent and truly ap-
plicable addresses which have laid to res:
the dead heard in this city in a long
time. He spoke not simply in the capacity
of a faithful clergyman, nor yet as one
who felt he must answer the expectancy
OF those who called him. II was far more
than this artificial spirit which inspired
the speaker in low but earnest tone 10
reach out and into the depths of the oe-
casion and with the realizing sense chat
he was speaking to Brothers and Fraters
and in behalf Of an iilustrious Knight he
awakened in the breasts OF his rapt listen
ers those sublImest emotions which cou1c
with the Astirring appeal Of one who knew
him and appreciated him His voice,
though lowly a.tuned with suppressed
emotion. reached through ali the rooms
! even out into the front yard and veranda,
sOshushsd and still was the awed mulIi-