The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-10
GEN. TRACY BURIED
WITH FULL HONORS
Military and Naval Guard Ac-
companies Body TO Old
Trinity.
GRAVE Is IN GREENWOOD

Many prominent mon. including army
and navy officers. paid last honors yes
terday to Gen. Benjamin i. Tracy. Sec
rotary of tho Navy under President
Harrison. civil war veteran, eminent
lawyer and one OF the founders of the
Republican party.
Most OF those who crowded old Trinity
church yesterday morning to hear the
simple Episcopal funeral services were
white haired men-Gcn. Tracy'S friends
for many years while he served with
honor Oh the battlefield. in politics,
United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York, on the bench of
tho Court OF Appeals and IN the Cabi-
net.
Guards OF honor from Governors Island
and the Brooklyn navy yard who lined
Broadway for two blocks north and
south Of Trinity Church stood at atien-
ton while bugles sounded as the auto
mobile hearse drew up to the church
door Crowds filled the sidewalks for
several blocks II all traffic was sus-
pended on Broadway during the services.
Gen. wood n p%aIIbearcr.
While the big organ filed the church
with the music Of Chopln's funeral
iiot ~ 'iptl VI NllAIt y iilfl tlli wy y
filed slowly down the middle aisle. Re
them came the honorary pallbear-
crs. Major-,ien. Leonard Wood, COM
mander of the Department of the East,
and Col John Il. Bellinger. representing
the army. Rear Admiral Usher. com
mandant OF the New York Navy Yard,
and Capt. Thomas :. Roger. OF the New
York, representing the navy, and Chief
Judge willard Bartlett OF the Court OF
AfAfnuL- Dad Mullen I"ya,YtE 1 lnfnFt
and George Foster Peabody. The casket
was covered with an American flag on
top OF which was n large wreath sent
by Mrs. Spencer Trask.
Following the casket were Frank r.
Tracy, Gen. Tracy's son, and Mrs.
Tracy; Mrs. Ferdinand l.. W.lmerding,
his daughter Frederic Il. Coudort. Jr.
and Benjamin r. Coude,t. g~redt-grand-
sons; Brighten. Isaac :. Ca,lin. Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Catlin. MIR. and
Mrs. Arson Phelps and Coster Wilmer
ding.
The services, which were short and
simple, were conducted by the Rev. Ed
muud Sills and the Rev. J. L. l.. Clarke
The thirty ninth and ninetieth Psalms
were chanted and the lesson. from First
Corinthians, the fifteenth chapter n
the twentieth verse. wa read. Rock
OF Ages a IA vor!te with Gen. Tracy,
anu I tttNtt I flAf'l i ft'f were SllEs
Prominent among the mourners was
John Wdnamaker. who was Postmaster
General in President Harrison's Cabinet
when Gen, Tracy was secretary of tn.
Navy. Many members of the MetropolI-
tan club. the Bar Association, the Loyal
Legion, the q. A. r. and the Union
Leasue Club were present.
Among those who honored the memory
of Gen. Tracy were col. James u. Bel.
Col. Henry W. Knight. Col. Il. :. Seeker
son Judge Alfred Coke of the Circuit
Court Of Appeals, e~x-Judge Henry Gil
dersleeve. Gen. Henry l.. Burnett. Albert
B. B~oardman, George Gordon Battle,
Col. Charles +. Lydecker. Edward l..
Patterson, Col. Alfred Wagstaff. David
keane, Allen w. Evarts, Lorenzo Semple,
John r. Murray. Howard 7. Kingsbuiy,
Paul Fuller. Jr., Charles A. Conlon.
Frederick Bellinger and Gen. James :.
GARRISON.