Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-21
FROM METROPOLIS TO TOMB.
Hon. Roscoe Conisling's Body Taken to His
Utica Home.

New York, April 21.-The funeral cor
tege that wended its way from the late
| Roscoe Conkling's residence TO Trinity chapel
Friday morning, following the remains of
| the dead statesman and lawyer, was so sim
| pie and transformations that had Il not been
| for the crowds that thronged around the
residence, lined the route of the procession,
and filed the streets in the vicinity of the
| church no one would have thought that one
of New Yorks most eminent men was the
occupant of the hearse that led the way.
| There were but eleven carriages in the line,
and they were occupied by the family and a
few personal friends OF Mr.. Conkling But
from early morning the dripping rain, sod
dened the flags, that, hanging at half mast
on the city hall and numerous public build
ings as well as private, reminded the citizens
of the metropolis that New York was to bid
farewell to all that remained of tho dis
tinguished statesman and juristwhose presence
had been welcome to the citizens.
At 9:45 the casket was borne from the
house where the ex-senator had passed the
leisure of the last few years and where death
had claimed hun to the hearse, the pall-bear-
ers-Judge Shipman, Mayor Abram $. Hew
lit, S. l.. NJ Barlow, Clarence A. Seward,
Manton Marble, Senator John p. Jones, Sem
ator j. Don Cameron. Judge William A.
Bailey-walking on either side. After they
had taken their places in the carriages pro
vided for them the other carriages drew up
Into one of them entered Mrs. Conkling, sup
ported by the arm of Col Fred A. Conkling,
the brother of the dead statesman, his daugn-
ter, Mrs Oakman and her husband Walter
G, Oakman; his niece and nephew, Miss
Laura Conking and Alderman Conkling; his
nephews, Judge Alfred Conkling Coke and
Mr.. Howard Conkling; Col. Fred Grant and
his mother, Mrs. U. s. Grant, Mrs, Jesse
Grant and Mrs. U, s. Grant and their hus-
bands and few others, including Secretary
Fairchild and George c. Gorhanh.
Arriving at the church the funeral party
entered, and the corpse was deposited in front
of the chancel, the procession up the aisle be-
ing headed by Rev. Morgan Dix and other
clergymen reciting the ritual of the Episco-
pal church. The floral decorations were not
numerous, but they were choice, notable
among them being a beautiful wreath of
laurel, which, with several ether floral gifts,
reposed ON the coffin. In the church, which
was packed full, were many men distin-
guished in the councils of the nation, state
and city, prominent ones being Postmaster
General Dickinson, Senator Evarts, Gen.
Stewart L. Woodford, Elihu Root, Judge
Donohue, Col. J. j. McCook, Gen. Horace
Porter, Surrogate Ransom, Joseph II. Choate,
Edwards Pierpont, Roswell P. Flower, Sen
ator Warner Miller, Senator Spooner Col.
Tom Ochiltre, David Dudley Field, Rufus
Hatch, Commissioner Shields Henry L.
Clinton, T. c. Acton, Col I. A Hamilton
and Asa Bigelow Kellogg.
The services, which were those always used
by the Episcopal church, were rendered in
part by boy choir, and there was no SER
mon. After the impressive ceremony was
over the solemn march was again taken up,
the body again placed in the hearse and
taken to the railway station where it was
placed on special train, and the family and
intimate friends, together with the congress
sional and assembly delegations, having taken
them places on board the journey to Utica,
where the interment will take place, was be-
gun.
Secretary Fairchild was the bearer of
warm verbal messages of sympathy and CON
dolence to Mrs Conkling from President and
Mrs Cleveland