Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Viewing the Remains.-A Great Crowe
of PeOple.-Mrs. GarheId MOVING ner
Effects From the White House.


Effects From the White House.
WASHINGTON. Sept. %. The crowd 10
view the Presidents remains has constantly
Increased. and have been passing the bier. by
actual count, ffty-eight each minute. Al
one o'clock. there was dense mass IN front
of the main stairs on the east front, extend
ing for two squares up East Capital street
| The people from the outlying country, have
been focking to the city, while all the In
coming trains are heavily freighted with those
who are coming to testify their profound
sorrow at the nations bereavement.
A short time since four very elaborate and
exauisitely beautiful flower pieces were re-
ceiyed from the White House and have been
placed at the bier. They were arranged by
Henry p Fisher, superintendent of the White
| House conservatory. The first is a circular
| pillow of white roses representing broken
| shaft and resting upon pedestal OF whlte
roses. Marshal Mel tube roses relieved with
maiden hair ferns. the broken top being OF
purple mmortelles and surrounded by
vs. ite dove with head bent downward toward
the broken shaft.
| Next to this is very elaborate piece. rep
resenting the heavenly gates ajar. The gate
posts are four feet high, surrounded by cir
cular balls of purple immOrtelles. and like
the first composed mainly of white roses.
relieved with others of pale yellow tint, and
with ferns between.
| The posts are half open gates of Marshal
Neil roses and ferns.
The third piece represents a crown of glory
and is also of white roses and ferns, and sur
mounted by a cross of immortelles.
The body will lie in state until Friday noon,
when seats will be placed in the rotunda for
/ .I.x,.s sd Eru,
eral services, which will take place at three
that afternoon. Rev. Frederick Powers, pas
tor of the deceased President, will officiate.
The space will accommodate about !, 500peO-
pie. and only that number of tickets will be
| issued.
Mrs Garfield with her daughter Mollie
| and son Harry, visited the White House this
morning to arrange for the removal of her
personal effects and their shipment to Men
tor She exhibited signs of deep emotion
upon entering the familiar rooms, and her
ewes were sutfused with tears which she made
brave efforts to restrain. The mansion is
draped all over in deepest mourning and is
one of the gloomiest spectacles in the city.
Policemen are stationed at every approach
and no person is allowed to enter without a
pass from the officials in charge.
The fund for Mrs. Garfield exceeds quar-
ter of million.
During the afternoon there were signs that
the body of President Garfield had com
meIced to decompose, and it being under
stood that in such event that it was the wish OF
Mrs. Garfield that the features of her hus-
band should be free from the public gaze.
The lid of the casket was closed this even
ing by order of Secretary Blaine. Funeral
services will take place this afternoon at 3
o'clock in the rotunda, where the body will
remain until taken to the train.
The Philharmonic Society of this city will
render the following selections: anthem
ITO Thee. Oh Lord, Yield NV Spirit,
from the oratario of Saint Paul and familiar
hymns, Jesus Lover OF NY Soul" anC
Asleep in Jesus Blessed Sleep" At the
end of the services the remains will be borne
to the hearse. thence to the Baltimore & Pc
tomac depot, where the same train which
brought them to this city from Long Branch
will convey them to Cleveland for fina
burial
Order of the Procession.
The following is the official programme
for the order of the procession which will
escort the remains from the Capitol to the
depot:
The funeral escort under the command OF
Brevet Maj. Gen. Ayers. Battalion of the
District of Columbia Volunteers. battalion OF
marines, battalion of foot artillery, battery
of light artillery, civic procession under the
command of Chief Marshal Colonel Robert
Boyd, clergyman in attendance, physicians
who attended the late President, guard o.
honor bearers; hearse bearers; guard OF
honor; officers of the army and navy and ma
rine corps in the city not on duty, with
the troops forming the escort, in full dress,
will form right in front and on either side o.
the hearse, the army on the right and the
navy and marine corps on the left. and com
pose the guard of honor The family of the
late President: relatives of the late Presi-
dent ex-Presidents of the L. S. President
Cabinet; Ministers Diplomatic Corps CHIEF
Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court: L. S. Senators: U. s. members of the
House of Representatives Governors Of the
States and Territories. and Commissioners
of the District of Columbia: Assistant Sec
etaries of State, Treasury and Interior De-
partments; Assistant Attorney General
organized societies citizens and strangers
The troops designated to form the escort
will assemble on the east side Of the Capitol
and form line fronting the eastern porticC
of the Capitol precisely at , clock (P. NJ
Friday. The procession will move on at the
conclusion of the religious services at the
Capital, appointed to commence at 3 o'clock,
when minute guns will be fred from the
Navy Yard, by the vessels of war which may
be in port, at Fort Myer, and by the battery
of artillery stationed near the Capitol for
that purpose At the same hour all the bells
in the city will be tolled
The officers of the Army and Navy select.
ed to compose the guard of honor and accom-.
pany the remains to their final resting place.
will assemble at 4 ?. NJ. at the Balti-
more 4 Potomac r. X. depot. where
they will receive the body of the late
President and deposit it in the car prepared
for the purpose.
Signed ROBERT +. LINCOLN.
Secretary of War
WM. II. HrxT,
Secretary Of the Navy
J. DENT
President of Board of Commissioners.
On arriving at the t,epot tho remains ~;ll