The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-28


association with him, the great sum of his daily
life, that expressed the man. and won admiration.
He was patient under the most trying circum
stances but it was not good to press this virtue
in him too closely. Mr.. Hendricks was equally
modest. l have heard him make speeches which
| thought of extraordinary force. but he always
came from the rostrum Or the stump with lack
of self-confdence. He felt that he
had omitted something. That he could
have said something else with greater
success. No matter how warmly the audience,
great or small, evinced its satisfaction, he had
the feeling that he had not done his best Thus
he never boasted of what he had done. He was
always the same quiet, agreeable, courteous gen.
tleman to all alike"
What were his business methods"
VERY systematic. When through with pa
pers he carefully folded them, neatly tied the
red tape about them, as neatly indorsed their
character with name class of case and date. We
have boxes of such papers he has preserved.
Many of them are worthless, but he always
thought he might need them. We will be fear
full to destroy them"
Leaving the law partner and friend for the
house where the distinguished lies, little re
mains to be written. The details of preparation
have all been covered, and there at home, dead,
it seems as it were in life at his Office, one day
is like another. The soldier guard kept watch
with measured pace. Passers-by. hundreds going
out of their way to get a glimpse
Of the mansion with it's drawn curtains and
Grape, hung door, came, looked their sorrow and
passed on. The undertakers men passed
quickly into the house. up the stairs where the
corpse lay, applied the chemicals for its preser
vation, changed the clothes, and as rapidly went
away. In her room the widow bravely bore her
grief. Said a gentleman very to
her: II called yesterday, but had to be veryicare
full in what 1 said in regard to my late friend
She is making a powerful effort to keep up
while nursing continually thoughts of her dead
husband A little would start her to dwell in
conversation over their happy life together, but
this her friends will not allow She is a plucky
lady, and bears her sorrow bravely"
During the day messenger boys brought
hourly kilograms of sympathy, but within the
mail of the day was letter of tenderest SYM
pathy and beautiful thought from Miss Rose
Cleveland. Mrs. Hendricks was 10th to give it
to the public 1t had personal expressions
that the bereaved could not share
with the public. For the first
time yesterday Mrs. Hendricks came
to the dinngroom At the dinner table she sat
down with Mrs Patterson, Mrs. Fitzhugh
Thornton, niece of Mr.. Hendricks, and her
nephews She seemed to enjoy her meal, and
at supper she was present with the same ladies
and gentlemen. In the afternoon Bishop Krick-
erbacker called and with Mrs. Hendricks and the
immediate family about him offered an impressive
prayer. Out from the inner circle of the home
came the little happenings of Mr. Hendricks's
last days. Monday night was the last he en-
joyed at his ireside. reading and chatting. He
was fond of fiction, and that evening
he had Harry Morgan read to
him parts of Lazarus of London" book
that he had recently begun. After this he
looked at the pictures in the New York Graphic,
which he was fond of doing, giving to each
close study and then passing to the column,
News of the Day." made up of short paragraphs
of events and incidents in which he took great
delight. This was his last evenings reading
Yesterday morning the Indianapolis sculptor,
Mr. Mueller, successfully took mask Of Mr..
Hendricks features. 1t is life-like in its ex-
preston Of kindiness, bringing out every prom
inent mark of his clean and strong face.
To-day Mr.. Parks just from Chicago will
take another mask and make measurements
of the body, for future use in making statue of
the eminent man, if that is DONE He pro-
nounces the embalming perfect and the face
highly favorable for the operation of taking
mask. The process is to soap the hair, oil the
face and apply the plaster from the center of the
forehead over one ear and the lobe of the other
down to the neck.