The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-01-16
BUTLER LAID At REST
The Last Rites Over the Body
of the Dead General.
LOWELL CROWDED WITH VISITORS

State Omcials, Distinguished Civilians,
MIitia, Veterans, and Many societies
Unite in Paying Respeot-The Body Lay
I'm State Yesterday and THIS Morning.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. l6.-The final
services over the body Of Gen. Benjamin
| f. Butler are being held to-day, and ths
event is the greatest one that this city has
ever witnessed. The militia the visiting
dignitaries Grand Army posts, and the
Lowell societies swell the funeral process
! sion to enormous proportions.
Gov Russell and his staff, Gov.
Smith Of New Hampshire and staff, aud
delegations from the Legislature and
Boston and Lawrence city governments
are present.
At Gen. Buffers late residence on Bel
videre Hill, private funeral services were
held yesterday morning. Rev DR.. A. St.
| John Chambee of St. Anne's Episcopal
| Church read the Office for the dead
The body was in the drawing room.
President Harrison's wreath and wreaths
Of 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 General 8
kinsmen, Messrs. Plympton and Drink
water, Cadet Butler Ames of Westpoint,
Gen. Ames, Frank L. Washburn, o. d.
Barrett and others. There was no eulogy
and no address by the clergyman.
Comrades bore the body from the house
to hearse drawn by four horses. A wild
wind was blowing from the river over the
hill. The veterans suffered, but not n
man sought shelter. AS the body was
carried from the portals of the house the
drums of the band rumbled, the oolors
were dipped, and the company saluted.
When the march to the hall was taken
up, arms were reversed, and the officers
fell to the rear of the detachment. The
streets were crowded as the band sig
nailed by dirges tn Q passage of the Gen
erals body from the house to Huntington
hall where the body was to lie in state.
A great crowd was waiting to be ad-
mitted to the hall. In the hall the cof-
fin was placed in the middle of the floor.
From the ceiling to the floor II wall OF
black extended. Grand Army men
guarded the casket
On the coffin rested the sword and
epaulettes that were worn from Lowell to
the Gulf and back again in the days when
the negro WAS made a contraband Of war
by the brain that lay at rest under the
coffin lid.
Behind the catafalque rested bank OF
flowers that had come from President
Harrison from the convicts of the State
prison, and from all classes of people be-
tween those extremes.
President Harrison's wreath was placed
on the coffin in Washington. Senators
Dawes, Chandler, and Hale, Gov. Rus
sell, Hon Frederick Douglass, militia
companies, societies, and friends in Low
ell, Boston, New York, Washington
Chicago, and other places sent pieces tina.
took up one side of the hall
When the crowds were admitted to thC
hall, they almost carried the doors OF
their hinges. They struggled up stair:
and ran over the police, who tried tC
restrain them. Shouts and cries awokt
the echoes of the hall where the dead mar
lay.
Huntington Hall, whenever Gen
Butler appeared there in life, saw turbu
lent scenes, but those of yesterday sur
passed anything ever seen before at tht
old nall. Down in the street thousands
pressed forward when they saw the door
opeu. All the afternoon a steady streau
of people poured in, but the crowds tina
wanted to get in did not diminish.
The exit was on Shattuck street and 4
stream of people poured through tina
door. No impression could be made il
the mass that clamored for admission a
the other side of the hall.
Late in the afternoon the doors wer
closed and the officers had an hours rest
1t was designed to close the hall at
o'clock until this morning, but at
o'clock they were opened again. Thi
time the people were beaten into line
and more order was maintained up to Il
o'clock, when the final closing was made
Hundreds left the place without gettini
In and many others who wanted to gel
out of the jam, were forced to wait anC
be swept into the hall by the stream.
There was another clash this morning
as those who failed yesterday tried again
The rush was almost as bad as that {