The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-04
Thousands Throng Bereaved Home and Take Final View of Placid Features IMMENSE CORTEGE
 GOES TO CEMETERY Numerous Civic and Fraternal Bodies Represented in Outp0uring = Massive
 Floral Embankment.


 
 with a touching and final tribute from thousands of his townspeop1e all that was mortal of David Farnu1n Read. merchant and phi1anthropist was laid at rest today. In keeping with the tastes of the kindly man about whose bier a large concourse or mourners gathered. the funeral scr vice was of simple character The service was at o'clock from the late home of the deceased, 725 Park aver nue-
 In order to accommodate a large number of persons who desired to look once more upon the features or the departed whom they loved in life, the house was opened and the pupiac allowed to view the body from Il to o'clock During those hours a steady stream of people filed through the north drawing room where the body aay. People from all wa1ks of life paused for a moment beside the cassk- Ct Those of wealth and prominence. those from the humblest positions in life. men, women and httle cniior ~ eli' faII with tear dimmed eyes stood for a moment to pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of the dead
 The body lay in a casket of silver gray plush, with silver gray lining and antique silver handles The features G0mDO8EQ H- of fke mouth were the traces Of the same smile with which in life the de- ceased had greeted many The left hand fav across the breast and from the posture of the body the deceased seemed asleep There were little traces Of the ravages of the disease that caused his demise
 The casket was placed in the bay window of the north drawing room and the room was veritable bower of beauty Magnificent floral tributes of every description from his as- Eociafes in business. from OIf1cers or 4he city government, from his eTn- 1,Ioxes and fraterna1 societies with which he was affiliated and from r,,anv friends. fairly filled the sides of the big drawing room
 Txn automobile trucks were neces- sary to transfer the flowers to tne tne cerneterz after the service was. over Among the largest floral tribute was a cross of ivy leaves and Easter lilies from fhe directors of the City Nation al bank. and mammoth scroll seven feet high and six feet wide, made or ivy leaves, roses and carnations from members of the Park Commission, on which was inscribed in pink carnations --D B. Read=FarewelL" There was also a cross of red and white carna- ffous from Hamilton commandery, KniRhfa Templar. as well as tributes
 
 Peuuonnock lodge, I. O.. O. E., mem bers of the sinking fund commission, directors of the Bridgeport hospital University Yale and Lotus clubs of New York. Seaside, Seaside Outang Brook1awn and Contemporary clubs of Brldgsport and Yale Graduates club of New Haven, the directors of the Mountain Grove cemetery and from the friends and employees of the de- ceased
 magnificent specimens of the florist s art ever seen here They were ol many designs, wheat1as. crosses, bask' cts. etc
 Tied to the handles of the caskei were crossed green palm leaves with a big cluster of deep purple coIored sweet peas. tied with purple ribbon the tribute of Mir Reads classmates fn the Yale class of 'S3.
 Half an hour before the service be gan the rooms of the lower floor o1 the Read residence were filled with audas in front and the north side of the house, the big French windows being open
 Rev stephen Fish Sherman. recto, of St Johns church, conducted the funeral service assisted by his assist ant in the church, the Rev. Frank H- Bige1ow- It was the simple but i'm pressfve Protestant Episcopal buria. ritual After the opening sentences the fu1l vested choir of St. Johu's church chanted the psa1ter.
 After the first lesson the choir sans Thy Will Be Done" and after tn, recital of the creed and the prayer the choir sang --HoIneIand.s' Rev. MT Sherman read the conmitta1 se1vic, at the grave in Mt Grove cemetery.
 During the reading of the solemn service for the dead many of tn, mourners were unable to control theii feelings and they sobbed audfbly I is a long time since there has beer such genuine expression of grief a the bier of one of ridgeport's citi xe7tE.
 The pail bearers were c. c. Sanford DeVer H. Warner. Dr. George L. Por- ter. Frank Miller. SiIas Burton, N " Bishop, Judge H. J. Curtis. Dr. Charles O. Godfrey, w. T. Haviland, A. A Packard and John AIvord-
 Large delegations from the man, business, charitable and fraternal or Rnnfzaffons with which the decease. had been affiliated. attended the fu neral.
 Representing the Board of Trad were Judge George w. Wheeler Frank Miller. DeVer H. Warner Charles G. Sanford. Dr. Charles c Godfrey. Peter W. Wren, Dr. Georg L. Porter. Frank T. Staples, and Franl V Bolande-
 Ehe delegation from the Busines sE~nss association was: Charles Dl Da r-- a. T. Whlf1nG- Frank D. Ball ant