The San Francisco call., 1904-02-16
FRIENDS MOURN
LOSS OF FOOTE
Body of Departed Jurist Gre
mated With Simple Service
at Odd Fellows Cemetery
CROWD FOLLOWS HEARSE
Courts Are Closed Out of Re-
spect to the Dead Attorney
and Judges Deliver Eulogies

said yesterday afternoon in the
presence of large gathering of
! friends and admirers of the dead
! lawyer. The hearse on its way to the
cemetery was followed by string of
carriages bearing mourners of the late
| lawyer and hundreds of friends ana
relatives crowded the residence OF
| James V. Coleman at 631 van Ness
avenue, where the funeral ceremonies
were held, to pay humble tribute TO a
/ true friend and a great man. All OF
the Superior courts in the City Hall,
the Superior and Police courts and the
Federal courts adjourned out of re-
spect for the memory of the late at
! torney. Each of the various Judges
| in calling an adjournment euloglzed
! the character and worth of their dead
/ brother. Attorneys in the courts at
the time of the adjournment spoke In
praise of the life work of Mr.. Foote.
EULOGY BY HANLON.
Charles F. Hanlon, the attorney, ap-
peared before Judge Coffey of the Su-
perior Court yesterday morning and
made a brief address on the life and
work of w. W. Foote, the dead lawyer.
He said:
1t is with feeling of profound grief that
rise to announce to this honorable court ana lts M
! officers the news of the somewhat sudden death
| of one of the most prominent members OF the
/ bar of this court the Hon. William W. Foote.
Although Mr. Foote had during the last year
] somewhat failed in health it was hoped that
! his constitution which was Of iron; his ply
1 sque, which was Herculean, and his courage.
which was unconquerable, would continue long
! in the future TO carry him in that same illus
J trious career which. commencing thirty -nve
| his name in the legal constellation of departed
worth. But the ways of the Almighty are IN
scrutable.
cold contracted a week ago terminated
I On last Saturday, the 18th inst, after few
/ days of bedridden Illness. in the death OF Mr..
] Foote at the residence of the Hon. j. V. Cole
Mr. William w Foote as your Honor is al
ready aware, belonged TO that old school OF
/ great lawyers that reared California from total
/ oblivion in such wonderful such mastery
manner to the very front rank in American ju-
! risprudence and American civilization.
1t required such body of great lawyers as
/ that old school contained to fan the sacred
! flame of the laws of new State, which, df-
! ferent to all her sister states, sprang at once
! into matured statehood Minerva sprang
armed and equipped from the brain Of al
mighty Jove, and which then outstriPped her
| older sister States in the fashioning and crys-
! tallizing of laws second TO none among the en-
lightened powers of the earth.
That Mr.. Foote by his learning, his elo-
quence, his honesty, his good faith, his sin
! certy and his great force, assisted eonspicu-
San Francisco bar, our recent, as well as our
older annals, bear singuarly convincing testi-
mony.
honorable court the scene Of some Of his
greatest triumphs, move an adjournment out
of respect for the memory Of the late William
w Foote as we'll as out OF sorrow and symps-
thy for the members of his bereaved family;
and / further move that a copy Of this reso-
luton be spread on the minutes of this honor
able court and that certified copy thereof be
sent TO the family of our departed brother.
A SAD AUDIENCE.
Jammed to overflowing the rooms
in the house Of ]. v. Coleman were
filled with sad and silent audience.
| The services were brief and unosten-
tatious. The Rev. William Carson
Shaw of Oakland delivered the funeral
sermon. At the conclusion the Lord s
Prayer was said in unison by the as
Sc mblage and by the request of the
family the remains were not exposed
to view.
Prominent men from all over the
State were present and those friends
who were unable to attend sent beauti-
full floral pieces. The room in which
the coffin stood was filled to overflow
ing with the tributes of loving friends.
Governor Pardee sent a floral tribute.
The body was taken to the Odd Eel
lows Cemetery and cremated. The
ashes will be conveyed to Mountain
View Cemetery in Oakland. where
they will be inferred privately beside
those of Mrs. W. w. Foote, who died
in Hongkong four years ago.
The honorary pallbearerS were ::
James V. Coleman, Frank j. Moffitt,
Judge Frederick w. Henshaw, T. I.
Dargie, A. A. Moore, DIR. r. II. Wool
sey, Dr. D. D. Crowley William H.
Metson George W. Reed, j.. J. Ler-
men, Captain j. ]. Brice, Judge ]. V.
Coffey. Walter j. Matthews and Cap
tain Edward Hackett.
MOURNED IN OAKLAND.
OAKLAND. Feb. 15.-The Superior
courts of Alameda County adjourned
to-day out of respect to the memory
of w. w. FoOte. who was a we'll
known practitioner at the Alameda
bar. Sitting in bank to-day Judges
Ellsworth, Hall. Greene and Ogden
listened to a eulogy delivered by Mel
vim G. Chapman, who feelingly paid
an eloquent tribute to his dead friend.
He said:
May it please your honors it now becomes
my sad duty in this place of his last resi-
dcnce. and amid the scenes that knew him so
well. Ia which he often triumphed to an
nounce to this court the death of a distin-
Of this State for William w. Foote. in the
language Of another. has taken the few short
steps from the cradle, with its lullaby of love-
10 the lone. quiet. waySide inn, where all at
last must sleep. and where the only salutaton
Is Good night Yet while friends must
mourn and relatives must weep, kind nature
that projected into light and life will one
day. II the instinct of man counts for any
thing save us from mortality. Mr.. Foote was
! bS years Of age at his death. From the stand
point Of infancy and youth tifty-eight years OF
/ life seems TO stretch out intermnably into the
| future but as we look backward IL is but a
lash OF light In the night. and then darkness.
Mr.. Foote was an eminent lawyer. The
amount the character, the magnitude and the
importance of the litigation in which he was
professionally engaged and his uniform success
place him IN the front rank of the bar of this
state In the trial of causes he was i'm
PEELED by zeal unwonted in other men, and
fometimes for the moment angered his an
tagonst but the anger and the resentment
were only for moment. because we all knew.
Notwithstanding his brusqueness. that there
was I'm his breast heart tender that of
"A woman. Last Saturday he died without a
pang or pain, passed peacefully away as quiet
~ as though he had gone 10 sleep. and the
tranquility Of his death suggests how beau
tiful his death and his sleep.
A few words were spoken by Judge
Ellsworth, bearing testimony to the
regard in which the deceased was held,
and the departments were then ad-
io1tr,aad fOi. the daV