The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-03
THE LATE COLONEL SUCKER
VERY LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE
 FUNERAL.

FUNERAL.
 Full Military H0nOrs to the Departed
 Omeer-Other Fine Tributes to His
 Memory-PubIic Services at Trinity
 Lutheran Church - Imposing Obse-
 quies-ThOusands Honor the Deceased
 Splendid Floral Tributes.
 The funeral of Col Theodore sucher took place yesterday afternoon and was one of the most impressive and imposing military funerals held in this city in many a year. Public sym pathy and sorrow were everywhere ex- pressed at the loss of this model citi- zen and exemplary churchman and be- loved commanding officer.
 Escorted by the Second Regiment and a host of the friends of his life time, the remains of the beloved colonel were laid in their last resting place in the Evergreen cemetery.
 The public exercises in connection with the funeral services began at 10 a. m., when the doors of Trinity Ger man Lutheran church, in George street, were opened to allow the public last view of the colonel, as he lay in state in the church. The funeral bier was banked by a solid wall of floral tributes from the military com rades and friends.
 A corporaPs guard, consisting of Corporal J. A. Minor, Privates Bran damour, Felstead, Heaney, Timm, Knoll, Bohndorf and Somers, of the Light Guard, the coloneps former com pany, stood guard over the remains. As soon as the doors of the church were opened to the public great mass of people surged into the. aisles, seek ing to pay their last respects to the departed officer. During the hours be- tween 10 o'clock and 1:45, when the church was turned over to the military companies, the public continued to visit the church in large numbers.
 At 1:S0 o'clock the entire Second regiment headed by the staff and band, assembled in the armory, and after stacking arms on the floor marched to the church, where they viewed the re- mains of their colonel, giving a fare well salute as they passed the body They then marched out of the church and back to the armory, where they awaited the conclusion of the funeral services at the church.
 The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. A. Timm, who was personal friend of Colonel Sucher, who was associated with him in his church work MT. Timm's text was Luke xxiii., 42. "Thy will, not mine, be done" The pastor with deep feel ing referred to the fatal sickness of the colonel, of the anxiety which that illness had caused the public, and by tGle prayers that had been offered up by the congregations of the churches for his recovery, and how they finally had to submit to the divine will.
 MT. Timm then spoke very impress siyely of the great loss which the in mates of the Springside home, the Ger mans of the city, the congregation of that church, and his regiment, and, ; most of all, his family, had suffered by the death of Cononel Sucher. He re- ferred to his conscientious, and faith full attendance to his duty, his devo- tion to his family and church, and stated that he himself had lost 8 true friend and adviser. ''Why God has taken him we do not know," said the clergyman. But the light of divine > love illumines our pathway. He has taken away in the prime of life, in the midst of his work, where he was sorely needed, and from the world where he has moved, man who has left that world better for his having lived. He dies but God lives, and into the ten der care of his love we will commend the grief-strieken farnily.',' The funeral cortege was then formed, and escorted by the Second regiment and long line of carriages contain ing friends of the colonel, the march to the cemetery was begun, By order of Mayor Studley, George, Park and South streets, Howard and Sylvan ave- nues, through which the funeral pass ed, were, closed to travel while the body was being carried through those streets.
 h The SerVlceS at the grave were con- ducted by Rev. MT. Timm and the lips. Requiems were sung by the com bined German singing societies of the city. When they were concluded the members of the Light guard formed about the grave and as the earth was being replaced gave the last salute to the departed by firing three volleys rver the grave Taps were then blown and the regiment reformed for the march back to the arnnory.
 The honorary pallbearers were: Ad- . jutant General George M. Cole, of Hartford; Brigadier General Russell H. Frost, of South Norwalk: Colonel Gilbert Fitch, of Stamford; Colonel Ed ward L. Schultze, of Hartford; Colonel w. J. Leavenworth, of Wallingford; Colonel J. B. Doherty, and Colonel TinotI1v l.. Callahan of New Haven