Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-28
CAMERON CREMATED.
Performance In Effigy Last Night at
Woods Run With Due POmp and
MANY VERY SOLEMN CEREMONIES
The Senator's Vote Against the Elections
Bill the Cause of This
NOVEL EXHIBITION OF PARTY FEELING

Senator Cameron is no longer ''the white
haired boy the Republicans Of Woods
Run believed him.
His action on the elections dill has ostra-
cized him in the good opinion of the Woods
Runires. and last night they solemnly con-
signed him to kingdom come, freight paid,
by committing him, in effigy, to the flames,
and the Democrats are taking heart OF grace
In consequence and preparing to receive the
disgruntled Republicans with open arms
and many promises.
Woods Run was all agog last night, in
expectation of some fun from Cameron's S
cremation. Hon. James Shipman. who has
assisted at more than one such celebration
chief operator, and it was expected that he
| would find able assistants il the vendor of
| straw, the gentleman who sells oil to the
neighborhood, and the army of small boys
who are never wanting on such occasions.
Neither were the pleasure seeking and fun
| loving Woods Runites disappointed. They
| turned out as one man before Hartman s
Hotel, after previously turning in to see Mr..
| Hartman's collection OF leaders in his bar
room.
The Image Placed Upon Its Bier.
Then. with all ceremony and pomp bsft-
| ting the solemn occasion, Senator Cameron s
alter ego was brought forth and reverently
| placed on the funeral bier. This instrument
| was supported on the shoulders of couple of
| pall.bearers, and consisted of ten feet of gas
pipe. Suspended from it, head downward, was
| the straw-encased body of the Senator, with a
| Quay hat securely fastened on its head. At a
| signal from the director the Welsh Band struck
/ up Tim Finnegan's Wake" and the process
/ sion moved forward with slow and solemn
| tread to the place of burial. This was in the
"potters field" adjoining the penitentiary,
! and here the cremaLory fires had been urged
into strong heat by a corps of able assist ants.
| Arrived on the ground. the band played
| a composition arrayed for the occasion by the
united efforts of the instrumentalists, and
! called "Cameron's Death March," The chief
beauty of this dirge was the humorous result
| obtained by each member extemporIzing as he
marched. and the whole was composition
| destined to live in the memory OF the youngest
| inhabltant of the classic locality.
Next, amidst the croonings of the chief
| mourners, whose numbers were every moment
| enlarged. Director Shipman placed the body on
the fire. taking care to warm up its toes first, so
that the sudden accession of so much heat
| shouldn't incommode 1t. Then gradually, and
| in a manner beftting its dignity, the Senator $
ef1gy yielded to the flames, and went up in
| smoke, while small residum of dust alone
remained as legacy to: ibis mourners.
A Speech By the Chief Mourner.
During this interesting scene the chief
! mourner delivered eulogistic panegyric on
| the dement's of the deceased, and remarked
that there was no place half hot enough to
warm up its political apathy. And then one end
| of the band drifred into "The Dead March
| From Saul" while the drum and horn strug-
| gled with IBID Me Goodby and Go" and some
| of the concourse began to think of returning.
effect
slightly misleading, an instantaneous adjourn
ment to Hartmans Hotel was promptly voted
| and acted upon.
Here Chief Mourner Shipman was induced to
make an extemporized prepared address on
"Repubicansm." The worthy gentleman said
in the course of a lengthy harangue. delivered
| in glowing terms, that Republicanisn was a
dead duck, and that if its supporters did not
| rise in their might and suppress the "unregen-
Grated rebels of Southern Bourbonism," life
| would no longer be worth living. And then
| everybody Joined in general debate, while the
band upstairs tried new air for tine next oc-
casiOn.