The Portland daily press., 1881-09-22
THE REMAINS.
How the President Looks in Death.

New YORK, Sept 21.-The Posts Long
Branch despatch says the journalists who have
been so closely watching the Presidents case
these weary weeks were given an Opportunity
for the first view of the body. The President
was laid out in the suit which be wore Inau-
guration day. His left hand was laid across
his breast after the manner he had in life
This was done in order TO make his resem
hlance near to life as possible. The body
was SO greatly sbrunken that artificial means
had to be resorted to to give the latter the APP
pearance of fitting. In addition to the natural
shrinking from his illness, the operation of the
autopsy left the body in an even more emaciat-
ed state. A plaster cast was taken of the face
yesterday as we'll of his right hand. In taking
the cast of his hand it was somewhat discoi-
ored SO that this hand was not seem. The ef-
fects of the oil used upon the face prior to TAX
ing the cast disfgured the features somewhat
and slightly altered the color of the face, so
that the appearance is very much less natural
even than 1t was just after death. The Presi-
dent had massive head and the large bones
show very prominently. His cheeks are fallen
in. His beard has been so arranged about the
parotid gland as to conceal that terrible scar,
and such arrangements have been made about
pillow as still further conceal the swelling
which helped to sap away his life. The un-
dertaker says that in his opinion it will not be
safe to expose the body after it leaves here
The effects Of the fluids used in embalming
are such as to have already hardened the feat
ures.
About three minutes before $50 the doors
were opened, and double line of United
States soldiers, forming part of the guard OF
honor, was formed in front of Francklyn cot
tage. The crowd was large. The people from
all parts of the adjacent country had gathered
at an early hour in all manner of vehicles to
satisfy their curiosity and pay a tribute of re-
spect. The sentries stood at either side of the
entrance. The coffin lay in the hallway on
the lower floor, a soldier at the head and foot
of it, The coffin was black with silver ham
dies. Black rods run along the side, and upon
the top was silver plate with the inscription.
1t was lined with white satin. Across the top
and crossing each other were two long leaves
of palm. Only the face and shoulders were
exposed, and one needed to know all that re-
NAMED of James A. Garfield lay there to re-
call the face SO familiar during life.
The face to those who knew Gen. Garfield
only from his portrait could not have been rec
ognized. Even the features were no longer
there. There was an expression about the
lower lip which those who knew him best
would recognize. The cheeks were gone; the
brow had lost the massive appearance which
had characterized 1t in life. The involuntary
whispered remarked of all as they gazed upon
the loved form with a shudder vast never
should have recognized him. "How he must
have suffered" the shrunken earthly form
told how much 1t was most marvellous that
he lived. AS the crowd slowly entered and
left the hall the bell of the little chapel in the
distance was tolled. Its tone could be only
family heard above the roar of the sea.