The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-10-07
the FINAL oBsEQuIEs.
The Solemn and Impressive Fu-
neral Ceremonies Over the
- Nations Dead.
An Eloquent Funeral Discourse
Delivered by the Rev.
Isaac Errett.
An Imposing Pageant, Testifying to
the Universally Of the Peo-
y Piles Sorrow.
ETC.. ETC.. ETC., Etc.

a CLEVELAND, September "a.
The funeral train arrived at Euclid Ave.
nue. Station, in this city, at 1:17, and was
met by an immense concourse of people.
The police arrangements were admirable,
so crush was prevented. The locomotive
was heavily draped in deep black on the
boiler-head, and all the cars were elaborate.
ly draped. After the train stopped the Ia
dies were escorted to the carriages. The
wives of the Cabinet officers went first; then
the distinguished widow, supported on one
side by Secretary Blaine, and on the other
by her son Harry. The ladies, having been
placed in the carriages, were sent to the
places provided for them at private resi-
dences, Mrs. Garfield and children being
the guests of James Mason. Grandmother
Garfield and the two younger sons, besides
other near relatives, are at the house Of
General Sheldon.
The body Of the late President was then
taken from its car by detachment Of the
regular army, under Lieutenant Weaver,
and borne on their shoulders to special
hearse in waiting, followed by distin-
guished guard of honor, marching two by
two, an army and a naval officer abreast.
General Sherman and Rear Admiral Nichols
were first: then General Sheridan and Ad-
miral Rodgers, General Hancock and Ad.
miral Porter, and Generals Drum and
Meigs passed, with other naval officers not
named. Then followed Chief-Justice
Waite and other Supreme Court Justices,
members of the Cabinet, Governor Foster
and staff and escort, and the committee.
At 1879 the coffin, on which were palms and
large wreath fragrant with tuberoses, was
placed in a hearse, and the line Of march
formed in the following order:
Colonel. Wilson and staff, Silver Greys'
band, First City troops.
Hearse and horses, guarded by Knights
Templars in column of threes, and flanked
by tenshorses of the City troop on each side.
Cleveland Crews and 42d Ohio volunteers.
The Cabinet, General Sherman and aids,
and guard of honor composed of officers of
the army and distinguished guests.
While the procession was forming, the
band played a solemn dirge. The march
was by the nearest route, down Euclid
avenue to Erie street, then to Superior, and
then to the park, to the pavilion, where the
remains were placed without special cere-
mony, to lie In state, the casket reposing on
the dais, surrounded by costly and elaborate
floral pieces.
SEPTEMBER %.
The Nations dead lay in state to-day on
the foMer-wreathed catafalque in Monu-
mental Park, while from early morn till far
in the night steady stream of sympathiz-
ing humanity filed into the pavilion, gazed
1nx- molly, fho NJ rrbi ol,
inclosed his dust, and passed on to make
room for the remainder of the living, ever
moving line. In the meantime, thousands
on thousands of others were vending their
way to Lake View Cemetery, or listening to
the loving words which fell from the lips
of reyerent men, who recounted the good
ness and the virtues of the stricken chief
and sought to reconcile the ways Of God to
man.
Special trains from every direction poured
their, living freight into the already over
crowded city, and still the crowds came,
eager to pay the last tender tributes of love
and homage to him whom the Nation itself
had loved and reyered the most.
Last nights work on the arches, the pa
yilion and the catafalque practically resulted
IN IUc OmpiCtlOu VI OuC uCVOt0SIOuSS tuOuxu
1t was not until tonight that the drapery
was flung over the pavilion dome and al
lowed to fall in graceful festoons down its
star-bestudded surface. The one beautiful
object on which all eyes rested to-day as the
crowds approached the park from the west,
in addition to the manifold beauties dis
closed yesterday afternoon, was striking
model of decorative art over the arch which
spans the west entrance. This veritable
thing of beauty was floral ladder about
four feet in length, composed of immor-
telles and resting against the black covering
of the arch on a slant towards its apex
Between the rungs were the significant
legends:
-Fsg 80
Martyr"