Funeral Services for Newton Tharp: Throngs of Friends of Late City Architect Crowd Grace Episcopal Church: Ashes Laid to Final Rest in Columbarium on Odd Fellows' Cemetery

In the presence of large gathering, which included Mayor Taylor and the city officials, funeral services were read over the remains of Newton J. Tharp, the late city architect, in Grace Episcopal church, yesterday afternoon.

Besides the officials there were present many of his old friends from the Bohemian club and from among the ranks of his profession, who completely filled the curch and, by theirnumbers, gave evident indication of the esteem in which Tharp had been held.

The funeral oration, delivered by Rev. David Evans, the rector of the church, was extremely brief.

"He shall be remembered as a man by his virtues and his characteristics," said the speaker, "and as a laborer and workman by the material monuments of his profession."

The services opened with the playing of Mendelssohn's "Funeral March" by H.J. Sterwart, the church organist. The Bohemian club quartet sang, "Lead Kindly Light" and "Abide With Me." The urn containing the ashes was surrounded by a wealth of flowers, among them being wreaths from Mayor Taylor, Tharp's office and from the classmates of Laurence Tharp. At the conclusion of the services the ashes were removed to their final resting place in the columbarium at Odd Fellows' cemetery.

Oppose Change of Name

A petition backed by more than 700 residents of the vicinity of the new Spring Valley grammar school, to be located in Broadway between Polk and Larkin streets, filed with the board of education protests against the proposed change of name in honor of the late Newton J. Tharp. In so protesting, the petition urges, no disparagement is intended of the abilities of the late city architect, but the ground of the rquest is the sentimental significance of the name.

"We feel that in this age of iconoclasm that too little attention is paid to the assoications and memoris of the past," recites the petition to the board. "We feel that it would be an act fo desecration to change the name of the old school from that of Spring Valley to Newton J. Tharp or any other name whatsoever."

The petition is signed by a committee consisting of William M. Curry, chairman, and William Penn Humphreys, Dr. Thomas L Mahoney, Walter J. Rock, John J. Claish, Frank S. Curry, Frank A. Carmichael and Dr. S. J. Cunningham.