Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-23
In 0fher CifiA
WHAT Is BEING SAID AND DONE N REFERENCE
To TIE DEATH AND SUCCESSION.


To THE DEATH AND SUCCESSION.
The ST. James Episcopal church at Elberon
where President Garfield attended devotional
service the SUNDAY before he was shot is heavily
drapcd in mourning. The scat he occupied is
also covered with drapery. There have been
many people at Elberon to-day % see the cottage
In which the President passed his last hours OF
suffering At the desire Of Mr.. Francklyn thss
owner OF the cottage no one is allowed to visit
the rooms occupied by the presidential party.
The soldiers who acted as guards for the cottage
have broken camp and returned TO Governors
Island
Wade Hampton told a Charleston Nfars and
courier reporter yesterday that he thought
PRESIDENT Arthur would follow n conservatives
course, not only from his own CONVICTIONS but
because public opinion viii demand this of him.
Inc sympathy expressed by the south for Gem.
Iarheld should disarm sectional luminosity. and
the man or the party who would seek TO revive
this FOR political ends would incur and deserve
the prompt condemnation Of the whole couatr,n
MI John Walter. MP, proprietor OF the Lon
doh Inaes, who Is now on visit to the United
States. sent last night To his journal the follow
ing telegram from Chicago: The mournful as
| pect OF this city. in which all the public build
| ings. hotels. and principal stores and priyate
residences are dlal'ed In black. hears witness To
the deep and universal sense OF n national be-
rcavement which peryadcs all classes prrsi-
dent Garfield was not merely respected as the
Chief Magistrate of the great Republic; he was
regarded as the representation OF all the best
and nobest qualities which can adorn a private
citizen and his loss is felt TO be irreparahle"
The total subscriptions to the Garfield fund
are now SEQ ga -.
At the meeting of the Society of the Army OF
the Cumberland. i'm Chattanooga. Yesterday
resolutions appointing a Garfield monumental
committee were adopted. The committee are
10 submit their plans at the next meeting of the
society, and the place for the erection OF the
monument Is TO be hereafter considered. Gen.
Il of Ill.
next meeting memorial address on tie life and
services of the late member of the society,
President Garfield.
Quite large number of the surviving menu
bers of company A. LIST Maryland cavalry. c !. A.,
met at Gaithersburg, Md. TO hold their thir-
teenth annual reunion. The meeting was called
TO order and presided over 10y Gen Frank A.
Bond; Geo. r. Rice. secretary. Appropriate
resolutions having been adopted. the meeting
was adjourned out of respect TO the memory OF
President Garfield.
There has been a change in the arrangements
made by the Ohio state officials respecting the
funeral The program is now that GOV Foster
and stall and state officers will leave Columbus
Tonight and meet the remains at the state line
and accompany them To Cleveland. remaining
until after the funeral on Monday.
Active preparations are heing made in San
Francisco for the celebration of the obsequies of
! the late President. The most notable incident
in connection with the applications for places i'm
the line is the request of the father professor
Many people visited the Adams express Office,
! at Harrisburg on "Wednesday to see the furnture
/ used in the room i'm the Francklyn cottage at
! Elberon i'm which President Garfield died These
melancholy relics were being carried to Mentor.
ONO. 10y the express company, and were COM
| signed TO Captain Rudolph. Mrs Garhelds
! brother. Among the articles were the bed i'm,
which the President lay. and the reclining chair
presented by Mr.. John Hoey.
! THE FATAL RESULT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
ANERTfD.
DR.. Frank III. Hamilton i'm an interview with
a New York Tribune reporter YESTERDAY, said:
:" However much We individually or collectively
may have made ourselves liable to Just criticism
/ in the matter of diagnosis or prognosis and
whatever doubts NAV be entertained by medical
men as to the proprctt of the treatment i'm GER
tain respects. cannot believe that one itelligent
surgeon will hereafter think that at any period
/ in the progress of the case the ball or the frag-
ments OF bone which it sent before if could have
/ been successfully removed: nor, indeed. that
! any serious attempt in that direction would not
| have resulted in speedy death. Viewing the
case in the light of our present knowledge / am
prepared TO affirm that surgery has no resources
10y which the fatal result could have been averted
This was the sad consolation which felt iusti-
fled i'm giving to the grief-stricken wife and FAM
lily, and which all my associates believe We cam
give to an afflicted people,
In Other Lands.
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY AND COINCIDENCE
Yesterday dispatches We're received from a.
number Of foreign courts all couched i'm the
most sympathetic language. President Grevy,
OF France, asks that the expression of his SYM
pathy should be conveyed to Mrs. Garfield
| whose carriage during the painful ordeal to
which she was subjected had called forth his
sincere admiration. The deputy-governor Of
Canada the king Of Italy. the sultan of Turkey,
the king of Belgium. Sir Edward Thornton. late
British minister at Washington. the governments
of Adelaide and South Australia. the govern
ment of Roumana. all sent messages of condo
lence. To each of them suitable replies were
sent. and Secretary Blaine instructed the minis
tiers to Great Britain. Belgium, Italy and other
Kingdoms to make public acknowledgment of
TIE tributes of respect so freely paid. At a
meeting in Vienna yesterday resolutions of SYM
pathy were passed and speeches made 10y Judge
Field WhiteIaw Reid and others
on receipt of the news AT PaSo del Norte,
Mexico OF President Garfislds death all build
ings occupied 10y Americans We're draped i'm
mourning, and the Mexican ha.- 1t the military
post was placed AT hail-InaSt.