Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-04-30
many MOURN
COMMUNITY LOSS
Servic Attending Burial
of C. w. Shoemaker
CENTRAL CHURCH FILLED
Great Floral Offering About the
Bier of the rIan Who Was
So Respected

Not in the history of Bridgeton has
Z greater tribute been given the MEM
Dry of one of its citizens than that on
\ Saturday paid in respect to the late
Clement W. Shoemaker.
It is given men to achieve and bring
Fl. distinction to themselves in some one
or perhaps more phases of life, but
4sseldom is there a man who has so
/ lived, so conducted himself, so
N achieved, that he brings to his bier
in sorrow and grief all classes of an
Important community. The busy, well
& spent, earnest, successful life of Glenn
N ent w. Shoemaker left it's impress up
on all men, high and low, rich and
poor, professional, Industrial, skilled
labor and workmen of Drawn and
muscle. Religious and secular life
felt his influences while living, and
all these gathere about the silent form
as it lay in Central M. E. Church Sat
urday afternoon and paid their re-
spects to his memory and bowed their
heads in the grief they felt that his
life should so suddenly have ended.
It was just at noon Saturday when
the body of Mr.. Shoemaker was ten
derly carried into Central NJ II.
Church, his church home, the church
in which he had spent so much of his
time, the church for which he had
done SO much. The form was in
magnificent casket of mahogany with
antique silver trimmings. As the body
was carried into the darkened audi
torium the beautiful chimes pealed
forth Rock of Ages, the hymn that
the tenor voice Of Mr.. Shoemaker had
so often sang in seasons of revival
and religious fervor in that very
church
From noon until after two o'clock
came those to pay tribute to the mem
ory of the citizen. There were In the
throngs that filed slowly by the cas-
ket preachers of all denominations,
many preachers of the M. E. Church,
preachers who had come long dis
tances for this occasion, among them
being Rev. A.. E. Ballard, of Ocean
Grove, SO years of age, man who
had been warmly attached to Mr..
Shoemaker for very many years.
There were men of all professions,
skilled physicians, professors of edu-
cational institutions. There were men
at the head of great Industrial enter
prises, men, who like Mr.. Shoemaker,
had builded great employing and pro-
ductive plants. There were men of
the financial world, Presidents of Ma
tional Banks and Trust Companies,
fellow directors in the financial msti-
tutions in which Mr.. Shoemaker had
been interested. There were men of
charitable enterprises in which Mr..
Shoemaker had been foremost Came
men whom Mr.. Shoemaker had helped
in business affairs, men whom he had
provided means to procure farms, to
secure homes, men whom he had Civ
en- employment, skilled mechanics and
laboring men.
1t was touching sight to see the
men of the plants which had been
personally managed by Mr.. Shoe
maker. Nearly two hundred were in
the group of glass workers of Branch
8 Green Glass Bottle Blowers There
were scores of other workmen with
their families who filed past the cas-
ket. Some of the older men who had
long been employed by Mr.. Shoemaker
plainly showed their sorrow, the tears
filling their eyes as they gazed upon
the still face, some of them tenderly
stroking the cold hand or patting
gently the still form.
Little children barely big enough
TO peer over the casket side cried IS
tney We're permitted to look upon the
face for the last time little folks who
many times have been cheered by the
kindly attention of the good man.
church folk, his fellow church mem
bers and close colleagues, teachers
and scholars Of the Sunday School
with which he had been connected for
two score and more years.
It was all remarkable, remarkable