Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-06
WILSON LIKELY TO
ATTEND BREMNER
FUNERAL MONDAY
President Will Follow Repre-
sentatiye's Body to Grave If
Business Permits.
WHOLE STATE HONORS
CONGRESSMAN'S MEMORY
Flags Placed at HaIf-Mast.
National Cuardsmen to Es-
cort Hearse.
Especial to the Newark star.I

PASSAIC, Feb. 6.-Robert Gum
Bremner, representative from the
Seventh New Jersey Congressional
district. and editor of the Passaic
Daily Herald. who died yesterday in
a sanitarium in Baltimore, will be
buried at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
from his home in Hamilton avenue.
Rev. l.. b. Plummer, of Franklin
Furnace, an intimate friend of the
congressman. will officiate. Inter-
ment will be made in Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Paterson.
President Wilson, who is anxious
to attend the funeral. will know this
afternoon whether business will per-
nit him to leave Washington. Joseph
p Tumulty, the Presidents secretary,
will be there. as will United States
Senators Hughes and MARITIME and
other New Jersey congressional rep
resentatives.
Governor Fielder will be present IL
he can make the necessary arrange
ments The obsequies also will be
attended by many members of the
State Legislature and by officials of
this city and Paterson.
Mrs. Bremner will select the list OF
honorary pail bearers today. The
active bearers will be eight employees
of Mr.. Bremner's newspaper. the Pas
sale Herald. The funeral probably
will be simple one to conform with
Mr.. Bremner's wish. Members of the
Fifth regiment. of which the Con-
gressman was member. may form
a military escort to the hearse.
View Body Between g and 0.
The many friends of the late con-
gressman will be privileged TO view
his body between o'clock tomorrow
and nirin0lx fnTnnFrOW
night.
The body of Mr.. Bremner reached
Passaic from Baltimore by way of
Newark at 1:50 a. m. today. 1T was
accompanied by Mrs. Bremner Miss
Helen Bremner, a sister; Leith Brem-
ner, brother. and Percey Spencer.
business manager of the Passaic Daily
Herald.
In the lass-sfeM days at Baltimore
the newspaper men from New York
papers and associated news agencies
slept in rooms adjoining the one in
which Mr.. Bremner occupied. They en-
joyed the entire. confidence of the
3remner family. They We're spoken
for by Bob who asked that they be
shown every courtesy possible, as he
had been a reporter at one time him
self. and he knew what 1t meant to be
treated kindly on that kind of an
''assignment.'
In one of the rooms in the Bremner
home is large Morris chair. which
was a gift TO Mr. Bremner from the
employees of the Herald on Christ
mas day. Mr.. Bremner never saw
the chair, as he entered the SANTA
rum on the day before Christmas.
Amount of Estate Unknown.
The amount of the Bremner estate
is not definitely known. The repre-
sentative was possessed of considera-
BILE property, accumulated since he
took hold of the Herald in 1902. 1t is
not known what arrangement he
made before his death for its distri-
button. but it is understood, al
though not authoritatively an
nounced, that he provided for his
mother, his wife and brothers and
sisters He was heavily insured and
his newspaper, the Herald, was
good paying investment.
1t is expected that Mr.. Bremner's
mother, who is at present in Camilla,
Canada, will be here Monday in time
for the funeral.
Both Passaic and Paterson are in
deep mourning today. Flags are at
half-mast on the schoolhouses and
municipal buildings. Bob" Brem-
ner was one OF the best-loved men in
all Passaic county.
Judge Pays Tribute.
The district court was adjourned by
Judge Warrington Cabell today in
tribute to the late congressman.
Judge Cabell said:
Because the congressman of this
district is dead, this court shows its
honor and as soon as the regular
business is accomplished will ad-
1ourn. Bob Bremner is dead. We
all bow our heads, not TO his success,
although his success was great. 1t
is to his manhood that we bow"
Members of the Clan Mclean, of
.sthe Scottish order, will attend the
.roua&.ual n. Da.~ ral,u,..