The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-28
THE DEAD VICE-PRESIDENT.
The Tributes Being Paid to
the Great Statesman.

lllt l1lUutCo DCluS I1u U
I the Great Statesman.
THE SOLEMN RITES
Completion of the Arrangements TO
the Funeral at Indianapolis
on Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS, November 26.-The gen
eral committee selected at Mrs. Hendricks
suggestion to arrange for the funeral of the
dead Vice. Presidedt, met this evening and
appointed the necessary subcommittee te
to perfect all arrangements. Senator Ben
jamin Harrison called the meeting to ordel
and on his motion Hon. William H. Eng
lish was chosen chairman. 1t was decided
to appoint committee of fifteen, with
Senator Harrison as chairman, to receive
the President and othor distingi ished gen
tlemen who will be here to attend the fun
eral and general committee of thirty wal
appointed to attend to all the details O.
the funeral, and to do everything in thei1
power to have the memorirl observance at
tended with all the marks of respect and
esteem which Mr.. Hendricks fellow citizens
desire to pay him. OF this committee Hon
Oscar B. Hord. the law partner OF the de
ceased was appointed chairman, and it
| was divided into the necessary sub-commit.
| tees. The funeral will take place at
noon on Tuesday, the procession leaving
| the house at 11:45 o'clock for the church, in
the following order: The police, military
companies, civic societies, the President
members OF the Cabinet and the United
States Senators, the pail bearers, the
hearse, the family carriages, State, county
and city officers and citizens. The body
will be placed in the casket on Saturday
morning. 1t will lie cedar, covered with
black velvet and lined with white satin
with silver trimmings, and after the funeral
it will be placed in marble vault atCrown
Hill Cemetery, north OF the city, near Mr.
Hendricks private lot. and elevated above
the common level, and in the center o
which is a
GRANITE COLUMN FORTY FEET HIGH,
plain and uncovered, except with the single
inscription, Thomas A. Hendricks" neaI
the bottom Of the shaft. Here his son (his
only child) is buried. R. H. Parks, the
sculptor, will arrive from Chicago in the
morning, and take a cast of Mr.. Hendricks
face to be used in making q marble bust ol
him.
Around the Hendricks family residence
all day there was crowd of curious peO-
pie, who watched the solemn tread of the
uniformed sentry marching up and down
in front OF the house, and the coming and
going OF sympathetic friends and relatives
who called. Mrs. Hendricks stayed in her
room all day and saw but few reople, but
the parlors down stairs were filled with
callers, who were received by her brother,
Mr.. Stephens, and his family and DR..
Jencks, rector OF the church. She talked
calmly and composedly with her friends,
only breaking down with outbursts of grief
and everybody moved about with a quiet
tread. In the large double parlors, where
Mr.. Hendricks was accustomed to see
his friends, there were many articles with
which they were very familiar.
AN oLD-FAsH1oNED PORTRAIT,
in oil, painted when the Vice President was
a young man, is on the wall, and the
features had a boyish look, free from care
or anxiety. On the table were several
panel photographs taken recently-one
UuaO WdS particularly uOUlCedDle-Oll VIic
day preceding his inauguration as Vice
President. On a stand in the corner was
collection OF canes twenty or more,
which had been presented to him by ad-
miring friends, and some uf them were
unique in design and inscription. The
library cases, on which many valuable and
rare books were placed, just as he had left
them when he had occasion on Monday
evening to look up some works Of refer
ence.
THE BODY LAY IN THE PARLOR CHAMBER
up stairs, and very few were allowed to see
it. The embalming process, to which it
was subjected this morning, had been sue
cessfully accomplished, and on the face
there was look OF contentment and free
dom from care. The features are wonder
fully natural and unmarried by the sugges-
ton of ghastliness. In the room adjoining,
where the Vice President died, was his pri-
vate desk, covered with papers and letters,
which had not been disturbed, and half
written sketch of his public and professional
career, which he was preparing for publica-
ton in a book containing the proceedings
of the surviving members of the convention
which framed the Constitution OF Indiana
in 1850, and sketches OF members.
THE DECORATIONS OF THE ROOM
we're plain and conventional, and the win.
dows were darkened, ;.nd within all day sat
the faithful colored servant who had. been
in the family for years. There was no
pretentious display OF mourning about the
premises, only a few folds of Grape on the
front door above the bell. just one block
away the State House, with large black flag
at half mast, and all the exterior draped in
mourning, stood out in bold relief, but all
the offices were closed and public business
for the time was suspended.
Among the callers at the residence to-day
were Governor Gray, the State officers, the
Judges OF the Supreme Court and the Com
missioners appointed by the various legal
and fraternal organizations.
THE GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
Governor Gray has issued the usual pro-
clamation, closing as follows: 'The dis
tinguished dead will lie in state in the cor
ridor OF the Marion County Court House
from Sunday afternoon next until the fol-
lowing Monday afternoon; therefore, l,
Isaac P. Gray, Governor OF the State OF
Indiana, do hereby issue this proclamation,
requesting that at the hour Of II o'clock
noon on the lst day OF December, 1885,
the day set apart for the funeral Of the dis
tinguished dead, all citizens meet in their
usual places Of worship and public assem-
blage and there engage in such
services as may to them seem appro
pirate to the solemn occasion; the flags
on all the public buildings OF the State to
! be displayed at half-mast and all places OF
business to be closed from said hour until
o'clock in the afternoon, and recommend
ing that all the public buildings OF the
State be draped in mourning for the period
of thirty days from this date, and that
! during the day aforesaid all such buildings
be closed, and that all public business be
suspended to the end that the people may
have and enjoy the fullest opportunity to
do honor to the departed statesman and
make recognition OF his public and pri.
vate virtues as may to them seem best and
most consistent. The Adjutant General
will prepare and have issued all the neces
sary orders to the various military organi
cations to meet at their respective armories
for appropriate military honors to be
made during the day"
| THE DOCTORS OPINIONS.
| DR.. w. C. Thompson stated in the course
OF a conversation that it was his belief thai
Governor Hendricks died from instantane
Gus paralysis of the brain and heart. Al
he lay in bed his position was perfectly al
natural and peaceful as Of one in a sleep
His position was exactly that in which Mrs
Hendricks had left him few moments be
fore when she had tucked the bed clothing
| above him and went to the lower hall