Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-12
in POETS CORNER.
Tennyson's Remains Taken to West
minister Abbey.
In PURSUIT OF AN OUTLAW
Democrats |ndorse Judge Andrews
in New York.
THE ALABAMA ARRESTS.
THE TENNYsON OBsEQUIEs.

THE TENNYsON OBsEQUIEs.
Laying the Bard's Remains In the Poets'
Corner, Westminster Abbey.
LONDON. Oct. 12.-Throughout the night the
body of Lord Tennyson lay in st. Faith g Chapel,
Westminster Abbey, the union jack covering
the coffin and few trails of ivy, placed there
by Hallam Tennyson. lying loosely over it. II
transpires that the volume of Shakespeare
which Tennyson read on his deathbed was
placed within the coffin before the body was
taken from Aldworth.
There was no vigil at the bier of the great
poet during the night The coffin lay in dark
ness save for the feeble rays from a gas lamp
In the neighboring street which fickered
weirdly through the stained windows. The
door was locked when The family left after the
coffin had been deposited in the chapel last
evening So it remained until the opening Of
the abbey today, when the vergers arrived and
stood guard at the sacred entrance, awaiting
the moment when the coffin should be borne to
the altar trestle. 1t was frosty
autumnal morning. the rising sun break
ing through haze Of fiery red. Soon
after daylight people began to gather around
the door Of the north nave, to which admission
was to be free for the public, and four hours be-
fore the time FOR opening the door the neigh
borhood OF this entrance was thronged. 1t was
noticeable that all were dressed in black and
many in deep mourning. Sorrow as if for a
personal friend was depicted upon all counten-
| ances the lovers Of the pure-minded poet
stood patiently awaiting admission to take part
! in the last honors of his earthly remains.
Meanwhile holders of tickets of invitation
were arriving and being ushered into the broad
| sanctuary opening into the abbey, and long be-
| fore the ceremony began the historic edifice
| was crowded. Outside thousands fingered I'M
able to obtain entrance, yet unwilling to depart
| from near the spot whore an event of such
mournful interest to the nation and to mankind
was in progress.
| guished one. The premier of England, Mr..
Gladstone, was represented by Hon. Arthur
| Lyttleton, the Prince of Wales by Gen. Probyn
| of his household, the Duke of Edinburgh by his
private secretary, Hon. VIM. James Colvile,
| the Duke of York heir presumtive, BY Sir
| Francis Winton and the British government by
| Hon. H. II. Asquith, the home secretary.
| Walter Besant and many other prominent men
Of letters were present
| The scene most impressive. The abbey
choir was covered with rich hanging of purple
| velvet. The nave was lined on both sides with
| orphan boys from the home founded by Gen.
| Gordon. institution in which Tennyson took
| a marked sympathetic interest The boys wore
a modified Scotch uniform and carried them
selves with military precision.
At noon the sun burst out in full splendor
| from the haze which had hitherto partially OBJ
I scured it's rays, and the interior of the abbey
was gloriousy illumined. bringing out all the
| beauties of the sculpture and carving. mo-
ment later Sir Henry Ponsonby, the queens
private secretary, entered St. Faiths Chapel,
| and on behalf of her majesty placed beautiful
| wreath upon the coffin. Sir Henry then pro-
ceeded to the dean of Westminster's stall. where
| he sat representative of the queen. The
| archbishops Of Canterbury and York occupied
| subdeans stalls.
So many wreaths and other floral tributes
had baer Gent n the ahbay that IL wa m
BILE to find room for them with the coffin. They
were placed in the Jerusalem chamber and
we're found to amount to several wagon loads.
! Only few of the most choice or appropriate
designs were applied near the grave
ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS.
At 1890 o clock stir around the door of St
Faiths Chapel attracted the attention of the
waiting audience in the abbey, and all eyes
were directed to the spot. First appeared the
officiating clergy, then the coffin, which bore
only the wreaths contributed by the queen and
| members of the family. The pail was an
| ordinary union jack. 1t borne on the
right hand by Lord Salisbury, the late premier,
| Earl Selborne, Lord Rosebery, minister Of
| foreign affairs; Lord Arthur Kelvin, Web
| Lecky, the historian, and Henry Montagu
Butler, D., master of Trinity College, Cam
! bridge. and on. the left by the Duke of Argyll,
| Earl Dufferin, Mr.. Henry White secretary OF
the American legation, Sir James Paget, Benja-
min Jcwett, master of Baliol College Oxford,
and James Anthony Froude, the historian.
| Immediately behind the coffin walked the
| poets son, Hallam Tennyson, with his wife and
| children. and some intimate friends of the
| family.
The procession passed through the cloisters
| and the nave to the altar, where the coffin was
| placed upon trestles and the religious ceremony
was conducted. the archbishop of Canterbury
officiating, assisted by the dean and canons.
Among the many noticed in tho triforum
during the services we're Edward Terrill,
| American minister to Belgium Samuel r.
R. Thayer, American minister to the Neither
| lands; ex-senator George F. Edmunds of YER
mont; DR.. Nevin, lately resident in Rome, and
Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Choat, representing
Harvard College; Mr. Emerson of Boston, o
nephew of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
Mrs. White, wife Of the secretary Of the Ameri-
| can legation.
As the body was carried into the abbey the
music by Croft and Purcell was sung in the
professional parts of the burial service. As
the procession paused was chanted the psalm
beginning Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling
place in all generations" As the words "In
the evening it is cut down and withered" came
from their lips the stiffness Of the abbey
broken by low sobs from the family of the dead
poet.
The lesson was followed by the singing of
"Crossing Of the Bar" and another anthem with
the words Of an unpublished poem from Jenny
son.
The last anthem sung was "Silent Voices"
written but not published by Tennyson and
set to music by his wife. 1t contains ten lines
of exquisite beauty, closing with these words:
Call me farther. silent voices.
Forward to the starry track.
Gil Glm nm .i,s, up the heights beyond me.
At the grave Dean Bradley said the prayer,
the collect and the benediction and the great
crowd dispersed the notes Of the "Dead
March from Saul sounded through the abbey.
There was no procession from the abbey at the
close of the service.
Westminster Abbey has hardly seen funeral
| SO representative as the today. 1t was as
if the grief OF all classes of the civilized world,
music, art, literature, labor and states
manship, was represented by their great
men. Henry living, with his best known
colleagues; John Burns, with the socialists and
labor agitators; cabinet ministers and ex-cabi-
net minister's, royal academicians, the poets Of
whom the dead poet was the chief, and men
from England's greatest mercantile houses were
crowded together, elbow to elbow.
The flowers came from persons Of all classes in
Great Britain, the continent and the United
States. The queens last tribute was three
wreaths, one bearing the words, "A mark of
sincere regard from Victoria"