Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-25
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPIIIC NEWS
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Tl,e Latc Mrs. Hnrrison.

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WAsHISGToN, Oct. 25.-Thc guard
Especial officers detailed Immediately
on the death of Mrs. Harrison to pre-
vent the entrance Of intruders into the
White House or its grounds was main
tanned this morning, and no one was
admitted without some special reason.
At an early hour Undertaken sipeare
was sent for, and Robert A. Parke, the
southeastern passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was also sum
moned to await information of the
wishes ofthe President and his family in
regard to arrangements for the trans
portation OF the dead and the funeral
party to indianapolis. Funeral services
in Washington will not be held early
Wednesday morning Gas intended last
night but will take place Thursday
morning. 1t is the especial wish of the
family that the services shall be as
private as possible. The funeral will
be personal and not public one. As
far rs the official position of the Pres;-
dent will possibly permit the services
will be the same rs those customary in
the case ola member ola private family.
Invitations will be strictly limited in
number and no persons will be allowed
to be present without them. The
funeral services will undoubtedly be
held in the East room. This is the
largest room in the building, and. iii
fact, the only one at all adapted to the
holding Of services, even as private as
those which the family desire. They
will be conducted according to the
Presbyterian forms by the Rev. DR..
Teunis S. Hamlin. pastor of the Church
of the Covenant, on Connecticut ave-
nue. Of which the President and Mrs.
Harrison have been regular attendants.
The body will not lie in state.
After the services here the funeral par
ty will leave Washington Thursday at
noon, or soon thereafter. for Indianap-
oils, where services OF more public
character will take place 1t is proba-
bic that the funeral train will reach In
dianapolis early Friday morning and at
about 1880 o'c'o:k the church services
will begin. They Will take place in the
First Presbyterian Church of indianap-
oils, on the corner of New York and
Pennsylvania streets Rev. d.. II. L.
Iaincs, pastor of that church, Will Off
ciate. The body will then be taken to
Crown Hill cemetery and inferred, Of
ter which the President will return TO
Washington. The President has no
plot in the cemetery. but the telegraph
has been called into use and by this
means a selection Ola last resting place
for the loved wife will be made The
postponement of the services here until
Thursday has been necessiiara' By the
delay involved in making these ar
rangements at long distance. The
services ut the White House viii be
strictly and absolutely private, as it is
the earnest wish of the President and
the family, and there is reason to be-
lieve that it was also the wish Of the
dead woman herself, who in life was
avcrse to public ceremonies. Only the
l;insmen of the President and of his
late wife, probably the members of the
Cabinet and their families and very
few intimate friends will be hidden
to the funeral services here. The
President thought that it would
be unduly fastening the ceremonies to
have them take place tomorrow morn
ing and it was also found that
the details for the proper conduct of
the services could not we'll be arranged
in single day. All night long telc
grams of coincidence with the President
and his family in their affection arrived
and in the early hours after dawn mes
senger boy after messenger boy passed
through the gates bearing kilograms of
this nature. Many Oft those which came
last night were predicated on prema
ture report that death had taken place
at six o'clock in the evening. The mes
sages of coincidence will not be given
to the public for the present, The
President had not, up to II o'clock,
an opportunity to examine them, and
until he does, it is certain that they
will not be given to the public and they
may not be given out even then. The
President is averse to parade of these
messages before the public, and if they
are furnished to the press at all it will
be with great reluctance on his part.
II may be, however. that he will CON
sent to forego his wish to keep all these
sympathetic expressions locked within
the breasts of his family and him
self far enough TO agree that a
few of them from specially dis
tinguished people and from foreign
governments shall be made public
After the end had come this morning
the President retired to his own room
adioininu that in which Mrs Harrison