Arizona republican., 1903-03-26
IMPRESSIVE
 oBsEQUIEs
Funeral Services for the Late
 \ Sam KOrriCk
Masonic Bodies, B. P. o. Elks and Hun dreds of His Personal Friends, Pay Tribute to His Memory.

Yesterday was an unusual day in this city, a day made memorable by the incidents attending the last trib- utes of respect a sympathizing and appre reciativc community can pay to its honored dead. there being various flu nerals and the announcement as well that others who were held in the great est respect had closed Stheir earthly eyes in eternal slumber It seemed that nature was in sympathy with a bercaved people and at frequent in terVals there were copious showers re sDonsive to the sorrOwful hearts of the hundred on whom they fell. This in cident would not have been noted else where but it was rather an eNtraordin- ary state of the weather in this local ity and it seemed that at the crisis of each ceremony when grief was most indignantly appreciated the heavens joined in a ea.ful demonstration.
 The funeral of sam Korrick which was held at the parlors oi Merrynan & IIolley on West Adams street was the
 first ore Of the day. It was very large i ly attended and the spacious parlors
 were entirely too small to admit the hundreds who came to, perform not only the offices of honor but to pay ! 1 deceased was not only widely known ] but was held in universal respect by all with whom he came in contact ill the course Gf q remarkably brilliant and succ cessful business career in this city, though it covered the space of
 but a few years. He had given full recognition 10 the obligations of social | life and had affiliated himself With the Masonic order, the order of the 1 Eastern Star and the Benevolent and Proetctive Order Of Elks in both of which societies he was an honO"ed. an enthusiastic and influential member. Both societies attended the funeral in q body, the interment being iundcr Masonic auspices and the
 Iiks acting in tIe capacity of an es-
 cort Of honor.
 Mr. Korrick was . broad mined man
 of twentieth century views, one who
 judged his fellow man not by his af-
 fliations but by his attributes
 of personal, virtue and to Sam Aor-
 rick q man was man for ,t Una anI a that It was notable that from the
 character of the assemblage that met
 to d. him honor, only for the religious
 service could a stranger have known
 his personal convictions as the dem !
 ton Of the universal brotherhood of
 man. And even in this service there
 was no embarrassing distinction for
 subsequent to the reading Oi the Jew
 ish ritual Rev. C. V. Cowan of the
 First Methodist church paid q tribute
 to the dead and other clergymen were
 noted in the ranks of those \who had l grasped his hand in the mystic fellow
 ships preserved by sign and password.
 The handsome black casket was all most hidden in q wealth of floral trlb-
 utos among them being two pieces of ! extraordinary beauty One was the gift of the Eastern Star and the other i was a white floral creation renresent-
 ing the antlers Of ar Elk. The parlor
 was filled with the immediate relatives
 and friends of the dead man, the Jew
 ish congregation of the city, the ladies of the Eastern Star and the members
 Of the Ladies Aid society oi the First
 NJ E. church, who not only held him
 in high esteem personally but who
 had interested themselves i'll kindly
 ministrations during his long illness. i MT. Selim Nicholson Officiated in the reading of the Jewish ritual and was followed in q short eulogy by Key C. ! Y. Cowan who held MT. .Korrick in high ! esteem as d personal lIletlu-
 1t the conclusion of the services the assembled friends and the members of the orders who had been standing in line on the sidewalks passed through l the building for a last look at the ia rniliar features Of the dead. The cas- ket was borne by six pail hearers: Messrs = Oberfclde1 and SeEm Mich olson represented the Jewish corgre-
 ga tion. Messrs. D. G. BealS and E. A. Spayldin. represented the Masonic societies and Messrs. G. P. Builard and ] Alex Rheinstein represented the B. ?. i o. Elhs Tke fuI4C:'al procession form ed with the Ell-s in the lead followed | by the Masons. Behind the hearse and the carriages bealirg the immediate i friends were hacks carrying the en- plcyes of the New York store and other employees with their families in l carriages. and long line of vehicles, i the whole making an imposing cOrtege. Irterment was made in the Masonic cemetery and the burial service was
 tEat of the Masonic ritual aud was conducted by Past Grah1 Master Francis A. Shaw.
 During the hours of the funeral many Of the stores of the city. gar ticularly those who during his life time had been the business competitor | or Mr. Eorrick. were closed thus showing the great respect in which
 he was held by the business world gen-
 erally.
 Mr. Korricil though he had only
 been here few years had been won-
 deifulIy successful ill q 1r5iness way.
 His establishment, the New York store. was opened 'on small scale and was of modest pretensions, bat by
 close attention, upright dealing, busi-
 ness enterprise and 9 genius flr his
 chosen line of9dctivity he build2d for
 himself a monument more tlmahie
 than that of granite or cf precious
 stones.