Evening star., 1902-05-08
LAST RITES OVER DEAD
FUNERAL OF THE LATE JUDGE
JOHN DAVIS.
Impressive Services at St. Johns
Protestant EPISCOPAL Church
Bishop Leonard eoficiates.

Simple and impressive were the funeral
services of the late Judge John Davis. asso-
ciate justice of the United States Court
of Claims, today. Added to the immediate
relatives and friends of the dead juriSt, a
concourse of distinguished personages filled
st. Johns Episcopal Church to do honor to
a man who was loved because of his true
worth and who was valued as a public
citizen and official. Those who gathered to
pay final homage were men of distinction.
They bowed their heads In reverence and
shed tears that one SO loved and respected
should be removed from their midst.
The rays of the spring sun found their
way within the chancel and frightened the
many floral offerings that had found their
way there from friends of Judge Davis.
Seldom In Washington has there been such
a gathering of well-known men. The
chief justice of the United States
occupied a seat in the rear of the church,
and he reverently watched the proceedings.
A few seats to the left of Chief Justice Full
Ter was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Of
Massachusetts, from the same state as the
dead jurist, and who had known him from
boyhood.
The Secretary of War and Adiutant Cen
eral Corbn came in shortly after the serv-
ices were commenced. Among the others
who were present at the services We're First
Assistant Postmaster General Robert J.
Wynne, Maj Thomas Ferguson, Mr.. Henry
Nelson, Mr. Nathaniel Mckay, Mr.. Robert
A. Howard, NJ. Cambon, the French am
bassador; Mr.. Hackett, former assistant
secretary of the navy; Mr.. David Mckee,
Commodore Zera Tanner, Mr. John w.
Douglass, the Danish minister, Mr.. Louis
A: Pratt. Mr.. George A. King, MT Joseph
William A. Day, Mr.. Archibald Hopkins.
Mr.. Frederick May, Mr.. c. d. Pennedaker,
Mr.. John S. Blair, Col. Clayton McMichael
Of Philadelphia and the assistant attorneys
of Court of Claims
The Funeral Rites.
Bishop Leonard of the diocese of Ohio.
who was formerly pastor Of St. Johns
Church. and who was for years personal
friend of Judge Davis, oficiated He was
assisted by Bishop Coadjutor Mackay-
Smith. The services embraced reading Of
the Scriptures and the singing by the sur
plice choir. There was no sermon; no ad-
dress.
The qallbearers were: Chief Justice Chas.
c. Knott Judge Lawrence Weldon. Judge
Howry, all of the Court Of Claims; Mr.:
John Hay. Secretary Of State; Admiral
George Dewey, Mr.. Jesse Brown. Mr..
Woodbury., Blair Mr.. Marcellus Bailey, DR..
of Maine and Senator Kean Of New Jersey.
Col. McMichael, the present postmaster
of Philadelphia, came to Washington par
ticularly to do honor to his old friend. He
had known Judge Davis since 1872. when he
came to Washington to organize the Ameri-
can exhibit for the Vienna exhibition the
following year. Judge Davis was at that
time private secretary to Hamilton Fish,
secretary of state.
In my acquaintance with men," Col. Nc
Michael said to an Evening Star reporter,
after the funeral, II have certainly not
known half a dozen who possessed, as he
did the scholarly attainments, the learning
in law, the intimate knowledge of foreign
languages. and, above all, the rare gentle
ness of personal disposition which enabled
him to meet the most veXing problems Of
statecraft with the same ease and grace
and wisdom that he filled every require
ment put upon him in his judicial career
and in his social life.''
The interment, which was private, was at
Rock Creek.