Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-16
CROWDING AROUND THE EIER.
Hundreds Hasten to See the Remains Of
Gen. Butler.

Zen. Butler.
At Gen. Buffers home, on Belvidere Hill
Lowell. Mass. at $50 yesterday morning private
funeral services were held. Rev. DR.. A. St
John Chambre of st. Anne's Episcopal Church
read the Office for the dead. The body was il
the drawing room. The stars and stripes were
not on the coffin during the private funeral
services. President Harrisons wreath anG
some flowers were placed upon the coffin.
Among the people present there were such
leading men of Lowell as are close friends Of
the family and the generals kinsmen Messrs
PIympton and Drinkwater, Cadet Butler Ames
of West Point Gen. Ames, Frank L. Washburn
q. ID. Barrett and others. There was no ad
dress by the clergyman.
After the short service, closing with the
Lord 8 Prayer, those present looked upon the
general for the last time detachment O,
comrades OF Post 40, G. A. r., reached the
house shortly after the private funeral exer.
cises.
Their standards were draped and the banner
OF the post bearing portrait of the dead com.
marder, was also IN mourning. Col Dimon
VINO has charge of the arrangements for the
funeral. WAS in command.
Comrades bore the body from the house to a
hearse drawn by four horses. wild wind was
blowing from the river over the hill The
veterans suffered. but not a man sought shelter
house. the drums of the band rumbled. the
colors were dipped, and the company saluted
When the march to the hall was taken M
arms were reversed. and the officers fell to the
rear OF the detachment. The streets were
crowded rs the band signaled by dirces the
passage OF the generals body from the house to
Huntington Hall, where the body was to lie in
state.
great crowd was waiting to be admitted to
the ball. In the hail the coffin was placed in
the center of the floor. From the ceiling to the
floor wall of black extended The dim hight
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 epauIettes that the general wore
from Lowell to the gulf and back again. Behind
the catafa!que rested bank of flowers that had
come from President Harrison. from the con-
people between these extremes. NSenators
Dawes, Chandler and Hale, Gov. Russell, Fred
erick Douglass, militia companies. societies and
friends in Lowell, Boston, New York, Washing
ton, Chicago and other places cent 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 awoke the echoes Of the hall where the
dead man lay. Huntington Hall. whenever
Gen. Butler appeared there in life, saw tur-
bulent scenes, but those of yesterday surpassed
anything ever seen before at the old hall. Down
IN the streets thousands pressed forward when
u ey saw the doors open. All the afternoon a
lteady stream of people poured in. but the
crowds that wanted to get in did not diminish
The exit was Shattuck street, and a stream
of people poured through that door.
No impression could be made in the mass
that clamored for admission at the other side
of the hall Late in the afternoon the doors
were closed. and the officers had an hours rest
1t was designed to close the hall at o'clock
until this morning, but at G O'Clock they were
opened again. This time tho people were beaten
into lines. and more order was maintained up
to IL clock. when the final closing was made
Hundreds left the place without getting in, and
others. who wanted to get out of the jam. were
forced to wait and be swept into the hall by the
stream.
The preparations are for great event.
greater than Lowell has ever witnessed
Last night the police force was increased,
and about forty firemen assisted. The crowd
smashed lot of glass in a shop, and an un-
known woman had n leg broken