Millard memorial services a big event in the villages 100 years ago this week.

A GREAT TRIBUTE.
The greatest tribute ever paid a citizen of this village was that given the late Frank Vincent Millard on Saturday afternoon when the last sad rites were consummated.
The stores and business houses in the two villages were closed, many during all the afternoon and others during the funeral services. At least two thousand people attended one of the three services held and there were hundreds of prominent citizens throughout the county and state present.
From one o'clock when the members of the Tarrytown Fire Department, several hundred strong, marched from their quarters to the home of the deceased and in single file passed by the casket containing the remains of Mr. Millard, until two o'clock when the services began there was a steady stream of people in and out of the house. The parlor, in which the casket stood, was a mass of floral tributes. Besides the many pieces sent by organizations of which Mr. Millard was a member there were over one hundred pieces from individual friends.
The services were conducted at the house by the Rev. R. C. Hatch, of Christ Church, assisted by Rev. Arthur T. Brooks, of the First Baptist Church. The service at the Second Reformed Church, which was arranged for Saturday morning, was conducted by the Rev. John Knox Allen, of the First Reformed Church, and the Rev. Charles A. Ashmead, of St. Mark's Church.
The memorial service of the Tarrytown Fire Department, which was held at the Y. M. C. A., was addressed by the Rev. Herbert E. Wright, of Asbury M. E. Church, and Rev. Father O'Connor, of the Carmelite Church. At this service E. E. Carman rendered in a beautiful way a solo, "There is a Land mine eye hath seen." The words which were appropriate for this occasoin are:
There is a land mine eye hath seen     In visions of enraptured thought,So bright, that all which spreads between     Is with its radiant glroy fraught.A land upon whose blissful shore     There rests no shadow, falls no stain—There those who meet shall part no more     And those long parted meet again
Its skies are not like earthly skies     With varying hues of shade and light;It hath no need of suns to shine     To dissipate the gloom of nightThere sweeps no desolating wind     Across the calm, serene abode;The wanderer there a home may find     Within the paradise of God.
The signal of the beginning of the services was the 47 taps of the fire alarm. This was the age of Judge Millard.
After the services at the house the remains were taken to the receiving vault in Sleepy Hollow, only the pall bearers and immediate relatives accompanying the body to the cemetery.