Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 3 | Unbidden Gust at Funeral of Yerkes

UilDufil GUEST AI I FUNFRAL OF YERKES I Han Who I laima to Be Nepheif P; Denied Admittance to r House. r" " ' B I NKW YORK, Jan. 1-The funeral of Chaiies T rerkee, the late traction pro-moter. pro-moter. took place from his home at Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street today The flineral services were conducted by H Quaker minister They were simple and attended only by numbers of the family and a few close friends of Mr York I The body was placed In the Y rk is mausoleum in Greenwood cemetery. An Uubiddeu Guest. KxC While th- funeral services were being condui t i. Charles Yerkes of Johnsvllle. Pa., who SBld he Is a son of Samuel Vi rkes a brother Of the dead man. nr- J rived and requested peimlssron to attend the service, but th- servants refused to H admit him to the bOUSS Th' visitor In- dined on-- of tie in to take a message to Charles K yerkes, son of the dead man. but It did not secure his admission. l-'onr coaches followed the hearse from B the house 1s second was occupied by B th' wldoe of ti dec eased a block from the house the procession wa.-i Jolnr-d by HHhJ a hack In which was Charles zorkes of HBVJ Nephew Not nt Cemetery. fc- Tho man fnm Pennsylvania who said in- is n nephew of Mr Yerkee was not present nt the mausoleum when the HBi funeral parly witnessed the plar Iiir of ,H the body f the deceased within It.