New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-12
FUNERAL OF E1-mIyIsTER PHELPS.
THE SERVICES AT YALE EX-PREsIDENT
DwIGHTs ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.

THE SERVICES AT YALE -EX-PREsIDENr
DwIGHTs ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.
New-Haven. March 1.-THE last tribute of
respec+ TO E. J. Phelps ex-Mnister 10 Great Britain.
which the Yale faculty, members OF the UNDER
graduate body of Yale and the citizens OF New
Haven in general could confer, was in evidence at
the funeral held here this afternoon The services
were held in Batten Chapel. which was crowded,
and of a most impressive nature
Ex-President Timothy Dwight delivered the
funeral address. and the Rev DR.. T. T. Hunger.
pastor Of the United Church, offered prayer and
read from the Scriptures The college choir
dered two hymns. Lead, Kindly Light and Abide
with Me"
The coffin was carried into the chapel the
shoulders Of eight seniors, members of the VOLTS
Head fraternity Professor Phelps was an honor
airy member of that society. The honorary pail
bearers President Arthur T. Hadley Pro-
fessor William Graham Sumner, Professor John
F. Weir Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, Ex-Governor
Charles R. Ingerson and Dean Francis Wayland.
Ex-Governor Thomas NJ. Waller, of New-London,
was IN the funeral party though pallbearer.
He COnsuI-General in London while Professor
Phelps Minister al the Court of St James.
Ex-President Dwight referred feeingly to his Ia
associate and friend of twenty years He said that
the Yale brotherhood had lost one of its most dis
tinguished members who honor
the great company Mr.. Dwight spoke OF the beau
of the life that had jus, closed. He dwelt upon
its completeness off in the enjoyment of an
honors that had come without being sought. and
surrounded by family and host of loving and
devoted friends. To the law students, who had
come to the funeral in body. and to those of the
academic students, who had been under the dead
professors instruction, President Dwight said that
the work of the deceased man had closed earth,
bur had only just begun in its greater sphere. He
mad impressed his great personality upon thou
sands of Yale men, who better ana nobler for
his influence. 1t had always been a of con-
slant JOY, said DR.. Dwight, 70 him 10 know that
Yale Professor Phelps was appreciated by the
dent body as genuine gentleman withal man.
but Of education, culture and wide experience
in life. His quiet dignity. mis- fGrcefulness when
need drew from him exhibition OF stuTdiness and
his breadth Of view stamped itself indelibIy all
who had come in contact with him"
The eulogy was a pecan of thankfulness on the
part of Yale, as expressed through DR.. Dwight fog
the great life that had in the last twenty years
been lived in the sphere OF the university. II
eloquent appreciation OF the services Of the
and patTiot, and in the venerable ex-presidents
best and most eloquent vein.
At the close of his address the choir sang, and
then the benediction pronounced. The body
taken on the 6:d2 p. train to Burlington Vt,
where the nterneut in the family plot will be
made Tuesday The body accompanied TO
Vermont by the widow. by Charles P. Phelps.
son, and by Mrs. II. Loomts daughter, and by a
number friends. The floral tributes profuse.