Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
sHERIpAN.s FUNERAL.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The last rites for
the dead were to-day performed accord
| ing to the ordinances of the Roman Catho-
| lie Church for Phi , Henry Sheridan, Gen
eral of the army OF the United States, and
his body was laid to rest in beautiful Ar
| Hngton, the city of the soldier dead.
| The event was marked by a general sus-
pension of public business. The ceremo-
mics throughout were in keeping with the
character of the man. The strict a'1he-
renee to an almost military simplicity in
the arrangements, the heavy wheeled Gals
son for his hearse, which had seen service,
best befitted the closing scenes in the life
of SO great a soldier.
st. Matthew's Church, where the re-
mains of General Sheridan had laid in
state since Thursday afternoon, and where
the principal burial services were held, is
an ancient edifice of modest pretensions,
with succeed walls, and but for its CLASSY,
pillared front, would attract little atten-
| ton from a stranger.
1t is the most popular Catholic church
in Washington, and for many years it has
numbered among its congregations the
}, members Of many of the foreign legations,
! Cabinet members, Senators and Congress
| men.
At nine O'Clock the doors were thrown
open and those of the large crowd passed
were conducted to their seats by ushers
dressed in full military uniforms, under the
| direction of Colonel John NJ. Wilson of the
corps of civil engineers.
| Among the prominent persons present
were Senators Ingalls,, Edmunds, Evarts,
Jones, of Nevada, Sawyer and Far
we'll and Justice Harlan and wife. At about
$3.50 the pail bearers, headed by General
Sherman in full uniform, entered at the
| left of the catafalque. Soon the joint COM
mittee of Congress appeared and was con-
| Quoted to seats reserved for them in front
and to the right of the catafalque. Four
| of them occupied General Sherman's pew.
About 9:40 the President and Mrs. Cleve-
| land and Secretaries Fairchild and Villas
came in and took seats in the front pew to
the right of the center aisle. Mrs. Folsom,
Secretary Bayard and Postmaster General
Dickinson followed and were seated in the
| vicinity. About five minutes after the
| Presidential party arrived Mrs. Sheridan
was escorted to seat to the left and near
the casket. She was deeply vailed
Cardinal Gibbons delivered the sermon.
| Before the completion of the services the
caisson and the Generals horse were re-
moved to point near the church en-
trance and after the casket had been
| placed on the caisson the column was
formed by wheeling to the left and moved
en- route far enough to permit the forma-
| rear.
In accordance with the wishes of Mrs.
| Sheridan the funeral was strictly mill
tary affair, and the escort was formed
precisely as prescribed by the army regu-
lations for an officer of the rank of the de-
| ceased.
The pail bearers were: General Sher-
man, Secretaries Endicott and Whitney,
Speaker Carlisle, Senator Hawley, Gen
eral Augur, General McFeely, General
Wesley Merritt, General Joseph Fuller,
Mr.. George w. Childs, Colonel Charles P.
Lincoln, department commander of the G.
A R., Marshal Field and Vice-President
Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
composed of Senators Hawley, Mander-
son, Cullom, Stewart, Hampton, Gibson
| and Gray, and Representatives Hooker, of
Mississippi; Cutcheon, of Michigan;
| Wheeler, of Alabama; Henderson, of Illi-
nois; Cox, of New York; Grosvenor, of
! Ohio, and McShane, of Nebraska.
| The route by street to Pennsyl-
vania avenue to the Arlington road by way
of the aqueduct bridge. Crowds lined the
entire route, and all available places for
view of the line were occupied.
| AS the caisson came to a hault at the
grave the clergy in flowing robes headed n
| procession from the carriages to the grave.
| blSnOp-610CU 1nOndS Ol0N, OIL DOITOlU,
| brother of Bishop Thomas Foley, of Chi
cago, who married General Sheridan, was
the officiating priest. His assistants,
| acolytes and trained choir of Dominican
monks numbered more than a score in all.
Next came the pail bearers, General Sher-
man and Secretary Endicott, Speaker Car
Isle and Secretary Whitney walking at
the head, and behind them, leaning heavily
| on the arm of Colonel Sheridan, came the
| -iof- ctrio Tba in
| cluded John Sheridan, brother of the de-
ceased, General and Mrs. Rucker, parents
| of the widow, her brother and sister, and
the military staff and several other init
mate friends of the General. The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland and the commit
tees of the two houses of Congress with
bare heads followed the mourners.
With sprig of fir plucked from neigh
boring branch holy water was sprinkled
over the grave and the casket was lowered
by the sergeants.
! The regular burial service, beginning
with the cantiele- of Zachary or the bene-
dictus, and ending with the chanting of
"De Profundis" by the choir of Dominican
priests, brought the religious features of
the obsequies to an end. The priests then
stood aside and remained in group near
the head of the grave. Every breath was
hushed while the widow came step for
ward and for one brief moment looked
upon the casket which held her beloved
dead. AS she turned away the other
mourners in body paid their tribute of
love and respect and then at signal the
artillery fred a salute of seventeen guns.
The Legion of Honor moved up in a line
and looked in upon the still uncovered
casket and then filed away.
The great hollow square now contained
but one figure, that of a stalwart cavalry
bugler who stood facing eastward, his
| bugle under his arm, at the head of the
/ grave. There was q hoarse command at
the left, echoed and passed on down the
line of infantry, a rattle of steel, moment
of expectation and then the simultaneous