The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-27
THE FUNERAL.
OF the Late Vice President to Take
Place Next Tuesday.
Arrangements Made to Pay HOnOrs
to the Distinguished Dead.
The Eulogistic Proclamation of
Gov. Gray, of Indiana.
The Action Of the Senators and
Members Of the House.
Expressions of Public Men on the
Character of Hendricks.

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expressions OF Public Men on TIL
Character of Hendricks.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2O,-The genera
eor,r,ittao so,actod ot M,o uondr;cLs q
s',I--".:N .eN SoUN 80 ts-t N' .
Suggestion, 70 arrange io1 Tue luneFal
the dead Vice-Preaident, met this morn
ing and appointed the necessary sub
con,r,it,aas n rorroc. oil orron,ouartu
=,
eenAtof benjamin harrison caiieu Tue
meeting to order, and on his motion Hon
William II. English was chosen President,
lOn t.Linr tha cb.;r NJ EnoI;st oo;a
~ 49," 'He e-1 Hu eau
lou HI Know tne oD!ecI u LD'S meeting
Inc event Wnlcn mas calleu us togethef
ls OF that SAD, unexpected and overWhe4m-
ing character hatexcltes feelings dihonlt
to express and makes silence probably
moreapproprlatethan many words. l shall
therefore , say onL @ very y little IN assuming
have e % EnoyU O% orr % Jecesss9 % friend - anJ nj fei.
| low citizen, Thomas A. Hendricks, late
Vice President Of the United States, nearly
All my NE. we were ~ Lne sane ;an c2LeGe
the ,et oonvsrtinn 81 iS5o ,"S;cb tro,nad T tba 20
nrsasnt me- ant cnnStitrt;on NJ Indiana I was
nth him at The renn;nn nj The anr.
WING members of that body in This
c;tv a,,v Io,t Sno,th q ,neat;n@ IN wb;ch
Ss tooI lie greatest noa,ihle interest and
7 Lnnn tbat matieya cnnnected with thAt
avsnt we're somswbat in lila thonohts nm
W tbo Iest bonrs NJ his Iife When wa
wera az tocsthe+ I % az tha. ,nsnnorabla rsnn;on @
l.et ety ynonth rsai;zins that oniv tbirtv. five
,s,oS Sora -, Iix;nS ont of Ia IS0 cnmno.;nS that
hoJv and that the rest must apeed;7v foIs
Io% 10y a.d @ u IN nv w. adJress M to tbe srrc;voro I
sWUi .sWih,, nil ha tSa next ~ ,o9 VIZ tho
i,.. ~ ~ ,,r,,;roS,, w." '--O
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THE SUDDEN SUMMONS
Little did either OF US think then that
thia death world 30 soon apswer the
Ct nor, ., tho oroo,io, I ;o;rod b;r
n'St paw VI 1No 4' '''4'U N-A
again IN the Ihlrty-thlrd congress about
third OF q century ago, and now that he
ia called awav | am the only survivor OF
- A.. co.o.n., o,d pou,oso,,o.;ro., ,ho,
VI Llio 0oN"'o'' 1uT e'V'''e' 'nTn
IN congress ior 4n"'auA' Due IL ID poSslDle
there may be one other now IlVlnS IN
distant State. ! knew his father very well,
at5o So ns HIy4F anv ISsnoct. Ike tbe Ssts
Vice Vi President. i have been neighbor
Of Thomas a. Hendricks a great many
years, and may hay intimate with him
soC'ai, na naia Sot nyIdent snd SbS ststes.
man an honest man, trying to do his fuil
duty in his day and generation, and he
deserves every mari OF respect and esteem
that 1t is possible Tor his countrymen to
render to hismemory," .a. #a
It was DECIDED TO appoint a committee
OF fifteen, with Senator Harrison as chair
man, to receive the President and other
distinguished gentlemen, who will attend
the funeral, and a general committee oil
thirty was appointed to attend to the de-
tails OF tho funeral and do all III their
power to make the memorial observance
attended with all the marks ot respect
and esteem which Mr.. Hendricks fellow
citizens desire TO pay him, Ol this COM
mittee Hon. Oscar B. Hord, a law part
ner OF the deceased, was appointed chair
man, and 1t was divided into the neces'
sary subcommittee.
FUNERAL AKRAN0 N0xXESrB.
MI trnox,l vi,l toto rlace AZ roon m
A t"AI'~' u"-'..s;a. ~" - -, 49, ho..o
Tuesday the Pfocesalon leaving 'ne Douse
at II AS o'clock for tho church, in the iol-
Iovino order: Police. military companies,
- soo,o.1o, ,bo prasidont remhera ri
civic soc.e''eS' 'u' Ii.s''en'' nl'IiueIs VI
the Cabinet and United states Senators,
pail bearers, the hearse, family carriages,
State county and city officers and citizens,
The body will be placed in the casket on
Saturday morning. 1t is Of cedar covered
with black velvet and lined with white
satin, with silver trimmings. After the
funeral the body will be placed in q mar
ble vault at Crown Hill Cemetery, north
Of the city, near Mr.. Hendricks private
lot. elevated above the common level and
in tbe centre Of which Is granite column
fortv feet high, plain and uncaryed, except
The Silnple inscription, fThomas 4. Hon.
dricks3 y near tie bottom Of the shaft.
Hare his son, his only child, is buried. B.,
II, Parks. the sculptor, will arrive from
Gh;csoo IN the morning and take o cast OF
Nj Heniricks' face, 10 be used in making
a IN maTble bust of him,
Aronnd the Hendricks family repidence
ali dsv thaye was a crowd of curious peo.
rIe III " ~ Ro WStohed the solemn tread Of SEN
tr;eS S " marching nm and down in front Of
tbs M bonss. and The coming and going OF
tbe symnathetic friends and relatives who
caijsI Wra, HendTicks STAYED In her
o room ali day and saw but q lew people,
hTt the psflors were filed with callers
wbo vTS SIS Sese rsceiyed by her BROTHER,
NJ NJ stsnhen W. Morgan and his
family, and DR.. Jenckes, the rec.
tor d the church; she mlkea calm .i!y
with heT IiengsI oS op.a nIgl aHlas The honss %
0I1pSrs1 %s. SapIteSsS NJ and everybody moved a6out
with q quiet tread. In the large double
parlors where Mr.. Hendricks was aeeq9;'