The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-10-05


And day begins to fades
Why stand ye idle, waiting,
For reapers more TO come?
The golden morn is passing.
Why sit We idle, dumb.
Thrust in your sharpcne'i si.-..ls,
And gather in the grain;
The night is fast approaching,
And soon will come again.
The Master calls for reapers,
And shall He call in vain?
Shall sheayes lie there ungathered.
And waste upon the plain
Mount up the nights 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 chaplet
Shall be thy first reward.
DIR. Charles s. Pomeroy then de-
hvered the final prayer and benedic-
ton.
MARCH TO THE CEMETERY.
There were a few moments of COM
motion and of preparation. The
Washington Marine Band played
Nearer, My God, To Thee" The
funeral procession moved from Mon
umental Park at five minutes before
II o'clock. The time occupied in
moving the casket from the pavilion
to the funeral car was about fifteen
minutes. A corps of U. S. marines
formed parallel lines from the east
side of the pavilion to the east en-
trance to the Park, through which
the casket was born on the shoul-
ders of the U. S. artillerymen to the
funeral car, followed by the mourn
ers, who took seats in the carriages.
No one excepting the family, mem
bers Of the several committees, and
distinguished guests were admitted
within the gates of the Park. The
military presented
a 7NL-sIss
The column was headed by that
veteran volunteer organization, the
Boston Fusileers, who have travelled
from Massachusetts, in order to pay
a last tribute to their deceased COM
rade by participating in the obse-
quies. They were followed by COM
panies Il and + of the Seventy
fourth National Guard of New York,
the Buffalo City Guard Cadets, and
the Buffalo City Guard. Next came
the famous U. S. Barracks Band of
Columbus, followed by the Cover
nor's Guard, the Toledo Cadets, the
Washington Infantry of Pittsburgh,
the Gattling Gun Battery and the
Cleveland Light Artillery followed
in platoon front. The procession
was practically the same as that in
dicated in the programme.
THE SIX MILES OF EUCLID AVENUE
through which the procession march
ed were draped and appropriately
decorated. The designs were varied
and handsomely and tastefully ar
ranged. Life size pictures OF the
dead President hung in front OF
many of the handsome mansions
along the avenue, draped with the
National colors, entwined with heavy
black Grape, relieved by festoons of
white. In the lawns in front of
large number of residences tasteful
designs have been erected. Broken
shafts surrounded with wreathes of
white roses festooned with smilax,
massive crosses, sheet anchors, harps
and crowns were seen on every
hand, elaborately decorated with
evergreens and flowers suitable tor
mourning designs. On Prospects,.
second in beauty to Euclid avenue,
and on other streets leading to the
cemetery, there was the same uni
versal expression OF mourning by
the residents. Elegant silk flags
trimmed with black, hung fiom
many a staff, and broad bands of
Grape were stretched from roof to
foundation on many of the residence
es. Every available place for wit
Messing the funeral on Euclid ave.
nue. was utilized. Stands were erect
ed in all the vacant lots on the route
at high prices. Private lawns were
occupied by raised platforms, and
the roof of every portico held as
MANY chairs as could be crowded
upon it. The Ashtabula Battery,
which was stationed along the line
of march, divided into two sections
three miles apart, fred minute guns
as the funeral procession passed.
HEAvYRAIN
DELAYED the funeral procession so
that the line had to be broken be-
fore it reached the cemetery, 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 en-
trance to the cemetery and on either
side of the drive-ways leading to the
vault where, at the request of Mrs.
Garfield, it was decided to place the
remains. The steps to the vault
were carpeted with flowers, and on
either side of the entrance were an
anchor of tube roses and q cross OF
white smilax and evergreen was fes-
tooned above. A heavy black cano-
DIV was erected over the steps from
which the exercises were to be con-
Quoted. At 800 o'clock the process
sion entered the gateway, which was
arched over with black with appro-
pirate inscriptions. In the keystone
were the words "Come Home to
Rest :" on one side were the words,
Law Him to Rest Whom We Have
Learned to Love-" and on the other,
Law Him to Rest Whom We Have
Learned to Trust A massive cross
of evergreens swung from the centre
of the arch. The U. S. Marine Band
continuing the sweet, mourniui
strains it had kept up during the
entire march, entered first. Then
came the Forest City Troop, OF
Cleveland, which was the escor. OF
the President to his Inauguration
Reside them came the funeral car
with its escort, with twelve .. 3. ar,