The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-25
CAPT. SCREWS BURIED
GREAT oUTPOURING OF PEOPLE TO HONOR HIS MEMORY.
Court Street sEethedist Chureh Was
 Filled With seFrOwing Friends -Frntermal Orders and vet- eFmma at 0mkvvonA

Screws was rich in the love of his fel-
 low citizens was abundantly evidenced yesterday afternoon when . great throng of people gathered in sorrow to do honor to his memory.
 The funeral exercises took place al
 the Court Street Methodist Church ai ! o'clock and the great auditorium ot that house of worship was filled. The Ioongregation included men and women from every walk of life. Every creed and class united in grief at the death of the peerless citizen.
 The music was especially beautiful and touching. The choir sang Cross ing the Bar," and that exquisite hymn Lead Kindly Light" whose words were so dear to Captain Screws in life The pastor, Rev. J. A. Rice, D. D.. spoke eloquently and ferventiy of the life and character of Captain Screws who had many years been a member ot his church.
 pr. Rice paid Q simple tribute to Cap- tain Screws at the outset by deciarine that 1t was nof for him to speak of the dead citizen as public man or as a soldier. These things, he said. were open facts to all of his hearers. He would. he said. dwell moro espeeially on what he termed the brotherly kind' ness of Captain Screws. His great heart, said pr. Rice. was full to over flowing with love for his fellow man and it seemed that the more unfortun- ate, the more wretched his netghborr the more Captain Screws loved him. The speaker said he had often vis- tied the ofice of Captain Screws and had there found him engaged In cases which touched his heart. His ofioe was one that gave him broad insight into the wretchednesa of life, and Dr. Rice said that Captain Screws, in his modest way, often adjusted matters ot which the world knew nothing, and gave his sympathy and his advice to those in distress.
 "Contrast," said Dr. Rice. ~this hon- est Justice of the Peace and his great love for humanity with the CSar of
 Rusisa who when his people went to him with their wrongs were shot down
 at his orders by his Cossack soldiers. " Captain Screws gave to this commit
 nity a great lesson, said Dr. Rice, by his earnest living and his broad. char itable and all consuming love for his fellow men.
 The body of Captain Screws was
 borne from the church by eight of his close friends, Governor Cunningham. Iex-Governor Oates, Hon. J. K. Jackson, David Johnston. Judge J. B. Fuller, Judge William H. Thomas, Dr. Thomas M. owen and M. P. LeGrand. The procession of vehicles that fol- lowed the hearse to oakwood Cemetery
 was one of the largest ever seen in Montgomery. Every public carriage in
 the city was pressed into service. In the procession were the Knights ot Pythias, the Improved Order of Red IMen, the odd Fellows, and the Confed-
 crate Veterans.
 funeral car was completely filled with beautiful flowers. some of the Ihandsomest designs that could be made by Montgomery florists. They came | from every section of the city. from the fraternal organizations of which
 Captain Screws had been a member and from organisations with which he was not associated.
 It seemed that nearly every person who listened to the impressive services
 at the Court Street Church went tC oakwood to stand by the grave oi Captain Screws and to have last ten der glance at the casket bearing hii
 earthly remains.
 | On the western slope of the new al
 vision of the cemetery he was lait
 away. Dr. Rice read the simple ser
 vice of the Methodist Church and gav'
 way to the Red Men who surrounded I
 The service of this order was conduct
 ed by J. Brockman, Sachem of Talla' poosa Tribe, and the beautiful custom of releasing a snow white dove was per | formed by Secretary W. J. Maxwell o
 the tribe. The Knights of Pythtas fol Ilcwed the Red Men, Chancellor Com lmander Frank Allen of Mozart Lodge Heading the service. Nearly 100 mem
 bers of the Odd Fellows then surround ed the grave and the ritualisttc ser vices for the dead were said by HenrI iEngelhardt and Rev. Walter M. Craw
 ford.
 When the fraternaI orders had com pleted their task of love and sorrow | the Confederate Veterans closed thu
 obsequies. It was a Sternly pathetic
 moment. With bowed heads and tear
 stained faces, the grizzled- Veterans
 who had followed Lee and Johnston
 and Beauregard, Bragg and Jackson gathered to pay their tribute to thu man who loved their sacred cause mex
 to his love for ties of blood.
 In a choking voice Col. B. M Wash burn began to read the burial servtc' for the dead adopted some time ago b!
 Camp Lomax. When he concluded Rev
 A. F. Dix offered an earnest, an eloQuen
 prayer for the soul of the dead and fol
 blessings upon the living.
 The great number of beautiful How
 CTS were placed upon the marble slal
 which shut the casket from view
 "TAps" was sounded, Dr. Rice dismissed the large crowd and in the gatherinl twilight they went away and left hin there in the soil of the land he loved
 so well.