The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-31
Men of Every Rank Testify to
the Worth of the Late
Premier.
SIMPLE SERVICES ARE HELD.
Seventh Join In Sounding
FLAPS"

some other cemetery in Chicago. General
Gresham loved Chicago and it loved him.
Never in the city's history, save the day
when the dead body of Abraham Lincoln
was carried through its streets. has Chi
cago testified so fully her grief at the death
OF any one man. The streets through
which the funeral cortege passed and the
cemetery were packed with crowd so
dense that they could be packed no closer.
For hours before the time set for the ar
rival of the funeral train thousands OF peo-
Pile stood waiting in the sun, which beat
down on them with tropical fervor. AS
the hearse passed slowly along every head
was uncovered in respect to the illustrious
dead, and during the short services before
the body was finally placed in the vault
the cemetery for the distance of several
hundred feet round the vault was filled
with a crowd which stood without sound
until the rites we're finished.
The hands which bore his lifeless form
from the car in which it had come from
Washington were the hands of men who
had marched and fought with him in years
gone blythe men of the Loyal Legion.
The men who walked before the casket as
honorary pall-bearers were men who had
sat beside him when he graced the Federal
bench and upheld the Nations law with
the same frank and fearless spirit in which
he had upheld its honor on the battlefield.
There by the door of the open vault
stood Grover Cleveland, the man who holds
the highest office in the gift of the Ameri-
can people; and there stood other men
the old Grand Army-whose hearts were
full of love and the spirit of brotherhood
lof Walter Q. Gresham, because he as well
as they had in the dark days of the Ma
tons life held firm his faith and kept pace
with q full free step to the music of the
Union.
At one side of the vault were drawn up
squadrons of the famous Fighting"
Seventh Cavalry and in the background
were the dark blue of the Fifteenth In
fantry. They stood motionless at present
arms, and when the last of the commit
ment services was over the buglers of the
Seventh stepped forward, raised their
bugles and in clear notes sounded "taps."
No other military honors were given,
and the tributes to which the exalted rank
and eminent services of the dead man
so Justly entitled to him were, at the wish
of his family, dispensed with. In fact
none were needed for the fame of the man
ly man who had shone as a soldier, jurist
and cabinet minister is secure with the
people who loved him so well.
1t was most remarkable juxtaposition.
In the earlier hours of the day the Federals
and Confederates had joined in unwilling a
monument to 5000 soldiers who had died in
the military prison at Camp Douglass.
The x-Confederates' Association had
strewn upon the graves of Union soldiers
flowers brought from the very ground
over which these two had fought less than
a generation ago.
The Union veterans had placed upon the
graves of their fallen comrades in other
cemeteries about this city flowers which
grow in our own latitude. Almost while
the echoes of the voliey fired over the
Confederate burying ground by the First
Regiment State militia were still sounding,
the cortege of the dead Secretary of State
filed into the cemetery. Beyond the gen
eral outlines the funeral arrangements
were not completed till within an hour of
the time set for carrying them into execu-
ton.
The following were honorary pallbearers:
William A. Woods, James G.. Jenkins,
John W. Showalter, Judges of the United
States Circuit Court; Romance Bum, Will
liam J. Allen, William H Seaman, Judges
of the United States District Court; Henry
w. Blodget, retired Judge of the United
States District Court; W. C. Ewing Rich
ard S. Tuthill, Judges of the Circuit Court;
Marshall Field, J. Russell Jones, Thomas
Dent, Edwin Walker, Charles H Aldrich,
General William B. Anderson, Captain
William P. Black, General George W.
Smith, James L. High.
The following were active pallbearers:
} General William Smith, Charles H. Slack,
Captain James Duguid, Captain Myron H
Beach, Captain Herman B. Jackson,
Colonel William L. Barnes, General John
Macarthur, Major George L. Paddock, Cap
tain Nathan A. Reid, Colonel Lemuel o.
Goldman, Colonel George M. Guion and
Captain James H. Bell.
At Fordham, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, the special funeral train was
switched to the tracks of the Illinois Cen
trail, arriving at Sixty-third street station
at 2 P. NJ. There the procession was formed,
headed by an escort of honor consisting of
troops from Fort Sheridan.
These were followed by the honorary
pallbearers and next came the funeral car
with the active pallbearers walking on
either side. Next rode the members of the
late Secretary's family and the Presi-
dental party. The rear cortege was
brought up by the members of the Loyal
Legion, G. A. R. veterans, Judges of the
State and municipal officers, civic societies
and citizens.
Vice President Steven son, ex-P Postmaster
General Bissell and Governor Matthews of
Indiana met the funeral train on its
arrival, and were assigned places in car
rage. Major-General Wesley Merritt
while not assuming command of the mill
tary, was in attendance in full uniform,
accompanied by his staff Lieutenant
General John M. Schofeld, q. S. A., was
accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel
Charles B. Schofeld and Lieutenant Colo
mel A. II. T. Bliss of his personal staff.
The entire line of march was crowded
with people, who respectfully bowed their
heads as the cortege passed. Having ar
rived at the cemetery chapel, the casket
was removed from the funeral car and borne
within by eight sergeants of marines. The