The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-02-04

nights and placed in it's handsome
casket on bier in the centre Of the
paIlor on the second floor which over
looks lafayette Square.
FLORAL Tributes
As fast as the many beautiful fl Dral
tributes were received at the house they
were carried To the pArInr aud placed by
the hands of the bereaved widow and her
daughters around the caskct.
AZ 1880 O'Clock the few invited
frleAds began TO assemble.
THOSE WHO ATTENDED.
Among those present during tho
services at the house were the President
ard Mrs. Mckee, Lieutenant Parker,
Major Halford, Vice President and Mrs.
Morton. Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuilier
Secretary and Mrs. Charles Foster,
Secretary Johu w. Foster, Secretary
aud Miss Eikins, Secretary and Mrs.
Noble, Postmaster General Wanamaker
Mrs and Miss Wanamaker Secretary Tracy
Senator Cameron, DR., yelling Senator
NaHiey Senator and Mrs MulhgGn. Dr..
Johnson, Robert Blaine aud the Misses
Blaine Senator Chandler, Colonel aad
Mrs. Tyler, MIR. Theodore RoOsayelt.
Mrs. Howlands Sir Julian P4uuceiotc
Senator McPherson, Mr.. and Mrs. B. II.
Warden, Senator Morgan OF Alabama
Senator and Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mr.. AID
Mrs, WhitolaT Reid, Elk Speaker Reed
Representative AMI Mrs Boutelle,
Attorney General, Mrs. aud Miss Miller
Assistant Secrasnries OF SAFE GrInnell
and Wharton, Speake: aud MIS-. Crisp,
Senator voorhees,, Representative
Holman, Senator Cockerll, Senator
Ransome, Senator Hoar, Senator German
and the members of the diplomatic corps
aud otner distinguished personages.
The honorary pail bearers were Sen
a.ors Hale aud Frye, of Maine; Seuat +
Morgan, of Alabama; Representative
Reed and Boutelle, OF Maine; Hit, OF
Illinois; Bingham, OF Penusy lvania; Hon
Tnom"s Ewing, of New York, Hon.
John Hay, of Washington: Hon. J. h..
Manley, of Maine; AImet F. Je ks, of
Brooklyn, and z. V Ely.
SHOWING THEIR RESPECT.
In the early morning long before Il @
hour set for the funeral, people bega II
to gather in the ueighborhood of the
Blaine mansion.
The early Corners took position on tie
sidewalk bordering Lafayette square in
front of the house uatIl within shO. t
lime it was filled with dense mass of
humanity.
Probably never before in the many
noted funerals which h We been taken
place in washington has so largo a
c0ncourse gathered To pay honor to t. Q
memory of a great man. Not less than
S,OOO parsons were gathered in the
Immediate neighborhOod and thousands
more, finding it impossible TO get near,
took up stations along the route of the
c0rtUge. Impressed with the solemnity
of the occasion the throng was quiet and
orderly aad the police were not called
upon except to keep them from approach
ing within the space reserved in front OF
the house.
LEAVING THE HOUSE.
Il was just IL 20 when the services at
the house closed. Immediately afterw ard
the honorary pail bearers led oy Senators
Hale aud Frye, of Maine passed out and
formed double line from The door
to the euro. In the meantime the hoArse
plain and unostentations vehicls drawn
by two dark horses had driven up.
Shortly afterwards the caSket wa
borne forth by the bearers and the great
throug uncovered as i! stirred by a
simultaneous impulse and stood bare
headed while the body was bsi' z carried
to the hearse. The casket was covered
with violets and roses, and as it was
| carried from the house the sweet
| perfume ladened the air.
AT THE CHURCH OF THE COVENANT.
The services at the Church of the
| Congregatcd there were many of the
great men of the nation, iilliug the ediGce
! to the doors.
Ministers of the state, supreme judges
| Senators and those who have made the
history OF the country, came to Go honor
to tue great American.
The church ritual and prayer by DR..
Hamlin were the only ceremonies 90
served. DR.. Hamlin, in his invocation
gave thanks to God for the blessing
which He had bestowed upon the deae
in giving him mentality which made
one exalted among men.
BEAUTIFUL OAK HILL.
An immense throng of people gathered
at dn early hour OF the day at the Thirt
eth-Street entrance to Oak Hill Cemetery
where they impAtientlY awaited The
advent OF tue funeral procession.
At about 20 p. M the file OF mount
ed policemen drew into sight, folio wed
quickly by the carriage containing the
family of Mr.. Blaine, the President, the
Cabinet, the justices of the Supreme
Court and others who were invited tc
witness the final rites.
The services were the plain but impress
| slve burial services of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church. which DR.. Hamliu spoke with
great feeling.
AT its conclusion he uttered short
prayer, after which the carriages were
summoned, and as quickly as possible
the bereavcd family and their friends lief
the Scane.
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