The Morris County chronicle., 1908-06-02
GOV. CLINTON's BODY
RESTS IN OLD HOME
Placed in churctyard at Kings
ton, Where He Worshiped.
25OTH ANNIVERSARY PAGEANT
Remains of New York's First Execu-
tive Removed From Washington
and Reinterred Amid Impressive
Ceremonies-Big Parade.


Ceremonies-Big Parade.
| Kingston, N Yin sight of the
Court House that stands on the site
of the one in which he was inau-
gurated the first Governor of the
State, the body of Vice-President and
Governor George Clinton was buried
| In the First Dutch Church yard with
military honors before crowd Of
over 5000 people who stood drench1d
in one of the most severe transforms
| Of the year.
Escorted by a guard Of honor of
eight sergeants of the United States
| Army post at Fort Hamilton, the
| body was brought ashore from the
| naval reserve ship Wasp on the tug
| Rob at 2.15 o'clock and lifted to a
! gun caisson. The coffin was draped
with the American flag, and on it
rested the floral tributes of President
Roosevelt, Governor Stuart, of Penn
sylvania; Governor Fort, of New
| Jersey, and of the National Society
| tion.
| ing as military escort, the cortege
| proceeded up Broadway The Second
| Battery of State Artillery followed
| Company M, and the naval officers of
the feet which conveyed the Wasp
| from New York City to this city, Ad-
| jutant-G General Nelson H. Henry, with
two aides de camp; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Chanler, representing Governor
! Hughes; Ex-Governor David B. Hill,
the descendants of Governor Clinton,
! and the Ulster County officials came
next in carriages. The parade was
concluded by ten separate companies
from Hudson River cities.
During the hour and quarter
which the parade marched, every
| church bell in the city was to1ling and
all flags were displayed at half mast
| When the procession neared the
church the military organizations
! formed lines on either side of the
street and presented arms as the
caisson bearing the coffin passed by.
Upon platform erected at the
| grave ex-Supreme Court Justice A. T.
! Clearwater introduced Benjamin M
| Brink, who presided by request of the
| Clinton descendants The Rev. j. G.
| Vanslyke, pastor of the First Dutch
George Clinton Andrews, of larry.
town, N. ", on behalf of the descend,
ants, committed the body to the Con.
sistory of the church in which Gov.
ernor Clinton had worshiped Dr.
Vansylke received it for the Con,
sistory, and the exercises were closed
with benediction by the Rev. Ros,
well Randall Hoes, Chaplain in the
United States Navy
Company M then stepped to the
grave and fired three volleys, and as
the Second Battery of State Artillery
| stationed below the historic Senate
| House, fired the Presidents sa,
lutte of nineteen guns, and the bells
in all the city fire-houses and the
First Dutch Church rang nineteer
times, the body was lowered into it.
grave beneath the monument which
was SHIPPED here from Washington
where it had been erected nearly 10t
years ago by the Clinton children.
Meanwhile the rain poured upon
canopy Of umbrellas, which stretched
for blocks in every direction, and II
was decided that Ex-Governor Hill
should deliver his address ON "Tht
Life and Services of George Clinton
in the Court House. This Cour
House was built in 1918.
Thus were the ceremonies closed
in the Court House that stands on the
site of the one in which Governor
Clinton was inaugurated the frs.
Governor of the State on July 80
1777, and in which John Jay organ
lied the Supreme Court of New Yorl
State after the adoption Of the Con
stitution.
Kingston's celebration of its two
hundred and fiftieth annivedsary wai
inaugurated with a parade of guards
men, fire companies and fraternal an(
other organizations, making a pro
cession three miles long. Presiden'
Roosevelt started the parade by
signal flashed from the White House
There was also an automobile parad,
over two miles long. Governor
Hughes reviewed the pageant and de
liveFed an address in the afternoon
General o. o. Howard delivered az
address in the historic First Dutcl
Church in the morning, spoke to the
Sunday-schoel in the afternoon an(
at night he spoke at the Wurts Stree
Baptist Church.
The Rev. D. c. Hughes, father Of
Governor Hughes, was the principa
speaker at union services at the Firsi
Dutch Church.
The officers of the visiting nava
fiotilla and National Guard were en-
tertained at lunch at the clubhous,
of the New York Engineers at Browni
station and inspected the AshokaT
dam site.
Heavy rains during the night al
most flooded the field where the Ma
tional Guardsmen are encamped anc
drove many to seek sleeping quarters
elsewhere.