The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-05
JUDGE TOWNSEND BURIED:
 MANY PROMINENT MEN Attended the Public Services Held Yesterday Afternoon
 at Battell Chapel. A NOTABLE OCCASION Judges of National and State Renown, Yale Professors,
 Classmates Present.
A NOTABLE OCCASION

William Kneeland Townsend was held yesterday afternoon with a short ser vice at the family residence on Grove street, conducted by Rev Dr. Smyth, followed by public services at Battell chapel, where were assembled to pay the last sad tribute of regard men of national or local renown; men of note in official life or in the professions, lawyers, judges, professors, physicians and among them a goodly representa- ton of the classmates of the deceased at Yale. The wicker basket containing the remains was literally covered with a bed of white bride roses, numbering fully one thousand.
 Battell chapel was completely filled for the sad occasion The funeral cor tege entered from the door leading to the college campus and the basket was placed in front of the chancel railing. About it and above 1t was one of the most beautiful arrays of floral pieces ever seen at a funeral In this city. The main aisle was occupied by the mem- Ders of the deceased's family and inti- mate friendi, by judges of the United States, state and civil courts, and court officials and attaches and by members of the class of '71 and others. The services began with the playing of a Wagner composition, "Liebestod," from Tristan and Isolde" on the or gan by Prof. Harry B. Jepson. The Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes conducted the funeral services which was very simple, following in the main the form in the book of common prayer. At the conclusion or the prayer the ''Ecce Jam Noetis," by Chadwick, was sung by the chapel choir. Dr. Tim othy Dwight, ex-president of Yale, pronounced the benediction. and this ended the service.
 The basket was borne down the aisle to the vestibule and thence to the col- lege campus headed by the funeral cor tege. The burial was in the Townsend family lot in the Grove street cemetery, Rev. Dr. Smyth officiating.
 The honorary bearers were: President Arthur T. Hadley, Prof. George D.. Watrous Dr. John F. Foster, Judge Simeon E. Baldwin. Dr. Francis Bacon, Prof. Franklin B. Dexter, Judge E. Henry Jacombe of the United States circuit coiTt of New York, and Thomas Thacher of New York.
 Tho active bearers, members of Skull and Bones, the Yale senior society, to which Judge Townsend belonged and to which his son George H. Townsend, was recently elected, were C. L. Wat kins, Lester w. Perrin, James M. Town send. jr., Harold Stanley, Tyson M. Dires and J. c. Thornton.
 Among the notable persons present at the obsecuies were:
 Justices Hamersley, Prentice and Robinson of the superior court; Judge Gager of the superior court; States Attorney Williams; Judge Wolfe of the common pleas court; Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court A. N. Wheeler; Attorney William H. Law of New York; George Adee of New York, Harry Adee of New York, Howard Mansfield of New York, Charles Hop kins Clark of Hartford, Theodore Peck of Haverstraw, N. Y, Watson R. Sper- ry Hartford, ex-Judge Wallace of the United States circuit court, Judge George c. Holt of the United States
  Hough, Martin and Cox and other Fed eral officials, Abram $. Rose, former assistant U. S. attorney, Clarence s. Houghton, W. M Byrnes, Arthur Nj. King, and Assistant U. s. Attorney R, Frank Lloyd, James P. Andrews, Hartford, reporter for the supreme court; Clerk of the U. S. Court, E. E. Marvin of Hartford; Deputy Clerk of the U. $. Court, Richard s. Cornell, of Hartford; District Attorney Parker, of Hartford; Judge James I. Platt, U. s. District Court, U. s. Marshal, Edson S. Bishop, of Norwich Chief Justice s. E, Baldwin, Clerk of the Superior court John c. Gallagher; Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court John S. Fowler Judge A. Heaton Robertson, ex-Mayor Driscoll, Hon. Magraine Cox of New York, and the entire faculty of iYale Law school together with the gentlemen already named above. Sew .eral New Haven elergymen were also in the audience.
 The principal floral pieces were from tho following friends of the deceased;
 Secretary of State Root, Washing ton, D. C.. magnificent wreath of red and white roses.
 Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to Eng land. and ogden Mills Reid, a cluster of cycas, pink roses and lilies of the valley.
 Class of n, large pillow of roses and lilies of the valley.
 MT. and Mrs. T. c, Day of Mlnneapo- lis, large spray of lilies.
 Dwight H. Day, New York city. large spray of fancy carnations.
 Mir NJ B. Kellogg, Halifax, Nova Scotia, large star of pink roses.
 Miss Susan N. Hotchkiss, a green galax wreath with lilies of the valley and pink roses.
 Colonel and Mrs. Rutherford Trow- bridge. large spray of white roses and orchids.
 MT. and Mrs. George D. Watrous spray of Killarney roses.
 MT c. B. Mccormick of Chicago spray of pink roses.
 Mrs. Henry s. Parmelee and Henry Parmelee, large spray of Easter lilies.
 MT. and Mrs. Elford P Trowbridge spray of pink roses and lilies of the val. ley
 Yale law school faculty, large spray of American beauty roses and ribbon.
 James NJ Townsend of New York large spray of Chatney roses and lilies of the valley and a galax wreath and red roses.
 Mir. and Mrs. George H. Townsend, large. spray of white carnations.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. c. Beecher, large ..e O. Esnr.r-