The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-06
Last Tributes Today to Charles
w. KOuns of Santa Fe.
Officials From All Over Country
Are in Topeka.
MOST IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
Funerals Size Indicated POpu-
Iarity of the Man.
All Trains Stopped Over Santa
Fe Railway System.
PRESIDENT RIPLEY WAS HERE
Many Officials Came From the
Chicago Offices.
Honorary Pail Bearers Included
Widely Known Men.
Funerals Size Indicated POpu.
Iarity of the Man.
All Trains Stopped Over Santa
Fe Railway System.
PRESIDENT RIPLEY WAS HERE
Many Officials Came From the
Chicago Offices.
Honorary Pail Bearers Included
Widely Known Men.

With hundreds of railroad officials
and employees from all parts of the
west in attendance; with a great pro-
fusion of floral tributes and the
church crowded to it's utmost capacity,
and hundreds more on the outside,
the last rites were said this afternoon
at o'clock for C. w. Kouns, general
manager for the Santa Fe, who died
here Sunday morning The services
were held in the First Methodist
church and were conducted by DIR. A.
s. Embree, for years a personal friend
of Mr.. Kouns. There were wagon
loads of floral offerings
Prominent among the great mass of
flowers was a reproduction OF the
Oldest engines on the Santa Fe line
done in asters and roses, with asters
predominating. The original engine is
No. 81, that number being the same as
Mr.. Kouns's age. 1t was the tribute
of the locomotive and shops force
The most pathetic offering was the
chair given to Mr.. Kouns years ago
by his co-workers which was sitting
among the offerings completely COW
cred with roses and gladiolas the
tribute of the general managers Of
flee here.
offering of the engineers office. The
Pullman porters were represented by
great spray of American beauty roses.
Every division on the road was repre-
scented in the floral offerings
The Kansas City division was repre-
sented by a great Santa Fe trademark
which was seven feet high and seven
feet wide In front of tie altar was
a massive bank of roses, the tribute
of the Chicago offices The number OF
individual offerings ran into the hun
dreds.
At o'clock this afternoon the
S00 were
lined on the outside and between 1000
and 1000 Santa Fe employees were on
their way to the church.
The majority of the attendance. OF
course, came from the Topeka offices
and shops which were closed all this
afternoon. Several other offices over
the system were closed. The attend
ance was not by any means comprised
wholly of railroad men Hundreds OF
Topeka business men and business
men from other cities were there. By
their side were men from "out on the
e'-trainmen-with whom Mr..
Kouns began his career as railroad
man There were men who knew him
as a brakeman, on the old Kansas Pa
cific in 1871, and there were men
who knew him as a diplomat and man
of affairs in conferences and hear
ings before scores of corporation
boards before which he represented
his railroad.
During MS career has
been connected with several railroads
and it is needless to say men who
knew him on all of them were at the
services.
The great crowd in the church is
perhaps best explained by an official
of the Santa Fe who said:
Mr. Kouns came up to his present
position from the ranks ard he made
friends all along the way"
Services in the church were short.
T2Yad two songs which
were followed by a short address by
DIR. A. s. Embree who closed the serv-
ices with prayer.
After services the Santa Fe Appren-
tice band led the funeral cortege to
Topeka cemetery. The line moved
south on Harrison street to Terth
avenue and then to Topeka cemetery,
in this formation;
The Apprentice band, honorary pail
bearers in motor cars. Sloan lodge,
A. F. and A NJ, marching. clergyman
and chaplain of Sloan lodge, active
pallbearers marching, escort. Topeka
Commandery No. s; hearSc, family
shop employees, general office en-
ployes and friends
The knights Templars formed a
triangle escort around the hearse.
In the Cemetery.
In the cemetery F. L. Sturges deliv-
cred Masonic address at the grave
At o'clock this afternoon, by cr-
ders issued from the office of E. P
Ripley, president, every train and all
work on the Santa Fe eastern l1y.es
stopped for five minutes. In Topeka
the Street Railway company ordered
oil electric current on it's lines cut off
from to 4:O5 o'clock, stopping all
work and street cars for that length
of time.
Several close personal friends and
relatives of Mr.. Kouns were at tho
funeral. They included:
brother. George w. Kouns, Enid
Ok sister, Mrs. B. S. Haines, Ed
wardville, Kan; and Mr.. B. S. Haines
Mr.. and Mrs. B. B. Cain of Dallas, Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Jester of Dallas an6
J. Wake Cain of Houston.
Santa Fe Onicials.
The Santa. Fe officials here from out
of town include the following:
F. c. Fox, general manager of west
ern lines, Amarillo, and these genera
superintendents: c. H. Bristol Ls
Junta; I. H. Sears. Amarillo, and Ed.
ward Raymond. Newton.
Following are the division superin.
tendents who are here:
]. E. Mcmahon, Pueblo; F. L