Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-28
c. Y. BAUMANN'S
FUNERAL SUNDAY
Burial Will Be Monday-PoIice
Commissioners Death a
Shock to Newark.

III AAiI pa totllif u lll6 IGBItStlNd-
tives of more than a score of faternal,
social and political organizations,
funeral services for Police Commits
sioner Carl Vincent Baumann will be
held on Sunday evening from his late
home, 1856 South Tenth street.
Mr.. Baumann was seized with
diabetic coma late yesterday and died
early today without recovering from
his comatose condition. The coma
was supernduced, it is believed. by
a heavy cold from which the police
commissioner has been suffering for
several months. He had suffered also
from diabetes for two years.
Mr.. Baumann was taken suddenly
i'll yesterday after ne returned home
from business preparatory to attend
ing the regular session of the police
commissioners. He was changing his
clothes when he complained of feeling
faint. He lay down and few min
utes later President John Bladder, of
the police board, phoned to the house
and asked if Mr. Baumann was COM
ing to the meeting. Miss Minnie
Baumann, a daughter. told Mr..
Bladder to go on with the meeting
and her father would be down later
If he felt better
Shortly after this he was seized
with the coma, from which he never
recovered.
Mr.. Baumann's death, coming as it
did so suddenly and while he was on
the crest of wave of popularity is
l. -, hi 70 mil
but to a large number of friends and
associates.
Letters and kilograms of coincidence
and sympathy. which have been pour
ing into the Baumann household all
day, show the high esteem in which
the commissioner was held by all who
knew him..
The funeral services will be held
Sunday night, and will be in charge
of Newark Lodge No. q. B. p. o. e.
Burial services will he held Monday
afternoon, and will be in charge of
Schiller Lodge No. Sc, F and A, M.
Mr.. Baumann was very prominent
in political circles. and was can
didate for sheriff on the Republican
ticket in opposition to Sheriff Mona
han when the latter was elected.
Although he was a Republican in
politics, he never allowed his party
feeling to get the better of his sense
of justice, and had a large number of
friends in the other parties.
Two years ago the c. V. Baumann
Association was formed, with head
quarters at 304 South Orange avenue.
The organization has now 500 MEM
bers and is in a fiourishing condition.
Settled In Newark as a Boy.
Mr.. Baumann was born in Germany
on November o. 1853 He came to
America and settled in Newark when
boy, and has lived most of his life
here. He took up the plumbing trade
In this city and soon rose from an
apprentice to be the owner and pro-
prietor. of the business.
He has been active in politics since
obtaining his majority. He served as
a member of the New Jersey Legisla-
ture in 1898, and later was a mem
Der of the Essex County Board of
Freeholders, Newark Board of Street
and Water Commissioners and the
Board of Police Commissioners.
He was member of practically all
the larger fraternal and social organ
izations in the city, and was also
standard bearer of the c. V. Bau-
mann Association, organized in his
honor
Among the organizations with
which he was associated are the
Schiller Lodge No. &C, F. and A. NJ;
Newark Lodge No. 81, B. P. o. E.;
Newark City Conclave No PAT. l. o.
H.; Road Horse Association of New
Jersey, Granite Lodge No. 81, K. of
p; Herman Lodge No. ZAP and New
ark Encampment No. II, l. o. o. F.;
Hegira Temple No. 161, ID. Q. K. K;
Newark Junger Maenner, X. u. W;
Board of Trade, Sixteenth Ward Re-
publican Club, Thirteenth Ward Re-
publican Club, Republican Indian
League. Essex County Republican
League and County Committee, c. V.
Baumann Association, Clinton Hill
Mutual Investment Association. the
Paramount and the Broad and Mar
ket Building and Loan associations
and several other building and loan
associations and practically all the
large German singing societies in the
city
His widow, Emile L.; two daugh-
ters, Minnie w. and Emile e., and
two sons, William and Robert R.
Baumann, survive him.
The honorary pallbearers will be
Mayor Jacob Haussling, Judge A. F.
Eggers and former Board of Works
Commissioners Joseph Vincent and Fl.
B. O'Connell; A. r. Denman, Board
of Water commissioner; Morris r.
Sherrerd, city engineer; John B.
Stobeaus and Police Commissioners
John Bladder, Lyman Kane, Philip
Scanlon, William Bennett, and
George Sanzenbacher, engineer of
the water department; William Mum