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Show CROWDS PAY TRIBUTE OF SYMPATHY Large Concourse at Funeral Funer-al of Three Brown Children Chil-dren Yesterday. FLOWERS ARE BANKED s AROUND CASKETS Eloquent Speakers Endeavor Endeav-or to Console Grief of Hundreds of Friends. Mdoxa la the history of ert Lake Oity hay mora tanpnwlT funeral aerrice been held than thorn) crrt th bedlM of Frank. Hlen and Tors Brown a tb rtnt Itethodlat chord ytatirliy aftecBeoa, lildrrm haa each profodon of flower tm eeaa at a fnnoral here as tlui which eeyered and Drroandad tho thro eeskste. Fir too small wu the biff church aoditorintn to hold thoM who Cad (fathered (fath-ered to pa? their last respects to three of the victims of the fearful accident on Utah lake last Sunday. Many hundreds hun-dreds were unable to gain admission to th church and tood during th wrv-icn wrv-icn on th out aid 9 of the bunding wait, inff to estch a gltmpsa of tho caskets that bd all that wan one mortal of three young people, a brother and two UBttrt, The mniie and nddreuet were in keeping with the sole ran occasion, as were the last tributes paid at the city cemetery, where the three bodies were laid side by tide under a bug bank of flowers. Long before the hour net for the funeral, anagnifUent bouquets of flowers commeneed to arrive at the church. Thev came from those who bad known the young people in lif, who knew the father and mother, and many from those who bad no acquaint-nnce acquaint-nnce with any of the bereaved or the dead. They were the silent tributes of those who sympathised. Fully an hour before the time set for the services to commence the church commeneed to fill with people of all walks of life. Tt waa not idle eurioeitv that brought them together. They had come to pay their respects to the dead who bad lost their lives in such a manner man-ner as to shock the entire city and state. Gather for Lae Time. Captain Edwin G- Brown. Mies M. K. f'ovey. Miss Iw Navlor, Miss Olive Navlor. O. E. Mc Mullen, A. C. Rod wefl, Mr. and Mrs. O. Kenneth rlarke. Miss Ethel More ton and Miss Katherine Behmaa, the tea members of the ill fated party who were rescued, sat with close relations and friends in the Bun-day Bun-day school apartmenf of the church which joins the main auditorium. The music waa furnished bv Mrs. J. Louis Strohauer. organist; Mrs. C. '. Sunder, soloist, anil a quartette composed com-posed of Mrs. A. H. Peters. Miss Edna Dwyer. Fred C. Graham and .Fred Smith. Th speakers were John . Oitehlow of Calanthe Myrtle lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which rapt am Brown is a member, Bishop Heber C. Tverson of the second ward and Rev. Francis Burgette Short, pastor of the First Methodist church. At the conclusion of the eerves the casket wherein rested the remains of At the .cemetery prayers wers offered by Rev. Dr. Short and Bishop Iverson. The casket wherein rested the remains of Vera Brown was borne out of the churrh bv Walter Navlor. R. F. Neslln. Will W 1 acorn b. Roy Wlacomb. Arthur Wlsoomb and A. E. Rodwell. Th pallbearers for Frank Brown were Allen Burt, Oemse Wlicomh, O. E. MrMiHUsn, Clyde WIs-pomb. WIs-pomb. Gordon Navlor and Bert iNaylor. Those for Helen Brown were Arthur X gkklmore. Bruce W 1 acorn b. Walter Wls-comh. Wls-comh. Will Nay lor. O. Kenneth Clarke and Donald Wlscomb. The r mot Ins were escorted from the church In the ornr In which they were recovered from the lake. Ciitchlow la Eloquent. The services at the churrh were opened Dy the quartette arnain "Lead. Kindly Ufrht." Mr. Ciitchlow was the Drat speaker- He paid a hln-h tribute both to the departed and to their parents. par-ents. Mr. Crltchlow aald that when the news of the sad disaster reached Salt Lake City all were overcome with sadness sad-ness and awe. Continuing-, he said: "What a trasjedy would life oe If we had not the asauratfje that somewhere, sometime, hearts sre waiting to welcome cu and to be drawn close again to thosa from whom they were separatl In thla Ufa. It Is upon such an oocaalon as this that we are all brought In closer touch with the divine. Visions of the past float before us and we take cognisance of our own Uvea, the purpose for which we 11 va and the duties to be performed In the fleah. This trio of unfortunate was snatched from us without warning. It might also happen to us. God doe not opan th veil to Vet us see our futures. So It behoove us to live tn such a manner man-ner that when the time come to Join that mysterious caravan we can look back on dutlea well performed and days well spent. The quartette sane; "Sometime We'll Understand." after which Bishop Iverson Iver-son spoke briefly and feelingly. In con-elusion con-elusion Blahop Iverson said: Rope in Immortality. "The Immortality of the sou! and the resurrection are living realities. The character of Immortality la not that of a fairy land or province of aha do w. it doee not follow that becauea w do not underataitd th nroejeas that w ahould declare It ttntrue. 8omettme. somewhere. In Ood's economy and province, w ahall find the answer- I.Ike unto Him. our bodiea shsll be raised. One day. our esteemed es-teemed and Borrowing friends shsll clssp la their arms the loved ooee who nave gone from them." Mrs. Snyder ssng' the snlo. "Sltsr of Hope." after which Rev. Short delivered the closing address- He spoke feellpsiy to the brief stricken rtsrents and relatives. rela-tives. In closing. lr. Short said: "O Ood! brine- thou to these sorrow. Ins; heerte the balm that binds up broken hearta and the light throua-tt which. Is seen the rainbow ol nope. Chain the -sires and aspiration of tneae sorrowed ones to the star of hope In the life of Christ, and grant that they shall some Into full peeeesston of th treaaurea he-fore he-fore them that have gone Into the life of sunshine and of happiness. |