Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-21
5000 MOURN At
D0LLIvER BIER
Great Crowds Brave Storm to
Take Part in Funeral of
Iowa Senator
CUMMlNS PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
Simple Services Are Held Over
Body of Famed Progress
Sive Statesman
cUMMlNS PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
ASSOCIATED Press)

a cold rain fell in torrents and added
gloom to the already sorrowful occa-
sion the body of Senator Jonathan P.
Dolliver was laid to rest in Oakdale
cemetery on hillside overlooking the
city this afternoon.
The rain, driven by a raw, cold wind,
began to fall early this morning and
! compelled the family to abandon the
original plan of holding the services
on the lawn of the Dolliver home. The
funeral therefore was held in the Fifty
sixth regiment armory, which accom-
modates 5000 persons.
Contrary elements could not keep
away the devoted friends of Senator
Dolliver, however, who crowded every
available space in the big building.
Standing outside the building, strain
| ing to catch a word of the eulogles
being pronounced upon the departed
statesman, were almost 5000 persons.
| Senator Clapp of Minnesota left the
service and went outside, making a
short speech to them.
BODY LAYS IN STATE
From until IL o'clock this morning
| the body of Senator Dolliver lay in
state in the reception room of the Dol
| liver home. 1t was viewed by hun
dreds of people.
Immediately upon arrival of the
| United States senate and house COM
mittees at 1870 o'clock the simple SER
vices at the home, consisting of
prayer by Rev. William H. Spence of
| the Methodist Episcopal church of Fort
| Dodge, were held.
The body was then conveyed to the
armory Lined from the door of the
| DolliVer home down to the street were
| troops Of the F'ifty-third and Fifty
| sixth regiments, Iowa national guard.
The United States senators and con-
gressmen and others who had come to
the home followed the funeral process
sion to the armory At the armory
| door, where the procession arrived,
stood more soldiers, drawn up in double
line to keep the crowds back
On the stage of the armory were
seated the clergy, the United States
senators and congressman, the commit
tee from the two houses of the Iowa
general assembly, all state officers and
the speakers of the day.
The space in front of the stage was a
mass of flowers. Particularly notice
able was the huge wreath sent by the
United States senate. Into the CEN
ter of this mass of flowers the casket
was wheeled.
The services in the armory were
brief and impressive. A half-dozen
men, representing the church, the state,
the government and the private citi-
zens Of the country eulogized the de-
parted senator.
FAVORITE QUARTET SINGS
The music was rendered by the
Empyrean quartette from Mason City.
an organization which has appeared
many times on Chautauqua and other
platforms with Senator Dolliver.
Preceding the speeches, the Metho-
dist Episcopal burial services were
held. Rev. D. A. McBurney read the
ritual as the casket was being brought
into the armory hall. He was fol-
lowed by Dean Luther Freeman, presf-
dent of the Morningside college, who
read a hymn. Dean Chandler of the
| same school then read the 10Th psalm,
and the Rev. e. S. Johnson offered
short player.
Addresses were delivered by Senator
Cummins, Governor Carroll and others.
In paying his tribute of respect
Governor B. F. Carroll said in part:
"Our state has given to the public
many able and capable men, but there
are few who have approached that
| degree of recognized ability and ca
pacity for public service attained by
/ him whose life we here commemorate.
But we think of him no more as
| the aggressive forceful and ever
ready combatant of public life.
"All Iowans today join in solemn
memories of the life of this beloved
statesmen and glory in his grand and
magnificent record of public achieve
ment.
Senator Delivers life work is end
/ ed. Two and a quarter millions OF
/ loyal citizens of our great common
wealth join with those of the nation
/ in mourning his departure"
CUNDIINs' TRIBUTE
Speaking in behalf of the United
States senate, Senator A. b. Cummins
voiced his appreciation of the life and
work of Senator Dolliver.
He said in part:
"In behalf of his colleagues in the
senate, 1 am bidding him last good
by rather than uttering the eulogy
which later on will pour from the lips
of his friends in the chamber which
he so often filed with the lofty strains
of his inspiring eloquence.
"I am lamenting over the irreparable
loss we have all suffered. 1 am think
! ing of his work, nightly advanced
but still unfinished.
1--WE shall miss him as we would
| have missed no other man. To him
| was given a measure of affection, rich
in it's quality and royal in it's extent.
! No man surpassed him in the accu-
racy of his analysis, the depth of his
thought, or the thoroughness of his in
vestigation.
HE was a master mind, and it is
inexpressibly sad that at the climax of
his influence, the zenith of his great
ness. when his vision was clearer and
broader than ever before, we must
give him up"
Following the services in the armory
the funeral cortege filed silently to-
ward Oakdale cemetery. 1t stopped
at spot on a hillside which Senator
Dolliver himself had picked out for his
burying place.
At the graveside, statesmen, clergy
men, and hundreds of men, women and
children stood in the rain and listened
to the final service, a simple prayer by
the Rev. w. II. Spence, pastor of Sen
ator Dolliver's church.
The grave was banked with tinted
! autumn leaves, gathered and placed