The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-04
|MONTGOMERY'S DEAD
 MAYOR BURIED UNDER
 MASSES OF FLOWERS

l or honorary pail OeATeTs, City ouioAoA of whom he was the chief. city em ployes whose labor he had directed Knights of Columbus, of which orde he had been a distinguished member l merchants and manufacturers Of Mont gomery among who he had spent th' When the stately and solemn cele bration of the requiem mass had beer completed. Father Eaton spoke of tht | great mystery of life and death ane | of those lessons which came out oi
 such an occasion and from the life | to the high character of him who wat dead. of his charity. his usefulness ano the hope and faith of his unswervine religion. | For his text Father Eaton took the l Biblical verse. Well done. thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been l faithful over few things. will place | thee over many"
 | Father Eaton's Remarks. ! In his opening remarks Father Eaton drew his hearers attention to the pre- l eminence of the supernatural over the natural, to heavens pre- -eminence over | the life on earth which was only a | transitory stage of preparation. The l supernatural was above and beyond ] earth and could not be known or under !, stood by the laws of the natural. | CnrlStlanity WAS tne tTutu, tHC ttuo | revelation of what was beyond the grave, of what was the supernatural. l Before the advent of Christianity man | had groped and stumbled in darkness. It was Christianity which taught the | transient stay of man on earth and | prepared him for the joys above. The useful life. the valuable life, said | Father Eaton, was the life of the man | who accepted and followed Christianity Af a own soul Such a man was Mayor Thomas H. Carr. His hopes were lifted | above human things. They were lifted | to the throne of God, in faith and love. | He was ever a dutiful and loyal son of the church.
 'Tn the last days" said Father Eaton. | there was no complaint, no murmur. | There was no fear of the end. He was | concerned only for the consolation of those that he was leaving behind, his | family and his friends. This quiet, this peace. is what makes consoiing the | deathbed of the Catholic. His was a | character O ftrue nobility. He was i'm deed a Christian. The lasting foot ! prints he has left behind, the memories of the things which he has accom- plishei are the virtues of a noble life" Warming of the Occasion. The warning of such an occasion | which showed that In life we are in I the midst of death afforded opportuni- | ties for Father Eaton to advance con- vincingly the great, the paramount i'm | portance of religious faith, the para f mount duty of every man to attend to | the salvation of his soul. He decried | the error which would say that all re- iigions were equally good. This could not be. for there can be, he said. only one truth. one true revelation and therefore there could be only one true l religion, one true church.
 During the requiem mass and the de- livery of Father Eaton's sermon the | dark and handsome casket rested on supports in the middle aisle. with two large tapers burning. At the c0nciu- sion of the sermon two acolytes took | their stand near the casket. one at the | head and one at the foot. Father Eaton then read impressively the Lit any for the Dead. Completing this, the casket wes sprinkled with holy water and incense was burned about it by an acolyte with swinging censer. And thus the services at the church were | completed.
 A splendid program of impressive
 music was rendered at the church The
 fine choir of St. Peters was augmented by others of Montgomerys sweetest
 singers. The regular choir at St Pe- ter's Is composed of Professor E. L. Merriam. oFganirt; Miss Merriam. soIo- ist; Miss Boylan. Miss Courtenay, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs Dawson and Mrs. Me-
 Cosker. They were assisted in the rem
 dering of the special musical program
 of yesterday by Miss Minnie Watt Pierce. Mir. '. J. Pierce, Mir. Frank Lock. wood. MT. Marshall King and Mir. Hugh
 Stuart.
 Preceding the mass, Lead, Kindly
 Light" was sung by the choir During
 the offertory. "Stabat Mater" was rem
 dered As the procession moved out
 of the church, Nearer. My God. to
 Thee" was sung.
 ..-~ Formation of COrtege.
 Outside the church door the long
 procession. nearly mile long, was
 formed. The principal portions of the
 procession was the mounted patrolmen
 of Montgomery, led by Police Captain
 W. H. Taylor, the foot patrolmen of the
 city led by Police Sergeant Miles
 Smith, Father Eaton and acolytes. the
 honorary and active pall-bearers. the
 Knights of Columbus the City Council
 of Montgomery, the heads of the city government of Montgomery, employees of the city, a detachment of twelve men selected from the Montgomery
 Greys and the Montgomery Blues as a
 guard of honor .and a long line of
 carriages, filled with relatives and
 friends Chief John F. Browder. As
 sistant Chief F. J. Griffith and captains
 of the several companies represented
 the fire department.
 The active pail-bearers were James
 c. Ware. Ray Rushton, McD. Cain. E
 Meertief. J. T. Farley, Frank P. Kohn.
 Clayton Tullis and R. J. Chambers
 The honorary bearers were A
 M. Baldwin, W. B. Jones. David Well
 M Kahn, Ed Behr. J. C. Haas. s. J.
 Well, ex-Mayor John Crommelin and
 Acting Mayor C. P. Mcintyre.
 At the cemetery number of friends
 including Police Chief A S. Gerald.
 awaited the coming of the procession
 Here. too. had been carried the many
 floral contributions which had been
 sent to the home. For their removal
 two wagons had been needed. The City Council, the heads of departments
 the police department, the fire depart
 ments. the Knights of Columbus. all sent in beautiful designs. There came
 too, a handsome token of esteem and
 remembrance from the Beauvoir Club.
 as we'll as designs from political. per
 sonal and business friends of the dead Mayor.
 Flowers from Mobile.
 From Mobile there came a beautiful design sent from the Catholic Brothers
 in whose welfare Mir. Carr had always
 manifested a helpful interest This
 token of esteem, the impressive ser
 vices and remarks at the church, the presence of the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of Loretto at the funeral at.
 tested his loyalty and his interest in