The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-02-25
.FUNERL OF
FINK |. H00GS
CFrom Saturdays Advertiser)

! Followed to the grave by a family
suddenly bereft, an impressive process
sion of Masons and some thirty EN-.
ployes of the news, business and me.
chanical departments of the publishing
house of which he was the head, scores
of other friends in line, the remains
of the late Frank Landers Hoogs, pres
ident, treasurer and manager of The
Hawaiian Star Newspaper Association
who died of heart disease early Thurs
day afternoon, were yesterday after
noon inferred in Nuuanu. cemetery.
At o'clock friends gathered at the
Masonic Temple, Alakea and Hotel
streets, and filed the outer rooms,
awaiting the termination of Masonic
rites within the assembly hall. Some
forty beautifully arranged wreaths and
other floral tributes were in the mean
while brought in and placed upon a
great table in the chamber where the
widow and the brother, William H.
Hoogs, and about a hundred others,
including employees of the enterprise
of which the late Mr.. Hoogs was the
greatly esteemed director, were silent
ly gathered.
But a little while and all were ad-
mitted to the inner chamber at the
head of which reposed the casket,
flower flanked, and to the left of which
were seated the immediate family.
The ancient service of the Masons
was then continued, being conducted
by Pacific Lodge No. S22. A. F. G. A.
NJ, members of Hawaiian and Oceanic
Lodges and sojourning brethren also
attending.
The ritual was reinforced by several
moving hymns sung without accom-
paniment by a quartet composed of
Mrs. Weight, Mrs. Herzer, D. w. An
derson and Arthur Wall
At the conclusion of the services the
Masons, followed by others attending,
viewed the remains, circling the cas-
ket, the widow, heavily veiled, sup
ported by the brother, taking an inter-
val to perform this affecting detail.
The casket was borne to the hearse
by F. B. McStocker, ]. A. McCandless,
c. G. Bockus, c. R. Frazier, C. H.
George F. Henshall, E. a.
Berndt and Walter G. Smith.
A special car had been provided to
convey the Star employees and a num-
Der of the Masons from Alakea and
Beretania avenue to the cemetery, the
employees of the Star and others
marching from the temple to the
car. Heavily laden with the many
tributes of vari-colored blossoms, in
cluding pieces from the news, busi-
ness and mechanical departments of
the paper, an express wagon preceded
the procession to Nuuanu.
Those who disembarked from the !
special car at the cemetery gates, were !
1rawn up in two lines, Wis a Wis, and |
through this living avenue passed the |
learse and the chief mourners, Mascns, !
1allbearers and the rest of the process |
sion, uncovered, following.
At the grave the services of Masonry |
we're concluded, the pallbearers lower
ng the casket. Seats were provided !
or the family, the many others stand |
ng, bareheaded and all deeply i'm
pressed by the language of the ritual. |
lambskin, Masonic symbol of inno-
,ence, and used only on occasions
where the character of the departed
ntitles his memory to such honor, was
deposited in the grave and bits of
evergreen, symbols of Immortality,
we're dropped upon the casket by each
# the brothers as they marched around
he grave.
lnterment completed, members of the
rider of which Mr.. Hoogs was an hon
red member placed upon the grave the
numerous beautiful blooms, emblems
# life and love and memories, which
addened friends had offered.