Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-06
THE FUNERAL CORTEGE.
Removal Of the Assassinated
President from Long Branch
to the Capitol.
Tho Dead Executives Remains
Displayed to the Public at
the Cottage.
Viewing the Remains.

Viewing the Remains.
AT TIE COTTAGE.
Chicago nmcs, sept n.
Just two weeks ago yesterday Gen.
Garfield was brought here. His body
was returned this morning by the same
people who brought him to Long
Branch. lt was the same engine, the
same engineer,-Wm. Page.-the same
conductor, j. N. Whelpley, and the
same superintendent of one OF the al.
visions OF the Pennsylvania railroad,
Mr.. Provost, who accompanies the fu-
neral train 10 Cleveland. There was
was not sufficient notice given Of the
fact that the public would be allowed
To see the body this morning mt the
Fnncklyn cottage 10 bring much of a
crowd. Those who came were the Wis
itOrs 40 Long Branch, the people who
live I'm cottages, the local people from
the villages and the country about.
The notice was not printed i'm New
York early enough To admit Of persons
coming even from that near pOint.
Probably i've hundred gathered about
the ElbeTOn hotel this morning, I'm the
neighborhood of half-past 8, when the
cottage was thrown open for the first
time since the presidents arrival. The
morning was bright and clear. The
air was crisp and fresh. A stin breeze
blew from the sea, making a day i'm
marked contrast 10 the comparatively
sultry one Of yesterday. In front Ct
the ElberOn, on Ocean avenue was
A LONG LINE OF CARRGAGEs,
made up Of the equipages found at
Long Branch. Dog-carts, village
carts, victOrias, landans, and drags
were crowded together just back of the
line Of people that reached around
from the track laid for the purpose of
bringing the president here. Beyond
the ElberOn cottage down 10 the sea-
shore two lines of guards were station
ed at the time the cottage was thrown
open. North OF the Francklyn cot
tage was lawn-tennis ground. The
line Of sentries stood just inside the
tennis netting. Upon the north of the
cottage. just over the Gordon, the peO-
pie came together i'm n V-shape, the
point of the V resting upon the east
porch of the Elberon hotel. The ar
rangements for the public view of
President q rfeld's remains were of n
simple and modest character. The
casKet was placed i'm one of the
west rooms ON the ground floor of the
cottage. The room itself was quite
small. 10 wouldn't hold over fifty
people. The furniture was Of the kind
ordinarily found I'm cottages by the sea.
The llOOr was OF plain oak, unstained.
In the centre of the apartment was n
large Turkish rug. The walls were
painted with some neutral tint.
japanese curtains of u simple charac-
ter hung upon the walls. In the centre,
upon the rug. was
TIE CAsKET,
n very plain black one. with silver or
naments. There was not single
flower I'm the room, or an attempt at
anything like decoration, beyond two
beautiful palms that lay upon the foot
OF the casket. The coffin was opened
as usual where n body is exposed to
public view. An orderly in uniform
was stationed at the north and south
doors. The casket lay with its head
90 the south. Inside the room were
several white house messengers whose
duty Il was TO move the crowd along
rapidly. allowing no one TO stop. At
$50 the doors opened and people were
allowed 20 go in single file During
the hour the room was opened TO
visitors some six hundred people passed
through. Gen. Garnelds body was
dressed in n plain black suit with
black tie at the throat. His face had
changed so remarkably during his i'll
ness that when the people who knew
him came 10 view II this morning they
were absolutely shocked. Very few
would have recognized Il as the face
Of Gen. Garfield at ALL IL was
THE vIsAGE or AN OLD MAN,
worn with the fatigue Of years. His
brow was corrugated and set with deep
lines never known upon IL before July
.. His nose seemed TO have lost its
character; his cheeks were shrunken to
an extreme degree. His countenance
did not show as much emaciation as it
did the evidence Of extraordinary suf-
fering. The sight of his face, so worn
with anguish and torture, affected
many to tears as they passed by the
casket. The bell in the little chapel
near 10y tolled during the hour. The
funeral train was backed i'm a few
moments before the cottage was
opened. The cars were draped in
black and the engine i'm black. The
drapeiies were so closely fastened TO
the cars that there was not flying
streamer anywhere. At n distance
the train looked as IL il were simply
painted black. A depot engine was
used TO back in the cars. The engine
employed TO take the train TO Wash
iugton was left at the Elberon station.