Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-02
A LONG FAREWELL.
The Mortal Remains Of Chester
Alan Arthur Consigned
to Earth.
A Large Gathering OF Eminent
Men Present at the CePe-
monies.
New York telegram. !

The last night of the loving watch
beside the bier of Gen. Chester
Alan Arthur, ex-President of the
United States, has passed. President
Cleveland and Postmaster General Villas
arrived in carriage direct from the train
at 500 a. M, and entered the house of
mourning. Many people uncovered their
Leads when the President stepped out Of
lis carriage. Shortly altar. Gov Hill and
judge William Muller arrived and entered
the house. They were followed by the
Senate committee.
BY this time there was O mighty throng
of people on the avenue, and the windows
of every house were filed with sad faces.
There were no services at the house. At
$3.50 the black casket, covered with palmetto
leaves, sprays of violets, and wreath of
white roses, was lifted by the undertaker's
assistants and borne from the room. The
silent form of Chester A. Arthur passed
through tie door of his earthly tenement
for the last time, and was reverently placed
in the funeral-draped hearse. As the
casket came in view of the people in the
street every head was bowed reverentlv,
and many eyes filed with tears in the
throng thus hushed i'll the presence of
death.
There was no display of pomp or cere-
mony, no military music or procession, but
the mighty throng of sorrowing people bore
witness to their love and respect for the de-
ceased statesman.
Next came out of the residence Chester
Alan Arthur, Jr., the son of the ex-Presi-
dent. Leaning on his arm, clad in gar
ments of mourning, was his sister, Miss
Nellie Arthur. They passed quleuy %
their carriage, accompanied by MIR. and
Mrs. McElroy. Then came Mrs. Caws, Mrs.
Hayneworth, and Miss Arthur, the sister of
the President; Postmaster Masten and
his wife, of Cohoes, N. Y, with their son
and daughter; President Cleveland, Post
master General Villas, Gen. Martin T..
McNahon, John II. Draper, Secretaries
Bayard, Whitney, and Lamar; the pail
bearers, consisting of ex-Postmaster Cen
eral Gresham, ex- Secretaries Lincoln and
Chandler, ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Hatton, ex-Attorney General Bre ewster,
Lieutenant General Sheridan, DIR. Corne-
lius X. Agnew, Cornelius N. Bliss, Robert
G.. Dun, Gen. George II. Sharpe, Charles
l.. Tiffany, and Cornelius Vanderbilt;
Chief Justice Waite and Justices Harlan
and Blatchford, Senators Edmunds, Sher-
man, Logan, Evarts, Hawley, Morrill,,
Vest, and German, Gen. Stone, and Gov.
Hill.
The mourners filed twenty-five car
rages, but over one hundred carriages
filled with friends, who had been unable to
gaIu ADMISSION to the house, followed the
procession TO the church. All along the
line were immense throngs of people who
waited in respectful silence while the
funeral train passed.
AS the casket was borne into the church
the choir formed in two files and the cler-
gymen passed between them heading the
procession intoning the opening lines OF
the beautiful Episcopal burial service; the
casket was borne up the aisle on the shoul-
ders of the four undertakers assistants
followed by the pall-bearers, the family
and the immediate friends.
After the services the undertakers' as
sistants lifted the casket on their shoul.
ders and proceeded slowly out of the
church, followed by the pail bearers, mem
bers of the family, President and his Cabi'
net, Gov. Hill and his staff, and the repre-
sentatives of the army and navy.
The remains were placed on train fol
Albany, where Bishop Doane recited the
committal service at the grave. Earth wal
thrown in the grave and pressed down, ant
when the dusk of evening began to settle
on forest and hill, deft hands covered thu
newly made mound with sheets of sod.