Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-22
The Dead President.


 resentatfves-ActfOn cT Church Au-
 thoritfes-The Mourning Everywhere.
 At joint meeting of the Boards of Alder men and Councilmen called by the Mayor, | held at the City Hall yesterday noon, which l was largely attended, action was taken on the part of New Haven as a city in regard to the death of the President. His Honor Mayor Robertson, presiding, read the fol- lowing: Gentlemen ot the Court of Common Cos'aeiz:
 It is hardly necessary for to say have called you together in consequence of the sad intelligence of the death of James A. Garfield President or @ sne Jersey the night of the 18th instant After or ea and bs rebu at last yielded to the effects of the wound inflicted by the hands or an
 All the circumstances connected with his sickness death well calculated to excite the sympathy B By his death M the the country has been deprived of
 chief magistrate and the people have lost an nones and upright ruler thereby causing sorrow an grief
 would therefore recommend to your honorable body, as the representatives Of thec1ty 10 'SKe s action as is becoming and proper
 Herbert E. Benton addressed the assembly in fitting words, deploring the sad event which the nation mourned, and offered the following resolution:
 Whereas, His Honor the Mayor has officially com municated to this Court of Common Council the
  chief magistrate. James A. Garfield. and .,.,, , Whereas, In view of the great sorrow Wnlcn per
 should place record expression of it's profound
 of the loss which this nation has t M earnest sympathy with the bereaved family or the
 dead President-ts deep abhorrence of the dastardy
 crime that has caused such univeTsa Is Sssti % nies nations will overrule the dreadful event 'o the good of this stricken people, and s., Whereas It is incumbent upon us as the ofhc1al
 representatives this municipality to take such ac
 the profound grief So universally felt it therefore Resolued That His Honor the Mayor be requested
 to recommend citizens to close their respectlVe
 places of business refrain from all unnecessa secular employment on the day set apart TOT eo emnziup the funeral rites ut the national capital and that he make such other recommendatlons aS may appear to him best calculated to clearly ana m
 pressvely manifest the great sorrow felt oy tnls co
 nnunity at death of the President and the deep reverence it cherishes for his memory Appropriate and feeling words were spoken by Alderman Driscol and Councilmen Cush- ing, Barker and Twiss. On motion of AL derman Baldwin the resolutions were or dered transmitted to the Secretary of State to be transmitted to the family. It was left for Mayor Robertson to name the day on which the people should, according to the resolutions, manifest their respect and love for the late President.
 GARFIELD MEMORIAL SERVICE IN ANSoNIA
 The pastors of the four Protestant church
 
 demer, Loomis and Dickinson-have ar- ranged to hold union Garfield memorial service at 3:3O p. m. on Sunday next in the Opera House, which has been kindly put at their disposal. The music will be rendered by the united choirs of the four churches the Episcopal, Congregational, Methodist and Baptist-under the general direction of the choristers, with Wm. W. Joy as leader and James V. Wightman as organist. The large organ recently purchased by the Odd Fellows' Lodge has been loaned for this occasion. The members of the soldiers association have un- dertaken the draping of the Opera House Donations of flowers are especially requested to be left at the Opera House between 12 m. and p. m. on Sunday. A collection will be taken at the service which will be immedi ately forwarded to Cyrus w. Field, as Anso- nias contribution to Mrs. Gar6eld's fund. NOTES.
 In accordance with the action taken Tues ! day, the Superior Court remains adjourned until next Tuesday.
 Arrangements were made yesterday for the appropriate draping of Center church in | mourning, and the preliminary steps were I begun. The draping of churches in the city | to greater or less extent will no doubt be ! general throughout the city. Definite ar
 engagements for special service at Center | church Sunday will be made to-day. The County Court House building has been very tastefully dressed in mourning by it's | ianitor, Mir. Joseph R. Warren. Festoons of black and white cambric gre neatly arranged | over the front with rosettes at the diverging 1 points, and over the date of the buildings | erection, in the central point, is large wreath. MT. Warren was assisted by Mir. Edward F. Stevens, of the court, and corps
 of men. The City Hall decoration is exten- 1 sive and was under the direction of Fire Marshal Kennedy. Central in the draPery | is a large picture of the late President. | Tlse private displays throughout the city were greatly increased in number by yester-
 day noon. Everywhere private residences in | all parts of the city bore to greater or less | degree tokens of the national sorrow. Many large manufactories are decked in mourning l There were a great many strangers from neighboring towns in the city yesterday. Mail cars on Hartford trains rushing by bore
 the tokens of the national grief, and loco | motives on the Air Line railroad were decked | in mourning. transparency on Chapel street read 'We mourn our President" Some of the larger stores are profusely and even elegantly trimmed.
 The college buildings on the campus were l finely dressed in mourning yesterday, and late yesterday afternoon the theological build | ings were being dressed.
 Rathbone Lodge No. l, K. of F., at their | regular meeting last evening voted to drape
 their lodge room in mourning sixty days in
 memory of our deceased President. ,fon io1l l finely dressed are those of Henry Hooker & Co. and A. T. & c. B. Demarest. The West Haven horse cars are also draped. The fire steamer houses are also very tastefully l draped.
 TRIBUTE.
 Our nations choice, its love and head, Alas Alas is dead, is dead
 He fell by dassard traitors hate, Has left weeping, mourning state The North, the South, the East and West Alike shall mourn the de ad at rest Each sex, each race the high and low, foreign thrones. bowed in