The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-25
JOHN REILLY An
HONEST MAN AND
A FIRM FRIEND
Rector of st. Columba's EulO-
gizes Memory of Late Prom
inent Leather Manufacturer.
CITY'S MEN OF AFFAIRS
HEAR STIRRING TRIBUTE
Father White Speaks in High
est Terms of Man Highly Es-
teemed in Wide Circle.

Patent and enameled leather manu-
facturers and representatives of other
Newark business interests were at the
funeral of JOIN Reilly, patent leather
manufacturer, who died Saturday in
his summer home at Avon-by-the-Sea,
of paralysis. The funeral cortego
started from the Reilly home. 81 John
sol avenue. after 8 o'clock, and pro-
ceeded to st. Columba's Church, of
which Mr.. Reilly was one of the oldest
members and st%anchest supporters.
. A solemn high mass of requiem was
sung by the Rev. Edward A. Degen,
the Rev. William J. Mcconnell.
rector of st. Roses Church, at Belmar,
was deacon. The Rev. f. J.. Ellard,
of Morris Plains, formerly a curate at
st. Coiumba's Church, was sub-deacon,
and the Rev. Michael j. White, rector
of st. Columba's Church, was master
of ceremonies. and he preached at the
close of the mass. Schmidt's mass was
sung by the quartet of the choir. Miss
Annie G.. Toohey, soprano: Miss Jennie
King, contralto; Richard Laroche.
tenor, and Charles Valentine, bass. The
organist and director was William
Waldecker.
Father White said in the sermon:
Accompanying the remains of OH
friend, we turn aside from worldly af-
fairs and gather before the altar, where
the sacrifice of the holy man has been
celebrated for the repose of his soul
Let us pause and think of the signifi-
canoe of u presence here. First. we
testify our respect and friendship and
love for a good nan n a model Amer
lean citizen. Second, We express Jul
heartfelt sympathy to a b~ereaved
household into which entered the dread
king-Death.
I'm soul John Reilly is face to face
with his Maker, and his widow and
children mourn him here, but are
cheered by the hope to join him here
after in heaven, where we give to God
an account of our stewardship on earth.
We knew John Reilly as a man of char
ity, of firm friendship, of integrity, of
Christian life and a truly kind man
II devoted soul of the church. You
who are in the household of Faith will
pray for the friend who has gone to
his reward before you. He had the
consolation of religion in life. and at
his death in the presence of wife and
children.
with him death was not the end, for
lie lived right and believed that after
.this life there Is, as a poet, a friend
of John Reilly, wrote. there is a some
thing. hat lives-tne immortal soul.
Therefore, we who believe in the Offer
ings of prayer for the soul of our de-
parted can pray to God for John Reilly.
who was a devoted son, n who was
faithful to his lear mother. true to his
wife and n good father to his children.
He was a son such as the sainted
Monica. John Reilly asked our prayers.
This is no place to sound the praise
of the dead, but we may be permitted
to say a few words.
Was Model Christian.
John Reilly was a good man, a model
Christian man anG we have few Of
these now, and he was a loyal Catholic,
devoted to his church and also to Ire
land, the lanu of his birth, and to
America, the land of his adoption: the
land which gave him an opportunity to
succeed In business, a chance he did not
have in his native land. He was kind,
gentle. charitable, u friend of the needy
and of orphans. He loved u grand
republic, in which by industry and in
tegrity he became n OF u leading
business men. He was. unlike too many
now, true to the faith in which he was
baptized and the mother who bore him..
Pray for him.
Host Of Friends Go to Cemetery.
After the body was blessed the hon
orary ~pdll-bearers preceded the active
pall-bearers down the centre aisle of tho
church. The honorary p~all-bearers were
former United States Senator James
Smith. jr., John r. Stanley, Redmond
=. Conlon, jeremiah O'Rourke, P. II.
Ryan, John l.. Carroll, DIR. Hugh F.
Cook and John F. Conroy. The active
pall-bearers who carried the solid ma
hogany coffin, covered with broadcloth,
were Charles Weber. Joseph Schamm,
William White, Joseph Mcintyre, Mat
thew Rogers and Joseph Maher. heads
of departments of the firm of job
Reilly, Inc.
So many carriages followed the
hearse that they made a line around
South Park to Broad street. Manufac-
turers outside of Newark and New Jer-
sey were represented by floral pieces,
as were Mr.. Reilly's employees. The
interment was made in the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre. where a monument
will be erected by the family.
Father Carroll, of st. B~ridget's
Church. was in the sanctuary of the
church while the mass was sung.
Mayor Haussling sent a letter of sym
pathy to Mrs. Reilly, and Alderman
Ryan represented him at the funeral.