Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-28

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lowing them in the order named came
Secretary Elkins and Attorney General
Miller, Postmaster General Wanamaker
and Secretary Tracy and Secretary
Rusk. They were assigned to seats in
the first row, nearest to the catafalque.
At the end, and to one side of private
corridor that enters the east room, is a
broad staircase, and down this came the
mourners, headed by Benjamin Harri-
son, the husband, his official position
forgotten for the time being by the as
sembled friends in the sympathy which
went out from the hearts of all those
present.
They came slowly down the long cor
ridor, past The banked palms and flow
ers, past tn. great portraits of former
presidents of the United States. and en-.
tered the room OF death. All rose TO re-
ceive them. The mourners seated them
selves to the south of the catafalque,
where the palms and banks of flowers to
a great extent shielded them from OBJ
servation.
Those present, barely 300 in number,
were almost exclusively the official fam
lily of the president and those whose rela-
tons with the family put them on the
footing of domestic friends.
When the spectators had resumed
their seats in silence, DR.. Hamlin, the
pastor of the Church of the Covenant,
read the opening passage Of scripture:
Gin Ny Fathers House Are Many Man
sions," and the other selected passages
which followed.
This was followed by a brief prayer
which was closed by the Lords Prayer,
which all present repeated in low tones
after the officiating clergyman.
Then DR.. Barrett read from the scrip
lures passages appropriate to the occa-
sion.
The choir of st. Johns church,
stationed in the adjoining room, then
sang hymn. The strains were softened
by distance, lending added pathos and
solemnity to the scene.
Then DIR. Hamlin offered prayer.
From their recessed concealment in
the adjoining room, the choir sang the
first two stanzas of Cardinal Newman's
beautiful hymn, which Mrs Harrison
80 much admired: LEAD, Kindly
Light"
ii was just 1910 o'clock when the
services concluded. They had lasted
nearly forty minutes The honorary
pdllDeHT6Tb, pIeCtuIHS IIo CdohcO'
formed a passageway on the main
portico of the mansion and stood with
uncovered heads while the eight body
bearers bore it to the hearse
The funeral procession then proceed
ed to the Pennsylvania station. There
was nothing in the procession to indi
cate the high position of the deceased
Everything about the cortege was az
simple as possible. The string Of car
riages extended for two blocks beyond
the hearse.
Nearly all the government depart
ments were closed from 10 o'clock until
noon, and the employees swarmed out OF
the streets and watched the funeral pro
cession pass.
The funeral cortege arrived at thu
! Pennsylvania railroad station at 1l:2'
a. IN, where large but silently decor
Gus crowd awaited them. The presi
dents car was combined parlor anC
dining room car, The cabinet and othel
distinguished attendants occupied cal
which was divided into six drawing
rooms, arranged in suites. The whole
train consisted of six vestibuled cars.
The train left Washington at 11:40
one hour exactly after the closing of tn
services at the White House.