The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-31
RESTS IN LAKEWOOD
REMAINS OF SECRETARY GRESHAM
REST FOB A SEASON.
Funeral Train Reaches Chicago Promptly
on Time ond the Funeral Party Repairs
at Once to the Receiving Vault In the
Cemetary Where the Simplest of Ser
vices il Held, the Bugiers sound TAPS
and all Is Oyer--Presidential Party Re
turns at Ouce for Neutrality-suspicious.
Sorrow Manifested.

Chicago. May 30.-The remains OF
Walter Q. Gresham were laid in the
vault in lakewood cenete this after
noon, there to remain until the men,
bers of his family have decided upon
a place OF final interment. either in
lakewood or in some other cemetery
in Chicago.
General Gresham loved Chicago and
il loved him.
Never in the city's history. save the
day when the dead body of Abraham
Lincoln was carried through its
streets, has Chicago 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
people stood waiting in the sun. which
beat down on them with tropical farv-
or. AS the hearse passed slowly
along every head was uncovered. in
respect to the iilustrious dead, and dur
ing the short services before the body
was finally placed in the vault, the
cemetery for the distance of several
hundred feet around the vault, was
filled by a crowd which stood without
sound or motion until the last rites
were concluded.
THOSE WHO STOOD BY.
Every sphere of life which the dead
had filled and adorned, was represent
ed by the side of his bier. The hands
which bore his lifeiess form from the
car in which it had come from Wash
fngton were the hands of men who had
marched and fought with him in years
gone hV-fha the T,nv9l T.aeiOn
The men who walked before the casket
as honorary pail bearers were men who
had set beside him until he graced the
federal bench and upheld the nations
laws with the same frank and fearless
spirit in which he had upheld its honor
on the battlefields. There by the door
of the open vault stood Grover Cleve-
land. the man who holds the highest
Office in the gift of the American peo-
pie, and there stood other men-they
of the Grand Army-whose hearts were
full of love and the spirit of brother
hood of Walter Q. Gresham, because
he, as we'll as they had, in the dark
days of the nations life. held firm his
faith and kept pace with a full, free
step to the music Of the Union.
BUGLES SOUND TAPS"
At one side OF the vault were drawn
up squadrons of the famous fighting
Seventh cavalry and in the back
ground were the dark bule of the Fiji
teenth infantry. They stood motion
less at present arms, and when the
last of the commitment service was
over, the bCglers of the seventh, STEP
ping forawrd, raised their bugles and
in clear notes sounded tap" No other
military honors were given and the
tributes to which the the exalted rank
and eminent services of the dead mar
so justly entitled him We're, at the wish
of his family, dispensed with. In fact
none were needed for the fame of the
manly man who had shone as a soldier.
jurist and cabinet minister. is secure
with the people who loved him so well.
He rests amid the fiower-strewn
graves of his comrades in arms-graves
decorated by the hands of men who had
fought them on many a bloody field
and in the shadow of the monument
just dedicated in honor of the valor of
those who had given their lives for the
Confederate cause. The services were
conducted by Rev. Mcpherson OF the
Second Presbyterian church. They
Were impressive but simple, consisting
merely OF scripturai readings, hymns
by the choir. and prayer.
The train which conveyed the re-
mains arrived on time and immediate
ly after the ceremonies the presidential
party boarded coaches at Sixty-third
street and at once started on their re-
turn trip TO Washington.