, 1890-02-26

~ SAOG1N ''N ~
Secretary Tracy did not feel equal
10 the additional trial OF following the
h"arsrs to The cem-'"rV, which is
situated a good hour and a halt's
drive from the White House, 70 hav-
Jog taken a parting glance al the flow
er laden cofinS as they disappeared
through the front door Of the White
House, where the hears y were
standing ready TO r~"ceiv" th"M, lie
returned he cordial band >h,ke If The
President and went &c his ""m.
The President then took Young Mr..
Tracy by the arm and helped him
INTO his carriage, in wllic| he rode
to the cemetery. 4.
One carriage continuing the Presi'
dent and Mrs. Harrison and Mr.,
Tracy followed in the wake of one
hearSe, and side by side with it was
another carriage in which Secretary
and Mrs. Blaine followed the other
hearse. It was "a sad procession, Ihat
double funeral CorIege as it moved
slowly UP the bleak, muddy and un-
even road which runs by the Sol
diers' Home to Rock Greek Cemc~
terry, The Vice President ana many
Of The Senators and Representatives,
Army and Navy officers, department
al officials and diplomats who attend
ed at the White House were unable
to go to the cemetery, but still about
u hundred carriages followed d.
hearses to Rock Greek.
A squad of veterans from the S0ldir!S'
Home and a small crowd of miscellaneous
sight.seers had gathered around the vail
in which the bodies were to DO temporarily
deposited until such time as they may ID
removed to Brooklyn for final interment.
When the heArses two abreas., reached
the vault, the funeral procession halted.
The sixteen sailors from the Navy-Yard
again came forward to lift the coffins. Ttr
entrance of the vault was wide open and
beside it stood two low frames upon which
the cofins were rested for the few mimi Gt1~
during which a supplementary serv ice Th*
rendered by the two ~Clergylmen who had
come with the funeral train fCOm the EN.-
cutive Mansion. All the members OF tin,
Cabinet except Mr.. Tracy were present ~
pail. bearers and stood around. while hS
clergymen closed the last funeral rites tor
the dead with a special prayer for the sore
ly afflicted ones.
Young Tracy, standing by his mothers
corpse, wept and sObbed bitterly all th1
time, and President Harrison, who stayed
by him and gave him all the support he
could, was himself a picture Of grief.
Secretary Blaine, looking almost like IL
dead man, his hair snOw-wbite and his
face deadly pale, stood motiOnless at tile
head of the younger victims coffin with
head bowed down in sorrow and eyes
closed, aud by his side stood~Mrs. Blaine,
whose deep mourning o b was not ne
cessary as a reminder of the many great
afaictious which have been visited OH that
family during the past two months.
Mrs. Wilmerding and her daughter, the
daughter and granddaughter of Secretary
Tracy, were both too seriously injured la
the fatal fire which led to the sad certlno-
ny of to-day to attend, so young Frank
Tracy was the only one OF the family able
to have that sad satisfaction.
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs MVkH" and Mira,
Mason, the wife Of Li-Hf. Mason, of this
navy, stood close 10 the C'E$krT until the
service was finished, and, before leaving
thoughtfullY. pluckr4l a few fow,'rS from
each casket.,, A silent shake. of the iand
from the officiating. ministers, ami one
last sad look at the hnIr in The granite
wall tha,olrh which all that WAS mortal