The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29
ORDER OF PROCESSION.


buff uniforms.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The procession moved in the follow
ing order: Four heraldS in court dress,
bearing the arms; the speaker. Hon.
William Court Gully; clerks and Off
GERS of the house of commons, in robes
and wigs, carrying the mace in their
midst; members of the house of COM
mons. marching four abreast, and
wearing frock coats and high hats,
with the solitary and conspicuous ex-
ception of John Burns, the labor leader.
who wore his usual derby hat and short
coat; four heraldS escorting half a
dozen privy councillors, not members
of parliament; more heraidS ushering
the officers of the house of lords; the
lord chancellors in their robes, with a
mace bearer; 200 members of the house
of lords, attired like the members of the
house of commons, with the exception
of the bishops, who were ROBBED.
Then came a group of members of Mr..
GladStone'S last ministry, followed by
representatives of various royal fami-
lies and the foreign ambassadors, in
Guiding Colonel John Hay, the United
States ambassador.
After them came the Duke of Cam
bridge and the Duke of Connaught and
the Earl of Pembroke, representing the
queen.
Then came the funeral car, plainly
draped with black and drawn by two
horses, preceded by the Earl of Mar
shall, the Duke of Norfolk, the support
ers of the pail walking beside the car.
After the car walked Stephen Glad
stone, the chief mourner, and then the
relatives and friends.
The only sound that broke the silence
while the cortege passed was a broken
voice which shouted:
God give We rest, old man."
In the meanwhile the tolling OF the
Abbey bell had notified the waiting as
semblage within the edifce that the
procession was approaching.
IMPRESSIVE MUSIC.
The weird, dismal strains of a quar-
tette of tromboneS playing Beetho-
ems funeral hymn in a recess high
above the heads of the congregation,
swept through the recesses of the Alb
hey. When these finally died away
the great organ took up Schubert's fun
eral march, booming sOnorously, and
then changed to Beethoven's funeral
march, with a clash of cymbelS in the
orchestral accompaniment.
A choir of 100 male singers, which
had awaited the coffin at the entrance
of the Abbey, preceded it along the
nave, cndnIluS AIN the 1SeSuTTSCIlOn
and the Life
When the coffin was laid on the bier
Purcell's funeral chant, Lord, Thou
Hast Been Our Refuge" was sung, and
the dean and the whole assemblage
sang Rock Of Ages" and then, while
the coffin was being borne along the
aisle to the grave, sang Mr.. Gladstone's
favorite hymn, ''Praise to Thee, Hottest
on High"
Mrs. Gladstone. supported on the
arms of her sons, Herbert and Stephen,
and other members of the family, were
grouped about the grave.
The dear read the appointed sentence
the body to the earth, and
the archbishop OF Canterbury pro-
the benediction.
Mrs. Gladstone stood bravely with |
gret composure throughout the service !
Her face was lifted upward and her |
lips were moving, as though repeating |
the lines of the service. She also kept |
standing during the only official fea-
ture of the service, THE proclamation |
by Garter of the Style of the deceased" |
as the official programme had it.
The Garter enumerated the various |
offices which Mr.. Gladstone had held |
in his life from the beginning.