Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-08-05
MANY HONOR
MR.. MATH|ASEN
Funeral Service Largely At
tended at st. Stephens
Church. Home Funeral.

Karl Msthiasen, the well known
terra Gotta manufacturer, who died
Saturday at his summer home at
Camp Denmark, Fourth Lake, ". Y,
was laid to rest in the family plot in
Alpine cemetery, yesterday after
noon following a service at st.
Stephens Danish Lutheran church
in Broad street at 3 o'clock which
was largely attended by friends and
service was held at the Mathiaseu
home at Keyport at 1 O'Clock follow
Pin which the funeral cortege came to
this city for the service. Rev. r.
Andersen. of BROOKLYN: Rev. ole
Jacobsen. of Troy, N. Y; Rev. A. t.
Dorf. of Chicago. former pastor:
Rev. Benjamin Dagwell, pastor Of
st. Mary's Episcopal church. Key
port. and Rev. S. Kjaer, pastor of st.
Stephens church officiated at the
service at the church
The church was well filled and
entire front of the edifice was bank
ed with flowers from the many who
had become acquainted with him tn
life The speaking of the several
pastors was alternated with special
singing by the choir that included
the singing of "Hjemmet," 'Kirken'
and Craven" Each of the speakers
dwelt at length on the marvellous
career enjoyed by Mr.. Mathiasen
and of the struggle he so success
fully made in the moulding of it..
From his first employment in this
city as a boy at the Kings Cork
Works to his final position as an In
fluential and prominent man in the
terra Gotta industry, Mr.. Mathiasen
never for a moment gave up the
sound ideas or rose above the many
friends that he had made since his
arrival in this city from Copenhagen,
Denmark, about 1878.
The Rev. Mr.. Dagwell aroused the
emotions particularly when he men
toned a statement made by major
in the army commenting upon the
untimely death of one of his cap
tains. HE waits at the bend in the
road" The speaker then went on TO
explain how the bend in the road
was slowly being approached by
everyone, and how when it was
reached the broad view OF the fu-
ture life would be spread out be-
fore, and the ones at the turn would
be met again. A At
Following the services the mourn-
ers passed before the body, and II
was then carried from the church.
A long procession 1olioWeu lHS
hearse to Alpine cemetery. where
interment was made
The bearers at the house at
Keyport, were the sons. and son-in-
law, Karl. Jr.. Alfred, Oscar. Her
bert Mathiasen. Viggo Yepsen and
Wilhelm Yorgensen. At the church
ard cemetery those that acted were
relatives Christian Mathiasen. VIII
liam Mathiasen, E. V. Eskesen. u:
X. Eskesen, Peter Sondergaard and
Peter C. Olsen. Special set OF bear
ers composed of prominent terra
Gotta men carried the casket from
the church to the hearse We're
Thomas F. Armstrong and Q. w.
Ketcham. of Philadelphia; William
Powell, president of the Atlantic
Terra Gotta company; William II:
riswold. of thi scity; Mr.. Lober, or
Keyport, and Mr.. McGregory, OF New
York.
Mr.. Mathiasen was sixty years old
and besides his widow is survived
by three daughters and fve sons
Mrs. yiggo Yepsen. of Pittsburgh.
Karl Mathiasen, Jr.. of Fanwood'
Alfred, Helene, Oscar. Emma. Her
bert and Bennett. of Keyport.