The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-21
BUTLER'S REMAINS
Viewed for the Last Time--A Crowd of Adj
mirers Almost Transformed Into Mob.


mirers Almost Transformed Into a Mob.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. lG.-At Gen.
Buffers late residence on Belvidere hill
Sunday morning private funeral serv-
ices were held. Rev. DR.. ST. John
Chambrc, of st. Anne's Episcopal
church, read the Office for the dead.
'Ehe body was in the drawing-room.
The stars and stripes were not on the
coffin during the private funeral serv-
ices. President Harrison's wreath and
o couple of ferns and lilies were laid
upon the coffin. The, was no culogy
and no address by the clergyman.
After the short service, closing with
the Lords Prayer, those present looked
upon the general for the last time.
4 detachment of comrades of Post 42,
G. A. r., reached the house directly
after the private funeral exercises
Their standards were draped, and the
banner of the post, bearing portrait
of the dead commander, was also in
mourning. Col Dimon, who has charge
of the arrangements for the funeral,
was in command.
Comrades bore the body from the
house to the hearse, drawn by four
horses. A wild wind was blowing from
the river over the hill. The veterans
suffered, but not man sought shelter.
AS the body was carried from the por-
tails of the house the drums of the band
rumbled, the colors were dipped and
the company saluted.
When the march to the hall was taken
up arms were reversed and the officers
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streets were crowded as the band sig
nailed by dirges the passage of the gem
erals body from the house to Hunting
ton hall, where the body was to lie in
state. A great crowd was waiting to
be admitted to the hall. In the hall the
coffin was placed in the center of the
floor. From the ceiling to the floor n
wall of black extended The dim light
did not extend to this wall of black and
the effect was dismal and gruesome.
Grand Army men guarded the casket.
On the coffin rested the sword and epu-
lettes that were worn from Lowell to the
Gulf and back again. Behind the cata-
falque rested bank of flowers that had
come from President Harrison, from
the convicts of the state prison, and
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extremes. President Harrison's wreath
was placed in the coffin in Washington.
Senators Dawes, Chandler, and Hale,
Gov. Russell, Hon. Frederick Douglass,
militia companies and societies and
friends in Lowell. Boston, New York,
Washington, Chicago and other places
sent pieces that took up one side of the
hall.
When the crowd was admitted to the
hall they almost carried the doors off
their hinges They struggled upstairs
and bowled over the police, who tried
to restrain them. Shouts and cries
awole the echoes of the hall where the
dead man lay. Huntington hall, when
ever Gen. Butler appeared there in life,
saw turbulent scenes, but those of Sum
day surpassed anything every seen be-
fore at the old hall. Down in the
streets thousands pressed forward when
they saw the doors open. All the
afternoon a steady stream of people
poured in, but the crowds did not di-
minish. The exit was on Shattuck
street. and stream of people poured
through that door. No impression
could be made in the mass that clam
ored for admission on the other side of
the hall.