Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-27
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air with music. The first melody wa ''Nearer my God to Thse.'', followed, after short interval, by Asleep in Jesus" The l last notes of the latter had not died away when eight stalwart artillerymen, who were 1 to carry the bier, marched slowly up the in l cline to the catafalque and took the burden l upon their shoulders. Slowly they proceed ed back and down the incline to the funeral car, which stood one hundred feet east of the pavilion. ready to receive the coffin, the pillars of the car being wrapped in heavily draped battle flags of Garfeld's command during the war On each side was drawn up a line of military and marines as guard. The car was drawn by twelve black horses capa- risoned with heavy black broadcloth trimmed with silver fringe, and upon the horses' heads
 were heavy sable plumes tipped with white Each horse was led by a colored groom dressed in black and wearing crape upon the arms. Precisely at 12:1o the casket was in it's place at the car. Twelve pail bearers then marched from the pavilion and took
 their station, six on either side of the car.
 At 12:13 the car moved out the gate and then
 the carriages were filed as rapidly as possi-
 clergymen, the next three bore the
 pall-bearers, and then came 8
 carriage drawn by team of
 white horses caparisoned in black. This was
 for the family and relatives. Mrs Garfield
 walked down the incline, leaning on the arm
 OI uSr SOu f1aTrY ana W1GA Lu0Hl @dS 4tL1c
 Irving. Close behind came Grandma Gar
 field leaning on the arm of her grandson
 James. Colonel Rockwell and General
 Swain assisted them into the carriages. The
 ladies sat on the back seat, facing Harry,
 James and Irving. faithful White House
 servant, Daniel Spriggs, sat with the driver
 on the box .ssThe ladies were too closely veil
 ed for their faces to be seen. The next car
 riage carried Miss Mollie and Abram Garfield
 and the father of Mrs. Garfield. The sisters
 of the dead President occupied 8 carriage to-
 gether and 8 dozen other carriages were set
 apart for the other relatives of the family.
 Colonel Rockwell and Captain Rudolph with
 Dr. and Mrs. Boynton, General and Mrs.
 Sheldon, Mrs. Rockwell and chil-
 dren, Colonel Rockwell, General Swain
 and Colonel Corbit, Private Secretary Brown
 and Warren Young, Sergeant Densmore and
 Messrs. Atchison, Recard and Crump of the
 White House. Military and naval officers
 preceded the Cabinet Secretaries Blaine
 and Windom and their wives occupied one carriage. then came Secretary and Mrs. Hunt and Secretary and Mrs. Lincoln, Secretary Kirkwood and wife, Attorney General Mac Veagh and Postmaster General James and their wives, ex President and Mrs. Hayes and daughter and the Hon. William Evarts. The Senators rode in parties of two and four headed by Senators Bayard and Sherman The Governors of States came next. The representatives and attaches of the Congressional party, with delegation of prominent citizens from other cities, filled the rest of the carriages. The last carri- age left the square at 1 p. m., and the catafalque stood alone with it's guard of honor, and the crowd kept pressing toward the cemetery.
 THE MARCH TO THE CEMETERY.
 After the funeral car left the park it wound la 4I,zz The body of the procession, which had been | placed in position early, and preceded the l car, now extended far out on the avenue, nearly to the cemetery. As the car moved l slowly up the avenue the throngs of people i on either side reverently uncovered their l heads. maintaining silence as 1t went by. All along the avenue, from the park to the | cemetery, were waiting thousands of people. l Lines of soldiers extending the entire dis | tance of five miles stood on either side of l the street, guard of honor to the remains, | and an impossible barrier to any or turbulence mounted ! guard of twenty men abreast had | an uninterrupted roadway between fixed ] bayonets of the guard of honor. To | estimate the number of people crowded along ! the line of the funeral march as the car bear | ing the dead passed would be practically i'm | possible. They were in every imaginable | position from which view could be ob- | sa1n6Q. 6anKS SIX O06p sbCOu aG tQ0 CurD- stones. Every door step and portico and | window was filled. Many sat upon the house | ops and endured the broiing sun for hours Others perched upon the fences or clambered l ;o positions on the trees, while thousands | moved slowly back and forth alongside the | walk. After the anxiety to see the car and ts contents was the desire to see the sorrow
 ng wife and aged mother, but the drawn cur 5ains of the carriage in which they rode shut put the gaze of the public. The beautiful of the coffin and the elegant taste indicated in the arrangements of the car were the subject of frequent remark. The procession was two and a half hours in pass
 ng given point.
 THE SERVICES AROUND THE GRAVE.
 The head of the procession reached the cemetery entrance at o'clock and passed the patrol, who presented arms. Minute guns the arrival It was 33O before he funeral car entered the cemetery Rain lad been falling steadily for nearly an hour, and the canopy and fower-strewn carpeting beneath were drenched. Thousands of men md women had their clothing saturated. At | he head of the car rode the First Cleveland
 roop, who drew up in line. Next came the Marine band and Columbia Commandery of Washington and Hauselman Commandery of Cincinnati with the Cleveland Grays. The gar was drawn beyond the vault and the in- cline was at once laid, down which the artil-
 cry 6SCOEb CdTElou lno CdShGG huu uODOS1G0u t on the bier within. The carriage contain
 ng Grandma Garfield. Mrs. Garfield and children was halted directly opposite the vault entrance, thus permitting it's occupants 70 view the interior. Mrs. Garfelds fea- ;ures could be seen through her veil and ! the terrible strain she was endur- ng Grandmother Garfield glanced around | with dazed expression ot grief. Neither alighted. The pail bearers took positions at one side of the canopy, with ex-President l Hayes and Bishop BedeH near. At the rear was the German Vocal society. On the | other side stood James and Harry | Garfield, with Secretary Blaine, Gen. Swain | 1olonels Rockwell and Corbin standing by | his side. Harry seemed deeply moved and | ,he expression of James, face was terribly | sad The Marine band played softly ssNear- | sr My God to Thee'' Hon. J. F. Robertson | that Rev. Harrison Jones, chap | ain of General Garield's old regiment would | make an address. MT. Jones said that Gen. eral Garfield had reached his journeys end l when the proud surroundings of glory were l seen. He was lead to inqiure whether this | man was a son of 8 king. Nothing like this | has been seen in the nation before, but he | was no prince. He was freeman and a great | commoner. He was born but few miles l from this spot near the primeval forests, | soil that gave him birth. His life need not l now be sketched, for history, that immortal l conservator of events, will hand down it's episodes and they will live | forever. Reference was made to | tEe universal manifestation of grief l noticed along the route of the fu- 1 neral car from Pittsburg to Cleveland, and | how, especially. workingmen exhibited the 1 deepest emotion. This was because the man I they mourned had been g working man him self and had worked his own way up to his | high station. Not alone laboring men, but l [awyers, physicians and those in all high sta ! lions had joined in common lamentation He 1 had touched them all. The speaker 1 did not care to speak of the punishment | to be meted out to the assassin. | Vengeance is mins, I will repay, saith the | Lord" But even now Guiteau cringes in his | cell and sees the scaffold rise before him and | suffers the terrors of the damned. The l Christian faith of the dead President was | then alluded to and the thought expressed l that having attained the highest rank on | earth it remained alone for God to call him | higher. The coincidence was mentioned that l both Presidents having the name of Abraham