Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-04
BURIED AT PRINCETON.
One of Billy Annin's Classmates Con-
ducts the Services.

| In the historic graveyard of Princeton.
N. j.. William Edward Amin was laid to
| rest yesterday close beside his mother S
grave. and within short distance of the
| tomb Of his distinguished grandfather. JON
athan Edwards, the first president of
| Princeton College.
| Memorial services were held in the lee
| ture room of the Presbyterian Church,
| where the coffin lay covered with an ex-
quisite pail of flowers the gift of the
| Princeton class of 1871 of which he was a
| member.
| One of his classmates and closest friends
conducted the services, the college quartet
| at intervals singing with exquisite effect
the familiar hymns appropriate to such
occasions Aside from the collegians. to
niscence of past college days, there were
none present but his family and some of
his most intimate friends from Nebraska,
New York and Washington. The body had
been brought on from Phoenix, Arizona,
where he died, of hereditary consumption
February 26. At the time of his death he
was special agent in charge of the western
division of rural free delivery with head
quarters at Denver. Col. One of his spe
cial agents, II. A. Clarke of Wyoming. in
friendly devotion, accompanied the remains
from Denver to their final resting place.
A number of his old newspaper associates,
including John NJ. Carson, II. Conquest
Clarke, Frank A. Richardson. Arthur j.
Dunn. A. ]. Stofer. c. c. Randolph. P V.
De Graw, Edgar Snyder and Charles A.
Hamilton went on from Washington to pay
a last tribute to their friends memory.
Nothing could have been more touching
than the eulogium which his former class
mate delivered. He spoke of Amin as be-
yond all question the brightest man of
the class of 1877, who could have excelled
in classical literature or in any other walk
of life he had chosen. He bore tribute to
the incorruptibe integrity which had char
acterized his life, his generosity, his de-
testation of everything mean; spoke of the
love which all his classmates entertained
for him, which led them always to call on
him to preside at their reunions, none of
them ever speaking of him except as
Billy Amin. His life. he said. was en-
bodied in the lines he himself often quoted:
Just let me live by the side of the road where
the of go by;
They are good they are bad they are weak they
Then why should 1 sit in the scorners seat
hnrl the cynic's ban?
Just let me live by the side Of the road and be
friend of man.
At the grave-side one of the most touch
ing incidents of the ceremony occurred.
which perhaps may be mentioned without
obtruding on domestic sorrows. After his
widow, Frustrated with grief, his daughter
his sisters and sister-in-law had withdrawn,
his brother, Robert. vice president OF the
New York produce exchange, said to those
remaining, We here are all Billys friends.
1 promised that if he died first I would
help to dig his grave and lay bunch of
roses on his coffin to be buried with him.
have done so. / also promised l would
lay the first spadeful of earth over his re-
mains. This 1 will do. and will you not
follow me?"
spadeful of earth ON Billy Annin's coffin.
and each one gathered a spray of violets
from the abundant wreaths lying around to
keep in his memory.