Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19

SERVICES FOR
JAMESFERR|S
Jersey City in Mourning as
Body of Former Commits
sioner Is Buried.
Especial to the Evening Start

JERSEY CITY, May 19.-Thousands
paid last honors to former Commits
sioner James j. Ferris today at one
of the largest funerals ever held in
this city. Emblems of mourning were
visible everywhere, testifying elo-
quently to the esteem in which Mr..
Ferris was held.
The march of the mourners from
the Ferris home. at 500 Jersey avenue,
to st. Mary's Church, In Erie and
Second streets, were led by Mayor
Pagan and Commissioners Hague.
Brensinger and Moore, followed by
the police band and a detachment of
police and firemen. The subordinate
heads of the various city departments
and delegations from the A. o. H.;
Knights of Columbus and the Holy
Name Society followed. Thousands
of city employees and other citizens
brought up the rear.
Rev. B. H Ter Woert was the cele-
brant at the solemn high mass of re-
QUEEN. His assistants were Father
Lynch and Father Lawless, as deacon
and sub-deacon. Interment was in
Holy Name Cemetery.
The doors of the Ferris home were
opened to the public for the last time
at 1870 o'clock this morning. They
were closed at $3.50, and ten minutes
later the cortege was made up and
the funeral procession moved toward
the church. The pallbearers were:
F. NJ. Stillman and w. r. Delehanty,
Mr.. Ferris's business partners; Judge
Mark A Sullivan, county judge; DR..
George e. Mclaughlin, bacteriologist
of the water department and a close
friend; F. s. Reynolds, master me-
chanic of the Pennsylvania railroad;
DR.. John j. Mooney, family physi-
clan and close friend; DR.. John f.
Keene and F. j. Riordan, intimate
friends.
To the sombre strains of the fu-
neral march by the police band, the
procession went through Second street
to Coles street, thence to Fourth
street, down Fourth street to Grove
street, to Second street and to st.
Mary's Church. The procession was
admitted to the church preceding the
casket and relatives and at the con-
clusion of the high mass, left the
church in the same order.
Delegations Watch at Bier.
Delegates from the A. o. H.,
knights of Columbus and the Toly
Name Society remained on watch
over the bier all Saturday and Sun
day night The Holy Name Society
held its service at the Ferris home,
Sunday evening. The Division No. 81
followed the Holy Name Society, OBJ
serving, the ritual over their dead
brothers body. Over three hundred
of each organization were present.
The Knights of Columbus, 400 in
number, held their services Sunday
night. Three hundred of the Knights
were from Jersey City Council, of
which Mr.. Ferris had been a past
knight and member. The councils
represented by the knights present
were Jersey City Council, Ascension
Council, Paulus Hook Council, Hope
Council, Conception Council and Hud-
son Council. The State officers of the
lodge were also present.
Many letters and kilograms OF con-
dolence were received. Congressman
and Mrs. James A. Hamill tele-
graphed their sympathies Saturday;
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to Pres
ident woodrow Wilson sent a mes
sage of coincidence from Washington;
T. M. Stillman, the retired head of
the firm of which Mr.. Ferris was
president, sent his sympathies Fri
day night. Father w. J. Caffrey, for
mer Jersey City boy and friend of
Mr.. Ferris, telegraphed his coincidence
from Paterson, where he Is now To-
Gated.
Former United States Senator
James Smith, r, telegraphed the fol-
lowing to Mrs Ferris from Toledo,
Ohio: "Have just learned of the death
of your dear husband and extend to
you and your children my sincere sor-
row and regret at not being with you
to pay my respects to you in per-
son."
The last time ex-senator Smith was
with Mr.. Ferris was month ago,
when the senator acted as a pail
bearer at Mr.. Ferris's mothers fun
eral.
Employees Sorrow at Casket.
How deeply affected the men in the
employ of Mr.. Ferris are was shown
when a delegation of foremen from
the contracting firm of the Stillman,
Delehanty, Ferris Company called
last night. They broke down and
cried when they looked at their en-
ployer and friend for the last time.
Sisters from st. Joseph's Home for
the Blind, st. Francis Hospital, st.
Mary's Orphan Asylum, st. Eliza
beth's Covent at Madison, N. j., st.
Agatha's Orphanage, Manuel, N. Y,
called Sunday to pay respect to one
who had repeatedly helped these in
stitutions Friends for a distance of
200 miles from Jersey City also
called.
Special memorial exercises were
held yesterday in all the schools. The
flags on all the school buildings were
at halfmast, and the Board of Edu-
cation attended the funeral in a