New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Throngs Attend
w a N a nm aker
Funeral Service
Wife of Merchant Is
Buried Beside Her Son
in Churchy yard in
Philadelphia Sub u r b
Line Roadway
Episcopal and Presbyterian
Clergym en Oficiate
at Simple Ceremonies

simple ceremony the body Of Mrs.
John Wanamaker was buried beside
the body Of her son to-day in the quiet
little churchyard of St. James the
Less, near Falls of Schuylkill.
Several hundred persons, including
intimate friends and old retainers of
the Wanamaker household, followed
the body from Lindenhursr, IN Chelton
Hills. The Old York Road for a halt
mile was crowded with the automo-
biles of persons waiting to pay their
last tribute of respect as the funeral
procession passed.
At the home the Episcopal service,
somewhat shortened to suit a wish
often expressed by Mrs. Wanamaker
during her life. was read by the Rev.
John A. Williams. pastor Of All Saints
Church, Chelsea, who had mnistered
to Mrs. Wanamaker during her last
illness. He was assisted in the funeral
service by the Rev. Austin B. DECKER
son, of Bethany Presbyterian Church,
of Philadelphia.
Family Alone With Body
There were prayers adapted from
the Episcopalian liturgy and inter
luded with consoling bits of Scripture
taken mainly from the Gospel of St.
John and the Epistles of St. Paul to
the Corinthians.
During this ceremony, the clergy
men and members of the immediate
family were alone with the body in q
room on the second floor of Linden
hurst
All of the family, when they were
afterward seen, showed evidences f
deep grief. Rodman Wanamaker,
Mrs Wanamaker's only surviving
almost constantly at her side, showed
marked effects of his long vigil and
losing fight against death.
Downstairs on either side of the
magnificent hall the other mourners
sat listening to the boys choir of ST.
Marks Church, which, accompanied by
y harpst, was singing, Jesus, Lover
of My Soul" and Just AS M the
hymns which had been Mrs. Wanna
makers favorites and which she had
asked should be sung on the occasion
Of her burial.
New York Police Choir Sings
Then the New York Police Choir,
composed Of thirty-two bluecoats. who
had come to the services out of respect
for Rodman Wanamaker, Deputy Police
Commissioner of New York City, sang
Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Their voices, deep and rich and most
ly bassos ara barytones. contrasted i'm
pressively with the clear, high voices
Of the choir of boys.
After little interyhl they began
Lead, Kindly Light, and before the
words
"And in the morn those angel faces
smile,
Which have loved long since and lost
the WHILE
were reached, the policemen moved in
procession down the NALL and up the
stairway, that the family might hear
Not many minutes afterward the
casket was moved forth, borne by John
Wanamaker jr., Rodman Wanamaker
I'd, Major Barclay H. Warburton, Major
Norman Macleod, Captain Gurnee
Mum and Edgerton Wanamaker.
The police choir, still singing, formed
an escort ana followed the body down
to the hearse.
Honorary Pallbearers
Present at the ceremonies, as hon
orary pallbearers were John T. Win
drim, E. A. Van Valkenburg, DR.. J. G
Clark, Dr.. John B. Beaver, DR.. E. J.
Porteus, DR.. Harvey Shoemaker, R. NJ.
Coyle, j. K. Mohr, Alfred G. Clay, John
H Carr. J. Woods Brown and 7. F.
Dixon.
A delegation from the Wanamaker
store in New York, including few
colored men long employed by the firm,
was also present, as were Mayor Hy-
Ian and some of Rodman Wanamaker' s
associates of the New York City
cabinet.
Prominent Philadelphians who at
tended the services were: Mr.. and Mrs
E T. Stotesbury, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
ander Van Rensselaer,, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. Borie Sd, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
gar Church, Mrs. Archibald Thomson,
Mrs. J. Willis Martin, Mrs. II. Craw-
ford, Mr.. and Mrs. John Barton Town
send, J. Hutchinson Scott and John W.
Loud.
Mayor Hylan, Of New York City and
Grover c. Whalen, New York Commits
sioner of Plants and Structures, we're
at the burial