The Portland daily press., 1893-10-31
FUNERAL OF THE FAIR.
Harrison's Memorial Service the
Close Of the Exposition.
FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS WAVED
AT HALF MAST YESTERDAY.

| The Dead Mayors Fiancee May Never
| Recover From the Shock-The Muir
derer Has Been Indicted-He Main
! tains His Self Possession-President
| Cleveland Threatened by Prendergast-
He Tried to See Governor Altgeld
Chicago, ILL.,, October 30 From turret,
dome and spire of the White City's
palaces hung the emblems of the nations
at mourning height on this, tie dying
day of the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
tion. The people came and looking
| toward the sunlit sky of blue, realized
that, not orly Chicago mourned, but
also the whole world of humanity as rep
resented al the Exposition. They found
| no evidences of rejoicing over the crown
| ing achievement of the age; no sound of
sweet music in the court of honor; no
merry throngs, no celebration-.only a
solemn stiffness, an unparalleled tribute
to the memory of Chicago's Mayor.
The multitude laid their tribute Of re-
spect on the bier of the assassin's victim,
| as much by their presence and their
quiets.actions as if they had laid rich
| flowers on the casket and eulogized the
dead in eloquent speech. The greatest
| exposition the world has witnessed died
| in the same gloom and silence which
| pervade the home of the afflicted family
and the city which loved and honored
him who was slain for no earthly cause.
| At II O'Clock the committee of 12,
chosen to draft the resolutions which
where read to the people in Festival hall,
| met in President Higginbo office.
They were President Palmer, d. B. Penn,
| p. "A. B. Widener, RI. Saunders. George
| V. Massey, A. II. Mitchell of the National
Commission; President Higginbotham,
| Lyman j. Gage, Edwin Walker, r. W.
| Peck, Robert A. Walker George r. Davis
| of the board of directors.
| The resolutions express at some length,
and in the most sympathetic language at
| the committees command, the general
sorrow and shock which the tragic end
of the Worlds Fair city's Chief Magis-
trate created in the hearts and minds of
the National Commissioners, foreign and
state representatives, the Board of Lady
Manag rs, the directors and executive
officers of the Exposition. One set of
resolutions was presented by President
Higgin botham on behalf of the board of
directors, and another by Commissioner
Massey of Delaware for the National
Commission.
Rev. John Henry Barrows, pastor of
the Fourth Presbyterian church, de-
livered the prayer with which the funeral
gathering, as it really, was began. The
invocation contained feeling reference
to the tragedy which had turned the
farewell ceremonies into memorial
meeting and appealed to the Throne of
Grace on behalf of the grief stricken
family. Following this sad opening
which brought tears from many
thousands gathered in the great hall,
came the formal announcement by Presi-
dent Palmer of the Mayors death and
statement that all exercises of festive
character would be omitted. The resolu-
tions were then presented without any
accompanying speech, although many
eloquent orators were present. The reso-
lutions expressed in their sympathy and
sentiment all that orators could say.
The foreign and American representa-
tives, as well as the governing bodies of
the exposition who were seated on the
platform and in the body of the hall
showed by their rising, in response to
the request from President Palmer, that
the resolutions voiced the sorrow and
sympathy of all the world because the
world was represented there. President
Palmer then formally announced that,
in compliance with the act OF Congress,
the Exposition was officially at an end as
worlds exposition. After the Rev. DR..
Barrows had pronounced the benediction
and offered up short prayer, the, gather
ing of nourners quietly dispersed
The Worlds Fair, like Carter Harrison,
was no more.