The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-17

raj Offerings-Peop1e Injured in the
the Funeral.
LOWELL, Mass, January 16.-The bur-
ial of General Butler today was accom-
panied by scenes such as this city never
before witnessed, unless in war times.
There were many thousands of visitors.
Business was almost entirely suspended.
This, with the closing of the schools and
many of the mills turned almost the en-
tire population into the streets. The
cold weather and the crush did not deter
the weak and aged from participating in
the event which, for excitement, surpas-
ses description.
The early trains brought visitors from
ali directions. just before noon the po-
lice closed the doors of Huntington Hall,
where the remains were lying in state
1t was the last sad duty of the veterans
of B. f. Butler Post. No. AZ, to carry the
body of their commander out of the hall
and deliver it to the military bearers at
the entrance to st. Anne church, on the
other side of the rect, at o'clock.
While great crowds witnessed the cere-
mony, almost absolute silence prevailed
as it was done. Here ended the city
governments and the Grand Armys dn-
ties. When the body was taken by the
sergeants from ST. Anne's Episcopal
church to the hearse outside on Merri-
mack street, the honorary psll-bearers,
Hon. John A. Lowell, Judge E. j, Sher-
man, Hon. Warden Avery, E. J. Bur
leigh, Hon. George F. Richardson, Hon.
Joshua N: Marshall, Colonel Charles Il.
Allen and Major George j. Carney, fol-
lowed behind. After them came the
famil and relatives and distinguished
guests who had been present during the
ceremony.
The alarm bells and church bells tolled
A detachment from Battery G of Law
renee fired minute guns across the river
and kept up the salute until the final
farewell volley was fired over the grave
in Hildredth cemetery, more than mile
away. The streets were crowded.
Along the streets to the cemetery the
buildings were lost behind mourning
loops. fTnedallions of the dead man and
the stars and stripes. Among the floral
tributes were broken column of white
roses, four feet high, surmounted by
dove, from Senator Eugene Hale, and
standing anchor of foliage, from Hon. A.
Little of Portland, Me.
The procession was made up.in this or
der: Brigadier General Benjamin F.
Peach and staff; Sixth Regiment Band;
Troop of the cavalry, (Spaulding Light
Cavalry Capt. 81. W. Wilson Of Carlisle;
Sixth Regiment M. Y. M in three bat
talions. Col Henry Parsons of Marlbor-
ough: Company M, 9th Regiment of
Lowell: Company D, second corps cadets
of Lowell; Battery G OF Lawrence, Capt.
Duchesney; carriage containing Rev. A.
st. John Chambre, J. R. Fulton and Col.
c. A. r. Dimon, conductor; honorary
pail bearers in carriages; the
hearse containing General But
ler's body with military body guard;
carriages containing immediate relatives;
Gov. Russell and staff; delegation from
the Massachusetts Senate and House of
Representatives; Governor Smith Of
New Hampshire and staff; members of
the New Hampshire Senate and House of
Representatives; city government of
Lowell, headed by Mayor Pickman and
President Hanson; representatives of the
city government of Boston and the city
government of Gloucester; Lowell High
School Battalion, escorting Gen. y. i.
Butler Post AZ; Post 120 and Post 1856 OF
Lowell; Post 42 Bugle Corps; Louis Bell
Post of Manchester, N. H.; Post AZ OF
Haverhill; Farragut and Greenhalge
Camps Sons of Veterans and Sons of Vet
erans from Boston and other cities under
their division marshal; the Butler Club
of Massachusetts, under the leadership of
Messrs. Plympton and Drinkwater of the
Lowell Bar Association; Catholic Socie-
ties of Lowell; staff and commander-in-
chief of the G. A. R.; the G.. A. r. State
Department.; colored delegation from
Roston: Hon. Edwin G. Walker, COM
manding the Sixth Regiment Associa-
ton; Pawtucket Lodge Of Masons; Low
ell Old Residents Association; Salem
Zouaves Association; Thirteenth and
Thirty-first Regiment Associations; De-
partment of the Gulf Society.
The march to the cemetery was long
and hard one. The streets and ceme-
terry were cleared of snow last week, but
the fall of Saturday night and yesterday
made it difficult marching. No carriages
were allowed inside the cemetery and
only those persons who came in carriages
were allowed TO enter the enclosure.
Gen. Peach and staff occupied a knol
inside and the troops and the volley
firers were grouped near the grave.
h0V. LII. OHdIlDIe COuClu4Oo olAO IOiAS-
gious service, the Mas MS gave short
ritual and the volley was fred. Thou
sands followed the procession to the
burying ground. The city was in coufu-
sion all day long. Trains regular and
special, most of them late, ehoked the
railroad tracks, and the hotels and res
taurants were flooded. The city of
Lowell entertained the visiting officials
at Mechanics Hall and the Merrimac
House.
Long before the hour of services in
church. the sidewalks in the neighoor
hood began to be crowded, and when the
body was carried from the hall across
the street, fully $4,000 people were with
in sight AS soon as the casket was
seen, hundreds of heads were barred, and
heads were bowed as the pail bearers
slowly bore their illustrious burden into
the sanctuary.
Only those who held cards of admis
sion secured entrance to the church.
They numbered only $50. Ghe crush on
the sidewalks, especially near the en-
trance of Huntington Hall, was fright
full, and the police found it difficult to
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