New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-21
THE DAY AFTER AT ELBERON.

THE DAY AFTER AT ELBERON.
SCENES ABOUT THE FRANCKLYN GOTTA GE-MRs.
GARFiELD's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF PREsI
DENT ARTHURs FRIENDS-ARRIVAL OF ONE
OF GENERAL GARFIELDs SONS.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRI3UNEi
ELBERoN Sept. 20-The SUMS face wore deep
coppery tint as he looked up the waters this
morning and threw his earliest rays upon the
closed shutters of the cottage of death The wind
which for a week had been coming from seaward
and at times blew gale, came now from the west
and was hushed to gentle zephyr. The billows
which for days had lashod the sands in anger now
murmured softly of that eternity of which they
were the fittest symbol. The sky cloudless,
but mellow haze hung the ocean obliterating
the horizon line and blending sea and sky in one.
A single craft miles distant, floating it seemed
upon nothing like soul just parted from time was
making its slow way with al sails set to catch the
| breeze toward the north.
At the cottage the quiet of death prevailed. At
n little distance all sides, armed sentncls with
liked bay Onets paced their beats in silence. guar
dians it seemed of that border line between now
and hereafter, beyond which the living might
never pass. The hag which since the arrival of the
!. President at Elbcron has been loating from pole
thrust out of an upper window of the cottage, was
draped with black, but beyond this outward
sign of mourning apparent. The first corners
the journalists, but in their dCmcanor the
tomary cagcrness of competition was not apparent.
j Fifty million people would before night read the
truths they had TO gather but their subject OF
inquiry WAS death and mourning, and decorous
propricty bclitting the occasion always to be
3 respected.
BY halfpast dozen people had gathered in
groups upou the porchcs of the hotel Doctors Bliss
Hamilton and Agnew in consultation at
that portion Of the hotc! the cottage where
lay thc remains OF tsffan-Sho na,f oeeftfor ceven
weeks the object Of their solictude and skill. They
talked of the events Of the night just past and of
1 the nights and days which had preceded it. They
talked of the coming autopsy and agreed that it
4 should he osponcd until the arrival in the after
4 noon of their Washington associates III the medical
4 councils upon the case.
DIR. Bliss said in regard to the immediate cause of
q the Prcsdcut's death that he believed it resulted
from the coagulation of blood. which the heart in
q it's cnioeblcd condition unable To force of
General Swam." he said. had evidently not at
z first fully appreciated the miuincncc Of the crisis.
but had called DIR. Bliss Immediately. 81 stepped
9 in at once" said the Doctor. and n ray of lgh,
e fell across the invads face said. My God. he is
dying. Send for Mrs. Garfield IL was virtually
g painless death. He suffered Mt Grst. bnt uncon-
q seriousness came anu with that his suilcrngs were
81 at an cnd'
a AZ half past 10 Secretaries Window, Kirlwood
Y and Hunt and Postmaster r General James arrived at
8 Elbcron and wcro invited Mt to the Attorney
u hcncraIS cottnge, situated about aS lar TO In"
northeast of the hotel the Francllyn cottage in
which the dead President lay is to tho southeast.
a There they remained during the forenoon discussing
d the details of the events which had just transpre
" in which they were all 80 deeply interested. a
hall hour later General Grant with his son and {,
81 friend drove up and the exPresident spent hour
ISIn gathering information of the last hours Of
President Garfield
q Meanwhile the undertaken and his assistants had
arrived and were preparing the body OF the lresl-
lI,tl tnI,f and h,,r5s al hn1
showed the loss Of flesh to degree painful to look
n upon. Only the face preserved anything like the
~ appearance when III health. The beard III a nea-
e sure contributed to this serving conceal the ho-
4 lowness of the cheeks. The body was laid upon
n rubber cloths placed upon the floor To await che
d autopsy which was to take place in the afternoon.
DnTing the forenoon several hundred people as
"a for the most part people who had no other object
" IA coming than to see the place where the dead
n PRESIDENT lay 1t was an orderly, quiet, well
In the afternoon the verandas of the Elberon
IA Hotel were crowded with visitors, while the drives
were thronged with carriages, a good many init;
III mate friends of President Arthur, who returned
"A with hun to Now-Iorll on his special train, were
n Police Commissioner French, George Bliss John
n T. ,Lydeeker r G Van Wyck and other local poll
4 the hotel were General Grant General Horace
y *. Porter, Judge Lathrop, Albert Daggett ex-Con-
a gresham llasey, of Newark Congressman Harden
n burgh, Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey Controller
n Wright General Perrine, General Mot, T.. }. An,
derson Secretary Kelsey and other State officers q
Es New-J ersey. Colonel Frederick Grant, Mr.. Reid.
@ private secretary of General Arthur. and many
n others In tue early part of tho afternoon the
terest centred about the cottage of Attorney Con
Es eral MacN eagh where President Arthur and the
Cabinet were In consultation. Later in the da !
n the autopsy occupied public attention. Numerous
reports as to the position of tic bullet had been put
N ia circulation.
Il Much sympathy was expressed by all for Mrs.
M Garfield Letters and kilograms of coincidence
"a came from, all parts, of the country and from
u Europe. Those who had access to Mrs Garfield
u during the day say she bore up bravey under the
severe trla Stories that she had tainted and that
d she was utterly broken down were in circulation.
k5 but they were untrue. She maintains the de-
N meanor and Christian confidence that she has dis
q played oil along. OF course she was unutteraby
sad ana III her face written tho fact that the
lght OF her life had gone out. In her deneanor she
~ bore up like Il brave Christian woman.
"A During the afternoon Harry Garfield arrived
w from Williams College. HIS first interview with
81 his mother was very affecting HIS brother james
W did not come with him, being detained on account
IA OF sickness. The youngest child will remain al
n Mentor and probably join the funeral cortege nj
Cleveland. During the afternoon the servants Were
A engaged III packing up the furniture and Other
"A things brought here for thcir comfort. BY night
E this work was about completed. With the excep
n ton of some few articles belonging in Washington
the personal property brought here by Mrs. Garfield
81 will be forwarded to Mentor.
n Shortly after noon the process of embalming tn,
Presidents body was begun by man named
81 Walsh, from New-York. solution of arsenic wa'
81 injected into the vens and the rest of the worl
"a was delayed till after the autopsy had been held
"a Later in the day suphate of zinc injected int
n he veins, and the work of embalming was ther
n finished Benedict, the undertaken from New York
arrived at the cottage to day and made the Deces