Show Funerals The funeral services over the remains of the late Robert Stewart who was ac cidently killed a few days ago while in discharge of his duty at the Utah Cen tral depot were held in the Fifteenth Ward Chapel on Sunday under the direction di-rection of Bishop Joseph Pollard The large hall was very appropriately decorated deco-rated and was crowded to its fullest capacity with the many friends of the deceased and the employees of the Utah Central Railway The deceased had no relatives in this country The singing was by the combined ward choir and glee club under the direction of T C Griggs Prayer was offered by Peter Reed after which appropriate ap-propriate remarks were made by Hamilton G Park who had known the deceased ever since he was a boy Remarks Re-marks were also made by the following gentlemen l in the order named Francis Cope George G Bywater John Sharp and Bishop Joseph Pollard The gleo club of which deceased was a member sang Rest and benediction was 1 pronounced by ebnlon Jacobs A very large procession of carriages followed the remains to its last resting place where the dedicatory prayer was offered by James Sharp There was a large audience gathered on Sunday afternoon in the Twentieth Ward Meetinghouse to attend the funeral services of the late Joseph G Romney This however was naturally to be expected when the reputation and character of the deceased and the wide circle of his friends acquaintances and relatives are considered The services were under the direction of Elder W C Dunbar The speakers were in order Bishop James Watson Joshua Midgley Bishop George H Taylor Elias Morris John Nicholson and John Sharp who all bore witness te the high worth intellectuality and moral integrity of the deceased along with words of cheer and comfort for those immediately bereaved Some of the speakers had been intimately acquainted with him both in a business and social way and they regarded hIm with feelings feel-ings of the profoundest confidence and esteem Joseph G Romney was no ordinary man possessed of literaly abilities of a high order actuated by noble and elevated ele-vated impulses had his opportunities been more fortuitous there is little question that he would have attained considerable eminence 25 a writer and r have arrived at something more than a merely local fame From early youth he was noted for an insatiate tbiist for knowledge which in early years after the settlement of this valley he satisfied as best he could with the scanty morsels which chance threw in his way Many times as a boy did he pick up stray bUg of paper the sports of an idle wind and peruse them with perhaps more eagerness than does the average youth the choicest volume But with years came more extended facilities and to him it was a labor of love to gather tome after tome until at the time of his death his library had grown into a larga and costly collection of many hundreds of volumes making perhaps one of tho finest private libraries in the Y whole Territory With such tastes it is T but natural that Mr Romney should have possessed a cultured mind and superior attainments and indeed only a few moments conversation was sufficient suffi-cient to mark him as an unusually wellinformed and intelligent man Another distinguishing trait was his retiring re-tiring disposition and scorn of ostentation ostenta-tion and display and so strong was this latter characteristic in him that be requested re-quested his family to wear no mourning at his death Always honest and outspoken out-spoken he was ever true to his convictions convic-tions despising all traces of hypocrisy and deceit His writings in this journal jour-nal under the name of Gaskell extending ex-tending over a long period of years best portray his character and motives and mark him as a man of exalted aspirations aspira-tions and a broad and noble liberality of mind In the death of Joseph G Romney the community suffers the loss oS a respected and valued citizen |