The sun., 1909-05-22
FUNERAL OF 4. 4. ROGERS
ALL THE STANDARD OIL WORKS
STOP FOR TWO HOURS.
The Rev. Robert Coiiyer Delivers the
Eniogy-Intermen to BE At Falrbaven
The Churc oh Well Filled with Friends
=, Noted Men Serve as Pallbearers.

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For two hours yesterday morning the
activities Of the Standard Oil Company
ceased throughout the land in memory
Of Henry H. Rogers. For those two
hours so 1000 employees Of the corpora
ton remained idle and only such work
as was necessary to keep furnaces going
Or requisite machinery in proper con-
dition was performed In the compnny's
nlants The trihute lasted from 10 o'clock
until IL in the East and for a correspond
ing period in the other divisions Of the
country. On the Pacific Coast 1t meant
idleness for the first two hours OF the
working day.
Before work was resumed the body was
on the way, in the company OF his family
and a small number of friends, to Fair
haven Mass. where interment will be
made to-day.
The funeral here yesterday was held
st 10 o'clock in the Unitarian Church
Of the Messiah, at Thirty-fourth street
and Park avenue There was no crowd
in the church and there was only a small
gathering in the streets near by, The
police, of whom there were plenty at
hand, had little work to do. 1t had been
announced that only relatives, intimate
friends and business associates we're
expected at the church. The body OF
the church vas filed and there were
people in both galleries. The doors we're
not opened until few minutes before
tho appointed hour.
After most Of the attendants had en-
tered the pallbearers waited at the curb
for the body. which was taken from
Mr.. Rogers's home at $50. 1t was borne
into the church shortly after 10 o'clock,
the bearers preceding the casket down
tie aisle and lining up at each side OF
the aisle while 1t was carried to its place
bsfort the pulpit. 1t rested on black
standards upon black rug. The casket
was enveloped in mating OF orchids,
bordered below by the white and green
df lilies Of the valley. The casket, on its
rests, was banked and f1anked by pro-
fusion of floral tributes in great variety,
rising high in the air before, upon and
back Of the pulpit platform. Tropical
Greens rose above the colors and a trellis
Of green vines covered the wall back OF
the pulpit.
Lead kindly Light" and the Rev, John
HAYNES Holmes. pastor Of the church,
beginning With a part Of the Twenty,
third Psalm, read the Unitarian funeral
service. after which the quartet sang
q second hymn which Mr.: Rogers liked
.Abide With Me- Then the Rev. Robert
Collyer., who IL pastor emeritus OF the
church, arose and stood for some mo-
fr,ents silent above the casket. 1t was
evident from his tone when he began to
speak that he was ,laboring under strong
emotion.
time for serrnonYonly for. some, words
about my dear friend. my friend through
many years of my ministry. Early we
met and constantly, the friendship con-
tinued. More and more did he Impress
me as the years vent on by his gentle
and by our touching each other through
mine he would come and We would talk
It over. Through his would 60 and we
would talk it over. And always we
would d,aT nearer s5sn in TINS ons o
the truest men / ever met in my. life.
fuIi iof the desire to be doing things
10 be doing good things: :.
Il think I am sensitive to words OF
double meaning. to coarse words. bad
companions for days at time. And
I've been searching my. memory for
time when / ever heard Henry Rogers
cay a. coarse word, a bad word, an un-
worthy word! He was man Of clean
He used to tell me of the early days
when he was working in the oil country.
and he spoke Of his walking home at night
and seeing the light in the window there
where he knew bis young wife and baby
were. He used to say, That. ! think. is
the sweetest memory Of my life.'
Il missed him after time at certain
Sunday services. and later UPON meeting
him ! asked him why he was absent on
those Sundays. He said: 1 have to go
down to Fairhaven TO see my mother.
1nst as though was still boy; she takes
care Of mo. he said.
He did not lose heart and sympathy
as he grew rich. but. as found him, was
upright always. l remember the first
time / went to him on an errand. He
gave me What / wanted; and as l was
every time he said, Come again. Once
faSkeA him TO do something Tor school.
TcanE help you, he said. Two or three
yaaRs later he said to me once. You onoe
asked me about your school. How is It
getting along; that we had great trouble.
He said, Well, now | am going to help
you.'. And he did. but on condition that
his name be not made known as the giver.
With. our creche he helped lis too, but
ID u0nE want IL 10 De always KNOWN
what he was doing in giving these gifts.
Il think his memory will grow sweeter
smo1E men as the years go Oh. The
childreu,s children will hear the story OF
Henry Rogers. And that reminds me Of
another thing. He was a lover Of chill
dren. Those Of the school he liked so
mitch, his Joy in them was 30 great. that
they might have been his own
Mr.. Collyer finished with a prayer in
which he said among other things: He
rests now with Thee. where no burden
oan bear him down any more
The quartet sang Nearer, My God:
to Thee" and MIR. Holmes pronounced
the benediction.
The family, few Of the. pallbearers,
Mr.. Collyer and some intimate friends
accompanied the remains on a special
train OF four cars to Fairhaven.
The sixteen pallbearers were William
Rockefeller, John D. Archbold. E. 7. Bed
ford, James A. Moffet. Samuel l.. Clemens,
r, H. Hartman. Raymond Du Puy,
Ebert H. Gary. Melville T.. Stone. John
d. Ryan. James M. Beck Charles A.
Peabody. DR.. c, c. Rice, George W. Per-
igns, Col. A. G. Paine and Gen. James
Jourdan.
Delegations OF 100 from the Standard
Oil Company and sixteen from the Lotos
Club attended the funeral, and among the
persons in the church were Senator Pat
rick H. McCarren. Frederick s. Flower
Hugh j. Grant. DR.. James H. Parker,
William Sherer, manager Of the Clearing
Baker, Nathan Straus, Henry Clews.
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