The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
LAST ESCORT FOR GEN. WORTH
HE WANTED THE 9TH REGIMENT
AT HIS FUNERAL.
Told Col. Appleton So Long AGO and the
Seventies Commander Didn't FORGET
An Impressive Military Parade
Over the Dead Civil War Veteran,

In accordance with his WISH expressed
to Col. Appleton just before the Spanish
war; Brig Gen. William Scott Worth's
funeral escort yesterday was the Seventh
Regiment, which he had often reviewed
and to which he was much attached. The
funeral procession really began at Staten
Island and ended at Nyack, where the burial
took place.
The body was brought from Clifton,
Staten Island, Gen. Worth's late home,
yesterday morning, on the steamer General
Megs and was landed at the foot of Bloom
field street, North River, where it was met
by the Seventh Regiment, one troop of
Squadron A, a part Of the Second Battery
and body of police and escorted to st.
Georges Church at Sixteenth street and
Stuyvesant place. where the funeral services
proper were held. The escort on the Gen.
eral' Meigs consisted Of five officers and
squad of six men from the Eighth Regiment
U. s. A.. and these accompanied the pro-
cession to the church.
When the caisson bearing the bronze
coffin, draped with the American flag
on which was laid the late Generals military
hat and sword, reached the church entrance
the Seventh Regiment was drawn up close
along the railing of Stuyvesant Park and
extending from Seventeenth around into
Fifteenth street. Six sergeants took the
coffin from the caisson and carried it to
the centre aisle near the chancel rail.
The Rev. William F. McCord, Chaplain
Of the Seventh Regiment. officiated at the
services, assisted by the Rev. c. Campbell
Walker of Staten Island. The simple
funeral ritual Of the Episcopal Church
was used. In the front pews on the right
of the centre aisle sat the family mourners
and the Regular army officers and the officers
of the Seventh Regiment, Of Squadron A
and the Second Battery, all in uniform.
On the left Of the aisle the pews to about
were filled with members of the Loyal
Legion and old friends and brother officers
OF Gen. Worth, among these being Gen.
Molineux and Charles j, Murphy, the latter
survivor Of the Mexican war. Nearer,
My God, to Thee and Lead Kindly Light,
were the hymns sung.
AS the procession started from the church,
private Of the Seventh Regiment tripped
on the curb and fell heavily to the side
walk, he and his gun coming down with a
crash, startling, some. of the women to half
suppressed EXPLANATIONS of sympathy. The
man went on with the procession
Almost at the same time one of the six
horses drawing the caisson on which the
coffin lay became FESTIVE and took TO back
ing and kicking. The caisson was jammed
against the curbstone and there was great
deal of temporary confusion until the horse
was GAINED and the line Strengthened out
The march was through Sixteenth street
to Union Square, to Seventeenth street, to
Fifth avenue, to and around the Worth
erected to the memory of the
dead Generals father in Madison Square,
and thence to the ferry. The coffin was
taken in a private car to Nyack. The |
burial was in Oakland Cemetery.
Major-Gen. Roe. who was one Of the
was in command OF the escort.
He and the other pallbearers accompanied
the body to Nyack, where a volley was
fred over the grave by detachment of
Regulars