The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-26
FRIENDS WALK
PATHOF GRIEF
SHANK BIER
Thousands Visit Home Sun
day to Pay Tribute to
Memory of Ex-Mayor.
HoLDILAST RITES TODAY
The Rev. ]. S. Miner Will Be
in Charge of Services
at Home.

The confident lines of Blessed
Assurance" Lew Shank's favorite
hymn, will strike the major chord
in the brief funeral ceremony at
Golden Hill preceding the burial OF
the formzr mayor in the family lot
in Crown Hill this afternoon.
The Rev. Jean S. Miner, Second
Presbyterian Church pastor, was to
read the lines and echo them in a
brief, extemporaneous and personal
eulogy of Mr.. Shank.
Memorial services were to be con-
Quoted at the grave by Englewood
Lodge, No. tbs, F. and A. M.
Dignitaries and the kind of peo-
pie of whom Lincoln said "the Lord
must love, because he made SO many
of them," we're expected to throng
the white stucco house on Golden
Hill and overflow to the sidewalk
beyond.
Many Messages Of Regret
A n1ile-long procession will fol-
low the former mayor on his last
trip through the streets of the city
he loved so well.
More varied walks of life were ex-
pected to be represented in the
crowd than possibly ever gathered
at a similar occasion in the city.
United States, Indiana, local off,
cials, millionaires and the great
majority" were to Stand shoulder to
shoulder, leveled by the death of a
friend.
kilograms, letters and long-dis-
tance telephone messages of con-
dolences poured into the Golden
Hill hoiie today and Sunday. Many
were from actors and other friends
Mr.. Shank made during his career
as a vaudeville star.
Friends Visit Home
Two thousand persons in all walks
of life donned the uniform of
friendship Sunday and marched like
an army on the Golden Hill home.
Early this morning the march was
taken up again and hundreds more
visited the home before noon.
In sleek cars and Gingy, big cars
and small. or from the street car
a mile away, they came, wearing the
unnaistakable badge of sorrow for
the friend who died Saturday morn
ing.
1t was day that Lew, as they
all knew, would have loved, a Sun
day when all his friends dropped in.
Friends Pay Homage
The quiet suburban street, hanked
, on one side by beautiful homes and
the other by open prairie, woke
early in the morning to the sound Of
the sorrowing cavalcade and until
$3.50 in the evening the sound Of
friends coming to pay homage beat
on the pavement.
Beside the flower banked casket in
the north room of the beautiful
home stood Joseph L .Hogue, former
city controller and lifelong friend OF
the former mayor, keeping an all
day vigil at Lewis last reception for
his friends.
PalIbearers Named
Active pallpearers will be: James
M. Ogden, Frank Kotteman, James
w. Atherton, Addison A. Parry, DR..
M. J. Spencer and Joseph l.. Hogue.
Honorary pallbearers will be: Joseph
B. Healing, Elmer F. Gay, Meredith
Nicholson, Hilton U. Brown, John
w. Holtzman, Charles e. Coffin,
Emsley w. Johnson, Frank P. Man
ly, Sol Scllloss, John j. O'Brien, DR..
Thomas B. Noble, Frank r. Wolf,
Addison F. Miller, George j. Ma
rott, william Cochran and Senator
Arthur r. Robinson.
The city hall was closed this
afternoon in time for city employees
to attend the funeral. Officials
planned to attend in a body.
Courthouse business offices closed
at p. m. County commissioners
ordered county building flags low
cred to half-nast. Courtroonis re-
manned open.