The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-03
NOTABLES ATTEND
BACON'S FUNERAL
Ehrong of Prominent Men
and Women at Services in
Grace Church.
FLAG COVERS CASKET
Body Is Sent to Cambridge,
Mass, for Interment This
Morning.

Funeral services for Col Robert Ba-
con- fnancier, statesman. Ambassador
and soldier, were held yesterday morn
ing in Grace Church, Broadway and
Tenth street. Bishop Charles Brent.
senior chaplain of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces, conducted the simple
ceremonies, assisted by DR.. Charles L.,
Sa,tery. rector of Grace Church; the
Rev, William r. Manning. rector of
Trinity and the Rev. sherrard Billings
Of the Groton School. Groton, Mass.
There was no sermon and no eulogy
and to the brief funeral rites of the
Episcopal service there were only added
a few of Col. Bacons favorite hymns,
including "Hark, Hark, My Soul" and
Sun Of My Soul" After the benedic-
ton Abide with. Me" was sung by the
choir OF Grace Church.
Hundreds Attend Service,
Col Bacon's long and active career,
FIRST as banker In Boston and New
York as partner in the house of j. p.
Morgan Co. then as Assistant
Secretary and Secretary of State in
the Cabinet of his lclassmate Theodore
Roosevelt, afterwArd as Amba ssador to
the French Republic and still later as
Colonel of the General Staff attached
to Gen. Pershing's headquarters at
Chaumont and his active interest and
associations in finance, politics and
public affairs OF all sorts. brought him
ar enormous acquaintance and a long
list of friends in this country and
abroad
Hundreds of men and women of ma
t'oual and international prominence
filIti the limited pew space OF Grace
Church yesterday to pay the last respect
Il his memory and a crowd gathered
about the sidewalks to catch glimpse
OF the many distinguished persons who
attended the services, a Gordon of
mounted police, under Inspector O'Brien
Kept the street clear Immediately in
front of the church.
The casket, bare of flowers, was COW
cred only with the National Ensign, as
behtted a soldier who had come to his
death from the effects of long and
arduous service across the seas 1t was
borne from the rectory to the foot of
the flower banked altar. preceded by
Col Bacon's widow on the arm Of her
son, Robert l.. Bacon Mrs. George Whit
ney, the only daughter: Mrs. Robert l..
Bacon, Major Gaspard @. Bacon and
Major Elliot Bacon and their es
The honorary pallbearers were Sem
etor Henry Cabot Lodge. Elihu Root,
Major-Gen. Leonard Wood. A. Lawrence
Lowell. president of Harvard University :
Robert Perkins. president of the Har-
ward Club Of New York Francis r.
appleton, a former president Of the
Harvard Club; J. Pierpont Morgan,
Charles Steele, Henry p Dawson. Rich
ard Trimbel; DR.. Henry jackson and
William Cooper, Harvard classmates of
Col. Bacon
The clergy and the pallbearers fol-
owed the casket when it was borne
from the church and returned to the
chancel during the singing of the re-
cessional The body was sent to Cam
bridge. Mass. where the interment will
take place in Mount Auburn Cemetery
this morning
The National Security League. OF
which Col Bacon was president for two
years, appointed the following commit.
tee to attend the funeral Col Charles
Il. Lydecker, president; Lawrence F.
Abbott, editor of the Outlook; Charles
ID. Orth, Col. Henry l. Stimson, formei
Secretary of War: Col. Franklin O
Brown. vice-president OF the league
Col. Creighton Webb and Frederic r
Coudert.
Union League Club DeleEat ton.
The Union League Club was repre-
scented by the following Horace Porter
thauncey NJ Depew, Samuel w. Fair
child, Charles f. Hughes, j. Sinclair
Armstrong, George f. Baker. George F.
Baker. Jr., Harrison X. Bird, Cornelius
y. Bliss, Jr., Bertram II. Borden, Theo
dore L. Burton, Nelson =. Clark. Johi
Proctor Clarke, Henry Clews, Paul d
Cravath, Charles A. Eaton, Joseph II
Emery, Charles A. Fowler, William II
Guthrie, Job e. Hedges. James Warner
Lane. James Joseph Lyons. Gates w
McGarrah. Frederick j. Middlebrook
Nelson A. Miles, George T. Mortimer
Frank A. Munsey, William A. Nash
Benjamin B. Odell. J. Van Vechten .,
colt. Seward Prosser. Henry C. Quinby
Odgen Mills Reid William H. Remick
Charles L. Rushmore, James E. Sheffield
Charles II. Sheriff., William Howard
Taft, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frank A
Nanderlip, Theodore n. Vail, Thoma
J.. Watson. Albert II. Wiggin. Jane
Wilkinson, George T. Wilson and Henri,
\ Wise.
Others at the church included Samue
Bates, Miss Ellen Bacon, Mrs Lathror
hgs. w. b. Bacon. Mr. and Mrs Gorhar
R-rOD and OIis Baron DAME