Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-01
WILLIAM A. SLATER
 FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY

i A. Slater, who died Tuesday at his home in Washington. All the arrange ments were simple and in aceord with Mir. Skaters well known distaste for anything like ostentation. The floral forms were chiefly ascension and calla lilies, masses of violets and roses.
 Preceding the services, the church organist, Miss Annie L. Tafg played the Handel Largo. AndanIc hy Mac Dowell, Chopin's Funeral March and 1 Maestoao by Mcdowell. As the body | was borne from the church the Pro- | cessional to Calvary from the Cruci- l flxion, by Stainer, was played. Eben | Learned, chorlster of Park church, l sang Rock Of Ages. and following the | scripture reading by the pastor, Rev, | Samuel H. Howe. D. D, gave Peace, ! Perfact Peace, bringing put the assur- ing promise and tenderness of both ! favorite hymns Of AIr. Slater in a l markedly impressive way.
 There was particular pathos in Rev. i Dr. Howe's gentle insisteace on euio- i gizing one whom his friends and the public knew always shrank from eulo- gy; yet no tribute could have been more apt and fitting, voicing as it did the sorrow of an entire city, the ap- preciation of deeply grateful public, the praise which a lifetime Of modest aitruism and manifold forms of ser vice had 50 richly merited.
 Dr. Howe said:
 Nearly 5 years ago the citizens of Norwich gathered in this place, a great multitude, to do aoner 10 one of it's eminent fellow townslncn and one of the nations great phiiantilro pists. 1t that time there were few citizens Of this country who had given 50 much as million dollars as he had done to 9 great national charity. This honored citizen was then one Of the small number of American pf1ilanthro pists who had up to that time given so lnunificently to racial or community elevation but whose example has been copied and we believe has inspired
 great company of princely giTers who 1 seemed to light their torches a. those 1 of the Pea abodies and Peter Coopers | and the little elect company to which 1 they belonged. MT. John F. Slater was one Of that chosen class that i spread the contaGion of American be- 1 nevolence which has become the sign manual of this new age Of philantnro- l py to which we belong. This then lit
 tie group of men were the seed corn i Of an era. of giving that has been the 1 admiration Of all lands and has been ! uncopyable by other lands on q scale 1 so vast. Their great gifts drew other ! millions now almost Uncouptable in their wake.
 t is not always the case that the l sons of~ these prinCely giVeFS have taken up the fallen mautieS of their fathers and duplicated their munifi- ! cence. But in this case 8 great exam ple has been copied where the son has 2" na anifolded the gifts of his father, Norwich alone has been enriched by
 gifts equalling if not surpassing the
 Princely offering of his father, which
 makes it fitting and becoming i'll every
 way that the city should stand with
 uncoverd head in this place today and
 acknowledge it's obligation and record it's gratitude to the city's greatest benfactor. Speaking this specific and hurried word for my fellow citizens, will not attempt to detail the deep and
 wide stream of our friends beneffcencC
 to objects beyond his citE's limits Gifts unknown to but few. but which were unreckongble because Siver without open proclamation or ostenta- i ton, which are known only to the re- l cording angel. l would speak only o1 1 our personal and communal obligation ) l His generosity. his high character, anC his eminent citizenship with us gave | distinction to our community, till h. commanded the homage of his city a; no other of his contemporaries equally : shared. His fellow citizens I am surt 4Stl IIltit III LIItot LEfs WI Us LllCIi t4i4
 nirationand their gratitude should b.
 expressed here today.
 | And then for his friends I would speak, who shared his friendship aHC
 his interest, and l have often wondered
 1 if there were any that felt themselve excluded, for he seemed interested il 5 everybody, while he lived among u . friends find it difficult to remain
 silent or uarepresented here today
 |
 ality the richly cultivated mind, tn
 brilliant conversation, the sunny op
 tinism of all his 0utloOks, his interes s in art, literature and | may add re 9 ligion: his gentleness and yet hi : strength, his thoughtfulness for others = his fine patriciap courtesy, his tin .. spoiled spirit, his patient, uncoEnplain e ing endurance of suffering, those of Il n 1 who recall all this and more feel tn
 rush Of memories today that no Ian
 Euage can voice. Perhaps our silenc
 l and our tear-tilled eyes and voices ar " our nOhlest tribute and our truest ben ? ediction.
 And now I can bespeak the grati
 tude Of his friends and fellow towns . men that we are to receive his hon , ored dust and that for this brief mo $ meut can lay him down in this churc = aisle which he has trodden so ofte
 ! J = stood with others of his boyhoo e friends to pledge his life to the ser 2, vice of the Highest. l am sure hi e fellow citizens, his friends and his fel Il low worshippers will not allow hi Il memory to fade. for his monument q are all about us. We have but to loo q about US at the church, at the AcaG $ en1y and at the hospital to see wha = will keep his memory fresh and for y ever enduring among us. Dr. How Q closed with ferVent prayer.
 4 Burial was in the family lot in Tan l. tic cemetery, where Rev. Dr. How ie read the conlmittal service.
 .- The honorary bearers were Dr. Wit .e ter \. Tingley John C. Ayerill. Frar
 cis ]. Leavens, George <. Palmer {
 New London, Charles R. Butts. Henr
 A Tirrell, Frank L. Woodland Phil
 T. WeIIes and Philip 4. Johnson. -s The ushers at the church were Rol "a ert C. Johnson, Myron B. Prentice al 'h Weston c. Pullen. Henry Allen &c Sc U had charge of the funeral arrangt re menCs.
 s, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock Sc q, vices were held al the family horn #, No. 1731 I stret, in Washington. TT s. funeral party reached Norwich at 5.
 Friday morning in a private car a ss taclaed to the Federal express. Wi T. Mrs. Slater came her daughter, Nil Id Malone, and the latter's husband,
 Halsey Malone, the New York alto
 ney, her son, William 4. Slater, J
 and Mrs. Wade Martin, Washington, -e l L. Harrison, formerly of Yantic, lol ld MT. Skaters private secretary and lat H. in his Boston office, with his brothe
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