Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-19
TUST|N FUNERAL
SET WEDNESDAY
Welfare Director Had Relapse
After Operation in
Baltimore
LEADER IN MANY FIELDS

Ernest J.. Tustin. Director Of Public
Welfare who died yesterday morning in
baltimore, will be buried Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock.
The funeral services for the dond citv
Official will be held in the First Baptist
Church. Seventeenth and SAMSON
streets. Mr.. Tustin was one of the most
prominent Baptist laymen in the coun-
and far reaching ns his work for the
municipality. Burial will be made in
West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
The officiating clergymcn at the
funeral will be the Rev. DR.. William
Hunt. president of Bucknell University.
of which Mr. Tustin was an aumnuS.
as well as a trustee; the Rev. DR.. Car.
ter Helm Jones, pas tor Of the First
Baptist Church, and the Rev. DR..
George z. Nichols. assistant pastor.
Director Tustin died ut 1850 o'clock
yesterday morning in st. Agnes Hos
pital, Baltimore, following an operation
for cancer. His wife was with him
when he died.
When Director Tustin went TO Bal
timore December Il. il was known to
bis intimate friends and associates that
he would be operated on, and the
nature of the ailment The operation
was not expected to be serious. He
had sudden relapse Saturday night,
and It was realized that the end was
near.
Mr.. Tustin was at his desk on De.
cember 10, two dsys before going to
Baltimore He did not suffer much from
lis ailment, the chief discomfort for
bin being that it interfered with his
golf.
Death of the Director has brought
sorrow not only to his host of friends
and religious CO. workers in the Bap-
tiSt Church OF the country. but 10 hum
dreds Of aged in the city's institutions.
end to many prisoners whose lot has
been improved and whose lives have
teen frightened through bis efforts.
The body was brought to this city
from Baltimore yesterday afternoon,
Mr.. Tustin's brother in law, I. H,
O'Harra, and his nephew. Ernest
0'HarrH, having gone to Baltimore in
the morning
Flags at Half. STAFF
When he learned yesterday of Direc-
tor Tustin's death, Mayor Moore gave
Immediate orders that all city flags
should be lowered to half staff for fif-
teen days. and that flags that came
especially under the jurisdiction of the
Department Of Welfare should be con-
tinued at half staff thirty days.
At his home Mayor Moore said
The announcement from Baltimore
Of the death Of Director Tustin is a very
great shock to me. We knew that the
Director was not well. and that he
would have to undergo an operation, but
be went away so cheerful. that we had
fan
addressed letter TO him at Baltimore,
sending him birthday greetings for to.
morrow. which | understand was to
have been his birthday.
Mr.. Tustin is The second of the
Mayors Directors TO die, the first being
John c. Winston. of Public Works. Mr..
Tustin was appointed head of the We'll
fare Department on November 20, 1919.
The welfare of prisoners in municipal
Institutions appealed particularly to
him. He instituted many reforms ir
those institutions. some of the most
noteworthy being in the House Of Cor
rection. in Holmesburg, where he made
many changes in the building.
His work was equally marked in the
City's charitable institutions lie took
great interest in the Home for the In
digent, not only in bringing about an
Improvement in physical conditions. but
In changing the psychological environ
ment by providing useful work for the
aged and in carrying light into their
drab lives by instituting entertainments.
Sketch of Mr.. Tustin
Director Tustin was born in Lewis
burg on December 20, 1862. His parents
were the Rev. DR.. Francis Wayland
Tustin and Maria NJ. Probasco Tustin.
DR.. Tustin was head Of the department
Of natural science IN Lewisburg (now
bucknelD University and later profess
sor of Greek language and literature.
Az one time he was acting president Of
the university.
The early education OF Ernest Tustin
was received in the schools of Lewis
burg. Then he entered Bucknell and
was graduated in the class of 1884. De-
Gliding TO make the law his profession,
he prepared under Simon =. Wolver-
ton, of Sunbury, and was admitted to
the bar in 1887, Later he took a grad
uste course in the University of Penn
sylvania. He came TO this city to live
soon after being admitted to the bar.
In 1880 Mr.. Tustin entered into
partnership with Charles S. Wesley and
from that time was member of the
law firm Of Tustin & Wesley, at 1420
Chestnut street. lie was u member of
many legal societies and president of the
state Bar Association.
nr. Tustin's professional career was
paralleled with that OF his religious life,
which eventually caused him to be con-
ndered one OF the greatest Baptist lay
men in this country, being president last
year of the Northern Baptist conven-
uOn. lie was a member of the First
Baptist Church, Seventeenth and San