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FUNERAL OF GUS STRAUS AT CINCINNATI. Cincinnati, O., November 1. The remains of Gus Straus, who died suddenly nthis home in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday afternoon, arrived here last night The funeral .services were held this afternoon in the chapel of the Jewish Cemetery, where the body was interred. The pall bearers who escorted the remains to Cincinnati were selected from the. Lexington business and social friends of the . deceased financier and were: Active, Moses Kaufman, John Splan, Garrett Wilson, Waller Bodes, Thomas L. Cassell, Edward Oder, W. C. Gribben and R. P. Shryock; honorary, Major R. S. Bullock, Simon Wolf, Judge Watts Parker, John L. Barkley, S. Bassett, Judge D. Gray Falconer, Major, Thomas J. Carson, Judge J. It. Morton, Mayor T. A. Combs, W. P. Kimhall, Judge F. A. Bullock, Joseph S: Bote, AVickllffe Preston and Joshua Speyer. It. is doubtful if there was ever a man in business in Lexington who was more esteemed by the community at large than was Gus Straus, and . those who have been fortunate enough to be in his employ in the past swear by him. He is the one man who was never known to discharge a clerk and there are several in his store today who have been there more than a quarter of a century. If a clerk was ever guilty of a slight wrong be would have his attention called to it in a quiet way by Mr. Straus and told lo Ikj more careful in the future. Mr. Straus was a man who was never known to lose his temper and was just as polite and affable to a poor, struggling youth or stable boy as ho was to the wealthy owner or merchant, and no man ever asked for assistance and went away without it if he could .show his benefactor where some good would result. At some time or other In. the past twenty years Mr. Straus has acted as a financial or business agent for practically every prominent horseman in, the United States and many in Europe. It was almost a daily occurrence for him to receive telegrams or long-distance telephone messages from distant points asking him to attend to an important matter and these calls were always attended to. promptly. . And cablegrams, too, were of , frequent -occurrence, and on more than one occasion Mr. Straus had closed deals for valuable trotting and thoroughbred animals for European owners and trainers who would ask him to secure an option on a horse and later cable him to consummate the deal. No man had a higher regard for the late Gus Straus than Ed Corrigan. "He aided more horsemen than any man in Kentucky," 6ald Mr. Corrigan at the funeral, today, "and his word was bis bond. I gave him the authority to sign my checks, and nt times I had as much as 5,000 in bank at Lexington. He was indeed a most honorable man."
