Daily Republican., 1886-02-11
The Hancoek ObsequIes.

NEW 1Okk, f6D. lU.-Ino DOuJ VI
General Hancock remained in the roou
In which he died last night. Col.W. b.
Beck and Lieut. A d. Vogel kept watch
during the long hours of night. This
morning they were relieved by two
other officers.
The arrangements for the funeral ART
being rapidly perfected. The body will
be taken from Governors Island to thu
Battery, on Saturday morning, by thu
steamer Chester A. Arthur. All th'
officers connected with the post and ~
many soldiers as can be spared will
accompany the remains. The fuuera
procession will proceed up Broad way
to Trinity Church, where the. service
will be conducted by the Rev. DR.. Nor
gan Dix and his assistants.
There will be no military muse whA1
ever in the procession, and the onl!
troops in line will be those from Cover
nor's Island. The staff OF the late Gen
eral will follow the hearse. The cere
monies at the church will be OF tn
sim Plest character possible. There vii
be no address. The services will b'
similar In character to those used at tn
funeral of VIM. 81. Vanderbilt. Th
body will be taken to Jersey City
where a special train will take the fune
raj party TO Philadelphia.
The trsia will arrive at Philadelphia
at l.. As O'Clock. Here the Philadelphia
division of the Military Order of tn
Loyal Legion will join the party aDt
accompany the body to NoFristown
where the train will arrive at 8 p. M
General Hancock's remains will b.
placed In the family vault. A brie
service will precede the burial. In ac
cordance with General Hancock's wish
es, the funeral will be Of the simp lesi
character.
General w. d. Whipple, who Ia
now the highest military officer sta
toned at Governor leland, has received
large number of applications from
military and civic bodies for permits
sion to take part in the funeral process
sion. 1t is probable that none of these
will be accepted, as The procession viii
net be a formal one.
NEW YORK Fob. 10.-The following
| 1t is understood, will be the pall-bear
ers: Thomas +. Bsyard, Secretary OF
State; Generals Sherman, Sheridan,
franklin, Smith. Fry, Terry, Newton
Mills and Walker; Mr.. b. M. Harts-
horne, Colonel W. P. Wilson and Ma.
jor w. D. Miller, the two last nam
being aides lie camp OF General Han
cock during the last war.
GeneIal r. III. jacobson will command
the escort on the day of the fnneral
-Four foot batteries from Forts Hamil
ton, Wadsworth and Governors Islam,
will follow the body to Trinity Church
The chief objection to military pro
cession is the shortness of the route from
the church to the Pennsylvania Raiiroa'
depot The executive council OF tn
Military Service Institution of tn
United States, of which General Han
cock was President. held special meet
ing at Governors Island to-day, an
made fitting note of General Han
)ck's demise.
THE MAUSoLEUM AT N0RRISTOwN.
NoRRIsTowN. Feb. 1O.-The remain
will be inferred in the Generals mauso
leum, Montgomery Cemetery. The Gem
etery can properly be termed the bnri
al. ground of the Hancock family. Th
Generals brother, John, many year.
ago, purchased lot there, in which III
remains of his seven children. The ad
l)oiniDg lot was purchased by Genera
Hancock and his twin brother, Hilary
and in 1t placed the remains OF thei
parents. By the side of the latter lie
1.-The body OF Winfield Scott Hancock. .JI
the Generals grandson and namesake
TIE latter died, when and infant, il
lin the summer of 1880, the sad news O
Ibis death reaching General Hancocl
1.-THE same day that he was formally nc
tilted of his nomination for President
In 1893 General Hancock built a hand
some mausoleum. The only membe
Iof the Generals immediate family on
tombsd in the mausoleum is his daush
ter Ada, who died in 1878.