Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-01
CHICAGO'S FUNERAL DAY
The Whole City Honors the
Memory of Its Dead Mayor.
THOUSANDS IN THE PROCESSION.
Even the Criminals In the Jail Abhor the
Assassin, Prozdergast-Ths Destruction
of the White City Begun-The Midway
PlaIsance Is No More.

Assassin, Prozdergast-Ths Destruction
of the White City Begun-The Midway
Plaisance Is No More.
CHICAGO, Nov To-day Chicago buries
her dead mayor. The funeral takes place
at the Church of the Epiphany, at Ashland
boulevard and Adams street. This morn
ing the remains were taken from the city
hall to the church, where the services &C
cording to the Episcopal ritual will be con-
Quoted by Rev. 7. n Morrison, Jr. The
procession will proceed from the church to
Graceland cemetery. The column will be
large one. Many societies, civil and mill
tary, have applied for places in the line
and have been assigned to position by Mar
shall Austin j. Doyle. The following will
be the order of the parade;
Platoon of police, band, chief marshal and
staff, United States troops, General Nelson A.
Miles commanding; First brigade, /. y. e.,
Brigadier General Wheeler commanding; Chi
cago zouaves, Royal Scots, Ninth battalion,
department of police, fire department, Chicago
hussars, honorary pallbearers In carriages, cat
afalque, active pallbearers relatives in carriages,
members of the city council, ex-members of
the city council, eX-members of the board of
education, library board and other city officials,
members of the county anG county officials,
members and eX-members of the judiciary,
Chicago Bar association, members of the drain
age board, United States government officials,
state OlIlGlbIs, Masonic
organization, Colonel w. Barnard command
ing; Cook county Democracy, Captain Farrell
commanding; letter carriers, city employees,
political organizations; German societies, y
Ortelsefer commanding; Polish societies, Peter
kiolbassa commanding; Bohemian societies, ].
q. Panoch commanding; Irish societies, I. 4,
Ryan commanding; Scandinavian societies,
odd Fellows Italian societies citizens on foot.
Scenes Around the Bier.
The scene while the mody was lying in
=. Al l..
The quartets stationed unseen near
the bier voiced at intervals the hymn,
Lead, Kindly Light" Grimy little boot
blacks, with their kits upon their shoulders
and their ragged hats in their dirty hands,
tiptoed by and paused a moment to look
upon the face of the man they knew in life
Old city employees brushed away tear as
they Went by. There were many women
in the procession. Mothers carried their
children. 1t was not crowd of notables,
not II crowd of mere curiosity seekers, but
evidently crowd of people who wanted
last look at the face of man they all adj
mired. The coffin rested in the center of
raised platform on the first floor.
The platform was carpeted and walled i'll
on either side with black. An arched roof
of black added to the somberness of the
scene. All of the entrances to the building
and nearly all of the offices in the building
We're draped with black and all of the
/ offices except those that it is absolutely
necessary to keep open were closed.
The public schools are closed today for
the funeral. The board of trade, banks and
other places of business are also deserted.
Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor liar
rison, is having a rough time in Jail. The
other prisoners have taken to Selling every
opportunity to jeer at the wretch and
sbrieking imprecatious at him, 50 that eN-
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tically an impossibility While the may
hall, with thousands reverently passing
by, the assassin seemed for the first time
forced to realize his position.
/ The words of his fellow prisoners affected
him strangely All along he had appar-
/ emily labored under the delusion that his
/ companions in crime would look up to him
as a sort of king among them. But their
frightful denunciations dispelled, today at
least, this vagary from the mans mind
/ and he seemed to understand bitterly that
he was abhorred even by hardened crimi-
mails as a cowardly assassin.
The Fair Breaks Up.
AT the Worlds fair the exhibitors arc
not scrambling to get away. Preparations
are going on i'll all buildings preparatory
to moving, but SO quietly that visitors are
not annoyed. For the most part exhibits
/ III SIhutl Ill place until everything Is IL
4 readiness to move them out. The track
was laid to the Transportation building,
and the locomotives, cars and heavy ex-
hibits of that department will begin to
roll out the latter end of this week
, Buffalo Bills warriors will go back to
their fires on the Pine Ridge agency today
/ His cowboys will ride bronchos and throw
their lassos in Texas and Mexico His
/ Cossacks left for their homes in the vicinity
of the Black sea. His troop of United
, States cavalry will return to their post,
their furlough being ended. and the Ger
mans, Russians and French will sail to
Antwerp together Nov. 9. Colonel Cody
is going to take trip through the south
I west as the guest of General Miles, and
Major Burke, the general manager of the
| big show, will shortly leave for the eastern
countries to gather his wild men for the
next year. During the past six months
Buffalo Bills show has played TO nearly
| 5000, 900 people.
The women of the fair held their closing
exercises in the Woman's building, all the
distinguished ladies identified with the
exposition being present. Mrs. Potter
Palmer made the closing address
The old Liberty bell was started back to
Philadelphia in charge of an escort Be
fore leaving the grounds it was hauled up
alongside the new Liberty bell, and the
tongues of both were united by IA cord OF
American silk. Then they We're both
sounded in unison.
Midway's dream of new lease of life is
shattered. 1t is closed absolutely. The
executive committee of the fair ordered it
closed, and the director general promul.
gated the order. Jackson park, the
World fair grounds proper will be open
but Midway never again.