Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-21
OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT ORDERS
Recognizing C. A. Arthur as Presi-
dent
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ]


ELBERoN, Sept. 90, a. m.-Ere this hour
to the civilized world has been announced the
news of President Garfield's death, which oc-
Cured last night at 1875 by our time.
Though not unexpected, his demise was
rather sudden, for the physicians had given
correspondents and others not about the bed
side to understand that the sufferer might
linger day or two longer. From perfect
quiet and comparative confidence, the night
being quiet and uneventful one, the transi-
tion to scene of eart-throbbing excitement
came without word of warning.
Ladies and gentlemen were chatting about
the hotels in the usual listless way. Col.
Rockwell had just been over and said every
thing was all right and that he believed the
President would pull through yet. The first
word of warning came when a messenger
came flying across the lawn. He said that he
was after some mustard and that the President
was sinking very rapidly. Then the guards
about the cottage were doubled and for ten
minutes there was a narrowing anxiety,
broken by the intelligence that came moment
later that the President was dead.
A messenger went flying for the members
of the cabinet, and few minutes after gal
loplng horses brought them to the porch of
the Elberon, where General MacVeagh met
them. James, Kirkwood, Window and Hunt
broke through the crowd of correspondents
assembled on the porch, and walked slowly
through the darkness across the lawn to the
Francklyn cottage. A mounted orderly cried
out:
"Who goes therer'
And almost as soon as he spoke the officer
in command of the guard cried out, "give
way for the members of the cabinet" They
returned separately later, except Gen. Mac
Veagh, who made an official state
ment of the occurrence. They
had but little to say. The shock of the
sudden death appeared to have stunned them.
Mrs. Garfield at last had broken and was weep
ing bitterly and Mrs. Rockwell was with her
while little Lulu Rockwell was with Mollie
Garfield.
At the time the President was announced
dead the following persons were in the death
chamber: Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton,
Mrs. Garfield, Mollie Garfield, Col. Rockwell,
Mrs. Rockwell, Gen. Swain, DIR. Boynton,
Lulu Rockwell, j. Stanley Brown, and attend
ants n. L. Atchison, John Richard Lancaster
and Daniel Spriggs, the Presidents body SER
want 80
At the evening bulletin his condit ion was
thought a trife more comfortable. There
was feeling of congratulatien on all sides
that he had escaped another rigor which had
been anXiously feared since the chill of the
morning. DR.. Hamilton during the early
evening talked even little hopefully, and the
people about the hotels prepared to retire at
the usual hour, having almost no fears of ill
news before morning. few of the more
vigilant newspaper correspondents and re-
porters were seated in the waiting room of the
Elberon, interviewing DR.. Boynton, little
before 10 o'clock. He was very conservative,
and expressed but little hope. He said that
anything might be expected. As he was
talking d messenger came and logged his
arm. He was called away, and returning
after a moment, said the President was
sinking very fast. A moment later he dis
appeared. About five minutes later, Warren
Young, one of the executive clerks of the
White House, came out, running, saying:
can is over! The President is dead !"
This news scattered the crowd of cores
pondents, who dashed away to the telegraph
offices.
THE MESSAGE TO ARTHUR.
At seven minutes after midnight General
McVeagh came into the Elberon and said to
the group there assembled: "Gentlemen, I
have here a dispatch which will read to
you"
He then read the dispatch of the cabinet
summoning Vice President Arthur to come
here tomorrow upon the earliest train for the
purpose of taking the oath of office.
SCENE AT THE DEATH BED.
A privileged visitor who was at the Franck-
lyn cottage, gives very affecting picture Of
the scene that occurred in the death chamber,
He says that Mrs. Garfield was seated by the
side of her husband, where she has been nearly
all the time since his death, and that
she refused to leave him a moment.
She holds her husbands hands, and rubs them
as if she hoped to put some life in them.
Mollie Garfield is leaning upon her fathers
shoulder, while Col. Rockwell and Gen.
Swain remain with them, begging them not
to give way to too much grief.
Another eyewitness, who was present dur
ing the close of the struggle in the bed.
chamber, says there was no scene. Mrs. Gar
field retained her wonderful composure to
the last. She sat gazing at her husband
great tears poured fast down her cheeks, but
she said nothing. Every now and then a con
vulsive tremor would indicate that she wal