Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-31

impresSively simple. Before the hour
OF 10 the invited guests began to ar
rive and take their seats In the front
Darlor OF the mansion. Eleven o'clock
was the hour named for the simple
service Of prayer which was TO precede
the renewal OF the body TO the church
for
THE MORE PURLIC SERVICE.
It was only few minutes after that
hour when the mOurners entered and
the President and all the distinguished
concourse rose to pay fitting honor and
sympathy to the sorrow Of the deceased
statesman's relatives. The family was
followed by the Rev. DR.. Hamlin,
OF the Church of the Covenant,
who, standing beside the casket.
In a low tone delivered the
Presbyterian service for the departed
soul. As he did so Mr.. Walter Dam
rosch touched the keys Of the piano TO
a slow dirge, and the scene was an In
pressive one. DR.. Hamlin returned
thanks to God that by His power this
life was ended only that the life OF i'm
mortality might be begun. He be-
seeched the Almighty that comfort
might come to every member OF the
stricken household, because the one
that had gone out OF this life had gone
TO Immortality. Let the consolation
that came from above fall tenderlY and
sweetly upon them.
Speak TO them words OF comfort,
such as Thou alone can teach. This we
ask in the name OF our Savior. Amen" s"
This completed the brief and impress
Slve services, aud the caSket was closed
and tenderly borne to the hearse. Sol
emnly, and in silence, the family and
the mourning guests left the house
which has been so frequently invaded
by the angel Of death, and the process
sion wended It's way slowly to the
church.
Outside the house the street was
thronged with spectators who
REvEEENTLY DOFFED THEIR HATS
as the pall-bearerS deposited their sa-
cred burden In the hearse, and while
the attendants buried it under as many
flowers as could be placed therein. The
cOrtege then started for the church.
In the first carriage was the Rev. DR..
T. l.. Hamiin, the officiating clergy
man. Then came the pallbearers, Sena-
tor Frye, of Maine; Senator Morgan, or
Alabama: ex-SDeaker Reed, OF Maine;
Representative Boutelle, Of Maine; Rep
resentative Hit, of Illinois; Represent
ative Bingham, of Pennsylvania; Gen.
Thomas Ewing, John Hay, ex-ASsistant
Secretary Of State; Joseph A. Manly, OF
Augusta; A. L. jerks and ?. V. Ely.
After this followed the immediate
family of the deceased, who entered the
carriages assigned them in the follow
ing order: Miss Hattie Blaine,
Mr.. James G.. Blaine (on the
box of this carriage rode Fred Brown,
the family butler), Mrs. DamrOsch, Mrs.
Emmons Blaine, Miss Abigail Dodge,
Miss Price MRS. Blaine's nursel, Mr..
r. q. Blaine and family and Mr.. Hamp-
ton Denman, OF Missouri, Frank and
Henry StanwoOd and Walter Stinson,
Horace Stanwood, Augustus Stanwood
and wife, Mr.. w. II. Hatch (nephews
OF the deceased). In the next carriage
were doctors Johnston and Hyatt (the
attending physicians in Mr.. Blaine's
last illness).
The distinguished guests followed in
regular assigned order without confu-
sion, the arrangements being superin-
tended by Mr.. w. Z. Curtis, at the re.
quest Of the family.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Of the Covenant, where Mr.. Blaine was
a pew-holder, had been surrounded with
a rope 10 exclude all not specially in
vited. The relatives and pail bearers
occupied the first eight rows of seats in
the main aisles. Behind that were
seated the President and Vice-Presi-
dent. Cabinet officers, Speaker Crisp
and members OF the Supreme Court aud
their families. IntermiXed with them
were members of the diplomatic corps,
as well as many Senators and Repre-
sentatives, in addition to those present
at the house.
II was exactly at 10 o'clock when the
slow and solemn organ music announced
the arrival OF the funeral party at the
door of the church. As the sad process
sion moved up the aisles, Mr.. Walter
Damrosch, Mr.. Blaine's sOn-in-law, who
was at the organ, played an imprOvisa-
tion made up Of several themes OF
hymns which Mr.. Blaine loved.
An present rose and remained stand
ing as the funeral party moved down
the aisle.
DR.. Hamlin, the pastor, walked at the
head of the mourners reading from the
ritual OF Presbyterian worship. Behind
him came the honorary pail bearers,
two abreaSt, Senators Hale and Frye,
the representatives OF the dead mans
State, leading the way. The body
bearers
MOVED AT MEASURED PACE
towards the chaneel rail, where they
deposited the casket amid the profusOn
OF flowers. The family followed the
body aud took the front seat on the left
near the remains. More distant kins-
folk, relatives, intimate friends, the
President and his Cabinet and the
other members of the funeral party who
were at the house came in after the
family and were seated in the pewS re-
served for them.
When all were seated the deep peals
OF the organ ceased and DR.. Hamlin,
rising from his place in the pulpit, be-
gan the church services with the read
ing Of selections from the Scriptures.
Their reading finished, prayer was Of
fered by DR.. Hamlin.
DR.. Hamlin's prayer was the only ap-
prOach 70 a funeral discourse that
marked the ceremonies Of the day.
AT its conclusion the Lords Prayer
was rpDeatsd by the psstOr and a part
Of the congregation, and the benedic-
ti0n was invoked upon AL present, and
st 1910 o'clock the church service
closed, the cssket was raised and placed
once more in the hesrSe, all the distin-
guiShed coneOurse standing as 1t was
borne from the church. It was then
noted that Mrs. Blaine was not among
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