The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-24
FRIENDS VIEW REMAINS
Miss Frances &. WiIlard's Body
Arrives in Chicago.
TAKEN TO THE wOMAN's TEMPLE.
The Casket is Opened and Hundreds of
Loving Admirers Eagerly Seek Last
Look of the Face of the Great Temper
ance Advocate-Tear Flow From Many
Eyes--Those Who Accompanied the
Body From the East.

ance Advocate Tears Flow From Many
Eyes--Those Who Accompanied the
Body From the East.
Chicago, Feb. 24.-In the beautiful
auditorium in the Womans Temple
known as Willard hall there was en-
acted a solemn and impressive scene.
The remains of Frances Il. Willard
lay in state and hundreds of weeping
women viewed for the last time the face
of her they had loved so well. Above
the stifed sobs of her late companions
and friends arose the music of those
hymns of which the late leader in her
lifetime was most fond.
The late arrival of the train cut short
the time for the viewing of the remains,
and many women who came TO the
Temple late were disappointed in OBJ
tanning last look at the calm face.
Sang Her Favorite Hymn.
1t was almost $3.50 o'clock when the
hearse reached the Temple. BY that
time the line of waiting people reached
from the entrance to La Sale street
and south to the main entrance OF the
building. Just inside the hall the hon
orary pallbearers stood. AS the casket
| arrived they marched out to meet ii and
| stood in double rank until the remains
were lifted down by the pallbearers.
| Turning, these women who had been so
close to Miss Willard in her life's work,
| lifted their voices in the beautiful
| hymn, Jesus, Lover of My Soul
| Many voice broke as the singer re-
membered how fond the dead had been
OF that hymn, and tears flowed from
many eyes in spite of heroic efforts to
| remain calm.
The Michigan Central train, bearing
the body of Frances Willard, steamed
slowly into the Park Row station in the
morning in cloud of steam and whirl-
wind of snow. 1t was due at 1850
o'clock, but the storm caused delay
and it did not arrive until S:35. Both
the acting and the honorary pallbearers
were at the depot early. AS the train
came in under the great shed they came
down the stairway from the main wait
ing room and filed down the length Of
the platform to where the car bearing
the remains stopped at Thirteenth
! street.
Those Accompanying the Remains.
The guard of honor formed in a groul
! beside the. car and then as fast as tn
narrow doorway would admit, passes
into the car and looked at the caske
with its gray shroud and its cove.1ng o
flowers. Accompanying the body from
the east were Mrs. Stevens. Miss Eliza
beth Gordon, Mrs. Gulick. Mrs. Barker
| Mrs. Stevenson, Mrs. H. j. Bailey, Mrs
Frances j. Barnes, Miss Nettie Pow
derly and Mrs. Frances Beauchamp
The casket lay in the forward compart
ment of the car and was almost hiddel
from view under a mound of lilies o
the valley and Gala lilies. The hears
waited at the Thirteenth street en-
trance to the depot yards. Through tn
binding snow the remains of the lat
beloved leader of the Woman's Chris
! tian Temperance union were CARRIE
! and placed in the somber vehicle whic
| was to convey them to Willard hal
{ ! The street in front of the entrance I
: | the hall was a black mass of peopl
| when the body arrived. A dozen police
! | men kept men and women back fror
the passageway and carefully ques
: ] toned those who had business In tn
I hall before they would admit then
? | The people were patient, however, an
Z | there were no murmurings of discon
: tent that they could not enter the hal
: Allowed to Take Last Look.
None went away Their object wa
too sacred to be given up because OF
little matter of snow and slush an
: wind And in the end they had the
: reward. They were allowed to look o
I the remains and make in their mem
$ cries a picture which shall live throug
n all the years of their lives. When til
g cover of the casket was lifted ther
I | were in the hall only the pallbearel
n and the guard of honor Not to tn
q public could these women give an e,
O hibition of their grief. They wished
I clasp each other by the hand and she
@ unrestrained tears. When those WI
Il were waiting in the storm outside wei
g admitted they showed faces which bol
the marks of grief. deep and LASTING
but which We're calm. Loving hanc
piled deep on the casket the wreati
f and notices and masses of flowers sci
" by those who had admired the leader
IS her great work. Palms, dropping as
s. in sympathy, stood about the room
profusion.