The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-06
Former High Court
 Justice Holmes Dies
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kCOntlnueO CTS waited with barred heads out side. Mark Howe Holmes, forme secretary emerged at 2:20 a. m.
 The justice is dead" he said his voice husky with emotion.
 Later he issued the following statement:
 "The funeral services will b' held at All Souls church, 18th ant Harvard streets. N w., Washing ton, Friday, March g, at noon.
 "The honorary pallbearers vii be the chief justice and the asso ciate justices of the United Statei supreme court.
 Private military burial will bt at Arlington National cemetery"
 His Nearest Relative
 Holmes nearest relative. Edward U. Holmes of Boston, nephew Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law school, one of Holmes closest friends, and Howe had maintained q bedside vigil since early in the afternoon.
 Others present when the jurist died were Dr Clayton, Mrs Edward J. Holmes, Tom Corcoran, former secretary; James Rowe, present Secretary Mary Donnellan, his housekeeper, and a nurse.
 Howe asked the little group which had gathered outside to go home.- T think the justice would want you to, now" he said. Holmes died just as his philos- ophy, ripened in a life that spanned in it's long years the rise of Amer ica from an agricultural providence to an industrial empire, was com ing into full flower.
 It was Holmes philosophy, lib- eral and Humanitarian, as ex- pounded in nearly 30 years of dis senting opinions on the supreme court bench, which provided much of the basic framework of the New Deal.
 Faced Death Calmly His humanitarian and liberal in- | terpretations of the Constitution will live long in legal history. He faced death as calmly and phil osophically as he had lived his long and useful life.
 Although the hopes and the love of a nation was with him. Holmes had not the resistance to fight or pneumonia with the strength or youth which enabled him to sur vive seven bullet wounds received in Civil war engagements. His nght however, aroused the marvel or ms medical attendants. We'll as he knew the end most probably was inevitable, Holmes did not die without one gesture, impish as any of his life. It was a gesture pure American. Professor Frankfurter had come early in his illness to his bedside, worry and concern written evident in his face. Nurses and physicians lowered about. There was bustle such as never before had come into Holmes quiet, simple life.
 As Frankfurter stood beside hlm, the great jurist lifted his hand to his face. He placed the thumb against his nose and solemnly wag- gled his four fingers.
 It was his last gesture.
 President Leads Mourners
 Washington. March 6-(UP)- President Roosevelt led the nation today in mourning for Oliver Wen dell Holmes, retired justice of the supreme court, who died after q lIcIII1c OL SeINlSC Io siiO eSoNcs
 The beloved old man-"Mr Jus tice Holmes"-of notable social doctrines expressed in series of court opinions that had no parallel in America's history, died at 2:l5 a. m.
 His death was signal for an outpouring of tributes and eulogies such as ordinarily reserved for Iyl y11 nUn n
 The president said:
 "Oliver Wendell Holmes, asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of the United States, retired, has left us.
 "The nation has lost one of its first citizens.
 "We cannot minimize the grief Of his passing but we can find solace us for so long. His was a life of rare distinction: soldier. scholar, author. teacher. jurist and gallant gentleman, he pcrsonified through out his long career the finest American traditions"
 Endowed with n keen and piercing intellect which was mel lowed by kindly humor and under-
 
 beneficient influence upon the na- tion.
 "Imbued with a high sense of justice and right he believed in the peaceful evolution of the new from the old. He had fine per- spective of history as a continuous and living thing and with courage and logic believed in the shaping of government to changing condi- tions.
 "The people of America mourn the death of the venerable and be- loved justice.
 Mrs. Roosevelt and I have had the high privilege of his friendship for many years. Our sorrow in his passing is great"
 To-day more tributes poured ir.
 Attorney General Homer s. Cum mings said:
 "The death of Justice Holmes marks the passing of one of the most distinguished and best be. loved personalities of our time. 4 broad sweep of his fellowship and his unfailing devotion to the iib- cral tradition in law as in life, will make him ever remembered
 Sen George W.sNorris, r., Ntb.:
 T can hardly express myself. | His was one of the brightest in- tellects that have ever lived. He was not only great judge, he was also philosopher and 1t takes l Q philosopher to be a judge"
 Sen Warren R. Austin, r, Vt: 'Mr Justice Holmes contribution to | the jurisprudence of the United States will continue to be living | force for the defense and promo