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Show '""liIPK'B vicissitudes. "Funerals are always scenes of sorrow sor-row and vain regret, but the burial of William Sprague at Narragansett Pier was an occasion of inexpressible sadness. sad-ness. The escutcheons of bereavement, the group of tearful faces framed in woe by a common loss, were all intensified intensi-fied in their touching appeal by the pe-cnliarly pe-cnliarly tragic circumstances that furnished furn-ished a dark background to the pathetic pa-thetic picture. The father of the deceased, ex-Governor Spraguo, was there with bis second wife. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Whoaton, the latter the divorced wifo of tho dead man, sat on the right Of the main aisle, and Mrs. Kate Chase, the mother of the lamented dead, with bowed head and tearful eyes, sat on the left. She was accompanied by her two daughters, Ethel and Portia. The scene was set in the darkest oolors indeed. The painful emotions of grief induced by the immediate occasion of sorrow were no doubt rendered additionally addi-tionally poignant by the bitter memories mem-ories of the past." That Is an account of the last soenes in a drama of life which began in' rich promise and ended in sad bereavement. bereave-ment. Within the recollections of many people not yet old, William Sprugue of Rhode Island was one of the most promising and one of the most prominent men In the United States. Ileir to his father's immense business; war governor and U. S. senator before he was 40 years old, his marriage to the brilliant daughter of Chief Justice Jus-tice Chase added sopial glamour to his political lustre. It seemed as if Fate had singled him out as one of its favorites, favor-ites, when suddenly it forsook him and the world knows tho rest. From the day he lost his fortune to the hour of the funeral of his suicide son above described, de-scribed, the history of the Sprague family fam-ily is one continual tragedy. |