The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-12
'. MOSCOW IN MOURNING,
G TRENT CROWDS WATCH THE z FUNERAL PROCESSION.

| - FUNERAL PhOCESSION.
 inl tofths Churches That Were Passr d | sts Shs Priests in Their Robes, Purple l Has and Chasubl s-Aiinute Guns Fired l From the Kremlin.
 l Moscow. Nov. 1.-The imperial party with the body of Alexander III. arrived
 here to-day in typical Moscow weather.
 The sky was dull, the thermometer was two degrees below the freezing point, and north wind blew fitfully through out the day. Although thousands were busy all night putting the streets in mourning the streets at daybreak looked as fl some great festival was to be celebrat- ed. Such ceaseless universal activity and such enormous numbers of peas- ants, tourists and soldiers had not been seen here since the coronation of AL exander III. more than ten years ago. Ten thousand men worked all night to complete the draping of the city. More than a thousand men were em- ployed in paving with cobbles the streets through which the body was to pass. They laid two and half miles of pavement and scattered over 1t lay CTS of sand to smother the rattling of n a Yffo oyas. or1 oIo >fo oI,.xy In the Kremlin the route lay past the arsenal and cathedrals and thence to the cathedral of the Archangel Michael, one block off. Aside from the draping of the buildings the decorations in the streets along the route consisted of high poles wound with black and white and joined with mourning streamers and crossed strands of evergreen. The op- era house was covered with dense folds Of black. Hundreds of draped portraits of Alexander III. were displayed in the windows of shops and private houses. The streets near the route, already crowded before daybreak, had become wholly impossible by o'clock, when all traffic in the adjacent districts was stopped and the way was cleared for the procession. st'
 The train with the body arrived at 10:40. Czar Nicholas II. was saluted as soon as he alighted by the Grand Duke Sergius. the metropolitan of Mos COW and Colomna, the higher clergy, the commandant and civil governor, members of the court, officials of the court, the chief nobility to the third class, the mayor, many generals and other officers. All stood bareheaded. The procession was then formed in groups and the generals carried the coffin to the diaz in the, temporary chapel near the station. Four Of them removed the pail and the metropolitan read a short service.
 The funeral car was drawn by eight horses led by eight major generals.
 The tassels of the canopy were held by four adjutant generals flanked by sixty cadets bearing torches. Directly behind them rode Emperor Nicholas II. alone, looking pale but resolute., His uniform was half hidden in crape. The order was then: Count Woronzoff Dachekoff, minister of the imperial court; the commandant of the guards eight adjutants general, the Prince of Wales alone, the Grand Duke Michael Nicolaiovitch, the Grand Duke Sergius, the Grand Duke Alexander Michaele- witch, the King of Greece, Prince Alex ander Petrovitch and the Duke of Odl- enburg, escorted by adjutants general; the Moscow division of grenadiers.
 The windows and. walks from the sta- ton to the Kremlin were thronged with silent reverent crowds. The procession passed ten churches. In front of every one stood the priests in their robes, purple hats and chasubles. The popes, wearing their mitres and carrying sa- cred pictures, met the hearse and pray ed briefly From the beginning to the end of the procession minute guns were fired from the citadel of the Kremhn. The metropolitan and higher clergy awaited the body at the door of the cathedral of the Archangel Michael. They walked before it to the great crimson dais under the gold and silver canopy in the middle of the building. Generals of the army placed the coffin on the dais and removed the pail. The members of the imperial family gath cred between the gorgeous pillars at the foot of the coffin and listened in si- lence broken only by sobs, to the read ing of the solemn mass for the dead.
 The service closed with music. 2 f