The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-12-10

ANEbCA O1 NloAioho.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, December 1.-The
mortal remains of Thomas A. Hendricks,
the fifth Vice President of the United
States to die during his term of office, were
conveyed to the tomb to-day. The event
was made memorable in many respects by
the presence of a tremendous concourse of
people from all parts Of the Nation to wit.
ness the simple rites which preceded the in
terment. The presage of Indictment heather
on the day of the funeral, which was given
yesterday, was verified only to the extent
of a wintry, leaden sky, and a thick atmos-
phere during the early hours unusual to
this latitude. The heavy fog of the pre-
ceding afternoon still hung over the city
when the day broke, but as the hours wore
on lifted somewhat and became less inn
penetrable.
The early morning trains on all the rail-
ways brought delegations from the Ma
tlonal Capital and all the leading cities of
pie from all the interior cities and hamlets
OF Central Indiana and Illinois.
DISTINGUISHED
The Cabinet was represented by Secretary
of State Bayard, Secretary Of the Interior
Lamar, Secretary of the Navy Whitney,
Secretary of War Endicott, and Postmaster
General Villas.
The Supreme Bench of the United States
was represented by Associate Justices Mat.
th. VS. and B%latchford.
The u s. Senate was represented by Sem
Conger, Blair, Dolph, Vest, Beck, Camden,
Vance, Jones, Voorhees,, Payne, Palmer
and Harrison.
The committee representing the Honse of
~Representati9es was composed of v: R.
Morrison, J. Blount, a.. A. Herbert, W. 9.
Holman, W. N. Springer, W. P. Hepburn,
y. B. Ward, W. W. Phelps, j. ]. Kemer,
Thomas Ryan n p. Dunn. The humber
of active and ex-members Of the lower
House present in addition to those named
was very large.
The Governors of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois
and Kentucky. were present, attended by
their stats and numerous State officers.
Major General Schofield was the chief
representative of the q. 8. army present.
Ex-President Rutherford B.. Hays and
General William L. Sherman were distin-
guished guests, the latter accompanying q
delegation from st. Louis.
SCENES ON THE STREETS.
The official and other notable delega-
lions we're met on their arrival by local
subcommittee and given tickets of admis-
sion to ST. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, to
be present at the church services, and as
signed positions in the funeral column.
The train arrivals swelled the multitude
on the streets to an extent to impede the
ordinary progress on all the chief thor
oughfares. Washington street presented q
Qack mass OF humanity hours before the
services were entered upon at st. Paul's,
and long before the passage of the column
the windows of its business blocks were
filled with occupants. The eye rested on a
waiting multitude, which occupied appar-
emily every vantage point along the broad
t~horoughfare.
Perhaps the most effective draping is that
at the post-office building, where wide
bands of black cover the wall space of the
flrst story, leaving only the doors and win
dOUC UIGIhta not q lima n cnnf ~ rrl:k-
r~elieves the entire building.
The County Courthouse, where the re-
mains lay in state until Monday evening,
and the State House, are tastefully draped,
but in much less elaborate style, ow-
teriors. A striking feature of the drap-
cry of buildings is the almost universal
use OF white material as a border, or
I'm bows or rosettes upon the black. Le-
gends are very few. One business house on
Washington street has the words, Il am
free at last'-the last words of the dead
Vice President. Portraits of the deceased.
all shrouded in black, are profusely hung in
windows. The general effect tells in mute
~eloquence of the high respect with which
the people of Indianapolis regarded their
feliow-townsman, and of the tender sympa-
thy which moves them to thu try to miti.
gate the grief Of her upon whom the blow
of this National bereavement has fallen
with heaviest force.
LAST LooK AT THE DEAD.
At 9o'clock Mrs. Hendricks entered the
room for her last leave-taking, companie
by her brother and Mrs. Morgan. The or