The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-02


 Large Attendance of Prominent Busi-
 ness Men and Others.
 The funeral services of Henry s Parmelee took place yesterday after noon at the residence of the bereave:l family, No 2s HiIlhouse avenue. at- tended by a large representation Uf New Havens prominent business men. many of whom had been associated with the deceased in the management of various corporations with which he was identified as president or director or both, while other influential walks of life were also represented. Despite the rainy weather the attendance was | large, the beautiful residence being filled with friends gathered to pay the last sad token of esteem. The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Smyth, pas tor Of Center church, and consisted of the reading of q number of selections from the Scriptures and the offering of 1 few remarks in tribute to the de- ceased, prayer closing the exercises. 1 Dr. Smyth in his remarks spoke of the patriotic services Of the deceased in the defense of the Union and of his ser | vices as citizen of New Haven in the 1 development of business industries of importance and public usefulness. Dr. Smyth spoke as follows:
 It is sometimes the privilege of pastor to know men in more intimate and truer disclosures of their charac- ters than may appear in their work and achievement in the world. For this | reason l may be permitted to speak at l this hour of my first and my last im- pressions of the man whom death has now taken from his earthly activity. Those who have been associated with Mir. Parmelee in varied business rela- 1 tions have already borne their testi- rnony to those qualities of the man which have rendered his life one of successful achievement: and they have f1ttingly recognized the indebtedness of our city to him for the development of our street railway system. The words (which remain forsme to speak come 1 from the knowledge of a personal | friendship. When I first met MT. Par melee in his home nearly twenty years ago, he gave me most kindly greeting, and we found an immediate conrad ship in our recollections of the cam- paign during which. in one of the last brave charges of the war, he had lost his right hand. It had been my for tune to come shortly afterward upon the field where he had fought, and to see the prisoners whom his command had taken. To-day we should pause to do honor to soldier who gave his right hand for his country. Had it not been for such young men as he then was, we should have no country now. He learn ed in camp and, field those habits of strict discipline, which since then have made him always efficient in his deal- ings with men; hearequired of others no more than he exacted of himself. Asa soldier of the. Army of the Potomac I would give him a soldiers burial to- day. 1f :,
 But my last recollection of him was not of his martial virtue, but of a man who wished to make industrial peace. IT happened to be present. by the courtesy of the directors of the Street Railway company, when the final com-
 
 in the happy settlement of the trolley strike. l wish at his burial to bear witness to the impression, made upon me at that time, of the gentleness of his manner, and of the kindly consid- eration of his employees which his con- versation with me showed. While firm in holding to the principles which he felt his position of trust required him to maintain. he wished to make every concession which might be fairly asked, and to exhaust all peaceable means be- fore plunging the community into in- dustrial war; I do not forget the sol- emnity and deep earnestness of his re- ply, when I had spoken of the next, sterner measures which in the event of the failure of conciliation the company might be compelled to take, and he an- swered: "Yes, but that means war" and, turning to me with almost tender seriousness in his voice, he said, And you know, Dr. Smyth, that war is he'll :" And so I would read for him this day the Christian burial service not for a soldier only. but for a maker of peace-- and may the blessing of Gods peace be his now and forevermore.
 James s. Hemingway of the board of directors of the Fair Haven & West vile R. R. Co.,, was master of ceremonies at the services. The floral tributes were exceedingly beautiful. One in par- ticuIar from the family was magnifi- cent scarf of the most beautiful Amer ican beauty roses, 300 in number, which covered the, entire top of the l casket and hung down over the foot of the casket to the floor. Another fine tribute was a broken column from the Mathushek Piano company's em1 ployees, about fifty of whom attended the funeral of the late president of the company. Another was a large wreath from c. c. Buckingham, secretary Of the Mathushek Piano company, and of the Treat & Shepard company; an- other, standing anchor was from the officers and sailors of the schooner yacht Alert, which was owned by the deceased and on which he had started for southern climes and as it proved or his last voyage Another was a wreath of galax leaves four feet across 1 with a large bunch of pink roses at the side from the the Treat & Shepard com- pany. There were also personal trlb- utec frnn, Ganaral c F MerWin, Sam