The Portland daily press., 1890-01-18
WASHINGTON MERRYMAKINe STOPPED
BY Sympathy With the Grief of the
Blaine Family.
Speaker Reed Will Appoint the
Worlds Fair Committee.
Ex-Cov. Foraker's Testimony Re-
garding the Ballot Box Forgeries.

WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE funeral
of Mr.. Walker Blaine will take place from
the Presbyterian church of the Covenant on
Saturday at II a. m. The interment will be
at Oak Hill Cemetery. Representative and
Mrs. Hit, who had intended to give din
ner to Speaker and Mrs. Reed, have recalled
their invitations, owing to the death of Mr..
Walker Blaine. Senator and Mrs. Hale had
also dinner invitations out for tomorrow
night in honor of Miss Hattie Blaine, which
have been withdrawn. The Cabinet house
hold will observe the mourning retirement
into which the death of Mr.. Walker Blaine
plunges the official family of the President,
by neither accepting or sending invitations
until next week. At the death of Miss
Katherine Bayard, when her father was Sec
retary of State, this mourning was kept up
for ten days, which precedent will probably
who have had long acquaintance with the
Blaines have also cancelled engagements for
this week. Mrs. Harrison sent notes to the
ladies whom she had asked to dine with her
to meet Mrs. Grant. and withdrew her invi-
tations. Mrs. Grants visit will soon be over,
so that the hospitalites which Mrs. Harrison
would have so gladly extended must now be
postponed until she comes here again in the
sDring.
The family of Secretary Blaine were all at
their home in Lafayette place this morning,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine are bearing bravely
up under their severe trial. More than a
thousand messages OF sympathy and condo
lence from all over the world have come to
them since Walkers death, and offers of SER
vice of every name and nature have been
gratefully received, although 1t is impossible
for the recipients to fully express their
gratitude for such wide kindness. A casual
visitor at the Blaine home would not notice
I&I
Everything in the family living rooms wears
its wonted appearance. The wood fires are
burning, all Is in the best of order, and the
constant stream of sympathiZing callers
comes and goes without ruff1ing the every
day surface of matters domestic. Mr.. Blaine
the time of this blow he thought he had never
been In better health; what the result was to
be now he could not say. He added that
Walker had come to be Indispensable to him,
day, and "Oh." he said, at seems as if 1
could not bear this parting" The Secretary
wept like child In referring to Walker, and
then grew calm again and spoke of various
features of his early life, recalling pleasant
ly many long-forgotten anecdotes and char
acteristics of Walkers younger days.
Mrs. Blaine is very brave, but her quiet
bearing is deeply pathetic from the visible
evidence of her deep sorrow.
There will be no funeral services at the
house, except prayer by the Rev. Dr. Ham,
line, and only intimate friends of the family
and the President and members of the cabi-
net are expected there. The services at the
Church of the Covenant will also be brief
and very simple. The pail bearers selected
are Hon. William f. Wharton, Assistant
Secretary of State. Judge John Davis.
Llewellyn A. Brow, Marcellus Bailey, Nj. l..
Ruth, A. p. jerks. T. E. Loring and VIII
liam Haywood.
The Attorney General has ordered the De-
partment of Justice closed tomorrow morn
ing until one in the afternoon on account of
the funeral of Walker Blaine.