The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-28
.GRESHAM'S DEATH
The President and Cabinet
Members Call on His
S~orroWing Widow.
BURIAL OF A SOLDIER.
Services to Be Held Tomorrow in
the White House-England
Cables Sympathy.

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though Secretary Gresham's illness was
known to be serious and his friends
from the first feared the worst though
hoping for recovery, the suddenness Of
his taking off came upon his official as
sociates like an electric shock. Secre-
taries Carlisle and Hoke Smith, the only
members of the abine absent from the
city, are each fastening back and will
arrive today.
In the room with Judge Gresham when
he died. besides Mrs. Gresham, Mr.. An
drews and Mrs. Andrews. were the two
physicians and two nurses who have
been in attendance. In an adjoining
room were Secretary Lamont. Assistant
Postmaster General Jones, Assistant
Secretary of State AIDES, Colonel Corbin
and Major Fuller of the Army, all of
whom had been in waiting during the
evening in order to be of any assistance
to the dying statesman and his bereayed
family that might be necessary.
The dead Secretary and his family oc-
cupied a suite of four rooms in the an
mex of the Arlington Hotel. They con-
sist of a front and rear parlor, a private
dining room and sleeping room. 1t was
in this latter room that the Secretary
breathed his last.
DII hoNl<A " ~ y.
AT two o'clock this morning Acting
Secretary Uhl sent cablegrams announc-
ing the death of Mr.. Gresham to the four
American Ambassadors, Bayard at Lon
don, Eustis at Paris, Runyon at Berlin
and McVeagh at Rome. He also instruct
ed Ambassador Eustis to notify all the
United States ministers to the same
effect.
The Department of State is closed this
morning and the White House is closed
to visitors.
Otto Gresham, the son of the late sec
rotary, reached Washington at 6:10 this
morning from P~ittsburg.
The following executive order has been
issued:-"As a mark of respect to the
memory of the Hon. Walter @. Ores
ham,. late Secretary of State, the Presi-
dent directs that the several Executive
departments and the Government
Printing Office in the city of Washington
be closed on Wednesday,, the 18th day of
May. 1885,"
FUNERAL PLANS.
The body of the Secretary was en-
balmed this morning. 1t lies in the
bed-chamber where death occurred. The
face is somewhat emaciated but the
feature nave a natural appearance, and
on the whole there is no distressing
change.
It has been determined that the fun
place at ten O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing from the East Room of the Execu-
tive Mansion.
to the foreign ambassadors and minis
ters in Washington inviting their at
b fend i5e eriva These seere notes Of Te Mr. d nhi' fSe
Major General Ruger, of the Army,
f f e paIH Which Which, viii ii be be military alatsr and
conform to the requirements for the
rank of Major General which was the
rank attained by Secretary. Gresham be
fore his retirement from the volunteer
The troops from Fort Myer. Va, the
Third Artillery and Marine Corps, will
escort the remains from the White
House to the depot
removed to the White House. The ser
Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
to a train on the B. & O.. R. R..
pany the body to Chicago. where, it has
AT THE sEcRETARY's ROOMS,
The GreShams' apartments are in that
part Of the Arlington known as the Sum;
mer House, a building formerly occupied
as a private residence by Charles Sum
Washington. Half a block away work
site Of the house where James 6. Blaine
died not more than two, years, ago.: Shortly
after half-past ten O'Clock, the President
House from Woodley: In his private office
Mr.. Cleveland found Secretary Lamont
No other cabinet officers were present.
1t had been arranged that the Presi-
dent and the Mr members arss Of the s bin
o'clock to make arrangements for the
funeral. The regular Tuesday. Cabinet
t mhess1fag; w postpo mas s and ia at o io:45 MI Mr.. ana ana
Mrs. Cleveland were driven over to the
Arlington, which is almost opposite the
White House. The President was dress
ed in black clothes and wore a silk hat
He wore a long. close-fItting black
overcoat which contributed to- his APP
did not look in good health but showed
signs of the severe bilious attack from
which he had been recently suffering.
After a visit lasting th~ree-quarters of
an hour, the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land returned to tlle White House.
MANY CALLERS.
the arrival Of the President, He and Mrs.
ance on Mrs. Gresham and has done
much by their practical sympathy and
T Tfhueye r sanisdnaie at t the lnHe Arli nsa nofi long
after Mr.. Gresham had passed away and
were there again at nine o'clock this
| Ollll o0ClCto1 l1iO n otplll w. q
large part of the work necessary to per-
| feet arrangements for the funeral and
| made several of the suggestions which
were subsequently adopted.
During the morning many distinguished
| persons called at the Arlington and left
their cards. Chief Justice Fuller was
one of the first to appear. Attorney
| General Olney came just before the Presi-
dent and remained some time. Until the
| arrival of Otto Gresham, the Secretary's
only son. Mrs. Gresham had practically
| determined that Mr.. Gresham's remains
| should be INFERRED at Arlington. but a
| consultation with her son caused her to
| agree that the body should be buried in
| Indiana, probably at Corydon, Mr.. Gresh-
| AIMS former home. 1t was also de-
termined that the funeral should be of
a military character on account of the
| pride Secretary Gresham took in his
| career in the Union army.
Mrs. Gresham gladly accepted this
| suggestion, which is understood to have
been made by Secretary Lamont. who
was aware that Mr.. Gresham always
preferred the title of General to that
| Of Judge or MIR. Secretary
A DEADLY OFFICE.
OF the forty-two statesmen who have
been Secretaries of S~tate.twelve of whom
were temporary appointments Mr. Gresh-
though several Of his predecessors. no,
soon after s~urrendering the portfolio. The
officers was that of Daniel Webster, who
after serving two years in the Cabinet
| of Presidents Harrison and Tyler from
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