William Brookfield Buried; list of notables in attendance

WILLIAM BROOKFIELD BURIED.

Gov. Odell and Many Other Prominent Men Attend the Funeral Services.

The funeral services yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for William Brookfield were attended by Gov. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., and many of Mr. Brookfield's friends and business, social, and political associations. There where present representatives of the Union League and Republican Clubs, St. John's Guild, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Down-Town Association, the Manufacturers' Club, the Board of Trade and Transportation, the Lawyers' Club, the Union League Club of Brooklyn, the District Nomination League, the Board of Alderman, the American Geographical Society, Kane Lodge, F. and A. M., the various committees of the Republican organizations, and the Lotos, Aldine, and Fulton Clubs. Of those who attended the services were:

William Sherer,              Warner Van Norden,

Col. John J. McCook,     John R. Van Wormer,

J. Van V. Olcott,            M. C. Addoms,

Louis Stern,                   J. E. Leaycraft,

William L. Findley, Thomas M. North,

Cornelius N. Bliss, Sigourney W. Fay,

John W. Vrooman, John K. Cilley,

A. D. Julliard, Charles A. Adams,

Joseph M. Deuet, Edward Lauterbach,

James R. Sheffield, W. H. Jackson,

James S. Lehmaier, W. H. Ten Eyck,

S. W. Bowne, Joseph Catman,

Gen. Anson G. McCook, Oscar S. Siraus,

L. G. Woodhouse,   Samuel French,

William R. Willcox, W. S. Bagg,

W. M. K. Olcott, Herbert Parsons,

James W. Hawes, W. E. Crosby,

Gen. Henry E. Tremain, John H. Starin,

William Einstein, W. Jenks Merritt,

Wilber F. Wakeman,   James A. Blanchard,

J. Seaver Page, Cephus Brainerd,

Charles H. Treat, A. L. Merriam,

M. E. Haviland, Robert C. Morris,

John H. Hammond, H. R. De Milt,

F. S. Loring, Robert M. Galloway,

Julien T. Davies, Albert O. Beebe,

Bernard Biglin, H. H. Brockway,

Cornelius Van Cott, L. J. Callahan,

Edward E. Bartlett, Alfred F. Britton,

John Proctor Clarke, Charles A. Schleren,

Thomas Sturgis, Simon Hess,

C. N. Taintor, James Talcott.

Gov. Odell arrived at the church just before the services began with Col. Reuben L. Fox, Secretary of the Republican State Committee, and they were conducted to a front pew.

In the choir was Organist Frank L. Sealy, and a quartette. The casket covered with flowers was placed in front of the pulpit to the music of Handel's organ prelude, and banked with floral tributes from the "Amen Corner." The Republican Club, the Fulton Club, Mecca Temple, and individual sympathizers. Following the casket were the chief mourners, including Mrs. Brookfield, her sons, Henry M., James H., Frank, and E. Morgan Brookfield, and six sisters of Mrs. Brookfield.

The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson. In his address he paid high tribute to Mr. Brookfield, and in the course of his remarks quoted James Whitcomb Riley:

I cannot say and will not say.

That he is dead. He is just away.

With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand.

He has wandered into an unknown land.

And left us dreaming how very fair.

It must needs be, since he lingers there.

He also quoted from John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snowbound":

How strange it seems, with so much gone.

Of life and love, to still live on.

The casket was taken to the hearse while the organ played Chopin's Funeral March. A special train was ready at the Grand Central Station, and interment was at Woodlawn, where the assistant minister of the church, the Rev. George H. Trull, pronounced the committal.