The Jersey City news., 1902-08-28
IN MEMORY
OF MAI THEWS
Tribute Of His Comrades in
the Fourth Regiment to
a Brave Officer.
HOMECOMING OF The DEAD
Funeral Services This After
noon Interment in Green
wood Cemetery
HOMECOMING OF THE DEAD


people of this city, arrived in the Penn
sylyania Railroad depot this morning
and was conveyed to No. % Duncan ave
nue., where the funeral services took
place this afternoon. Rev. W. ]. Brush
rector of st. Paul's p. E. Church, Off
ciated. The pall-bearers were:-C Colonel
R. G. Smith, o. H. Perry, ]. Warren
Hardenbergh. Colonel S. D. Dickinson
J. G. Young, John H. Ward, Capt. H. II,
Brinkerhoff and Captain G. N. Parker.
At the depot this morning awaiting
the arrival of the Long Branch train,
on which was the body, were: :--Messrs. j.
Warren Hardenbergh, Oliver III. Perry,
John Gopsill and David Allurton, broth
ers-in-law of Mr.. Mathews. The train
was scheduled to reach here at 11:10,
but it was nearly half an hour late. The
casket was in the forward baggage car.
1t was enclosed in richly mounted rose
wood box and on it rested a mass of
roses, lilies and ferns from Mr. James G.
Young. Undertakers Heller and Flock, OF
Deal, accompanied the body and on its
arrival in the city Undertaken j. J. Phil
lips took charge of it.
INTERMENT IN GREENWOOD.
Tomorrow morning in Greenwood
Cemetery the interment will take place
Mr.. Mathews will rest beside his wife on
lovely little hill where also are buried
Mr.. Ross, father of Mr.. Mathews's wife,
and of Mr.. Robert S. Ross and Alexan-
der Ross, of the Commercial Trust Co
The grave is within a hundred feet OF
that of Henry Ward Beecher
OFFICERS, SYMPATHY.
The Board of Officers of the Fourth
Regiment met last night and passed the Sc
resolutions
ION behalf of the Fourth Regiment
National Guard, New Jersey, the Board
of Officers of said regiment desires to
place on record an expression of the
profound grief felt by all at the sudden
and untimely death of our late comrade,
Captain Prank S. Mathews.
"A member of this organization for
nearly twenty-six years beginning as a
private, then as non-commissioned Off
Ger in every grade, and subsequently
commissioned as paymaster, he served
throughout with the utmost credit to
himself and to the regiment, displaying
in his capacity as paymaster that brsi-
ness ability. absolute integrity and PAINS
taking accuracy for which in his daily
life he was 50 well and favorably known.
As member of the board of officers for
many years, Captain Mathews's courtesy
and kindness endeared him to all his as
sociates; and in learning that his life
has been eI ced in its prime under cir
cumstances of unusual sadness, we feel
sense of personal loss and bereave-
E,ent.
Participating fully in the sense of
public loss which is felt throughout the
community, and extending our most
heartfelt sympathy to the family and rel
atives of our late brother officer, we take
this opportunity of recording our deep
and poignant grief at the sudden and
untimely severance of our relations with
one in whose character were united all
the best qualities of American manhood.
As soldier, faithful and prompt in the
performance of every duty; as trustee,
rigidly careful and conscientious in The
discharge of his trust; as comradc, a
true friend and courteous gentleman, lis
loss will be ever mourned and his mem
ory cherished by this regiment as thar Of
faithful officer and true soldier"
It was also resolved that the officers
attend the funeral services in body.
DIRECTORS WILL MEET.
President J. Warren Hardenbergh, Of
the Commercial Trust Co., will call a
special meeting of the board of directors
to pass suitable resolutions on the death
of their late colleague. Similar action
will be taken by the Fifth Ward Saw
-ings Bank, Proyident Institute for Saw
ings and Third National Bank, Mr..
Mathews being connected with these in
stitutions.
MRS. PIZZINI RECOVERING.
The officials of the Monmouth Me
mortal Hospital said that Mrs. w. g.
Pizzini, one of the victims of the auto
mobile accident that killed Frank J.
Mathews and Mrs. ]. H. Cobb, will
probably recover But she is seriously
injured internally, and has a broken leg.
Even under the most favorable conditions
she will be badly crippled.
Rev. p. J.. Grant Of the Paulist
Fathers Church, in New York, who was
also in fha marty was badly shaken nm.