The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-01
CHICAGO BOWED IN SORROW
The Remains Of the Dead Mayor
Taken to the City Hail.


| Hundreds of Eyes Moist With Tears
as the Casket Is Borne From the
! Hearse to the Thousands
| in Line to Take a Last Look at the
| Man the City Loved So WeIl-The
! Murderer's Life il His Cell Made
! Miserable by His Fellow Prisoners.
| Chicago, III, Oct. 3l.-The remains of
Chicago's Garfield were borne to the city
hall to-day, there to lie in state. Dense
crowds thronged the streets and side
! walks for blocks around the Carter Har-
rison mansion on Ashland boulevard and
witnessed the start. In the main it was
not fashionable multitude, but it was
! such a one as the famous mayor best
liked to move among and speak with.
Solemn stiffness was observed as the
+ eight stalwart fire department captains
emerged bearing the coffin. Eight cap
tains of police followed, sharing with the
fire captains the honors of pail bearers.
The cortege was a lengthy one, and the
distance to the city hall, two miles
! through the heart of the city, was not
covered, for a considerable time. Follow
ing the carriage containing city officials
| solved to accompany the comparatively
small cortege proper to its destination.
SIMPLICITY THE FEATURE.
| Simplicity was the notable feature of
| the ObsCquies. The hearse was a plain
| black, and bore no waving plumes, nor
! did heavy drapings adOrn the black steeds
| which drew it. No strains of solemn
music were heard as the procession passed
| slowly down jackson boulevard 10 the
|
| Carter Harrison was supreme.
| The sweet strains Of Chopin's funeral
march floated out upon the quieu air from
| the instruments of 200 musicians stationed
on the great steps of the LaSalle street
entrance to the city hall In an instant
| the multitudes which filed the streets as
! far as the eye could reach, became even
more quiet, if possible, than during the
minutes preceding Hardly a sound was
heard, save the rumbling Of the wagons
on some distant side street.
ALL HEADS UNCOVERED.
AS if by an aspiration coming to all the
members of the vast cOncOurse at the
| same instant, men lifted their hats and
stood with uncovered heads awaiting the
! arrival Of the peoples dead. Men, women
! and children were packed into that vast
| multitude of people and all stood as
| though carved from stone. A moment
| later when the casket was uncovered to
! the eyes of the people sObs were heard
| on every side, while handKerchiefs flashed
almost the only specks Of color in the
! srpwd of somber-clad mOurners.
i a simple wreath of laurGls lay close to
! the glass, through which hundreds of
! thousands of people were soon to look at
! the face of the dead executive. Just be-
! low it was a pile of roses, bright red
! blossoms sprinkled in among others of
milky whiteness No other floral Of
| feriugs were there, and one instinctively
| knew these had come from those VINO
stood in the mayors life closest and near
est to his heart.
| TAKING THE LAST LOOK.
As soon as the casket was borne in and
| placed on the catafalqUe in the center
corridor the Clark street entrance was
thrown open, and a seemingly endless line
of silent, awed citizens began to file
! through the building, each to look for his
last time on the dead. Seldom has such
| gorgeous floral display been made in
honor of any public man as could be wit
| messed within the great corridor where
lay the catafalque, but the per-
fumed and brilliant-hued maguifCence
attracted scant attention. All day
| long two lines OF people passed rapidly
by, looking only at the black casket, with
the prospect chat they would so continue
throughout the night if permitted. The
face the people looked upon was the one
they had been accustomed to in life
Death had wrought no perceptible
changes. The late mayor appeared TO be
sleeping.
Three quartett9s stationed unseen near
by voiced at intervals the hymn; Lead
Kindly Light"
ALL CLASSES IN THE LINE.
Grimy little boot blacks, with their
kits upon their shoulders and their rag
ged hats in their dirty hands, tiptoed by
or paused a moment TO look upon the face
Of the man they knew in life.
Old city employees brushed away tears
as they went down. There were many
women in the procession. Mothers car
ried their children. It was not a crowd
of notables, not a crowd of mere curiosity
| seekers, but evidently a crowd Of people
who wanted a last look at the face of
man they all admired.
The coffin rests in the center of a raised
platform on the first floor. The platform
is carpeted and walled in on either side
with black. An arched roof of black
adds to the sOmbreness of the scene. All
Of the entrances to the building and
nearly all the Offices in the building are
draped with black, and all of the offices
except those that it is absolutely neces-
sary to keep open are closed.
TO-DAY A DAY OF MOURNING.
The public schools win be closed to-
morrow for the funeral. The board Of
trade, banks and other places Of business
viii also be deserted. The funeral will
take place at II o'clock from the church
of the Epiphany, at Ashland boulevard
and Adams street. An hour before that
time the remains will be taken from the
city hall to the church, where
the , services, according to the
Episcopal ritual, viii be conducted by
Rev r. N. Morrison, Jr The procession
will proceed from the church to Grace
land cemetery. The column viii be a
large one. Many societies, civil and mill
tary, have applied for a place iu' the line,
and have been assigned positions by Mar
shall Austin j. Doyle.
THE MURDERER ABHoRRED BY ALL.
Prendergast, the murderer Of Mayor
Harrison, is having a rough time in Jail
The other prisoners have taken to using
every opportunity to iecr at the wretch
and shrieking imprecatiOns at him, 80
that exercise outside his cell has
been made practically an impossibilty.
To-day while the mayors corpse was ly-
ing in state at the city hall with thousands
reverently pressing by, the assassin seemed
for the first time forced 10 realize his
position The words of his fellow prison
ers affected him strangely. All along, he
had apparently labored under the delu-
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