Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-21
THE HAYES FUNERAL
EXTREMELY SIMPLE SERVICES AT
THE Ex-PRESlDeNT'S LATE HOME.
A Large Attendance OF Distinguished
Men. Including Hfr. Cleveland. the
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children, q President-elect, the members OF
President Harrison's Cabinet, representa-
tiyes Of the Army aud Navy OF the United
States. delegates from both houses OF Con-
cress. the Governor OF Ohio, members OF
legislative bodies, and masses OF military
commands, whose blue uniforms, with
scarlet and yellow facing and bristling
bayonets on landscape OF driven
snow added warmth OF color TO the
wiutry scene, the remains OF e1-Presldent
Rutherford Il. HAYES we're laid TO rest TINS
afternoon. The entire arrangements OF
the obsequies had been placed IN tne
hands of t-Adiutant-General IL.
c. Corbin, United States Army, ana rom
the opening Of the house IN Speigel Grove
to the crowds of citizens in the morning
till the last echo fred over the grave Iats
in the afternoon everything passed on
with military precision.
THH EARTHLY TABERNACLE.
The remains of the ex-President lay IN
the large family dlning-room during the
morning where an escort OF Grand-Army
veterans stood guard, while the people OF
Fremont aud the surrounding towns were
permitted TO gaze upon the features which
have grown so familiar to them all. Nete;
rams of many fields, trOOps OF schooi
children marching il solid ranks behind
crane bound American colors. farmers VINO
had come twenty miles over all but snow
bound roads, marched for hours through
the spacious ball 20 view the dead.
General nsyes's remains rested IN neat
craue. covered casket, the corners rounded
into COrInthian columns, whiie the suNeI
Mate bore the brief inscription, kuther-
ford b Hayes. January 18th. 1898. Across
his breast was the trl-colored rlbbon OF the
military order OF the Loyal Legion. WITH
the insignia OF tine same, while on his
breast was the badge Of the Army OF west
virginia. A sprav OF graceful palms alone
rested on the casket. while on a hagIcoV-
cred table were the many moran enDlems
which have arrived from every portion Oh
the country.
ARRIVAL or ME-. CLEVELAND.
II was II o'clock when Train No; on
the Lake Shore, with the special car
Grassmere," bearing President-elect
Cleveland. reached the depot. Company
ID. of the Sixteenth Regiment, had with
difficulty maintained an entrance-way
through the crowd at the station, aud
came 10 q present arms" rs the fresi-
dent-elect and Private Secretary OBrlen
stepped from the rear platform OF the
train. They were met by Webb {. Hayes
and Colonel Corbiu and driven at once TO
Smegel Grove. The crowd was motloned
iHlO HilflAf ~ Ah' Nt'4 itNF y 'No'N'' sAA -
the thrOnged streets.
The meeting between the Presidential
ana the members of General Hsyes's
family was impressive IN the extreme
The sons Of the late President and his
daughter, Miss FANNIE received him III the
large hallway, and Mr.. Cleveland cissped
each OF them fervently by the hand and
remained with bowed mead. The two ex-
Presidents have been closer friends than
the public knew for many years, and Gene
raj Hayes had completed arrangements TO
attend the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland
next March, expecting to be the guest OF
Senator Sherman and Colonel Corbln.
LAST SAD RITES.
1t was shortly after o'clock when the
funeral ceremonies began. The remains
had been carried into one OF the larger
rooms of the house and the apartments
were filled with mourners and distln-
gushed friends. The services were ex-
tremelv simple. DR.. James W. Bashford,
Verslty, ii which both General and Mrs.
Hayes had long been greatly interested.
and Rev. j. l.. Albritton. pastor of the
Methodist church of this city. oificiated,
the latter reading the funeral service and
the former delivering PRAYER. double
quartette, led by Professor Alfred Arthur
and David H. Kimberly, of Cleveland, and
Mrs Dorr, of this city, rendered two
hymns. of which the President had always
been extremely tond.
"PEACE LIKE RIVER"
These were when peace like river"
and God be with you till we meet
again." The beautiful notes of the hymns
filled the spacious house AS though from
some serephic choir and were broken only
by The occasional sob OF n mourner, while
men who had faced an enemy on hum
bred fields gave way to their pent-up feel
ings. This closed the service Mt the house.
and the remains were then carried TO the
hearse 10y members of the Igenty-third
Ohio Infantry Association. The honorary
pail bearers were Secretary Foster, Gov
ernor Mckinley. General Wager Swayne.
of New York; Brigadier- General Joseph &.
Breckenridge, United States Army Cap
tain Howell, United States Navy; Con-
gresham Haynes, DIR. Culver, and General
Jacob ID. Cox, OF Cincinnati.
DISTINGUISHED COMPANY.
Following them came President-elect
Cleveland and Mr.. William Henry Smith,
as "a special representative of the family
POstmast General Wanamaker and Sec
retaries Rusk aud Noble: members of the
United States Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives: Colonel George ID. Ruggles,
Lieutenant. Colonel Marshal f. Ludington,
McComb, Henry ID. Pierce, ex-Secretary Of
State of Massachusetts, Colonel Edward
l.. Bouve and Colonel A. A. Rand, of the
Massachusetts, Commandery of the Loyal
Legion; officers and ex.officers Of the
Twenty third Ohio G.. l. Association
Commander |. +. Mack and officers
and ex-ofiicers of the Grand Army of
Ohio; Governor Mckinley and staff, Ohio
State officials trustees of the Ohio State
University. officers of the Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans homes of Xenia and San
dusky: the MAYORS Of Fremont. Cleve-
land, and Toledo, with members OF the
councils of those cities, were next, and
then came the military parade under Colo
mel Bunker. including the First City Troop
of Cleveland, the Toledo Cadets, the Six
teenth Regiment, OHIO National Guards,
and Battery ID, of Toledo. The civic socie-
ties followed, and the cOr'eqe took up its
way with muilled drums under frost-clad
trees and snow-covered roads to lakewood
cemetery.
AsHRs TO ASHES.
The ceremony here was brief, Com
mander Green, of Eugene Rawson Post,
No 32, of this city. reading the soldiers
burial services from the ritual of that
order. Silent and motionless, the troops
stood at parade rest on the marble-hke
mound as the remains OF the ex-Presldent
were lowered to their last resting-place be-
side those OF the companion who had been
closest and dearest to him in life, whose
meeting smile had wooed him across
deaths dark river into the land OF ever
lasting bliss.
ANOTHER CONFEDERATE GONE.
Colonel Duff Green Reed. of Virginia,