Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-03
LIE IN STATE.
F unera| of Late Senator
Hoar,. Today.
The Rev. Dr.. Edward Everett
Hale Will 0fficiate.
Business Will Be uspsnded-Services
Simple.

Worcester. ' 7. Arrangements for
the funer:' 1tor Hoar We're about
complete "a, afternoon. There
Will be prayers II the house for the
family at 1.I0. Monday afternoon, at
which Rev. Edward Everett Hale will
otticiatr. The funeral cortege will pro-
coed from the house to the Church of
the Unity unattended. but on Elm
street. extending from Main street TO
the church, will be four infantry COM
panies Of Che state militia drawn up to
receive the body.
Charles NJ. Thayer Will be in charge
| OF the arrangements at the church. He
will be assisted by Francis II. Dewey.
lion. Charles q. Washburn. George f.
Blake, Jr., Chandler Bullock. Arthur =.
Rusg. Leonard y. kinnicut. James p.
Hamilton, Waldo Lincoln and Alexan-
dtr II. Bullock, who will act as ushers.
tpon MI Thaycr will devolve the
delicate task Of assigning seats. The
church is small. its seating capacity
not exceeding Geo. and already Mr.
ThaNer has found it necessary to re-
guest organizations desiring to send
representatives to cut down their num-
Der 50 far as possible.
The delegation representing the ma
tinnal Senate and House and the cx-
ccntiNc ma Legislative branches Of the
Massachusetts state government will
arrive in Worcester ut | p. NJ. and af-
ter luncheon at the Bay state house
will proceed 1T once 10 the church.
The honorary pail bearers will be as
follows: Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge.
Hon. w. Murray Crane, T. jefferson
Coolidge. Attorney General William H.
Moody. General William r. Draper
Former Mayor Henry \. Marsh
Charles Francis Adams, Judge Francis
&. Lowell. COL. George H. Lyman. d.
G.. Stanley Hale and William +. Rice.
The active pan bearers will be the
present and past private secretaries Of
the dead senator. The list in order of
seniority is as follows: Charles f. Al
drich. Worcester: Hon. Herbert p. Ar
ker. Lancaster: w. +. Furber. Con-
cord; George :. Taft. UXbridge: VIII
liam f. Barrett, Boston; T. Hovey
Gage. Worcester: John NJ. Merriman,
South birmingham; Edward q. Good
win. Worcester; Wililml f. Garland,
Concord; Charles II. Goodell Worces-
ter Frederick w. Eaton. Concord.
The services in the church will be
conducted by Rev. Dr. Edward Everett
Hale. who will deliver an address. Rev.
Rush II. Shipper of Brockton. will read
the Scriptures and offer prayer The
singing will be by the Church of the
Unity Quartet and the music will in
clude several of the late senator's ia
Vorite selections, including crossing
the Bar" and Nearer, My God. to
Thee"
AT the close of the services in the
church. the militia will be drawn up
on Main street, south Of Elm street. |
and will pay their tribute of respect to !
the body as it is taken to the City hall, |
where the remains will lie in state from !
4 70 ) O'Clock. The casket will be
placed at the foot of the grand stair
case and the people in double rank
will be admitted through the front
door. passing out at the rear of the
building.
After the City building is closed,
the body will be taken, in charge OF
United States Senate Messengers +. W.
Dohrrty and David NJ. Earle, to SEES
sionS undertaking rooms, where a
de@th mask will be taken, and where
the remains will rest until Tuesday
morning, Wh". at 10 o'clock, accom-
panied by ., 'usmhers of the family
and Il few t.i,nG- tlcy will be taken
to Concord. for interment in the Hoar
family lot in Sleepy Hollow cemetery
The suspension of business through
out the city will be complete, even the
postoffice banks and drug stores will
be closed during the hours of the
funeral. and. at the suggestion OF the
license commissioners. all the saloons
and wholesale liq1or places will b.
closed during the afternoon. until j.
NJ Many mourning decorations. some
Of therl very elaborate. have been put
in. today. and the display windows Of
the big stores are full of mourning en-
blems md drapcd pictures Of the dead
senator.
There WAS a meeting of the WOrces-
ter Comfy Bar Association. this morn
ng, at which Attorney General Herbert
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