New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-21
Distinguished Men Come
Far to Pay Tribute to
Former Mayor.
DEPARTMENT HEADS
FORM AN ESCORT
Body Laid in Greenwood
After Simple Service
in ST. Georges.

Funeral services FOR Seth Low.
former Mayor Of New York City and
foe eleven years president Of Colum-
bia University, were held at noon yes
terday in ST. Georges Episcopal
Church, Stuyvesant Square. The pews,
aisles and all other available space in
the main edfce were SLED with men
distinguished in city, state and ma
tional affairs, many Of whom came
from distant parts Of the country to
pay last tribute 20 the former city
executive. Several hundred persons,
unable to gain admittance to the
church, thronged the entrances.
The public services were preceded
by a private ceremony at the family
home, Broad Brook Farm. Bedford
Hills. y. Y. after which the body was
brought TO New York and met by an
escort Of honor at the Grand Cegtral
Terminal.
Mounted police preceded the funeral
procession 20 the church, maintained
guard during the services and after
ward escorted the funeral cortege TO
the approach Of the Manhattan Bridge.
From this point a squad OF motorcycle
police accompanied the procession to
Greenwood Cemetery.
Clergymen Lead Procession.
Bishop David II. Greer. Of New York,
the Rev. DR.. Karl Reiland. rector Of
St. Georges, ana the Rev. Reese +.
Alison. rector OF 81. AIMS Church,
BROOKLYN, which Mr.. Low attended, OF
ticiated Chanting, they led the ~
neral procession into the church, ioI-
lowed by the vestrymen-J. 2. Nor
gan, R. Fulton Cutting, William Id
mond Curtis, Henry ". Munroe, II. II.
Pike, Dr. James ". Markoe and
Charles 5. Brown.
Fifty heads OF city departments dur
ing the Low Administration formed an
escort OF honor for the body. Gov
crnor Charles S. Whitman, who was
Assistant Corporation Counsel under
Mayor Low, sat with the former OF
fcials. who included William r. Will
cox. Robert W. De Forest, George l..
Rives, Robert Grier Monroe, McDou-
gall Hawkes., Homer Folks, Thomas W.
Hynes Dr. Ernest J. Lederle and John
Z. Eustis.
Close associates of the late Mayor
were chosen for honorary pallbearers.
Among these were Mayor Mitchell,
Frank Trumbull, William q. Wilcox,
Mr.. De Forest. Mr.. Cutting, William
VI. Sloane. Cleveland II. Dodge, Elihu
Root, Oscar s. Straus. John II. Finley,
(. II. Outerbridge and R. VI. Easley.
Simple Services Held.
Members Of the family present in
cluded the widow, escorted by william
G.. Low. a half brother of the late
Seth Low, and four OF MS nephews,
w. Gilman Low, jr.. Seth Low, I'd.
Benjamin Curtis Low and Seth Low
Pierpont.
The services were simple, no eulogy
being included. Purple asters covered
the coffin and other flowers Of sombre
hue were banked against the altar.
The commitment service at Green
wood vas conducted by DR.. Relland.
DtAtkNNAOAN lEDlH the ADA4oN lllH u
CARNATIONS attended the church ser
vices: The New York Chamber Of Com
merce, Columbia University, Barnard
College, Tuskegee Institute, New Eng
land Society, American Adriatic So
ciety, National Civic Federation. CO.
lumbia Alumni Federation, American
Museum Of Natural History, Board OF
Education, Brooklyn Young Republican
Club, Volunteers Of America, the trus-
tees OF St. AIMS Church and the
Board Of Aldermen.
Others who attended the services in
cluded Samuel Gompers, II. B. Claiin.
Alton p. Parker. the Rev DR.. William
S. Rainsford. Rabbi Z. Y. Browne,
George McAneny, Katharine Bement
Davis, James B. Reynolds and George
W. Perkins.
Public officials and private citizens
from every part of the country were
present az the meeting Of the National
Civic Federation yesterday afternoon,
called 10 pay tribute to the memory of
the organizations president, Seth Low
Mr.. Gompers presided. kilograms ex-
pressing grief at the death of Mr. Low
were received from John Hays Ham
mond. Franklin MacVeagh, Isaac y.
Seligman, Robert VI. Thompson, Samuel
Msther, Alexander J. Porter and many
other OF his former associates.
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