The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-17
FUNERAL RITES.
HELD FOR
KARGER
Burial Of Veteran Newspaper
Correspondent VIII Take
Place at Cincinnati

Flace at Cincinnati
Funeral services for Gus J.
Karger. prominent Washington
newspaper maR and nationally
known political writer. who died
yesterday at Providence Hospital,
were held early this afternoon at
the chapel OF Frank Geier's Sons,
lib Seventh street northwest. The
burial will take place tomorrow at
Cincinnati, Ohio. The funeral parry
will entrain late this afternoon.
Rabbi Abram Simon officiatedl
lat the services. which were at
tended by Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, Assistant Secretary
OF War Dwight II. Davis, Senator
Frank b. Willis OF Ohio, Congress-
men Theodore u. Burton and Mich
oIas Longworth OF Ohio, Rudolph
Forster, Russell Young, Oliver P.i
Newman, Frederick william Vile
and Martin Kahn, who are honor.
larry pallbearres.
Active pallbearers are Edward
Gableman, Carl ID. Ruth, Leroy T..
Vernon, Levi II. David, Senator
simeon p, Tess Of Ohio, and Ben
Murch.
. Others ut Funeral.
The press galleries at the Capitol.
where Mr.. Karger was formerly
chairman Of the standing committee
Of correspondents. were represented
at the funeral by Richard v oula-
han. James p Hornaday. Arthur IS.
Henning, Jay q. Hayden, Roy A.
Roberts, William e. Brigham, Robert
Barry. Louis Ludlow. Walker s.
Buel, John T. CoakleyA Negley d.
Cochran and Leo r. Sack.
The National Press Club, OF which
Mr.. Karger WAS former president
and in which he was a member OF
the board of governors, was repre-
scented by the following members:
Henry l.. Sweinhart, +. J. Haskin,
John T Suter. Frank b. Lord, Theo-
dore Tiller, Grafton s. Wilcox, Mark
l.. Goodwin, Avery G. Marks, ir.,
Carter Field, James L. Wright, Rich.
ard Y. Onlahan, John Coakley, A..
j. Montgomery, Walker BueI, Leo
Sacks Louis Ludlow, e. B. Johns,
Nixon Plummer. Negley Cochran.
Charles r. Morris, Graham b.
Nichoi, Harry N. Price, Frank II.
Whitehead, Jay G. Hayden, Charles
8. Groves, Arthur Sinnot, Colonel
Henry Hail. William J. Cochran,
James r. Hornaday, Angus Nc.
Sween, James d. Preston. Rov A.
Roberts, Hal III. Smith, John Snure.
Leroy Vernon. Henry Suydam. il.
White Busbey, David Lawrence.
Charles Nicholson, N. o. Messenger
Edward E. Britton, William A. craw.
lord. Morris CHASER, Bascon Tim
mons, BENJAMIN Lewis. Mark Sulli.
van, Everett G. Watkins, Edgar
markham and Charles c. Hart.
Came Here in 1899.
MIR. Karger had been a Wash.
ington correspondent for the Gin.
cinniti Times-Star since 1906. He
was formerly city editor Of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and
the Cincinnati Post.
Mr.. Karger came to Washington
IN 1889 as correspondent for the
Cincinnati Post and the Scripps Nc.
Rae service. He was widely known
as a political observer and has
reported every convention since
1892.
In 1906 Mr.. Karger was the per.
sonaf press representative for VIII.
liam Howard Taft and made the
campaign tour with the presidential
candidate. He was prominent in
the organization work Of the Re-
publican National Committee in
1912 and took an active part in the
publicity work for the Harding
campaign in 1920.
He was born in Berlin fifty-si9ht
years ago and came to the United
States in 1873 attending high school
In Columbus and Cleveland. He
was also a law student. He il
survived by his widow, who was
Miss Rachel Levinson before her
marriage to Mr.. Karger in 1892; q
daughter, who lives here and a son.
residing in Louisville KY.
President Coolidge today sent the
foLlpwing letter to Mrs. Karger:
The news of your husbands
death has brought to me sense
OF sorrow and a real loss His long
service as a leading figure in the
corps OF newspaper correspondents.
which Is so important a factor in
the life of the Capital. had made
him the trusted friend and a help.
tul counselor of many public men.
Like most of the men OF HE pro-
tession, he lived public life while
enjoying little of the recognition it
brings to those who devote them.
selves to 1t in other capacities. 1
want to make recognition OF the
part he played in this community
and in the nation, to- tell. you Of
my own grief lin his going, and to
extend all sympathy and coincidence
in your great loss"