____________________
FULL FUNERAL HONORS
FOR ELI K. HOFFMAN
____________________
More Than 300 Firemen Attended
Service and Escorted the Body
____________________
With almost the same honors that would be paid a soldier, Eli K. Hoffman, of 1401 Zarker Street, the member of the Allison Hook and Ladder Truck Company, who was killed by a falling live wire at the fire on the Hill Wednesday night, was buried yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
More than three hundred of the city's firemen, representing all the companies of the department, and headed by Fire Cheif Garverich, as marshal, escorted the funeral car to the city limits after the services at the house. All the firemen were in uniform except those of the Allison Truck Company, and they were not because their uniforms had not arrived. They all wore white gloves.
At 2 o'clock the city companies were assembled at the Citizen's Firehouse, and headed by the band and Fire Cheif Garverich marched to the Hill. Along Market Street and other streets enroute the curbs were lined with people. As the marching fireman passed Thirteeth Street the Mt. Pleasent Company joined the column and then the Allison Company fell into line.
At the house the services were conducted by Rev. H. C. Harmon, assisted by Rev. J. J. Kelley, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, and Rev. J. Stockton Roddy, pastor of Olivet Presbyterian. At the conclusion of the services all the firemen passed before the casket as it lay in state.
The pall-bearers were John H. Hoffman, John S. Lutz, Daniel Pollock, Paul Seibert, Ira Killinger and George Collins. The floral tributes were many and beautiful, among them being a spray of carnations from the Firemaen's Relief Association, a spray of roses from the Firemen's Union, white carnations from John A. Afleck's Sunday School class and a pillow of roses from the Allison Hook and Ladder Company.
After the body had been viewed it was placed on a car and escorted by the firemen. The procession went down Fourteenth to Market, on Market to Thirteenth Street, to State and on out to the city limits. There more cars were waiting and while Mt. Vernon and the Allison Truck Company firemen boarded these cars and accompanied the funeral car to the East Harrisburg Cemetery, the other firemen returned to their houses. First the procession divided into double ranks on each side of the track and through this lane the car moved with the body. From the time the procession left Hoffman's home the bells in the fire houses tolled.
At the cemetery there were very brief services, Samuel Keller, a member of the Assembly Hall congregation on Capitol Street, which Hoffman attended, conducting them.
[Patriot News - May 18, 1908]
____________________
FULL FUNERAL HONORS
FOR ELI K. HOFFMAN
____________________
More Than 300 Firemen Attended
Service and Escorted the Body
____________________
With almost the same honors that would be paid a soldier, Eli K. Hoffman, of 1401 Zarker Street, the member of the Allison Hook and Ladder Truck Company, who was killed by a falling live wire at the fire on the Hill Wednesday night, was buried yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
More than three hundred of the city's firemen, representing all the companies of the department, and headed by Fire Cheif Garverich, as marshal, escorted the funeral car to the city limits after the services at the house. All the firemen were in uniform except those of the Allison Truck Company, and they were not because their uniforms had not arrived. They all wore white gloves.
At 2 o'clock the city companies were assembled at the Citizen's Firehouse, and headed by the band and Fire Cheif Garverich marched to the Hill. Along Market Street and other streets enroute the curbs were lined with people. As the marching fireman passed Thirteeth Street the Mt. Pleasent Company joined the column and then the Allison Company fell into line.
At the house the services were conducted by Rev. H. C. Harmon, assisted by Rev. J. J. Kelley, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, and Rev. J. Stockton Roddy, pastor of Olivet Presbyterian. At the conclusion of the services all the firemen passed before the casket as it lay in state.
The pall-bearers were John H. Hoffman, John S. Lutz, Daniel Pollock, Paul Seibert, Ira Killinger and George Collins. The floral tributes were many and beautiful, among them being a spray of carnations from the Firemaen's Relief Association, a spray of roses from the Firemen's Union, white carnations from John A. Afleck's Sunday School class and a pillow of roses from the Allison Hook and Ladder Company.
After the body had been viewed it was placed on a car and escorted by the firemen. The procession went down Fourteenth to Market, on Market to Thirteenth Street, to State and on out to the city limits. There more cars were waiting and while Mt. Vernon and the Allison Truck Company firemen boarded these cars and accompanied the funeral car to the East Harrisburg Cemetery, the other firemen returned to their houses. First the procession divided into double ranks on each side of the track and through this lane the car moved with the body. From the time the procession left Hoffman's home the bells in the fire houses tolled.
At the cemetery there were very brief services, Samuel Keller, a member of the Assembly Hall congregation on Capitol Street, which Hoffman attended, conducting them.
[Patriot News - May 18, 1908]
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