The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-05
GOV. CL|NTON'S BODY
RESTS IN OLD HOME
Placed in Churchyard at Kings
ton, Where He Worshiped.
250TH ANNIVERSARY PAGEANT
Remains Of New York's First Execu.
tive Removed From Washington
and Reinterred Amid Impressive
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 a crowd of
over 5000 people who stood drenched
in one Of the most severe transforms
of the year.
Escorted by 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 Els o'clock and lifted to a
gun caisson. The coffin was draped
with the American flag, and on 1t
rested the floral tributes of President
Roosevelt, Governor Stuart, of Penn
sylvania; Governor Fort, of New
Jersey, and of the National Society
OF Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
With Company NJ, of this city, act
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-
5utant-General Nelson H. Henry, with
two aides de camp; Lieutenant Gov
ernor Chanler, representing Governor
D
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 a quarter
which the parade marched, every
church bell in the city was tolling 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 a platform erected at the
grave ex-Supreme Court Justice 4. T.
Clearwater introduced Benjamin NJ.
Brink, who presided by request Of the
Clinton descendants The Rev. ]. G..
Vanslyke, pastor of the First Dutch
Church, read the invocation, and
George Clinton Andrews, of larry
town, N. Y, 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-
we'll Randall Hoes, Chaplain in the
United States Navy.
Company NJ 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 Vice-President's sa-
/ lutte of nineteen guns, and the bells
! in all the city fire-houses and the
| First Dutch Church rang nineteen
times, the body was lowered into its
grave beneath the monument which
was SHIPPED here from Washington
where it had been erected nearly 100
years ago by the Clinton children.
Meanwhile the rain poured upon a
canopy Of umbrellas. which stretched
for blocks in every direction. and il
was decided that Ex-Governor Hill
should deliver his address on THE
Life and Services of George Clinton
in the Court House. This Court
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 first
Governor of the State on July go
1777, and in which John Jay organ.
| lied the Supreme Court of New York
State after the adoption of the Con.
I stitution.
Kingston's celebration of its two
/ hundred and fiftieth anniversary was
inaugurated with parade of guards.
/ men, fire companies and fraternal and
I other organizations, making a pro.
4 cession three miles long President
| Roosevelt started the parade by a
signal flashed from the White House
There was also an automobile parade
/ over two miles long. Governor
! Hughes reviewed the pageant and de.
/ livered an address in the afternoon.
! General o. o. Howard delivered an
address in the historic First Dutch
Church in the morning, spoke to the
I Sunday-school in the afternoon and
at night he spoke at the Wurts Street
Baptist Church.
The Rev. D. c. Hughes, father OF
Governor Hughes, was the principal
speaker at union services at the First
| Dutch Church.
The officers of the visiting naval
! fotilla and National Guard were en-.
tertained at lunch at the clubhouse
of the New York Engineers at Browns
station and inspected the Ashokan
dam site.
Heavy rains during the night al
most flooded the field where the Ma.
tional Guardsmen are encamped and
drove many to seek sleeping quarters
F.. elsewhere.