New Britain herald., 1928-04-06
MANY TRIBUTES
 PAID ID DEPEW
Fortune of Magnate Estimated at
 About S15,000,000

New York, April iPt- Half
 masted flags, black draped railroad
 stations and sense of personal los :
 in the hearts of millions Of persons
 today marked the passing from the
 worlds stage of one of it's best loved and kind)lest actors-Chaunccy NJ
 DepeW
 To the modest broWnstone house in West o4tf street where he died messages of condolences poured in rom the great and near great Of all the world
 He is to be buried in the town of his birth, Peekskill. x. r., tomorrow after services at St. Thomas Epis- copal church where for years h.. paid reverence 10 q God in whom ne believed utterly, He had often said that God had never failed to answer him when he talked to God in prayer.
 Police Escort
 After the services at the church, scheduled for 1o.3o a. m. 8 motor cycle squadron Of police will esce< the body 10 the city limits of Ionk- CTS where another escort will clear the way through that city. State police will then lead the procession 10 Peeksllill where his body will be inferred in the Dcpew mausoleum.
 An official of the New York Cen tral railroad since 1863 and director m some twenty other corporations at his death. he left fortune es- timated between s5."no oon and Sl5 o0o GOO.
 Part Of his estate is the first sl0o he ever earned which he deposited in 3. bank at Peekskill in 1881 and had never withdrawn It has grown to more than Sl.ooo now through in ferest additions State Kellogg. Chief Justice Taft, {! Governor Smith Charles Evans 1 Hughes. John D. Rockefeller. sr. William K. Vanderbilt. Patrick E. | Crowley and other associates and ! friends, high in the political and i financial circles of the country, eith- CT sent or carried condolences 10 Mrs. Depew and Chauncey Depew, ! Jr.. his only child,
 Many Of the expressions of sym pathy were from the men who had worked with and under him in the New York Central.
 The concourse of the Grand Cen tral terminal in New York city was draped in black today as was the entrance to the executive offices from where Mir. Depew had watch cd the erection of the towering new of the New York Central, whose last piece of steel was laid 5 few hours before he died
 Governor Smith ordered the flags on state buildings at half-s staff and many of the clubs 10 which Mr. De- pew belonged also halfmasted their flags as a mark of respect to their , distinguished former member. Flags , over all New York Central stations will fly at halfstaff until after hi1 'uneral.
 To Attend in Rody
 Fifty members of the nion .cague club. of which he WAS tho hird oldest member in terms of cars of membership. are 10 attend lis funeral in body. Populations rom other clubs also planned to at ! end
 Bishop Ernest M s'lres Bishop William T. Manning and tho Eru q soelif II. Brooks. rector Of St. I 'homas'. will officiatc at the church f ervices. The boy choir will sing. r When the republican national con- < cntion in Kansas City meets in ,i une it will miss the presence of Mir. i, )epew who had attended every con- {. ention as q. delegate since 1888. rX- f. ept the one at Cleveland in 1924. n Ie was elected a delegate 10 the f, 9oS convention only Tuesday, and 2 hen asked recently if lie expected ) attend answered, Certainly, why t, otr"
 When he was asked in 1924 if he \, as going to make a speech at the leveland convention. which he had = len planned to attend. he answer = ], T don't know, but I've had the abit of doing it for more than a 
 "At the last convention in Chi ago l spoke for an hour and they old me that l was heard better nan any of the other speakers. In