City, State and Nation Pay Tribute To Abbott

City, state and nation joined in tribute to the late Horatio J. Abbott today as final details were arranged for his funeral services which will be held at 2:30 Monday afternoon in the First Methodist Episcopal church of which he was a member.
Rev. Charles Brashares, pastor of the church, and Rev. Frederick B. Fisher, Detroit, formerly minister of the church, will officiate. Burial will follow in Washtenong Memorial park. Friends may call at the Dolph funeral home until 1:15 Monday afternoon when the body will be removed to the church to lie in state there until 2 o'clock.
Associates of Mr. Abbott in the Abbott Gasoline Co. will serve as pallbearers and will be Edwin J. Huntington, Herman Schlecht, Louis Hallen, Russell J. Vial, and Henry and Lawrence Voelker. Honorary pallbearers have not been named and in any event will be limited in number in keeping with the family's wishes for simplicity in the services.
Burke to Give Tribute
Washtenaw county's Democratic convention tonight will have the aspects of a memorial to Mr. Abbott, with George J. Burke delivering a tribute to the Democratic leader in place of the keynote address he was scheduled to give. The remainder of the meeting will be limited to the convention business of electing delegates.
Tributes and messages of sympathy came from throughout the state and from national Democratic leaders today at the Abbott home on Devonshire road. Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic national committee said at Washington that the party suffered a "grave loss" in the passing of the "true Democrat and a hard fighter for the cause in which he believed."
In condolences sent the Abbott family, Farley said, "he has been my very good friend for a long, long time and in company with thousands of his friends I mourn his passing."
Former Governor William A. Comstock who was absent from the city yesterday, on his return today said, "A bluff and kindly spirit possessed Horatio. He credited others always with the same high principles and cheerful optimistic outlook of life that actuated him. Being incapable of injustice and meanness, he utterly failed to recognize the presence of these qualities in anyone or anything he was connected with. In consequence, he was frequently the victim of misplaced confidence. In party affairs he was always constructive, never destructive. He insisted that the party should be clean and actuated by principles. Michigan will miss the cheerfulness and kindliness of one of its active and altruistic citizens."
Another Tribute
A personal tribute also was voiced by Burt F. Schumacher, an intimate friend of the late Mr. Abbott. "In the passing of Horatio J. Abbott the people of Michigan have lost a loyal friend," Mr. Schumacher said. "It has been my privilege to be his intimate companion in almost daily contact for many years. In unselfish devotion to family, friends and his political party and to the interests of the people, Mr. Abbott lived in keeping with the principles of democracy, confident in his belief that through the successful application of these principles the largest number of people would derive the greatest amount of benefit. Horatio Abbott's best work will never be written, but he will be greatly missed by his many friends throughout the country."
William W. Waltz, chairman of Washtenaw county Democratic committee, said "We who knew him best are grief stricken," he said. "There is nothing that could be said that would adequately describe our deep sense of loss of such a true and loyal citizen as we knew Horatio to be."
Others Send Messages
Former Gov. Fred W. Green in condolences to the family said Mr. Abbott would be mourned "by thousands who have come in contact with him and admired his sterling upright character and his devotion to his friends." F. M. Cordero sent a message of sympathy for the Detroit Democratic club, and W. Forbes Morgan wired condolences for the Democratic National committee which is expected to be represented at the funeral rites Monday.
Other messages were from Mr. and Mrs. George Schermerhorn of Reading, John C. Howell, chairman of the Lenawee Democrats, William E. Robb of Howell, Rev. Edgar DeWitt Jones, Detroit, Don W. Canfield, secretary of the Democratic state central committee, George W. Bolling, Grand Traverse county Democratic committee chairman, Norman Smith, Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John F. McInerney, Wyandotte, and Wilbur Davis, county clerk at West Branch.