The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-31
AT REST IN TIE T0NB.
The Body Of Secretary Gresham
Taken to 0akwoods Cemetery.
CHIoAGo's soRROWPUL TRIBUTE.

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Two Hundred Thousand People Lined the
Streets as the Funeral Cortege Passed
and Crowded the Cemetery Where the
Final Services Were Held.
CHICAGO, May 9l.-The remains Of Walter
@ Gresham were laid in the vault in Oak
woods cemetery yesterday afternoon, there
to remain until the members of his family
have decided upon a place Of final inter
ment, either in Oakwoods or in some other
cemetery of Chicago. General Gresham
loved Chicago and the city loved him 1t
revealed yesterday the affection it bore
him and the esteem in which it held him
when fully 100000 people lined the streets
through which the funeral cortege passed
and crowded the cemetery while the body
| of the nations premier was being placed
in the resting place from which it will be
taken only for the grave
Never in Chicago since the day when
the dead body of Abraham Lincoln was
carried through its streets has Chicago
| testified so fully her grief for the death of
any one man. The streets and cemetery
were packed with a crowd so dense that
they could not be added to without suffo-
cation. For hours before the time set for
the arrival of the funeral train thousands
of people stood waiting in the sum- which
beat down upon them with tropical
ferceness.
As the hcarse passed. slowly 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 around the vault was filed
! by a crowd which stood without sound or
motion until the last of the rites was con-
| cluded.
Every sphere of life which the dead had
| filed and adorned was represented by the
side of his bier. 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 pail
bearers were men who had sat beside him
when he graced the federal bench and up
| held the nation 5 laws with the frank and
fearless spirit in which he had upheld its
honor on the battlefield. 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 people, and
there stood other men-they of the Grand
| Army-wLose hearts were full of love and
the spirit of brotherhood of Walter G.
| Gresham.
At one side of the vault were drawn up
| squadrons of the famous fighting" Sew
enth cavalry, and in the background were
the dark blue ranks of the Fifteenth in
fantry. They stood motionless at present
| arms. and when the last of the commit
ment service was over the buglars of the
Seventh stepped forward, raised their bu-
giles, and 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 him were, at the wish of the fam
lily dispensed with. In fact, none were
needed, for the fame of the manly man
who had shone as u soldier, a iurist and q
cabinet minister, is secure with the peo.
pie who loved him so well.
Immediately alter the services at the
tomb were concluded the president anG
his party took carriages and were driven
to the waiting train, which started at once
on the return trip to Washington. The
train bearing the presidential party ar
rived at Woodlawn station at sos O'Clock
and started on the return trip at 3;54 The
stay of the distinguished company in Chi
cago was therefore less than two hours.
Secretary Morton and Secretary Carlisle
did not return with the president, bu
will remain in the city until tomorrow
afternoon, when they will return to Wash
ington upon special car which was Gu
OFF the train and left here for their use
Secretary Carlisle will visit the family o
his son, w. X. Carlisle, 254 Dearborn ave
nue.. With Mrs. Carlisle and children h
entered a carriage and was driven at ono
TO their residence.