Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-19
BY CONKLING'S BIER.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL OF THk
DISTINGUISHED DEAD.
Services in Trinity Church on Friday-b b
Barred at His Old HOms-lntsrssdng
Renaissance Of an Evsntful Life
Tributes Of Respect

side when he died. Mrs. Conknng hso
her hand clasped in his. Mrs. Conkling
left the room which the face of the dead
Senator was covered and went into her
own room and fell exhausted on lounge.
At 4 o'clock the undertaken called at
tbe house with two assistants. They
washed and laid out the body on cooling
board. in which condition they said it
would remain until q. N, when they
would return and embalm the remains
After this process it will bs dressed and
placed in coffin.
Mr.. Neyins was asked the condition OF
the BODY of the Senator, and he said u
have frequently seen Mr.. Conkling in life
and when looked on him he seemed quite
natural. i cannot understand how he
could have lost the amount OF flesh that
has been reported. The body must weigh
about two hundred pounds"
THE FUNERAL ON FRIDAY.
Mr.. s. Nj. L. Barlow, after consultation
with Mr.. Conkling's relatives ahd friends,
this morning, announced TO the members
| of the press that the funeral services will
be held over the dead Senator's remains on
Friday morning at ten o'clock, in Trinity
Chapel, West Twenty.fifth street The
Rev. Morgan L. Dix will officiate, assisted
By other clergymen. On Friday afternoon
the remains will be taken on special
train to Utica, n. Y, where funeral ser
vices will also be held in Mr.. Conkling's
late residence on Rutger street, previous
to interment
Later-It was decided that the funeral
services in Utica will be held in Calvary
chapel, on Saturday after 'oon, instead Of
in Mr.. COnkling's late residence In that
city. The pall-beareTs selected are: Judge
Shipman, Abram S. Hewitt, l.. NJ. Bar
low, Clarence A. Seward, Anton Marble,
Senator John @ Jones, Senator Don Cam
eron. VIM. J. Wallace, Walter s. Church,
and Isaac H. Bailey. This morning the
body WAS embalmed by Undertaker New
ins, aud placed in casEet, which is du-
plicate of thst in v hich Senator Conkling's
brother.in.law, Gov. Horatio Seymour,
was buried.
The U. S. Circuit Court, the City Court
and other courts, adjourned to-day out OF
respect to the memory of Mr. Conkling
Addresses of eulogy were made by several
Judges aud lawyers. 1t was Iumored to-
day that Mr.. Ccnkiing Suffered from in
ternal troubles, and tnat since his death an
abscess in lis stomach AaG bean discover
ed. Dr. barker said there was no truth in
suoh rum0Ys, that Mr.. Conkling's organs
were healthy and that he died from ex-
haustion.
"REMINISCENCES OF CoNELING
! TIE Washington cOrresr Onaent Of the
Chicago Ne,$, te.e2Esph5 his paper several
! columns of "reminiscences of Roscoe Conk-
ling. Speaking OF his wonderful memory,
he saws: He could quote many verses from
memory, not fragmentary lines or ETiiet
stanzas, but whole epics page ny page fhe
EoGes OF Horace, in the original, were ~ IA
| miliar to him as the psalm Of Life" lie
could recite the irst Book OF Homer, Bry-
ants translation (which he considered the
bestl, almost without an error, and por-
ton of the Third Book, which he frequent
ly quoted from, and said reminded of the
tramp of marching army. His taiClite
poems were 81 ALA I,oohA" ana "The Lady
of the Lake," He almost invariably car
ried a hook Of poems in his pocket and
read from 1t during the debates in the Sen
ate. His reading was varied and eyten'
sive.
/ Although LOT a religious man he was
deeply
INTERESTED IN THEOLOGICAL T0f4GS
and read every new work of Importance.
81 remember once calling at his room and
finding him lying on lounge with wet
cloth over his eyes for he had good deal
of trouble with them, listening to the
Reading of Renans Life of Jesus" by
his private secretary. The reading leased
when entered end Llr. CoDkling began
! tho talk. lie liked to soliloquise and on
this occasion, as upon many Others, he
smoke on religion as eloquently as if he
had been addressing an audience @, thou'
sands of pe.p,o Instead CT only two hear
era. his private secretary and my
seIf He was believer in the
orthodox faith, aud thins Kaa d raember
of the Esiseopai Church, but he had q
theory thst most Of the teachings of Jesus
were drawn from the Oriental church. The
sermon On the n6aut, he often said, was
a Qualifications of the teachings of Con-
ruicus. Mr.. Conkling never revised reports
Of the speeches he delivered in the Senate,
as most members of that body do. He
held that the Congressional Record should
| be
| AN ACTUAL TRANSCRIPT
Of what was said aud done in that cham
her and insisted that his remsrks should
always appear EXACTLY as ne had uttered
them.
"But at the convention of 1880 be de-
nsrted from this rule, and prepared for
publication q speech which differed in
MANY essential respects from that which he
delivered in presenting General Grants
name to the convention. Gaze o. the
speeches was ;ntsI0ed 20 20 down TO his
tory as On ideal Of oratory, and the other
was meant to influence votes in the
convention, but his plan miscarried and it
made him very angry. A few days before
the convention he sent for me and said
that he bad been SELECTED 10 preseat the
name Of Gen. Grant; CONTRARY to his
and desired it to appear correctly in the
newspapers, without being subjected to
the ordinary mistakes that must occur in
transmission ny telegraph. To accomplish
this he desired my assistance. took the
manuscript, had it put in type and furn-
ished him proofs for correction. Several
hundred slips were ;hen printed and
placed in the hands Of the Assoei-
sted Press to be furnished to the
newspapers when the speech should
be delivered, but it was not
the same speech, as have said, the intro
ductory, "If you ask me where - asils
from my sole reply shall be that he came
rom 6ppolnat6S and the famous apple
tree was not the original as prepared for
publication. Nor was there any reference
to the other candidate or to Blaine's pri-
vate telegraph wire. Without the knowl!
edge of Mr.. Conkling, tie associated Press
sssnsgrspheIS sat with the proof slips Of
original address before them and corrected
it as he spoke, the changes being tei-
graphed To all the newspapers, In the
morning, when be saw the speech that ne
delivered, instead of the one he wrote, in
the newspapers, he was yerV ii...slsnant and
re,se~ :. ..I,Iois row about it.'
Tributes of Respect.
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