The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-18

s.EW YORK. Aug 1.-THE funeral
services over the body of the late Coils
T. Huntington were held in the Hunting
teu house. Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sev-
euth Street. at II o'clock today. Long
before That hour the friends and business
associates of the late financier began to
gather at the house which soon was quite
full. The body of Mr.. Huntington rested
in a plain broadcloth-covered coffin, which
had been placed in the library, in the
west wing of the house, between the
doors to the parlor and to the reception
room. The parlor was reserved for the
use of the mourners and relatives, While
the friends gathered in the library and
reception room.
Just before the funeral services began a
company Of men. representing the DIFF
ferent branches of service on the south
ern Pacific Railroad. entered the house
and place was made for them by every
body.
Tie service was conducted by the Rev.
Dr. A. Woodruff Halsey, Secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,
d
singing of hymn, Lead, Kindly Light,
by a quartette, Dr. Halsey offered brief
prayer. He then read the Twenty-third
Psalm. the Ninth Psalm, the seventh End
eighth verses of Isaiah. liv., and the 70 Ir-
teenth chapter of the Gospel of st. jean
After second prayer the quartette sang a
second selection. abide With Me-"
The coffin was carried to the hSsrse
through the main door of the house. DR..
Halsey followed, then the honorary bear
ers. The members Of the family vent
out through the private carriage way. The
funeral party drove direct to the Grand
Central station, where a special train of
two cars was waiting to take ii to Wood
lawn Cemetery. This train was under the
personal charge Of Assistant Superintend
ent Van Tassell. The burial was private,
only relatives of the deceased being pres
ent, and the service was very simple
After Dr. Halsey read the fourteenth
chapter of First Corinthians, the body was
placed in the family mausoleum.
Scores of floral pieces were sent to the
house this forenoon by friends of the fam
lily. Among them were many wreaths. a
great cross of white rosebuds with a
wreath Of pink rosebuds thrown over the
top, and a pedestal OF deep purple asters;
this piece was the gift of the employees
OF the Southern Pacific Railway Company.
An urn five feet in height, of white rose
buds on base OF English ivy, was SCAT
by the hospital department of the South
ern Pacific Railway. Only part OF these
were taken to Woodlawn. The coffin was
covered with lilies of the valley and Or
chids.
The honorary pallbearers were D. O..
Mills. Edward King, President OF the
Union Trust Company; Frederick P. Oh
cott President of the Central Trust Com
pany; Edwin Hawley, Eastern Traffic
Manager OF the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company; Martin Erdmann, of Speyer &
Co.; Charles H. Tweed, Second Vice
President of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company; r. p. Schwerin, Vice
President OF the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, and C. Adolphe Low, close
friend of the dead man.
Among others who attended the services
were the following named:
James Stillman, President OF the Ma
tional City Bank; DR.. and Mrs Clinton
Catherwood William Hood Chief En-
gineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad;
United States Senator Thomas c. Plat,
Russell Sage. Henry Clews, William H.
Baldwin. jr., President Of the Long Island
Railroad; DR.. James Douglas United
States Senator John P. Jones, OF Nevada;
DIR. III. b. Frlgsell, President of the Hamp
ton Institute, Hampton, Va; Booker 7.
Washington, the colored educator, Of
Tuskegee, Ala; Major John Byrne, John
H. Smyth. President of the Virginia Man
ual Training School. at Broadneek Farms,
Va. a coored school, endowed heavily by
Mr.. Huntington; John T. Van Sickle. of
the Morgan Steamship Line; Horace See,
Chief Engineer al Mr.. Huntington's New
port News shipyard; W. ". Durant, Cor
nelius N Bliss, Colonel Walker, Chairman
of the board of directors of the Atchison,
Topeka and Sante Fe Railroad DR.. and
Mrs. Norton Grinnell, Charles t. Yerkes,
Frank Lathrop. John Boyd, OF Nasnlng-
ton; President b. Dimmock, OF the Metro
politan Steamship Line: President Allen, Of
the Cromwell Steamship Line; George
Howes. d. A. Chambers. of Washington;
Gen. Samuel Thomas, William Baumgar-
ten. Emil Weidenfeld, William E. Dodge,
Colonel Evans. H. B. Kneelapd, G. G.
Ward. c. H. Hartman, the Rev. DR.. Alex
ander Mcmillan, Maxwell EvaTts, George
F. Brown, s. r. Galloway, President of the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
way; William Solomon, Chairman of the
board OF directors OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad: ]. H. Searles. Chairman OF
the board of directors of the Union Pacific
Railroad: Albert ]. Leon, Philip Thomp-
son. of Washington; Randolph Hunting
ton, F. E. Canda, OF the Canda Car Manu-
featuring Company; ]. Edward Smmonr.
President OF the Fourth National Bank;
Frank B. Thurber and DR.. William B.
Coley.
SERVICES AT SAN FRANCISCO.