The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-26
LAST HONORS PAID
 TO SENATOR PLAFT
NOTABLE GATHERING OF MEN
 PROMIYENT IN PUBLIC LIFE.

PROMINERT IN PUBLIC LIFE.
 Procession from Residence to ChureI
 Headed by Vice-President Fairbanks
 --Bearers Aged Residents of tn.
 Town-FIOraI Tributes from PresI.
 dent Roosevelt and State of Connecti-
 cut-Large Throng Unable to Gain
 Admission to Church-New Haven
 People.
 Washington, Conn.,, April 25.-Attend- led by one of the most notable gather ings ever assembled for any occasion lin this state, the funeral of United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt was held this afternoon at 1:3e o'clock at the First Congregational church, Rev. Dr. s. o. Seymour, of St. MichaePs church, Litchfield, and Rev. R. E. Car ter, of this place, officiating. Aside from immediate relatives the first of many out-of-town persons to reach here arrived last night and up to the time of the coming of the morning trains, special and regular, there was a continual influx of people, many driv- ing from long distances in the Litehfield hills. ,s.. |. The congressional special reached Washington before noon. It was made up of two Pullman coaches and a din- ing car On this train were members of the senatorial and congressional committee appointed by the vice-presi- dent and Speaker Cannon, respectively, as follows: - =.-s..s...
 Clarence D. Clark, of Wyoming: Knute Nelson. of Minnesota Chauneey M. Depew, of New gcrls; T. M. Patter- son, of Colorado; J, c. s. Blackburn of Kentucky; William B. Allison, of Iowa.
 Eugene Hale, of Maine; Shelby M. Cui- lom, of Illinois; Boies Penrose, of Penn syivania; Joseph B. Foraker. of ohio; Jchn Kean, of New Jersey; Julius c. Burrows. of Michigan; Senator Beyer- idge, of Indiana, and Senator Crane, of Massachusetts. ..,.s
 From the house were Representatives 2. Stevens Henry, N. D. sperry. F. E. Brandegee, E. J. Hill and George L. Lil-
 ey, all of Connecticut; John A. Sulli- an and John A. Keliher, Massachu- setts; John w. Dwight, New York; DanielsI. D. Granger and A. B. Capron, Rhcde Island; R. A. Adams, jr., and N.
 I. Palmer, Pennsylvania; s. ". Smith,
 Iichigan. -
 President Fairbanks came on a
 becial train.
 The delegation from the legislature
 | the state and Governor Roberts and
 $ staff came in a special train from
 iartford. f@
 Tn the party Of Governor Roberts and tan the invited guests included Chief Justice Torrance and other justices of ithe Connecticut supreme court; Lieu tenant Governor Woodruff, Comptroller IMichteil, Treasurer Walsh, Secretary iBodenwein, Attorney General King, Mayor Henney, of Hartford; Charles F. Brooker, member of the republican national committee; Z Hon. John R. Buck, Judge Arthur F. Egsleston and lothers.
 The state special leaving Hartford on 1.-the Highland division made stops at lNew Britain, Bristol, Waterbury and tHawleyviIle, picking up several persons lat each place. This train had dining lear and all were provided with lunch con, as were those on the congressional train. Both these specials were met at the railroad station here by all the car ridges and buses available in the town : and neighboring places. Under the di- rection of committee consisting of Frederick A. Betts and Postmaster James A. Howarth, of New Haven; . Royal ". Thompson, of Hartford, and John ". Coe, of Meriden, the visitors . were driven to the center of the village, about mile from the depot. There the delegations made their headquarters at , the White inn. ea>. .*gs fe ..-..,ts. Some of the members of both parties, . including Vice. President Fairbanks, } Governor Roberts and the members of , his staff, visited the home of Mrs. Platt , for brief call. ,n -...s ..,4~ } At 1:15, headed by Yce-P President Fairbanks, the national and state rep |, lresentatives marched across the small Igreen to the Congregational church, |: taking seats just behind those of the , family funeral party, which occupied 7 1.-the seven pews at the front on either , side f the main aisle. @> s-:,+' ....ae .ae The family funeral party left the , Platt residence at 1:10 and proceeded in : lcarriages to the church. This party iwas made up of the following: Mrs. lOrville H. Platt, with the senator's son, James P. Platt, district judge of the Limited States circuit court; Mrs. James P. Platt and daughter, Miss Marjorie; , lCharles G. Phelps, the senator's secre- , ltary, with James H. Hurley, for twenty years the senator's colored messenger; z lSimeon D. Platt and Dr. L. w. Platt, of Torrington, brother and nephew, re- spectively, of Senator Platt; MT. and :, Mrs. Benjamin Platt and Miss Platt, all of Washington, D. C., and many others 9 The casket of quartered oak was con- , veyed from the Platt residence to the church in small wagon covered with boughs of evrgreen. The bearers who carried the casket to the wagon from the house and from the wagon into the lchurch were six of the townspeople. four of whom are over seventy years lold, and were guests of Senator Piatt al iWashington during the inauguration oI
 President Roosevelt.
 r In the church the casket was placed u lon supports in front of the pulpit, whicf
 wac decorated with a bank of ever.