The Cecil Whig., 1885-12-05
HENDRICKS FUNERAL
The Remains of the Late Vice-Presi-
dent Buried on Tuesday.
the GRAVE STREwN WITH FLOWERS.

A Vast Gathering at the Dead States
mans Home-The Body Taken to the
Family Residence-FIoral Tributes of
Beauty.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late Vice President were con
Quoted promptly at 12 o'clock on Tues
day in st. Paul's Episcopal Church In
diauapolis. One thousand tickets were
issued for admlttance to the church,
and the orders were such that no one
sence of proper card. A detachment
of soldiers and police were on duty to
see that this order was carried out. The
city was crowded with people to wit
ness the last sad rites paid to the men,
ory of the late Vice President. Mourn
ing emblems were seen on all sides.
The principal business buildings draped
their entire length. All business was
entirely suspended and the bells of all
churches tolled. Delegations of promi-
nent men from all large cities arrived.
The Cabinet officers-Secretaries Bayard,
Lamar, Endicott. Whitney and Post
| master General Eilas-arrived in the
morning.
| In the funeral procession there were
| seventeen carriages for the exclusive use
of relatives and innate private friends.
| These followed the hearse from the
procession was formed at the church
| The line OF march being to Crown Hill
Cemetery, where the remains were in
TERED.
At 8 clock Mrs. Hendricks entered
the room where her husbands body lay
for her last leave taking, accompanied
by her brother and Mrs. Morgan. The
ordeal was most trying and the desolate
woman seemed to be utterly prostrated,
clinging to the last to the clay go soon
to be hidden forever from her view and.
| impressed with the placid and hfelike
| appearance of the dead, she desired to
| preserve this last scene and, late as it
was, she sent for photographer to take
picture of the casket. Before he ar
rived delegations from distant cities be-
gan to come and were admitted to pass
through and view the remains while the
photographer was engaged at his work.
The mem oers of the Cabinet, the Judges
of the Supreme Court and others from
| Washington entered and were detained
few minutes by The process. 1t was
eleven O'Clock when the casket was re-
placed and the stream of visitors again
passed by aud out through the side
door. Shortly after this the pall-bearers
arrived. The draped hearse and the
carriages for the family and friends were
marshalcd before the door and the prepa-
rations were made for the final removal
of the body. This was done without
further leave-taking. The police and
military kept the curious but always re-
spectful mass of people out of the way
and the little cavalcade moved quickly
with its escort through densely lined
streets to the Cathedral of st. Paul.
The coffin was borne into the church
at l 40 o'clock. The vast congregation
| udu dIItduS Uttu seated Win the eX
ception of the immediate relatives and
the church vestry. The officiating
clergy, four in number were Bisnop
knickerbocker, Of this diocese; the Rev.
DIR. stringfellow. of Montgomery. Az,
the hrsf Rector of St. Paul's, and under
whse ministration Mr.. Hendricks ioined
the church; the Rev. DR.. Fulton, of St.
Louis, former Rector of St. Pauls,
p,,l ha lnv II
Rector. In their robes of office they
met the body at the main entrance "a
the Cathedral, on Illinois street, and,
preceded by guard of the Indianapolis
Light Infantry, the body was borne ND
the central AISLE Ahe clergymen and
members of the vestry going in advance.
ing sentence of the burial service: Il
am the resurrection and the life" fol.
lowed by the Rev. DR.. Stringfelow and
Dr. Fulton. in their recitation of the
other verses used for the dead, until the
coffin had been carried and placed out
side the chancel. The great audience
stood while the impressive scene was
enacted. Following the bier came the
widow leaning on the arm of Mr. Nor.
gan, followed by the other relatives.
Thirteen pews to the right of the cen.
tral aisle were reserved for the family.
while the vestry and members of local
committees occupied pews in front to
the left. The pew occupied by the Vice
President III his lifetime was draped in
black cloth. Rev. DR.. Jenckes deliv
cred an address from the following text:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honest
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good re-
port, if there be any virtue and if there
be any praise, think Oh these things. -
Phil. iv., s When the speaking was
conclu9ed the solemn funeral procession
moved towards the cemetery When |
Mrs. Hendricks, leaning upon the arm
of Mr.. Morgan, stepped upon the mat
ting placed alongside the grave, and be-
fore the casket was removed from the |
hearse, she paused to look down into the |
la t resting place of her dead, only to |
see picture of loveliness in it's lining of !
green leaves and flowers. Then she |
turned to the grave of her child, which |
had been made glorious with covering |
of smilax and flowers, and read in letters |
of white his baby name. 'Morgie,' and
on the top of tho grave. on field of
white, in purple letters, the sentence:
And three-fold cord shall not be
broken" The tender love which she |
discerned in this treatment of her treas
ure by sympathetic friends seemed to
give her courage for the last ordeal.
Her glance then caught the monument,
with its drapery of the national flag en-
veloping llfelike portrait of her hus
band facing the grave, and she turned
with the bravery of heroism to witness
the last rites. There had been no rain
fall for brief period, but the sky was
lo@ering. Just as the coffin Was placed
beside the grave there was a slight
sprinkIing of rain, causing many to re-
call the old saying, blessed are the
dead whom the lain falls on" The
Columbus b cracks Band at this point
played the American Hymn and the
reading of the service followed When
the coffin had been lowered into che
vault by the four colored assistants of
the undertaken and nothing remained to
be done-for the placing of the stone
and the filling of the grave were to be
attended to by the cemetery force
there was moments pause, which was
broken only by the minute gun. Then
Mrs. Hendricks and the friends of the
family passed by the still open bnt not
repellant grave and took their carriages.