The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-29
MIR. BLAINE,S FUNERAL.
The Service to be Private in Accordance
with His Wishes.

win HIS Nlsnes.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 2S.-The
funeral Of the late ex- Secretary of State
will take place on Monday. There are TO
he services at the house and also at
the Church of the Covenant.
At II O'clock Rev. DIR. Teunis S. Ham
lin, of the Church OF the Covenant,
will offer a prayer over the body before
it leaves the house on Lafayette Square
for the last time. Only the members OF
the family and a very few of the most
intimate friends will be present. Here, as
well as at the church. the services Will
be of the simplest character possible. Mr..
Blaine had a great repugnance TO any dis
Play Of mourning. and is said TO have ex-
pressed the wish that his own funeral
might be private In accordance with this
wish the closing scenes of his earthly
career are to be as unostentatious as ii
is possible TO make them.
At the church, to which the cortege is
to move directly, the service will consist
merely of the reading of the Presbyterian
burial ritual and prayer by Or. Hamlin.
There will be no music save that OF the
organ, which Will be played by Mr.. Wal
ter Damrc sch, the dead mans son-in-law.
Seats in the church will be reserved for
the President, ce-President members of
the Cabinet and their families, members
of the Diplomatic Corps and the friends
of the deceased. These reservations Will
nearly exhaust the seating accommoda-
tions of the building.
Mr.. Blaine's body will be inferred in
Oak Hill cemetery. Only one of the mem
bers Of the family has been buried in
Maine, and the prominent position Of the
dead man makes it eminently proper that
his last restingplace should be at the
Capital Of the nation.
Mr.. Blaines eldest son and daughter,
Walker Blaine and Mrs. Coppinger, are
Inferred in oak Hill, in a lot selected and
purchased three years ago When the
body of Walker Blaine lay I'm the house
awaiting interment, Mr.. Blaine, accom-
panied by a friend. walked over to Oak
Hill and selected the lot in which his
well beloved son was placed. and which
soon afterward received the body of Mrs.
Coppinger. Ii lies in the eastern part of
the cemtery, half way down the terrace
on the western bank of the creek. The
view fiom the plot is TO the northeast.
and within its range lie Sheridan Circle
and Kalorama Heights. in one of the
most attractive portions Of Washington.
The body of Emmons Blaine lies in one
of he Chicago cemeteries.
The funeral casket is very similar TO
the one in which the remains of Mrs.
Harrison were conveyed TO their final
resting place II will be plain and simple
in appearance devoid of any show or
ostentation. 1t will have extension silver
bar handles. The material used in the
construction will be red cedar. which will
be covered with black cloth, and on the
inside the casket will be lined with full
tufted white satin. The solid silver plate
on the top will contain the following in
scription:
IANfL-E CIT I ESDIE PI.ATNE
Born January 81. 1880.
Died January q. 1898.
All yesterday afternoon and evening
messages OF coincidence and kilograms
were pouring in to the Blaine house in
a steady stream from all sections of the
country. Many were the expressions of
regret and sorrow heard about town at
the sad end of the man who had such
a wonderfully strong hold upon the affec-
tions of the people of the land.
The doors Of the church will not be
open to the public until lO45. as the SER
vices will not begin until l2 o'clock.
Alabama sympathy.
MONTGOMERY, ALA. Jan. 2S.-The
upper House of the Alabama Assembly
to-day passed the following resolution
unanimously;
Whereas, the Senate of Alabama re-
members with great appreciation the
mart taken by James e. Blaine In assist
ing Samuel j. Randall in saving the South
from ruin by defeating the first Force
bill in the Congress of the United States;
therefore be 1t
Resolved. That the Senate of Alabama
offers it's sincere sympathy TO Mrs. James
G. Blaine in this. the hour of her deep
affiction.
Resolved 2. That copy Of this
preamble and resolution be sent to Mrs.
nlaIne after being engrossed and signed
by the president and secretary of the
Senate. -
The lower house also passed the follow
ing with only one dissenting voice
Whereas. the House has heard with
profoupd regret of the death Of that emf
nent american, Hon. James G. Blaine;
therefore. be II
resolved, That this House recognizes
the fact that in the death OF Mr.. Blaine.
not only America, but the world has lost
one OF it's greatest statesmen: that the
south has lost friend. who In the direst
need proved himself indeed friend.
and that to-day the House Of Represen-
tatives of Alabama extends It's sympathies
to the sorrowing family Of the dead
statesman.