The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-11-19
BODY LAID AWAY
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE
LATE SENATOR HAMILTON.
Hundreds Who Could Not Get in
Church Stood Outside During
ing Services as a Mark of Re.
spect-.Over Half His Colleagues
Present.

TacOam, Nov. 16.-Ihe funeral OF
State Senator Ed S. Hamilton was held
yesterday afternoon in the First Con-
gregational church, throng of friends
that included public men of the state.
fellow lodge men. business associates,
municipal officers, employees of Senator
Haimlton's firm, and others who came
into contact with him during his life,
gathering in such numbers to pay trib-
ute to his memory that the church was
entirely inadequate for the purpose.
Out in the street in front of the edi-
fee, along its sides and on the sidewalk
for several hundred feet in either direc-
ton stood hundreds unable to get with
in che church or show their affection
for the man and sorrow for his death
in any other manner than by remain
ing near by while the funeral services
were being held over his body.
The limited capacity of the church
badly disappointed the hundreds OF
iongshoremen who had worked under
Senator Hamilton. They had planned
to attend the funeral in body, but
being unable to crowd into tue church,
stood outside for two hours until they
could be given chance TO view the re-
mains. The strong hold of friendship
that had existed between employer and
employee made this another most un-
fortunate circumstance, but one that
could in no way be remedied.
The gathering that paid tribute to
Senator Hamilton's memory was one of
the most notable ever held in the state.
1t lacked the military feature alone to
give it the effect of state funeral, for
not only we're Governor Mcbride and
many of the state ffiocers present, but
seventeen of the forty counties of the
state were directly represented, and
nearly half of Senator Hamilton's col
leagues in the state senate were in at
tendance.
The funeral services were simple and
impressive. The beautiful ritualistic
ceremony of the Elk lodge fitted with
peculiar emphasis to the life and char
acter of Senator Hamill ton, and in his
eulogy Rev. DR.. E. T. Ford summed up
the character of the dead senator in a
forceful and graceful tribute to his
memory. The musical numbers were
we'll chosen, the rendering of Senator
Hamilton's favorite solo. "The Eternal
City," peing an especially fitting and
thoughtful suggestion.
Tacoma, Nov. IL Edward Sherman
Hamilton, state senator and candidate
for the United States senatorship, died
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning at the
family residence, $40 North E street.
Surrounded by his stricken family,
whom he recognized in almost his last
moments by asking for his little daugh-
ter Edna, death came peacefully, quiz
city and without struggle. Despite
the gravity of the frequent bulletins is
sued by the attending physicians, the
news of Mr.. Hamilton's death came as
a great shock to all who knew him,
scores of whom had seen him but few
weeks ago in apparently robust health.
Death resulted from typhoid fever
and pneumonia, in the middle of the
third week of the fever's course.
The death of Senator Hamilton de-
prives Tacoma and Pierce county of one
of OTIS best-known men and perhaps the
most indefatigable and successful work
er in business and political affairs the
city has ever had. Senator Hamilton
came to Tacoma fifteen years ago, with
a few cents and a determination to win
success as his only assets. The day
after he reached the city he entered the
employ of the Puget Sound Stevedoring
company as bookkeeper. He forced