Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-12

containing the family Of the deceased,
his widow anG children and Miss
O'Rourke. sister of his first wife, and
back of him followed 200 other car
riages. All the carriages in Hudson
county and some from New York and
Brooklyn were requisitioned for the
funeral. and many who could not OBJ
tain carriages used automobiles.
Every Head Barred ms Hearse Passes.
Every head wa barred as the hearse
passed. Great as was the crow the
dropping Of a pin upon the pavement
could have been heard as the casket
was removed from the hearse and borne
INTO the church. Mrs. Davis had to be
supported by her stepsons, George and
Joseph, as she mounted the steps.
Members of the Davis Association did
not enter the church until all others
who were in the funeral party had been
seated. and then over a thousand of
them were kept out through lack Of
room.
It was the most largely attended
funeral ever held in the State of New
Jersey, and there were mourners In
Jersey City today from all parts of
New Jersey, New York and other
States. Governors. senators and other
big men, politically, have died and been
buried with less show of sorrow. The
s.mourncrs were of all political faiths
and all religions beliefs. Thousands
unable to get a last glance at the face
Of the beloved leader, showed their
sympathetic feeling by walking the
streets in the drizzling rain with
bowed heads and wearing Davis but
tons with a mourning band, on which
was the inscription:
w our Il leader
Clergy OF All Denominations There.
Scores Of clergymen of all denomina-
lions attended the funeral services.
Many of the clergy mingled with the
people in tho pews and aisles. Among
b supplied priests who We're within
the sanctuary beside the celebrants.
Father f.. ]. McGrath, Father Thomas
A.. Wallace, deacon. and Father Ber-
nard Kearny, ~sub-deacon, were the
Rev. e. 8. Brock. the Rev. James j.
O'Connor. the Rev. Miles Mclaughlin
and the Rev. John b. keleher. all of
st. Peters College, Jersey City; Mon
signor J. A.. Stafford, of ct. Patrici's
Church: the Rev. j. Sullivan, of st.
Aloysius's Church; the Rev. j. \
Maher, of st. AIMS Church; the Rev.
u, ". Oil. VI plF LII . 4 a.
the Rev. J. j. Murphy, of st. Bird
gets Church; the Rev. Leon Federeise,
OF Holy Rosary Church; the Rev. p. ".
smith, of ST. Johns Church; the e
II. A. Kelly, of st. Lucy's Church; the
Rev. B. Fl. Terwert, of st. Mary's
Church. all of Jersey City.
Among the priests who came from
Newark, Elizabeth, Red Sank and
other places were the Rev. M. r.. Me-
Guinness of Franklin Furnace; tho Rev.
w. II. Mclaughlin, of Union Hill: zoe
Rev. Bertrand Barry. of the Monastery
at West Hoboken; the Rev. Francis
.O'Neill, of Elizabeth; the Rev. I. Il.
Monahan, of Irvington: the Rev. Mi
chael ]. Donnelly, of Newton; the Rev.
Father Flanagan, Of North Hudson:
the Rev. Father Reynolds, of Red Bank.
and the Rev. James j. Mooney, d.. ID.
president of Seton Hall, South Orange.
Sc great was The throng of mourners
that at Z o'clock this morning 1t be-
came necessary for the police to close
George street between York and Grand
streets. Thousands Upon thousands
wanted to wedge their way to the
Davis home to get a farewen look at
their friends face. 1t required the COM
bined efforts of the Jersey City police
force to keep the crowd respectfully
orderly. similar conditions prevailed
in the ~neighborhood of st. Peters
Roman Catholic Church at the corner
of Grand and Van Worst streets.
Although it was extensively known
that the funeral mass was not to be
celebrated till 10 o'clock, the mourners
swarmed around the edihee as early
as 8 o'clock. Police Captain Cody had
assigned Lieutenant O'Donnell and
twenty-five uniformed patrolmen to the
church. The police squad was doubled
before 0 O'clock, and before the mass
hour 1t was trebled.
Hard to Clear Way for Cortege.
The seating capacity of st. Peters
Church Is almost $500, but before $3.50
O'Clock the pews were more than half
filled. 1t was with the greatest diff
ficulty that the police were able To
keep the throng away from the church
after the funeral cortege arrived and
the services began. The hous of wor-
ship was by that time crowded to its
capacity and 1t required all the tact of
the Jersey City police to maintain the
necessary avenues in the human
thfong.
scarcely a dry eye was there any
WueTG 10 u6 ipuAu. iNoAo I've -
freely from men as from women and
all the children who had grown to love
the tender-hearted little leader wept in
real sorrow.
The funeral services at the church
closed by the rendition of the Holy
City, by Judge Mark A. sullivan. who
has peer one of the soloists in st.
Peters Church for many years
Altar Draped In Black.
The altar In st. Peters was dressed
in sombre black. A long, wide black
xtreamer was fastened from the top
Of the dome. which is more than 100
heet high. It's ends were fastened on
either side of the sanctuary, ranging
uke an Inverted V. There We're no
other decorations or funeral emblems
IN the edihce. 1t was the desire of II
priests TO have the utmost simplicity
prevail. The e~xtravagant floral dis
play at the Davis house was looked
after by Detectives Maxwell, Fesney
and Rooney, who estimated that florists
in New Jersey and New York had done
an aggregate business of more than
10000 on account of tho Davis funeral.
Three Of the most striking floral
pieces that arrived early at the Davis
homo we're one each from former
United States Senator James Smith,
1r.. James r. Nugent, state Democratic