The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
Imposing and Impressive Cere-
monies at Westminster.
A SCENE OF SPLEND0R
ROYALTY HoNoRED THE GREAT
CoMMONER.
His Body Laid to Rest Beside That
of His Old Adversary, Lord Bea-
consfeld-Nobility and High Of
ficials of the Realm Were In At
tendance.

London, May 2S.-In the northern
transept of Westminster abbey, where
England's greatest dead rest, the body
was entombed today. with the ceremo-
MES of the nation he had served and of
the church he had loved.
His grave is beside that of his life
long adversary, Benjamin Disraeli
Gord Beaconsfield), whose marble eff
figy looks down upon it, decked with
the regalia which Gladstone had re-
fused. The possible future kings of
| Great Britain walked beside the great
commoner's bier, and the nobility and
learning of the state surrounded it,
though the wish of the deceased had
| been for simplicity. This official fu-
neral, the first since that of Lord Pal
merstone, was rendered an imposing
/ spectacle by the magnificence of the
building in which it was solemnized.
| The coffin rested on an elevated bier,
before the altar, its plainness hidden
beneath a pail of white and gold, EN-
broidered with the text ''requiescat in
pace" Six tall candles burned be-
side it and on either side stood the sup
porters of the pail.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of
York were at the head of the coffin and
ranging behind them were the Marquis
of Salisbury Earl of Kimberly, A. ].
Balfour, Sir William Vernon Harcourt,
Lord Roseberry and Mr.. Gladstone's
two old friends, Baron Rendel and
George A. Mislead.
Within the chancel stood the Dean of
Westminster and behind him We're
gathered the cathedral clergy, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
scarlet and white supplied choir. filling
the chapel.
The mourners, who sat in the stalls
nearest to the bier, were Mrs. Glad
stone, her sons Herbert and Stephen,
and other members of the family, with
little Dorothy Drew, Mr.. Gladstone's
favorite graudchild.
The Princess of Wales and the Ouch
ess of York occupied the deans pew,
opposite.
OFFICIALS AND CELEBRITIES.
In the tiers of temporary seats. north
and south tranSepts, were assembled
the members of the two houses of par
lament, the mayors of principal cities
and delegates from liberal organiza-
tionS and representatives of other civic
and political organizations, while the
long nave was crowded with thousands
of men and women, among them be-
ing the most of the celebrities, in all
branches of English life. Every gal
lery, balcony and niche high up among
the rafters held a cluster.Of deeply in
terested spectators. In all $500 persons
were assembled in the abbey, all
clothed in the deepest black, save a
few officials, whose regalia cleaned
brilliantly from this sombre back
ground.
Thousands thronged the square out
side, in order to witness the passage of
the funeral procession, from Westmin-
ster hall. A double line of 500 police
men kept an open passage for the fun
era1 cortege.
The chief officials had assembled in
Westminster hall at 10 o'clock this
morning The Bishop of London, the
Right Rev. Mandel Creighton, D. D.,
read a brief prayer there and at 1890
o'clock the procession was formed and
slowly passed through the great crowds
and along the short pathway, a dis