Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-28

Arthur, leaning on the arm OF Secretary
Blaine, and by the members of the cabi-
net and other distinguished persons, and
in quarter of an hour the rotunda was
nearly deserted.
A single gun was fired from Hanne-
valid battery The Second artillery band
played the funeral march, and the pro-
cession moved in the following order
around the south front of the capitol to
| the avenue:
Two battalions District of Columbia militia, ten
companies.
Two companies United States marines.
-Four companies United States Second artillery.
Light battery.
Company A. United States artillery.
Grand Army Republic.
Roscoe Conkling Club.
Boys in Blue.
| Columbia, Washington and De Molay command
cries Knights Templar. of this city, in full
regalia.
Beauseant Commandery Knights Templar, of
Baltimore.
Then came the hearse drawn by six
iron-gray horses, each led by a colored
groom. Following the hearse were
about 100 carriages occupied by officers
of the executive mansion and their wives.
relatives of the late President. ex-Presi-
dents Grant and Hayes, President Arthur
and Secretary Blaine, other cabinet min
listers and their wives, diplomatic corps,
Chief Justice Waite and Associate JUS
tees Harlan, Matthews and Miller. SEN
ators, members of the house, governors
of states, and secretaries and commits
sioners of District of Columbia, Judges
of the court of claims, judiciaries of the
District of Columbia and judges of the
United States court, assistant secretaries
of the state, treasury and interior depart
ments, and assistant postmaster general.
AS the procession moved minute guns
were fired from the military post and
forts surrounding the city and church
bells tolled.
At least 49, 900 people were gathered
about the capitol to witness the start of
the procession, while along the line of
march to Sixth Street the crowd was even
greater than on the 4th of March.
Everywhere it was most orderly and
quiet, and as the hearse containing the
remains moved along the avenue from
the very door of the capitol to the en-
trance of the depot all heads were uncov-
cred. On reaching the depot the mill
tary were drawn up in line on the oppo-
site of the street facing the Sixth Street
entrance. The remains were borne from
the hearse on the shoulders of six SOL
diers of the Second artillery and placed
In the funeral car. Ten officers from the
army and navy were selected as a guard
of honor, and stood with uncovered
heads as the remains were taken from
the hearse and them escorted them to the
car. The diplomatic corps and others
who were not going on either of the
trains did not alight from their carriages.
President Arthur entered the depot with
Secretary Blaine, and after few minu-
ties entered the secretary's carriage and
with ex-President Grant was driven up
the avenue to his temporary home at the
residence of Senator Jones, of Nevada.
AT REST.
CLEVELAND, September 26.-The
funeral car bearing the body of the late
President of the United States. started
from the public square for the cemetery
at 1915 o'clock, Cleveland time. Pre-
ceding it was long line of carriages,
and preceding the carriages were miles
and miles of Odd Fellows, Masons and
Knights Templar. The carriage con-
tanning the relatives and intimate friends
of the deceased followed directly after
the funeral car, and behind these were
miles and miles of United States, state
and municipal military. Behind these
came citizens and distinguished visitors
IN carriages. The procession in all
stretches its magnificent length over a
| distance varlously estimated at from
eight to ten miles. Many of those in
carriages were not able to leave the city
before the funeral car entered the GENE
terry gate.
1t was a magnificent spectacle-the
| grandest ever seen by the hundreds of
thousands assembled here. Not since
the mournful day, sixteen years ago,
when the remains of Abraham Lincoln
were borne through the Forest City, has
anything that could be in any way COM
pared with the solemnity and tasteful
grandeur of this spectacle been seen
| here. And then, there was scarcely half
the number of visitors in the city. and
the population was much smaller Bands
OF music were scattered through the pro-
cess1on, at intervals far enough apart to
prevent dlscordant sounds, and each OF
them with draped instruments and
muffled drums, played some funeral
dlrge or mournful hymn appropriate to
the occasion.
The funeral car was a magnificent
chariot of death, and the coffin was
buried under a profusion of flowers. As
it passed through the dense throngs,
which formed a black morning border
along the entire line of the procession,
men bowed their bare heads in sorrow
and offered every mark of respect in
their power to the memory of the hon
ored dead.
A succession of heavy showers so de-
layed the procession, that the line had
to be broken before it reached the GENE
terry and forming in files on either side
of the avenue for nearly three miles, the
military and civic societies made way for
the funeral car. The state militia were
stationed at the entrance to the cemetery
and on either side of the driveways lead
ing to the vault, where at Mrs Garfield s
request, it was decided to place the re-
mains. The steps at the vault we're car
peted with flowers, and on either side of