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 CHAPTER XV.

GOULD LAID TO REST.

The first intention, after the death of Jay Gould, was that the funeral services over his remains should be as public as the limited accommodations of the house would permit. Ex-Judge John T. Dillon, who had been one of the legal advisers of Mr. Gould, and Dr. Munn, Mr. Gould's personal and private physician, met nearly all of the members of the family and agreed upon funeral arrangements with that understanding. But it was soon discovered that the probable result of a public funeral would be a blockade of Fifth avenue, and the intention was consequently abandoned.

The funeral services were held in the mansion where he had lived and died, at four o'clock Monday afternoon, December 5, 1892.

They were heard by his children, whom he had loved, and by many others whom he had known well in life, and some tears fell as they were uttered—not so many, perhaps, as have fallen at the funerals of other men who have attained prominence—and on his coffin were lying flowers, placed there by the hands of affection and of friendship, tokens of sorrow, clearly sincere and deep, that those who gave them would see him no more.