Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-18
IN NIEMORIAM.
Description OF the Memorial Room at Gar
feIt'S Home.
cleveland Cor. Chicago Tribune.

In the unpretentloUs low stone house on
Prospect street in this city, within three
miles of the charming cemetery on Lake
Erie's southern shore, in which President
James A. Garfeld's body rests, live his
daughter Mollie. Your correspondent
heard that a room was being specially pre-
pared for the reception of the offerings
sent from sympathetic people to the wife
of the president they had loved and
lost, and called upon Mrs. Gar
field yesterday. She was found at home
with her family and Grandma Garfield
Harry and James are home from Williams
college to spend their holidays, while the
other two boys and Mollie attend the pub
lie schools of this city. Mrs. Garfield
greeted the caller with the rare womanly
smile that is hers alone, and while she
shrank from the current talk that a descrip-
ton of the room would call out, she in the
end consented to show
THE FAMOUS ROOM
and its contents to the visitor. It stands at
the head of the stairs on the first floor, is
small, high and plain, with ceiling fres-
coed in dark colors and dead white walls. It
is as yet unfinished, so far that ell the
offerings are not in their place. Scattered
round it thickly are stands on which are
mounted the many floral offerings sent
from all parts of the Union while the
president lay dead here. Some are mounted
on wood taken from the Washington and
Cleveland catafalques, some draped in
flags, and some are set in plain frames to
L L. ofss H.
are covered with framed testimonials from
lodge and grange, from soldier and states
man, and the ordinary resolutions of a
campfire of Ohio old soldiers hang side
by side with those of great state. 1t is
evident from their arrangement that none
are valued above each other, but all equal
ly. Gilt and black predominates every
where. Among the most conspicuous trib
utes on the walls is Georgia's sympathy,
as spread on the journal of the legislature,
A copy of that journal resolution, with
the full, bold signature of Speaker Angus
tus o. Bacon, hangs Immediately in front
OF the visitor as he or she enters. Sur
rounding it on every side are framed reso-
lutions from Knights Templar command
cries, with the scarlet Maltese cross standing
out bold and distinct. To the right hangs
the framed resolutions of the citizens of
Fernandina, Fla, in ebony and polished
cedar. Maryland, Virginia, South Carroll
ma, California, Missouri, Nebraska, New
York, Pennsylvania, and nearly every state
in the Union has a place on those walls.
Fer away California sends resolutions
from San Francisco and Sacramento, and
several knights Templar tributes. On
the large marble comfortable in the room
lies the Offering of the citizens of Belfast,
Ireland, in case of rich dark
wood, on the four front corners Of which
are silver shields, and in the cente ra silver,
cross-like plate, on which is engraved
"From the citizens of Belfast, Ireland,
to Mrs. Garfield" Inside is black,
leather-bound volume, its cover relieved by
the dead presidents initials, u. A. g." in
dead gold. Inside are
THE ILLUMINATED RESOLUTIONS.
Another, an English offering, is copy of
the sympathetic resolutions adopted by the
citizens of Kingston upon-Hull, York
shire, inclosed in covers of heavy black
velvet mounted on the edge and corners
with gold, with the fashionable English
style of monogram 81. A. g." in gold Also
With this tribute is poem, each line of
which is written on scroll, so shaped as to
form letter, the whole spelling "United
States of America" and the illuminated
first letters of each line also forming the
words president Garfield" On another
separate stand, to the right of rhe cham
Der, is large, handsome case of cata-
falque wood, glassed and silver-banded,
containing the reverential resolutions
passed by the New York Mining Stock Ex-
change. South Americas respects are en-
bodied in several illuminated resolutions
from Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Chill.
Santiago voices for Chill by the original
resolutions adopted with long list of
Spanish names appended, the whole IL a
leather, gold mounted and ieweled album
Racine, Wis, sent a tribute in the form of
the poem from the soldier monument Of
that city, worked in scarlet silk on
heavy white silk, with a border of ever
greens and the British and American flags
surrounding all. The offerings of the city
co 1ncils of Cleveland and Cincinnati and
that of the Ohio legislature, in trio of
handsome frames, occnpy central posi-
ton on the west wall, while surrounding
them are the contributions of dozen col
leges and universities. Detroit, Columbus,
and st. Louis, in the expression of the re-
spective city governments, are represented
in the collection. The secret society tri-
butes include those from all degrees of
Masonic lodges, Odd Fellows, Foresters,
Knights of Pythias, ETC., from both the
United States and England. BY far the
handsomest pieces come from Boston and
Chicago respectively. Boston's
is the council resolution and in
dorsement by Mayor Green, printed and
bound in heavily gold-mounted case of
rare polished wood, the book itself being
inclosed in a velvet case of rich wine color,
mounted and jeweled. Chicago's tributes
are two. The first is from La Societa Ital
iano Christofro, Chicago, and takes the
form of resolutions on vellum. But the
gem of the collection is on the south wall
in the center 1t consists of the resolu
tons passed by the Union League club of
Chicago in black, and on a heavy white
silk banner, llion-fringed, and mounted
on black velvet. The whole is inclosed in
a massive gilt frame. The chamber is
hardly finished yet and even when COM
pleted will be kept sacred. Mrs. Garfield
was very emphatic in her declaration that
ordinary sight-seers would not be admit
ted
This statesman's death may postpone the in
evitable war between France and Germany, bu