New-York tribune., 1908-10-21
CLERGY HONOR BISHOP
POTTER FUNERAL SIMPLE.
Impressive Services When Body Is
Placed in Cathedral.


vine the coffin containing the body of Bishop
Potter placed yesterday after comrnittal ser
vice of extreme simplicity. There was no display
at any time duritg the services. which were begun
in Grace Church after IL o'clock in the morn
ing. But the impressveness of ii all profound.
As the bell Of the church began to toi the strains
of Chopin's Funeral March and filed the
beautiful edfce. the procession formed, and, head
ed by the choir, slowly filed toward the chsncel
the Funeral March ceased. and Barnbys hymn be-
ginning, For all Thy saints who from their labor
rest, was sung stanza by stanza until the last OF
the four hundred clergymen. the paibearers and
the eighteen bishops seated.
Bermuda lilies in the altar were
the only decorations The coffin. olack, covered
with heavy pail Of purple, rested in the chancel'
The pail was marked with great cross Of reo' and
was inscribed about the edge with the quotation
1t Is sown in weakness it is raised in power; II
Is sown In dIshonor il is raised in glory. single
branch Of palm rested the pail The plate on
me coihn bore the inscription, Henry Codlnan
Potter, D. D., seventh Bishop of New York Born
May 25th. 1884 Died July Ast. 1905"
POTTER FAMILY AT CHURCH.
The burial at the crypt not witnessed by the
public, but the funeral at Grace Church. of which
the Bishop had served rector for many years,
was open to all who could get in after 1045 O'Clock,
and it filled. Before this the relatives Of the
dead preate assembled in the chantry Mrs. Pot
ter was with her stepson, Alonzo Potter. Others
there were the Bishops daughters. Mrs. Mason C.
Davidge. Miss Sarah Potter Mrs. Charles H Rus
sell and Mr.. Russell, and Mrs. William Hyde and
Mr. Hyde; Mrs. Alonzo Potter, and the follow
ing grandchildren; Charles II. Russell, jr., Henry
Potter Russell, Geraldine Russell and Sylvia
Hyde; the Bishops two stepsons. Stephen c. Clark
and f. Ambrose Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H.
Potter, son and daughter-in-law of the Bishop;
the Bishops sister, Mrs. Launt Thompson. and her
daughter, Miss Thompson.
Other relatives Mr.. and Mrs. J. Kennedy
Tod, Mr.. and Mrs l. Heyworth Mills Jr. Mr.. and
Mrs. James L. Breese, Miss Virginia Potter daugh-
ter of E Carkson Potter; Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
n. Potter, Robert Potter, Mrs Eliphalet Potter,
Wido wof the Bishops brother. and her children,
Mr.. and Mrs. E!phalet n. Potter; Mrs. Potter,
widow of General Robert B. Potter, a brother Of
the Bishop; Mr.. and Mrs. Fuller Potter and Mr..
and Mrs. Julian Potter They left the chantry in
the foregoing order, followed by a few ole family
servants and took seats at the left OF the aisle in
front
The procession formed in the Grace Church par
ish house, Fourth avenue. marched through the
church, up the south aisle and down the central
aisle. The choir moved into the chancel. Then
came the honorary pallbearers twenty-eight in
number, each wearing white sash the left
shoulder, fastened with purple and white rosette
Then came the clergy, in white robes most of them
with funeral stoles OF black and of purple
The clergy were divided into two sections. those
Of the diocese coming first. Then came the bishops
LED by Bishop Greer and Bishop Doane Of Albany.
BISHOPS AT FUNERAL.
They were followed by Bishop Hare OF South
Dakota Bishop McVickar Of Rhode Island Bishop
Whitehead of Pittsburg, Bishop Talbot Of Cen
tral Pennsylvania, Bishop Walker of Western New
YORK, Bishop Courtney rector of ST. James's
Church, former Bishop Of Nova Scotia. Bishop
Burgess of Long Island, Bishop Alexander Mackay-
smith, Coadjutor OF Pennsylvania; Bishop Law
renee OF Massachusetts, Bishop Horner, of Ash
vie; Bishop Van Buren of Porto Rico, Bishop
Funsten Of Idaho, Bishop Lines, of Newark; Bishop
Weed OF Southern Florida, Bishop Johnston coad-
Jutof or South Dakota, and Bishop Vnton Of West
ern Massachusetts. The whole procession pre-
cedng the bishops remained standing ,n+n +bo
latter We're seated
AS the professional HYMN ceased Rishon C,rear
took up the opening sentences of the burial order
and then with Bishops Hare, Doane, Whitehead
and Walker, passed into the chancel concluding
the opening sentences es he passed the coffin Dr.
Huntington, rector of the church. was the only
priest within the chancel during the services The
first psalm of the burial service set TO Beethovens
music, was sung by the full choir and the Second
Psalm, the even verses chanted as a solo and the
odd verses sung by the full choir followed imme-
dately. When the choir had sung Father what
eer Of earthly bliss set to Palestrinian music
Bishop McVickar read the Scripture lesson Of the
burial service
Bishop Mackay- Smith led in the recital OF the
creed and the collects and prayers. The hymn.
The strife IS Ger preceded by an alleluia.
At its conclusion Bishops Greer and Lawrence and
the other bishops within the rail facing the coffin
began that part OF the commttal service said at
the church. Bishop Greer took the first part
Bishop Lawrence the second including the Lords
Prayer, and then Bishop Doane pronounced the
benediction. At the end of the benediction the
choir sang Staner's 'Sevenfold Amen"
There was address eulogy. And then, as
the choir sang the recessional hymns The Saints
Of God, Their Conflict Passed and "Oh, King of
Saints, We Give Thee Praise and Glory" the
former to music by Mendelssohn and the latter to
Dykes tune, the procession proceeded OF the
church, back TO the parish house; the coffin
taken out of the church and the journey the
crypt was begun. The cortege was preceded by
eleven mounted patrolmen OF the traffic squad soon
after noon, with fifty coaches trailing behind, con-
tanning the relatives, bishops and some Of the
clergy They arrived at the cathedral after
o'clock. Morningside avenue and 18th street
were kept cleared by the police, which left an un-
impeded space for the carriages.
MEMORIAL TO BISHOP.
While Bishop Greer met his clergy in the Synod
Hall where he delivered a brief eulogy his
predecessor, and 1t decided to adopt suitable
memorial TO be inscribed III the archives of the
diocese of New York, and a motion passed
empowering the Bishop to appoint a committee to
carry this into effect the crypt opened TO the
public and at least five thousand persons passed
through before 1t closed at o'clock.
When the vault is sealed black marble slab will
be sunk the floor bearing the simple inscr ption:
Henry Goldman Potter, 1S34-1e06."
The funeral at Grace Church was attended by
many friends of Bishop Potter, including members
of the Greek and Armenian Protestant churches.
and of the latter H. H. Topakyan was the repre-
sentative Archimandrite Alexander HetoVtsky,
rector of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral Of st.
Nicholas was present, and among the throng were
Rabbis H. Pereira Mendes F. De Sola Mendes and
Joseph SiIverman. Those among the iaty in the
church were Jacob II. Schin. William Salmon, Pro-
fessor Charles Sprague Smith. George Foster Pea
bodv Robert q. Hone. John Bigeow Hamilton /
Wright Mabie, Everett P. Wheeler, Nicholas Muir I
raw Butler John Drew and Edwin S, German.
EIayor and Mrs. Mcclellan had seats Immediately /
back of the family, and them were President /
MCGOWAN OF the Board of Aldermen; DR. Thomas /
Darlington Health Commissioner; Nicholas j. I