Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-06-07

Last Honors Done by Large As
semblage on Sunday.
GOVERNORS TRIBUTE.
Says Memory Will Always Live and
Work Has Made New Epoch
for Wisconsin.

Knapp, Wis, June 5.-[Special. 1.-The.
funeral of former Assemblyman Albert
r. Hall was held Sunday afternoon at
his home here. Interment was at Min
neapolis today.
A large party of state officers, members
Of the Legislature and public men at
tended the obsequies, delegation from
Madison arriving on special car just
before the services were held.
Among those who left Madison Sun
day morning were Gov. Robert NJ. La
Toilette, Lieut.. Gov. James .. David
son, Secretary of State Walter L. Aous-
err State Senator'S Whitehead, Wyhe,
Chief Clerk G. O. Marsh of the Assem-
bly,, Bank Examiner NJ. G. Bergh, Judge
H. M. Comstock, Game Warden Henry
@. Overlook, Col. John Hammer, J: Z.
Harper, Harry P. Myrick, editor of The
Free Press, and Tim Murphy OF the sec
rotary of states office. Assembl yman
Cleary and A. II. Smith of Sparta got
on at Elroy; Senator McGilligray, at
Black River Falls; former Assistant Sec
rotary Of States James A. Stone, Assem-
blyman Ekern and former Speaker Ira
BeedIe and Swenholt, Railroad Commits
sioner John w. Thomas, DR.. 2: II. Lind,
ley, Julius Ingram, @. G. Wltherby ana
J. H Waggoner, at Eau Claire, and Sen
ator Stout at Menominee Junction.
Assemblyman Kinney, who succeeds
Mr.. Hall from Dunn county, Senator
Frear and Tax Commissioner Nels L.
Haugen met the party at Knapp.
File to Hall Home.
Mr.. Halls residence is but a short
distance from the depot at Knapp, mes
Ting at the base Of a hill. The party
gathered in silence at the station and
without any special order or precedence
mingled with the people from the neigh
borhood who had gathered at the depot
and slowly wendell their way through
the field and across the creek to the Hall
home Here the front yard and porch
and several of the rooms were filled with
waiting people.
One room had been kept in reserve for
the distinguished mourners and as soon
as they were seated the services COM
menced with the singing by quartette
Dear Name We Raise The Episcopal
funeral service was then read by Rev.
John Fisher of the Methodist church Of
Knapp, who spoke a few words Of tes-
timony of the honor, integrity, whole
heartedness and helpfulness of the dead,
whom he had known for four years.
How many will miss him. he said.
His benefactions will never fully be
known. His life teaches us the beauty
r and the worth Of the injunction, What
soever thy hand fndeth to do, do it with
thy might
Governor Speaks to Mourners.
Only a portion Of the people who had
gathered to honor the dead were able
to get into the house, and so it was an
nounced that Gov La Toilette would
speak from the front porch. After a
song by the quartette, "One Sweetly
Solemn Thought" the governor and the
state officers passed through the crowded
parlors and there on the front porch OF
the capacious farm house of A r. Hall,
with the green hills circling all about,
limpid stream gurgling almost past the
door, little hamlet Of but a few houses
lying few rods distant across the track.
the chief executive of the Common
wealth, with tears cOursing down his
cheeks, his voice quivering with emo
ton and sometimes failing him alto
gether, paid tribute to the honor and the
ability and the greatness of one who in
life had been humble, retiring, unassum-
ing and modest, and who now lay in
death in the room near by. The gov
ernor said in part:
On the Life of A. R. Hall.
All over this state today, in the homes
| throughout a sister state, by many through
out this Union to whose attention the work
there are sad hearts and bowed heads to-
day. We are gathered here to pay last
/ tribute to great man whose life has been
SO simple, SO modest, whose demeanor has
| Deen so humble that many of US perhaps
have not been truly conscious of the great
ness Of his character. But into the history
| of this state and into the lives of it's peo-
pie there has. come a new significance and
new meaning, higher standards better
thoughts, better living, great devotion to
the public interests than would have been
known except for the life of Mr.. Hall
He would have no friend of his say one
word in exaggeration of his work and his
within my power. to draw too strongly, to
utter too emphatically enconiums upon his
life and public service. He was man of
| cept to do wrong.
In his heart he bore malice against none.
l have seen him silent, his face quiverlng
of unjust criticism, but l never heard from
his lips an unkindly word with reference
to those who did not agree with him. I
do not believe that Albert r. Hall ever con-
sciOusly in his life did a wrong. He may
have made mistakes-who has not? He
never took an advantage he never worked
A life like his does not terminate with
death. 1t lives on and on through the gen
erations. In the higher ideals which he
has established in this state, in the better
regard for public rights which he has made
plain as public duty for all men, he has
| so impressed himself upon the dav nd hour
of his time that his life should live and
go on in the perfected life Of the friends
| who knew him and have been made better
! ny Ills pfeSeuce.
Good Work Lives Always.
The governor then quoted from Walt
Whitman a few verses descriptive of the
mysteries of death and of life and found
| comfort in the thought that life has not
been interrupted, but that the great char
acter of the man lying dead close by is
still working out the purposes of a higher
and better life. 1--WE can say to our friend
Farewell, but not forgotten He will
live in the lives Of each of us while we
are spared
An opportunity was given to the peo-
pie to pass by the bier and take last
look at the face of the dead. The fea-,
lures were lifelike and natural. Senators
Stout. Munson and Frear and Assembly
men Lenroot, Henry and Cleary were
honorary pallbearers and p. Hanson,
James Austin, r. d. Waterston, Lee
futile. William Robinson and w. II.
Francis, neighbors of Mr.. Hall, were the