The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-22
FUNERAL OF GOV LUDLOW
0bsequies Held Yesterday
Afternoon at New
Brunswick.
Especial to ..The Jersey city News.")


From all over the Commonwealth, of
seymen gathered yesterday at New
Brunswick to witness the last sad rites
paid as tribute to Supreme Court JUS
tice Ludlow. The assernblage included
many distinguished in public life. All of
the public and many of the private build
ings were draped in black.
The funeral was conducted by the Rev
DR.. W. w. Knox, of the First Presbyteri-
an Church, of which Mr.. Ludlow was
trustee. At the family home short ser
vices were held.
The honorary pallbearers were:-Gover-
nor Foster M. Voorhees,, Chancellor Will
lam ]. Magic, Chief Justice David A. De-
pue, Justice of the Supreme Court Ben
nett Van Syckie, Jonathan Dixon, Charles
g. Garrison. William s. Gummere. Gil
bert Collins, ]. Franklin Fort and A. g.
Garretson. Attorney General Samuel H.
Grey and former Governor George T.
Werts.
The services were very simple. DR..
Knox delivered the invocation and read
the Scriptures. The address was made
by the Rev. DR.. Cooper, Vice President
of Rutgers College, who had been a
close friend and associate of Mr.. Ludlow.
The services were brought to a close by
an earnest prayer by DR.. Knox. The
interment was in the family plot at Elm
wood Cemetery.
Men prominent in the legislative, execu-
tive and judiciary departments of the
State government were present from vari-
GUS parts of the State, including Cover
nor, Chancellor, Vice Chancellors. asso-
ciate members of the Supreme Court and
members of the bars of various courts.
At the Ludlow home short services were
held at 2:15 o'clock, at which only the
immediate family and the honorary pail
bearers were present. The casket was
open at the house. After a prayer by
DR.. Knox it was borne to the First Pres
byterian Church, where a large assem-
| blage had gathered.
County Clerk John H. Conger was in
charge of the church and escorted the
distinguished out-of-t town officials to the
pews reserved for them. The funeral
procession moved down the middle aisle.
All the seats on obth sides of this aisle
had been reserved.
Upon the right-hand side were seated
the family, and behind them the trus-
tees of Rutgers College, of which Justice
Ludlow was a member; members of the
| faculty of Rutgers College and members
of the Middlesex County Bar Association.
On the left hand side of the aisle were
seated the honorary pallbearers and the
| distinguished officials in attendance from
out of town.
| The Board of Education, of which JUS
tice Ludlow was once a member sent a
delegation.
| DR.. Cooper told of the life of Justice
Ludlow as citizen of New Brunswick,
where he passed sixty-five of the seventy
years of his life; of his great interest in
local affairs and especially in Rutgers
College. In speaking of his career as a
statesman, DR.. Cooper said
Mr.. Ludlow will be best known for his
services in the Legislature, on the Bench
and as Chief Magistrate of the State. On
these matters, others are more competent
to speak, and on other occasions his pub
lie services will be duly noticed by such
of his compeers as are suited for this
duty. But there are matters that command
| interest respecting which every citizen
should form an opinion and has a right
to speak AS Governor of the State he
was one of the most popular with good
men, regardless of party lines, whoever
honored the Gubernatorial chair. But
with these birds of ill-omen, whose nests
smell of jobbery, combines, private bills,
who are known by the euphonious names
! of lobbyists, back stairs councillors, kit
chen cabinet powers behind the throne
in a word, all who have axes of all sorts
and sizes to grind-with these he was un-
doubtedly as unpopular as any Governor
of whom we have ever heard. 1t is safe
to say that had he been run again for this
office he would have received the vote of
every honest man in the State regardless
of that voters political or party status.
no matter how slavishly he was disposed
ordinarily to support the regular ticket -