Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-21
THOUSANDS, IN RAIN, PAY
!. TRIBUTE TO DOLLNER
Streets Crowded and Big
Armory Packed at Funeral
of Iowa Senator.

FORT DODGE, Iowa. October 21.-
Wild a cold rain fell and added gloom
to the occasion the body of Senator
Jonathan p. Dolliver yesterday was laid
to rest In Oakdale cemetery, on a hillside
overlooking Fort Dodge. The drizzling
rain, driven by raw cold wind, COM
peIIed the family to abandon the original
plan of holding the services on the lawn
of the Dolliver home.
The funeral was held in the J6th Reg1-
ment armory. which accommodates 6'"
persons Friends and admirers crowded
all the available space in the bullo1hs'
while standing outside the building were
nearly three thousand persons Senator
Clamp of Minnesota finally left the serV-
ices inside and made funeral Grafton 10
those in the street.
From o until IL o'clock in the morning
the body of Senator Dolliver lay In state
In the reception room of the Doihver
home. Hundreds of persons looked on II
as il lay in a gray coff1n, banked by
floral designs.
Simple Service at Home.
Immediately upon the arrival or the
United States Senate and House COM
mittees at 1890 o'clock the simple serv-
ices at the nome, CONSISTING VI a VI Ci
by Rev William III. Spence. pastor Of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fort
Dodge, was held. The body was then
conveyed to the armory.
Lined from the door OF the Dolliver
home to the street were troops OF the
SD and the 56th Regiments of the Iowa
National Guard. AS the pallbearers car
ried the coffin to the hearse the soldiers
stood with arms presented.
The senators and representatives ana
other prominent men who had assembled
At the home rode in carriages In the fu-
neral procession to the armory. The SIX
blocks to the armory were masSed with
people. who stood with uncovered heads
despite the rain. At the armory door
when the procession arrived stood more
soldiers. drawn up in double line.
The space in front of the stage was
massed with flowers. Particularly notice
able was a huge wreath sent by the
United States Senate. In the center of
this mound of flowers the coffin was
placed.
The services in the armOry were brief.
Eulogies were delivered by the follow
ing:
of the Northwestern Christian Advocate.
on 'Dolliver. the Man: Gov. Carroll, on
behalf of the people of Iowa: Senator A.
Il. Cummins. representative OF the
United States Senate; Harvey 1ngham,
editor of the Register and Leader, on be-
half of the press: Judge r. NJ Wright OF
Fort Dodge. for the people of Fort Dodge:
Rev. Robert Smylie of Sioux City for the
Northwest Iowa Methodist Conference;
Rev. w. Fl. Spence. on The Senator S
Relation TO the Home Church; Bishop
William Fraser Mcdowell of Chicago, "A
Fallen Leader"
Burial in oakdale Cemetery.
George z. Roberts of Washington. d.
c., formerly a resident of Fort Dodge,
now director of the mint, attended the
services. but did not speak.
Following the services in the armory
the cortege filed silently to Oakdale ceme
terry. At spot on a hillside which Sen
ator Doliver himself had picked out for
his burying place the procession stopped
At the graveside statesmen, clergymen
and hundreds of men. women and children
stood in the rain and listened to the final
service. The grave was banked with au-
tumn leaves. tinted a golden brown and
crimson. gathered and placed there by
hands on Senator Delivers farm.