Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-11-23
EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S FUNERAL,
Attended by an Immense Ooncourse
Of People.
THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS RENEWING
THEIR AGITATION.
Two Officers Killed by Horse
Thieves.
DEATH OF CHARLES FRANOlS
ADAMS, SENIOR.
q DESPERATE PRIZE FIGHT AT
PEORIA, Ill.
lsPEcIAL TO THE sENTINKL.l
sr.Prestdent &rtIlUr,s EUnGrRi


New YORK. Nov. 22.-Great crowds be-
gan to assemble at an early hour this
morning on Lexington Avenue in the
vicinity of the Arthur residence, where
the dead body of the ex-Presidont laid in
state. A clear sky presaged a pleasant
day. Shortly after Z o'clock a packed
body of police, numbering $50, were posted
along Lexington Avenue, with directions
to allow no vehicles to pass by the house,
No people we're allowed on the east side OF
the avenue from Twenty-eighth TO Twenty
ninth streets, excep. those who had tickets
of admission to the house. Carriages be-
gan to arrive from every direction, and
soon the side streets we're filled with them.
By 8 O'Clock a vast throng, numbering
many thousands OF people, had gathered
on the opposite side OF the avenue, extend
ing for a block or more in every direction.
President Cleveland and Postmaster Gen
eral Villas arrived in a carriage direct from
the train at $40 A. M, and entered the
house Of mourning. Shortly after Cover
nor Hill and Judge William Muller or
rived and entered the mouse, followed by
the Senate Committee. By this time there
WAS a mighty throng of people. On the
avenue and in the windows of every house
was filled with sad faces. There were no
services ut the house. A few friends were
present, and looked upon the face OF the
dead early in the morning. and the casket
was closed for the last time at $3.50 A. N.
A black casket. covered with palmetto
1.o1oa onrau pf yinIafI and n WFaath nf
white roses was lifted by tho undertaker's
assistants and borne from the room. The
silent form OF Chester A. Arthur passed
through the door of his earthly tenament
for tue 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 reverently
and many eyes were filled with tears.
Next came ont OF the residence Chester A.
Arthur, Jr., son of theex-President. Leaning
on his arm, clad in the garments Of mourn
ing, was his sister, Miss Nellie Arthur.
They passed quietly to their carriage accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. McElroy. Then
came Mrs. Caws, Mrs. Hayenworth and
Miss Arthur, sister of the ex-President,
the Postmaster and his wife OF Cohoes,
of N. Y, with their son and daughter.
President Cleveland, Postmaster General
Villas, General Martin, Il. Mcmahon and
John H. Draper. and Secretaries Bayard,
Whitney and Lamar. The pall-bearers
we're: ex-Pos.ma ster General Gresham,
ex-Secretary Lincoln and Chandler, ex-
Assistant Postmaster General Hstton, ex-
Attorney General Brewster, Lieutenant
General Sheridan, DR.. Cornelius II.
Agnew. Cornelius N. Bliss, Robert G..
Dun, General George Sharpe, Charles L..
Tiffany and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Chief
Justice Waite and Justices S. Harlan and
Blatchford, Senators Edmunds, Sherman,
Logan, Evarls. Hswley. Merrill, Vest
and German, General Stone and Cover
nor Hill. The mourners filled 25 car
RACERS, but over 100 carriages were filled
with friends who had been unable TO gain
admission to the house followed the pro-
cession to the church. The procession
passed between the long lines OF police
through Lexington Avenue to Thirty
fourth street. to Madison Avenue. to
Fort-seventh street, to Fifth Avenue, ar
irving at the church corner OF Forty-ffth
street and Fifth Avenue at $3.50 A. NJ.
Tho carriages passed noiselessly by the
line OF artillerymen, and the march
formed in line and the mourners alighted
and entered the church. All along the
line were immense throngs of people, who
waited in respectful silence while the
funeral train passed the exterior OF
the church. The deliberately decorated
portico over the entrance. and the mas
sive pillars: supporting it, were covered
with heavy black cloth decorations In
festoons. hiding the stone entirely from
view. Grape covered the national flag
and hung in artistic folds over the door
caught up by r~osettes and u small brass
eagle. The walls Of the vestibule were
with black cloth. arranged
in pleted folds, over which hung the
national color covered with Grape. The
decorations of tho interior were very SIM
Pile and tasteful. The first six pews on
each side of the center aisle were reserved
for the family and pail bearers. and we're
with Grape. The interior Of the
was cushioned with black cloth.
with the exception of the altar and rere-
dos. On tine altar proper, resting on each
side OF the cross were lighted candles.
Below was placed a purple altar cross and
black drapings. The outer chancel, organ