New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
Many Flags at Half Staff
During Service in St.
ThOmas's Church
TRAFFIC HALTED
ON FIFTH AVENUE
Hotel Men from All Parts
of Country Pay Final
Tribute

The funeral Of George c. Boldt, dean
Of American hotel men, was held al II
o'clock yesterday morning from St.
Thomas's Church, Fifty-third Street
and Fifth Avenue.
Out OF respect TO the man whose
friends ranged from millionaires 20
walters, who had himself risen from
waiter TO millionaire, the flags on the
hotels and shops near the scene OF the
last tribute 20 his memory were e
half-staf. Several Fifth Avenue shops
closed their doors during the ceremony.
Traffic along the avenue was suspended
while 200 motors, carrying the imme-
date family of Mr.. Boldt, heads Of de-
partments in the MOTEL, and close
friends who had attended the cere-
monies held at 1920 in the hotel mans
private apartments. rolled slowly from
the Waldorf to the church.
Despite a request that no flowers be
sent, the bronze and silver casket Ia
duplicate of the one which had con-
taired the body of the late Mayor
Gaynor) was banked with flowers. At
the private ceremony there had been
100 or more floral remembrances. At
the church there was an equal number.
One-a mass of orchids and violets six
feet in diameter-came from the Hotel
Association Of New York City. A huge
bunch of lilies was sent by the head
waters and captains of the Waldorf,
while a mass of yellow chrysanthc-
NUNS came from the Geneva Society.
Service Read by DR.. Stires
An impressively simple service was
read by Dr. Ernest NJ. Stires. 1t was
DR.. Stires who once gave the following
characterization of Mr.. Boldt:
"Of all the men | have ever known,
he said, "Mr. Boldt had to the most
marked degree the power of making
and holding friends. He had sentiment
without being sentimental. Strong him
self, he was quick TO forgive weak
neSses in others
Hotel men from every section Of the
country, as individuals as we'll as rep
resentatives of associations, went 20
the church. The national, state and
city hotel associations were strongly
represented. The Philadelphia City
Hotel Mems Association sent dele
cation. as did the Equitable Life AS
sursnce Society, trustees Of Cornell
University, Lincoln Trust Company,
Sigma Phi fraternity, Fifth Avenue
Association, Pennsylvania Hotel Asso-
citation. Knollwood Club, Rubensten
Club, Ohio Society and other organiza-
tions with which Mr.. Boldt had been
affiliated.
A telegram sent to George C. Boldt,
jr., from John Cardinal Farley read {:
81 beg to express my sympathy and
coincidence on the death of your es-
teemed and lamented father"
Led by George T. Wilson, of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society. the
pallbearers filed into the church. They
were all close friends of the great no
tel man: Jacob Gould Schurman, presi-
dent of Cornell University; Charles VI.
Schwab, Alexander S. Webb, T. {. Gill
lespie, DR.. Graeme NJ. Hammond, Sey-
mour Van Santvoord. F. W. La Frentz,
Thomas d. Green, George f. Baker,
Seward Prosser, 1. u. Alexander, =.
G.. Bourne. Emerson Mcmillan, +. II.
Hiscock, James G. White and John T..
McGlynn.
Burial al Woodlavn
Only the immediate fsmily-George
c. Boldt. jr., and his two little daugh-
ters, Manuellitta and Louise, and Mr.
Boldt's daughter, Mrs. Alfred Graham
Miles. and her daughter, Clover with
few intimate friends, followed the
body 10 Woodlawn Cemetery. II lies
beside that Of Mrs. Boldt, who died in
1903. in the family mausoleum.
Among those at the church were
George ". Burleigh. Vincent Aston. Jo-
seph II. Emery, Colonel Arthur F.
Scher.nerhorn. Robert f. Bowling. Eu-
genius II. Outerbridge. X. A. c. Smith
Alfred f.. Smith, william n. Edwards,
Harry j. Luce, Walton II. Marshall,
John ID. Crimmins. Frank A. Munsey,
william Alexander, Leon Orr Fisher,
Louis Stern, Thomas r. Kirby. Gus
tavus +. Kirby, the Rev. Or. Charles
n. Eaton, Porter Clyde Shannon, Oscar
Tschirky. Mr.. Boldts manager; Rene
Anjerd, head chef of the Waldorf, Mrs.
Carrot T. Hobart. Nikola Tesla, Dr.
Louis Livingston Seaman, Robert Grier
Cooke, John A. Dix. Simeon Ford Ed
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