Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-11-12
LAST H0NORS
Being Paid Remains of Late
Car at Moscow.
Enormous Crowds to Receive the
Funeral Train and Family,
Impressive Services Thousands Take Last
Look at Features OF the Dead.

arrived, today, in typical Moscow weather,
The sky was dull, the thermometer two
degrees below freezing, and the north
wind blew fitfully throughout the day.
Thousands We're busy all night putting
the city in mourning for the late Car,
and the streets at dayhrcak looked as ii
some great festival was to be celebrated.
Such ceaseleSs universal activity, such
enormous numbers of peasants and tourist
soldiers have not been seen here since the
coronation of Alexander Ill, more than
10 years ago. Ten thousand men worked
all night to complete the draping of the
city.
More than 1000 men We're employed in
paving with cobble stones the streets
through which the body was To pass. They
laid two and a half miles of pavcmcnts
and scattered over il layers of sand to
smother the rattling of carriages and clat
ter of cavalry.
The route was marked not only by newly
laid pavement, but by the density of black
white drapery which covered the fronts of
the buildings 1t extended from the spc-
cial station erected about 100 yards from
the large st. Petersburg station, through
kalantschcwskaya street via Red Gate
which is Il permanent arch through Nj
amitiskaya street, along the wall Of
the inner town, across the great of the
theatre square past the town hall into
the kitaigorod of the inner city. From
the town hall the way led through Rcsur-
rection gate where the Ibcrian chapel
stands through Nicholas gate into the
krcmlin. In the krcmlin the route lay
past the treasury and arsenal to n spot
midway between the small palace and
Cathedral of the Assumption, thence To
the cathedral of Archangcl Michael, n
block off.
Aside from the draping of the build
ingS, the decorations in the streets along
the route consisted of high poles wound
with black and white, joined with
mourning streamcrs and crossed strands
of evergreen The Opera house was
covered with dense folds of black Hun
dreds of draped portraits of Alexander III
were displayed in the windows of shops
and private houses. Streets near the route
already crowded before daybreak, became
wholly impossible by s, when all traffic
in the adjacent districts was stopped and
the way cleared for the procession.
The train with the body arrived at
1910. Gar Nicholas H. was salutcd as
soon as he alighted by the Grand Duke
Scrgius the metropolitan Of Moscow and
Colomna, higher clergy and commandant
and civil governor, members of the court,
officials of the court, chief nobility to
the third class, the mayor, many generals
and other officers. All stood barehcaded.
The procession formed in groups and
the generals carried the coffin to the dais,
in a temporary chapel near the station.
Four removed the pail and the motropoli-
tan read Il short service The four gen
erals who had removed the pail, bore the
coffin slowly to the funeral car in the
station yard. After "A pause, three guns
from the kremlin gave signal that all
the 1870 groups fall into the ID divisions
of the professions. Three more guns, and
the divisions took places in the line; {;
three more and amid the tolling of a
thousand bells, the head of the huge
column moved off slowly toward the Red
gate.
The master of ceremonies rode first on n
black charger. Behind him came the 1st
and Sd companies of Moscow household
Dragons, with band of trumpctcrs; two
companies of grcnadiers with enormous
antique hcmlcts, their marshal mounted
and in the deepest mourning; lst com
pany of dragons; company of cadets
from the Emperor Alexander military
academy; court lackcys. family standard
of Romanoffs, red war standard; Alex
ander Ills charger richly comparisoncd
and led by two staff officers in mourning.
the table servants of the Imperial house
hold; the banner and arms Of Moscow :;
the Imperial naval flag carried by an
admiral supported by captains; immense
black silk mourning banner and an
equally large white banner, each carried
by staff officers assisted by subor-
dinatcs; the grand escutcheon of the
empire, borne by four ma ior generals the
grand standard of the double eagle car
ried by two major generals and two colon
els deputation of city officials; numer-
ous societies and delegations Of
shopkecpers workingmcn,
peasants, all marching abreast; the mayor
of Moscow and the mayors of all the other
towns in the government Of Moscow
noblemen, conspicuous citizens head
all three abreast; the governor
and vice governor of Moscow; delegates
from local assemblies and Judges Of the
ulstflct' Squadron Oh dfdgoOnS' TWO
heralds, four colonels with reversed
swords officials carrying on cushions Of
gold bordercd with silver the decorations
of the late Emperor; the imperial rcgalia,
including the banner shield, sword, ball,
sceptre and great crown, borne on golden
the crowns of Poland Siberia
Tauria and Astrachan; the Empcror's
war sword; historical insignia Of Mos
COW; the clergy with the metropolitan Of
Moscow and Colomna at their head, oil
lighted tapers; court clergy and
Confcssor and Protopresbytcr Janyscheff,
holding aloft picture of the saint.
The funeral car which came next was
drawn by eight horses, led by eight major
generals. The tassels Of the canopy were
held by four adjutant generals. flanked by
80 cadets bearing torches. Directly be
hind rode Emperor Nicholas II alone, fol-
lowed by relatives, officials and the Mos
cow division of Grenadiers.
In the first carriage behind the Gren-
idicrs rode the Czarina, Princess Alex Of
Hesse and Grand Duchess Xenia. The
;arriage was lanked with esquires and
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