Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-11-05
SERVICES
OF THE DEAD CONSUL
Were Most Impressive and Attended
by Hundreds of Her Friends.
OF A MILITARY CHARACTER
Many For the Last Time Looked
Upon the Face of the Dead Sal
vatiOnist-Husband and Chill
dren Followed the Casket.

New York, Nov. 2.-Funeral serv-
ices over the remains of Emma Booth
Tucker, consul of the Salvation army
in America, were held Sunday after
noon in Carnegie hall. The auditorium
was filled to overlooking, and hundreds
of persons who had been unable to gain
entrance waited in the streets until the
ceremonies had been concluded that
they might file past the catafalque and
look upon the face of the dead saliva
zionist. The services, which were con
Quoted by Col. E. ]. Higgins, chief Sec
rotary of the Salvation army in Amer.
lea, were most impressive, and con
sisted of a musical programme made
up of the favorite hymns of the dead
woman and by eulogies of her life and
of the good she had done for mankind.
The grief of Commander Booth-Tuck-
er was most poignant, and as he knelt
by the bier sobbing pathetically the
greater part of the vast congregation
wept with him.
OF IL Military Character.
The ceremonial partook somewhat
of the character of a military funeral.
The procession moved down the aisle,
led by two acknowledgements carrying
white satin streamers and followed by
the members of the general staff. Pre-
ceding the casket was Col. Higgins,
bearing the Bible and bonnet of the
consul. Commander Booth Tucker and
1t .a,ao ol;1J.on two ~ +boro hn hoo
in arms, followed the casket.
Ensign Dammes, secretary Of the
consul, who was with her at the time
of the accident, gave a graphic descrip-
ton of the wreck and the death OF
Mrs. Booth-Tucker. Afterwards Com
mander Booth-Tucker spoke. He said:
Husband Crushed With Sorrow.
my heart is broken, crushed with
sorrow. What shall I say. | never be-
fore understood the awful moment
when the news of a beloved ones death
crashes in on one. l was tempted to
play the coward, but l know she is say
ing to me from the realm above, Cheer
up; be brave I thank you all from
the bottom of my heart. I feel that
you are here not merely as spectators,
but that my sorrow is yours and that
your deepest symathy is mine. l dc
not want one rebellious thought to
come in your heart or mine, | do not
want one word of unbelief to crush
your heart"
He related an incident that occurred
in Chicago some years ago when he
was imploring a man to tecome a
Christian.
eff your beautiful wife were taken
from you in a horrible railroad acct
dent as mine has been, you would then
feel towards God as | feel" said the
man. The commander then comment
ed as follows:
"lf that man should be in the audi
ence to-day I want to tell DIM that ]
have not one rebellious thought against,
God, who has visited upon me this ca
tastrophe."
The cablegram of Gen. Booth, read al
Carnegie hall, was in part as follows:
Fathers Tribute to Dead Daughter.
Comrades and ~Friends-On Tuesday
you will lay away in the keeping OF
one of your beautiful cemeteries the
mortal remains of my beloved daugh-
ter, Consul Mrs. Booth-Tucker. She
has fallen in the fight. AS a winged
angel she was flying through the lane
literally scattering seeds of hope fol
holiness and Heaven among the sim
ming and suffering children of men,
when all suddenly, without any warn
ing, the death angel met her, and aftel
a faint and hopeless struggle hurried
her away to join her sainted mother
in the presence of her Saviour-Lord.
"Her death is an unutte1able loss
She was a salvation soldier of incom'
parable worth A long and memorable
record on well-fought fields is behind
her. Perhaps of no one in modern
times, of her years and opportunities
could it be more truly said She has