The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-09-30

Why stand We idle waiting
For reapers more to come?
The golden morn is passing,
Why sit ye idle, dumb?
Thrust in your sharpened sickle
And gather in the grain:
The night is fast approaching
And noon will come again.
the Master calls for reapers,
And shall He call in vain?
Shall sheaves lie there ungSthered,
And waste upon the plain?
Mount up the heights of wisdom
And crush each error low;
Keep back no words of knowledge
That human hearts should know.
Be faithful to thy mission
In service of thy Lord;
And then Golden ehaplst
Shall be thy just reward
Rev, Charles S. Pomeroy delivered the final /
PRAYER and bendecition, after which the Wash |
ington Marine Band played "Nearer, My God I
to Thee"
A few minutes before IL O'Clock the military
bodyguard from Washington moved up the |
east incline, entered the pavilion. halted at the
bier, lifted the casket containing the nations |
dust, ornamented only by the Queen Victoria /
wreath and John Hoey's sage palms, and rev.
erentlv bore it on their broad ana powerful |
shoulders to the elaborate funeral car
lii waiting hear the east entrance. I'M
posing as was the cenotaph i'll the
park pavilion, this sombet carriage of the dead
was even more so. Massive in It's proportions,
rich in its decorations, and solemn suggestive
ness in all its parts, its general effect was peou
iarly and lastlngly impressive. 1t was built in
the canopy form, On ponderous trucks, and
topped with roof sloping to and ending in
parallelogram, on which rested the typical
black urn. The lowest portion nearest the
ground was trimmed in heavy black
OF
q massive black fringe and heavy cord.
Behind heavy Grape hanging, set of
with silver fringe, we're barely visible the stars
and stripes of the national emblem. The black
surface above was festooned with immortelles.
while the three steps leading up to the floor OF
the car were edged with white, and the corner
holdings covered with heavy black velvet.
The cstafalque proper, resting on the floor,
was trimmed with heavy vertical folds of
black broadcloth, the prevailing material
throughout, edged at the top with sill
yer fringe, and set off with heavy clusters of
black Grape. A white strap was attached tc
each of the four sides to hold the coffin in
place. A black column, trimmed in bands of
white, rose from each of the four corners of the
car, and was supplemented by draped battle
flag carried through the dust and blood and
heat of the day at Chickamauga. From the
upper step rose the Egyptian columns, three
on side, or Blk in all, supporting the canopy,
and trimmed with immorteles md heavy ver-
ticat folds Of black Black festoons, edged
with silver trimmed with rosettes and wreaths
of immortelIes, depended from the roof
on the outer surface. The roof was covered
with folds of heavy black, trimmed with white
rosettes and wreaths Of immortelles, with
rayed ceiling of red white and blue on the
background. Back and white pllmes orna-
mented the roof and surrounded the urn,
which rested on the top, while eight small
wreaths of immortelles were attached to the
sides. Some idea of the massive character OF
the car can be obtained from
statement of its dimensions The
urn was twenty feet, while the platform itself
measured eight by sixteen feet, and the bier
twenty-eight inches by seven feet. -Four black
guy-ropes depended from the corner posts, and
were held by black grooms, who were thus en-
ableo 10 steady the motion or the car over
rough places; and prevent ito 6waying to and
fro on its journey to the cemetery. Twelve
coal-black horses, four abreast, and covered
with broadcloth neck and body cloths. edged
with silver fringe, drew the 6omber object
Black and white plumes waved from their
heads, While groom at the head OF each outer
horse controlled its progress by black-and-
white halter-lead.
The only incident which occurred at the
pavilion was the request of Grandma Garfield
for a drink of water. Many persons construed
this as an indication that the old lady was
faint, Such was not the case, however. -
The remains having been placed in the fu'
neral car, the mourners retired from tho
pavilion and took their places in the carriages
assigned to them. Mrs. Garfield, heavily
yelled, entered the first one with the dead
Presidents mother, and the boys, Harry,
James and Abram. Col. Corbin, with Miss
Mollie Garfield and young Irwin, entered the
second The relatives and friends came next,
followed by the guard of honor, and the
members of the Cabinet and their wives, ex-
President and Mrs. Hayes, ex-Secretary Evarts,
the Judges of the Supreme Court, the members
of the United States Senate and House OF Rep
resentatives, the several State Executives and
the remaining occupants of the platform, to-
| geher with the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland, the Mayors OF cities, and the
members of various Aldermanic bodies and the
numerous local committees.
The funeral-car proceeded beyond the City
| Hall on Superior street, and stopped until the
first carriage started. AS the remaining carriages
followed up, IT continued Its Journey until 1t
reached Erie street and the massive arch at that
| point Turning into Euclid avenue famous as
perhaps the handsomest in the world, and
decorated as it probably never will be again,
with all the badges of mourning and insignia
of grief, it joined i'll the procession of military
organizations, Masonic societies and all the
numerous civic and other organizations, and
| slowly wendell its way, to the sound Of funeral
dirges, to the cemetery five miles away.
Though the several divisions dropped rather
promptly and gracefully into line, it soon be-
came too painfully apparent that there was al
together too much of the procession, and yet
not few societies were crowded out. owing to
| their late and unexpected arrival, or left with
the cold consolation of being privileged
to drop in at the rear, when it was
morally impossible for them ever to reach the
cemetery, if they stayed there until the head
had arrived at Lake View, witnessed the obse-
uues, and should be ready to turn round and
come home. AS matter of fact, the tail of
the procession rested down town while the
| head was at the cemetery, while, if ev-
cry society and club which wanted to
march had persisted in doing So,
| the procession would have been swollen
to unreasonable proportions. The military
| presented magnificent scene. The column
was headed by that veteran volunteer organiza-
ton, the Boston Fusileers who bad travelled
! from Massachusetts Ia order to pay last trib-
ute to their deceased comrade by participating
in the obs9quies.
! Arrived at the cemetery, the pall-bearers
alighted and took their positions on either side
of the carpet walk to the vault, while the two
eldest sons Of the dead President, Harry and
James, joined those on the right in company
I
and Swain. Mrs. Garfield sat at
her carriage window, her veil re-
moved, and her fearless eyes revealing
the mental struggle she was undergo
| ing in her determination to bear up bravely
under her load of grief. The steps to the vault
were carpeted with flowers, and on either side
| of the entrance were an anchor of tuberoses
| and Cross while smilax and eyergreens were
festooned above. A heavy, black canopy was
! stretched over tho steps from which the exer-
/ cises were to be conducted.
/ At $50 O'Clock the procession entered the
| gateway, which was arched over with black,
! with appropriate inscriptions In the keystone
were the words +" Come to rest" On one side
were the words, clay him to rest whom we
have learned to love )" on the other, "Lay him
| to rest whom We have learned to trust Amass-
i've cross OF eyergreens swung from the center
| of the arch. The United States Marine Band.
! continuing the sweet, mournful strains it
had kept up during the entire march,
entered first. Then came the Forest City Troop,
of Cleveland, which was the escort of the Presi-
dent to his Inauguration. Behind it came the
| funeral car, with its escort of twelve United
| States artillerymen, followed by ba TALON of
knights Templar and the Cleveland Grays. The
mourners' carriages and those containing the
! guard of honor comprised all OF the procession
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