New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-16
BUTLER LYING IN STATE.
CROWDS IN LOWELL STRUGGLE TO GET A
GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE.
PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICES OVER TIE BODY
OF THE GENERAL Is HIS LATE HOME
TAKEN THENCE TO A NALL-THE
PUBLIC FUNERAL TO-DAY

PUBLIC FUNERAL TO-DAY
Lowell. Mass. Jan. lj-At General Buffers
house, on Bevidere Hill. at 80 this morning,
private funeral services for the dead soldier
were held. The Rev. DR.. A. st. John Chambre
of St Anne's Episcopal Church. read the Office for
the dead. Tie body was in the drawrg-room
The Stars and Stripes not on the coffin
during the private funeral services President
Harrison's wreath and ferns and lilies
were laid upon the coffin Among the
people present there were such leading men Of
this city as are close friends Of the family and
the Generals ,insmcn. Mcssrs Plympton and
Drinkwater: Cadet Butler Amcs, of West Point;
General Amcs, Frank L. Washburn. o. d Bar
rett. and others There was no eulogy 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
a detachment OF comrades OF Post A. G.. A.
r.. reached the directly after the private
funeral services. Their standards were draped
and the banner OF the post. bearing a portrait
or the dead commander, was also in mourning
Colonel Dimon, who has charge Of the arrange
ments for the funeral, was in command Comrades
bore the body from the house 10 n hearse
drawn by four horses. A wild wind was blowing
from the river over the hill The veterans suf
y
body was carried from the portals OF the house
the drums OF the band rumblcd the colors were
dipped and the company salutel
When the march to the nall was taken IN, arms
were reversed and the officers fell to tho rear Of
the detachment. The streets were crowded as the
band signallci by dirgcs tho passage Of tho
Gcne-als body from the house 10 Huntington
Hall. where il was 10 lie in state \ great crowd
was waiting to be admitted 70 the hall. In the
hall the coffin placed in the centre OF tho
floor From the ceiling 10 the floor wall OF
black extended. Tho dim light did not extend
to this wall OF black and tho effect dismal
and aruesome. Grand Army men guarded the
coffin. On il rested the sword and cpaulettes that
were worn from Lowell 10 the Gulf and back
again, III the days when the negro made a
contraband Of wa by the brain that lay under the
glass plate OF the coffin Id behind the cata-
falQuo rested bank Of flowers. that had come
from President Harrison, from the convicts OF
the State Prison. anG from all classes Of people
between those extremes President lIarrisons
wreath was placed in tho collin In Washington.
Senators Dawes Chandler and Hale. Governor
Russell. Frederick Douglass. militia companies.
societies and friends n Lowell, Boston. New
York. Washington, Chicago and other places sent
pieces that too, NJ ono side OF the hall.
When the crowd WAS admitted TO the hall, they
almost carried the doors OIL the hinges. They
struggled upstairs and howlcd over the police who
tried TO restrain them Shouts and cries awokc
the echoes Of the hall where the dead man lay.
Huntington Hall, Whenever General Batter ap-
reared there in lic turbulent scenes. but those
Of to-day surpassed anything ever seen before at
the old hall Down in the street, thousands
pressed forward when they saw the doors open
An the afternoon steady stream OF peopl" ponfc
in but the crowds that wanted fo get In ana not
diminish. The cNit on Shaituck-st.. ana a
| stream of people pour"l through that door. No
impression could lie made in 'h' mas that clamor'
for admission to the other side Of I'll" hall lA'e
i'm the afternoon The doors were closed ana III"
officers had an hours lcst. II was drflgh''' "
close the hall at o'clocN until tomorrow oring'
but AT o'cocl. they were opened again. Ili@
time the people were forced into lines and more
order was maintained up 70 IL o'clock, when me
final closing WAS made l.undrc II left thc pace
| without getting in. and many others, who whnt"i
| ,o got ont of the Jam, were forced 70 walt ana
Inc swept into The hail 10y thc st1 nm. lh"r" ~
hc another crush tomorrow morning. as thoS' WHO
failed today will try then Tho preparations arc
for n great occasion, greater than Lower "''
over witnessed TIE militia, the visiting hlghi,,
| taries Grand Army posts and about every Lowell
eociet, will swell the funeral procession "a cnor-
mons proportions. ToniZht the police force was
increased and about forty hrcmen assisted Inc
crowd smashed "A lot of glass in IA shop ana an
unknown woman had n LEG broken