The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-24
Imposing Services
 Held In Waterbury

Waterbury, April 24.-A1l that was
 mortal of Governor George l.. Lilley
 of Connecticut was laid to rest this afternoon beneath the greensward of
 ing the south where the fresh green of
 spring-time calls to mind his greet love for nature.
 The State funeral at Hartford over,
 his family and friends, all the national
 visiting and State officials and two
 companies of the Governors Foot
 Guards and the Governors Horse
 Guards as a personal guard of honor
 which arrived here about half past
 one.
 Heroic efforts which had been. made
 to clear up the vicinity of the tempor-
 ary station near the partially Com
 pleted new Union Station had only
 partly succeeded but the arrangements
 were such that there was little delay
 and upon arrival of the last special
 train shortly before 12, the procession
 was formed and marched to St. John's
 Episcopal church. the soldiers with re-
 versed arms marching to the slow and
 majestic strains of a funeral dirge
 played by the several bonds
 Early this afternoon the half of the State troops which was sent here to act as a military escort began to ar rive and they were all here in read1- ness under the command of Colonel James Geddes of the Second Infantry some time before the arrival of the funeral trains.
 They consisted of the Second Infan- Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Ninth, E1ev- enth, Twelfth and Fourteenth Compan- ies, Coast Artillery Corps; New Ha- ven detachment Signal Corps: First
 and Third Divisions, Naval Militia; and the First Separate Company.
 The Governors Guard, the Cover nor's staff and the honorary pail bear CTS formed the honorary escort here
 had been suspended for the day, the town was draped in sombre mourning
 and hundreds of flags hung at half mast over public and private buildings and private residences. Many thou sands of people thronged the vicinity l of the station and lined Grand and i Church streets. the route to St. John's
 church taken by the procession.
 | At the church the body of the edhice had been, reserved for the family, vis- iting officials and the State Legfsla- ture, which had come to Waterbury to a man. The galleries were filled by the public long before the hour for the services and thousands were obliged to
 remain outside. When the casket was transferred from the hearse on the shoulders of the six Foot G1lardsmen. all heads were barred and many gazed | in facination on the mahogany casket in which lay the body of the virille man they had been wont to see upon the streets of Waterbury but so short a time ago. Many Waterbury friends and some from other sections had sent their floral tributes to St. Johns and a mass of flowers bore mute testimony | to the 1bving esteem in which his home city held the dead chief executive. The service which was conducted by the Rev. John l.. Lewis, IT,. rector of St. Johns was not long but the sol- emnity and sacredness of it will finger for years to come in the memories of those who listened.
 Upon its conclusion the casl<et was again carried to the hearse, the escort formed and the funeral scortege pro ceeded on it's solemn way to Riverside cemetery by way of West Main and Riverside streets. Arrived there, the troops halted and the simple honors were the last tribute to the departed. it having been decided not to have the
 Masonic services, while all over Con- necticut all stopped to hear the clear sweet notes of the bugle blow the won l;derful strains of Traps" and volley | from the rifles of a firing squad sig nified that whatever could be done by those who loved him to do honor to him who had gone, was finished.