El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-09
Over the Remains Of the Late
Alderman Whitmore
This Afternoon.
THB FIRE DEPARTMENT
And the Church Both Con-
Quoted Parts Of the Ser
vices, and the Attend
ance Mas Large.

Funeral services we're held this
afternoon over the remains OF the late
alderman, L Wh!tmore. The
impressive ceremony was wit
messed by hest OF
friends and admirers OF the man, who
gathered at the grave to pay their last
respects to the dead, and by the men
who have worked beside the deceased
alderman Ia the pursuancs of his
public duties.
From eight O'Clock this morning
until one O'Clock this afternoon the
casket rested In the council chamber
of the city hall. Hundreds of people
passed through the room during the
morning to view the remains.
At one O'Clock the body Was taken to
the hall of the fire department where
1t remained until three, at which hour
tue funeral service was held.
The services st the fire department.
were brief but iD pressive. The mem
bers of the department. assembled In
full uniform shortly before three
o'clock The president of the orespi-
zation read the burial service, with
responses by the members as follows:
BRoTHERS-The solemn occasion of
our assembling together Is the uissolu-
tion of the bonds n hich have united the
body with the spirit. We are born to
die. Dust must return to dust, and the
spirit to God WHO gave it. The solemn
tolling of tie ebell proclaims that another
spirit has passed from earth TO the
f>R
cause we are Assem- bled We are here
shown the upcertsinty OF human life,
the certainty of death, the mu.ahility
of all earthly things, and the vanity
of human wishes. Decay and death
are written on everything that lives.
The cradle and the grave appear be-
fore US, and the intervening space
seems but span. Yet noswithstsnd-
ing these evidences of mortality which
tolling bell often falls upon our ears
without our needing IT. admonitiCn,
though we know nc; how coon the time
shall come for US to go hence, ard be
known no more forever. l en- the
rsSurrect On and the life, saith the
Lord. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live, and
whosoever llvetn and believeth in me
shall never die.
BRETHREN Blessed is the man
whom thou ohssteneth, o Lord, al
tescheth him out of thy lave.
PRESIDENT-Ik know that my Rsdee-
mer liveth, and that he shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth; and
though after my skin, worms destroy
this body, yet In my flesh 1 shall see
God, whom shall see for myself, and |
my eyes shall behold. and not another |
BRETHREN-My dsys are like q sha-
dow that declineth, and I am withered |
like grass.
PREsIDENT-Mau that Is born OF
woman is of few days aId full OF trou-
BILE; he cometh forth like flower, aad |
Is cut down: he fieetn also as shadow
and cOntinueth not.
BRETHREN Cast thy burdens upon
the Lord, for he will sustain thee. His
anger endureth for night: but iOy
cometh In the morning.
PRESIDENT-Let us pray: o Lord,
the protector of all who trust in thee,
without whom nothing Is strong, moth
ing is holy, increase and multiply upon
US thy mercy, that thou being our
through things temporal, that we
finally lose not the things eternal
Give unto US an increase of charity
md brotherly love. Keep, we beseech
Thee, o Lord, our organization with
thy perpetual mercy, let thy continued
pity cleanse and defend us: and
because we cannot continue In safety
without thy succor, preserve US ever
more by thy help and goodness, and
unto thee we shHll render praise
forever. Amen.
Rev. Dr.. Mill!can then read the
burial service OF the Baptist church.
At the conclusion of the service the
casket was taken to the cemetery,
followed by long procession. Al the
foot of the grave double line of fire.
men was formed. The president of the
department took his place at the head
OF the grave, and read from the burial
service.
Brother, we lay thee down to rest.
We loved thee here. and our remem-
bra uce of thee shall he pleasant. We
mourn thy loss and shalI strive to emu.
late thy virtues and to go live that
when we are called away from this