The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-06-13
PLANS FOR FUNERAL
or Mr.. WILLIAM GAIT
Interment to Be Made in
Congressi nal Cemetery.

Rev. DR.. D. J. Stafford, Pastor of St
Patrick's Catholic Church, Will
Conduct Services.
The funeral of Mr.. William Gait. who
died early Thursday morning, will be
held from his residence at Ninth Street
and Grant Place at o'clock tomoTrow
afternoon. Rev. DR.. D. J. Stafford, pas
tor of ST. Patrick's Roman Catholic
Church, officiating. The funeral Will be
/ private and the nterment will be made
at the Congressional Cemetery.
I Mr.. Galts death was not due to any
organic trouble, but to the gradual
| breaking down of the system consequent
upon old age. He had been i'll for sew
eral weeks and owing to the fact that
| he could not take nourishment grew
| rapidly weaker.
More than week ago all hope of his
ultimate recovery was given up. and on
Wednesday 1t became apparent that the
end was only a matter of a few hours.
AT 900 H. bl l4hA oItAg iAS pdoSttl
away, surrounded by his nearest rela-
tives and the attending nurses and ply
stefan.
A .Native CT Alexandria.
Mr. Gait was born in Alexandria. Va,
then part of the District Of Column
bia, November s. 1925. IN 1926. while
he was yet an infant in arms. his father,
James Calf, moved TO Washington, and
in 1916 he. with his brother. estab-
lished a jewelry business in Washing
ton under me firm name of VI. w. Gait
& Co.
This business move was taken upon
the death of their father, who was also
a jeweler. Mr.. James Gait established
a jewelry business in Alexandria in
1862. and thus his son dies upon the
centennial anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the trade with which he was
so closely associated for 50 many years.
1t was his often-exDressed wish during
the past few months that he should live
to see the business which his father es-
tablished reach a hundred years in
age. When it was certain that he
would live to do so. he frequently al
luded % the fact, saying:
81 ~; glad to see it; / am glad to
see it
Long Active in Business.
Mr.. Gait remained actively engaged in
the jewelry business from 1916 to 1879
From the latter year until 1886 he re-
manned in the business as a special
partner In 1885 he withdrew his inter-
est entirely from the firm, and from
that time on he was engaged in a va
riety Of enterprises.
Mr. Galt's success in business was due
to his progressive spirit. his industry
and his uniform sense of justice in deal
ing with his fellow-men. He was always
ready to identify himself with any en-
terprise which was for the advancement
OF the best interests of the city. and
throughout his long career of usefulness
he made thousands OF friends in all con-
ditions and walks OF life.
The house in which Mr.. Gait lived at
the time of his death, at the corner of
Ninth Street and Grant Place, is just
exactly forty years old. having been
erected in 1862. The site on which this
residence is built was connected In Mr.
Calls mind with many OF the tender as
sociations OF his youth. 1t was on that
Identical spot Of ground that Mr.. Clouds
school, which Mr.. Gait attended when he
was boy, was located He often re-
ferred to this fact and TO the motto
over the door of the school building.
"Order-order is natures first law"
To the fact that he observed this motto,
which had become so thoroughly i'm
pressed upon his mind during the days
OF his youth, Mr.. Gait owed large part
of his success in all his undertakings.
His Various Enterprises.
Mr. Gait was always a parishioRer of
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic parish. He
was one of the trustees of st. Vincent's
Asylum. the ground of which was re-
Gently sold to Woodward & Lothrop.
He was a director in the Arlington Fire
Insurance Company since the time OF
its organization, and also director in
the Norfolk ard Washington Steamship
Company since the beginning of that
enterprise. He was also connected with
many other local concerns. Mr.. Gait
was never married, and is the last of his
fathers family, being survived by
neither brothers nor sisters. He has sew
eral nephews living in this city
Mr.. Gait is survived by several
nephews and nieces as follows: Miss
Josephine Davis, Mr.. Henry E. Davis,
Mrs. Reginald Fendall. Mr.. William w
Gait, Mrs. Marion v Elliott. MIR. Alex
ander H. Gait. Mr.. Norman Gait. Mr.
Sterling Gait, Mr.. James Howard Gait
and Mr.. Alexander H. Mccormick. jr.
Mr.. Walter Allen Gait, who died last
week. was also a nephew.
EiINFRGl Of q G M'KERicHER