New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-18
Body Taken to Old Home
After Funeral Services
in This City
St. Bartholomew
Ihronged by Notables
Distinguished Men of Three
Nations Gather to Pay
Last Respects

New England, from whose soil he
sprang, reclaimed Joseph Hodges
Choate yesterday from the city which
had called to him in youth.
New York's first citizen he had
been rated for many years. and those
who bestowed the title upon him had
come to consider MIN as essentially
OF New Iork-the personiiication of its
best in thought and life and service.
But he remained a New Englander at
heart, rs his forefathers for more
than two centuries and a half had
been.
So after tho city had paid the last
honors to the man whose name illumi-
mates so many pages of her history
she was called upon to bid him a last
farewell. 1t was in Stockbridge. Mass,
near the house on the hill where he
had found such little ease as his mani
fold activities allowed. that Mr.. Choate
had elected TO be buried: and almost
before the echoes of the funeral march
had ceased beneath the vaulted roof
of st. Bartholomew's his body was in
private car. Stockbridge bound.
Thousands Pay Respects
Early in the morning reverent
throng had gathered outside the
Choate town residence, at East Sixty
third Street. A thousand heads were
barred as one when. at $3.50, the door
opened for the pallbearers and their
burden.
The body was borne from the resi-
dence to st. Bartholomew's, at Forty
fourth Street and Madison Avenue, in
motor hearse. Family and close
friends followed i'm limousines.
Crowds lined the streets along the
way and the many flags displayed flew,
as all over the city. at half staff.
All vehicular traffic had been halted,
and two hundred policemen, under In
spector Morris, had established lines
to hold clear Madison Avenue from
Forty-third TO Forty-fourth Street and
Forty-fourth Street from Madison Ave-
nue. to Fifth Avenue. Beyond the po-
lice lines was another and much larger
crowd than had waited at the resi-
dence, estimated to number 10000.
Admission to the church was by
card. A thousand of the cards had
been issued, but several times that
number sought to enter the church.
The majority were satisfied by the ex-
PLANTATION that the pews were full. A
few of the type the police know as
funeral fans" insisted they were en-
titled, as friends, to special privilege
OF these one woman, attired in deep
mourning. said she was a niece of Mr.
| Choate. She did not abandon her pre-
| tensions until a member of the fam
| ilv. called out from the church, hac
! failed 10 identify her.
British Ambassador There.
II was 9:40 o'clock when the cortegt
reached the church, whose pews held {
remarkably distinguished assemblag'
Of mourners. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
the British Ambassador, especially
charged by King George TO represen
him and the royal family, had come
from Washington for the funeral
Arthur James Balfour, held at the cap
ital by the duties of the British Wa
Mission. had sent as his representative
c. F. J. Dormer. his assistant private
secretary. NJ. Hovelaque, the French
Minister of Public Instruction, repre-
sented his country's mission. and thu
French Ambassador, NJ. Jules Jus
serand, was also present. -,
The big organ, played by Arthur II
HYDE. an old friend OF Mr.. Choate's
Numbered forth in Beethoven's "Fu
neral March" as the procession moved
slowly up the aisle, led by the ySesteec.
6gures Of the Right Rev. Charles +
Brent, Bishop of the Philippines; the
Rev. George Merrill, Of the Stock
bridge Episcopal church; the Rev
Leighton Parks, rector of st. Bartholo-
news and Dr. Leighton's assistants
the Rev. Percy r. Gordon and the Rev
Charles Ackley. -.
The clergy were followed by the
honorary pallbearers-Mayor Mitchell
Sir Cecil Springfield, Francis X. APP