The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-21
FUNERAL OF EX-GOV. RUSSELL.
General Demonstration of Mourning

General Demonstration of Mourning
and Respect at Cambridge.
Cambridge, Mass. July 20.-Thou-
sands of mourning visitors thronged
this city to-day to pay their last tribute
of respect to Massachusetts, dead
statesman, ex- Governor William Eustis
Russell Sombre decorations were to be
seen everywhere upon buildings and in
windows, and upon hundreds Of coat
lapels the picture of the dead ex-gov-
ernor, framed in black, were worn as an
evidence of the general desire to join in
an expression Of honor to the memory
of the late chief executive of the COM
monwealth. Long before the hour set
for the body to be placed in the rotunda
of the city hall throngs of people were
pressing toward that building, taking
their place in line to await the opening
of the doors. Among them were many
we'll known business men, lawyers and
politicians. But every walk in life
was represented.
President Cleveland with Private
Secretary Thurber and Joseph Jeffer-
son, attended the services, coming up
from Buzzard's Bay for that purpose.
A private funeral service at the resi-
dence on Brattle street was held at II
o'clock by the Rev. Alexander Mac
Kenzie at whose church Mr.. Russell
was an attendant Outside the house
under a cloudy sky large crowd had
gathered, but a detail of police was
present to prevent intrusion upon the
privacy of the occasion. After a pray
er and few words Of sympathy and
comfort, the family retired, and pre-
parations for the removal of the body
| to the city hall were begun.
When everything was ready ten OF
the classmates of Mr.. Russell at Har-
ward. who had been chosen to perform
the duty, took up the coffin and bore ii
to the hearse. A large number of floral
emblems were placed in carriages AND
| then, under escort of sixteen Cam
bridge patrollnen, the procession moved
| toward the city hall. The ushers
Charles c. Read Sigourney Butler
Frank O. Webster, Harry Dutton, J. T
| Wheelwright, Charles Warren, George
C. Dickson, Eugene v. r. Thayer, Johr
| O. Henshaw, Judge Robert Grant, Will
| liam Brewster, Francis Peabody, jr.
Henry G. Nichols, William Endicott
| Sd, William Farnesworth, John w. Cor
coran, Charles III. Taylor, Arthur Pear.
| in, Nathan Matthews, jr., Frank Pratt
and James III. Carmichael, followed the
hearse. Thousands followed along the
streets as the procession passed, an6
when just before IL o'clock the city hal
%as reached, a vast crowd surrounded
the place. The guard of honor, how.
ever, detailed from the first corps o.
codets, company B, First regiment, ant
B, Fifth regiment, had formed a double
line through the crowd, from the stree
| through the rotunda, so that the body
was carried to it's resting place within
| the building without hindrance. AS tn,
coffin passed, heads were barred, and
there were many manifestations o.
grief.
| A few intimate friends were permit
ted to view the body before the gen
eral public were admitted. Then foi
three hours solid lines passed the bel
without a break, the total number o.
| them reaching into the thousands. A
| 8 o'clock the doors were closed, an(
soon afterwards the body was removed
| to the Shepard memorial church, where
at o'clock the public funeral service:
were conducted by Mr.. Mackenzie
Burial at Mount Auburn followed.