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Show SORROW AT FUHERAL OF SENATOR HOAR WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 4 The citizens cit-izens of Worcester yesterday bowed beside be-side the body of .her foremost cltlien, Gtorge Frlsbie Hoar, while , the State of Massachusetts, and In a largre measure, meas-ure, the Nation, sympathised with, the municipality in her trie?. Rer. Dr. Edward Everett Hale,' chaplain chap-lain of the United States Senate and life-lonr friend of Senator Hoar, conducted con-ducted prayers at the home Just before t o'clock. Only members of the immediate im-mediate household and a few neighbors attended this service. The body was then placed in the hearse by the active pallbearers, all present or past secretaries of the Senator, and' the honorary pallbearers. . , Th active bearers and the family escorted the remains to the Church of the Unity. ,The militia fores of ths city, four companies of Infantry and a battery of light artillery under arms were stationed sta-tioned in the streets to aid the police in the almost unnecessary effort to control the greatest crowd ever seen In the city. As the hearse passed, every man bared his head and many women sobbed. |