The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-18
SOLEMN SERVICES ARE HELD
REMAINS OF THE SLAIN EN-
PRESS PLACED IN A VAULT.
Vienna Is in Mourning and the
People of Every Land Join
in Expressions of
Sympathy.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VIENNA, Sept 17.-Emperor Francis
Joseph at o'clock this morning re-
ceived the special representatives of
foreign soyereigns. An hour later he
received the visiting sovereigns, with
the exception of the King Of Saxony,
whom he personally greeted at the rail-
road station.
The inhabitants of this city streamed
to the chapel of the Hofburg and de-
filed before the caSket containing the
remains of the late Empress. En-
peror Francis Joseph, Prince Hohen-
lobe, the German Imperial Chancellor,
and Baron Won Bulow. the German
Minister for Foreign Affairs, received
Emperor William at the railroad sta
ton. The Emperors shook hands and
kissed each others cheeks three times.
Then they proceeded back to the
church, where Emperor William, in be-
half of himself and the Empress of
Germany, deposited on the casket con-
tanning the remains of the late En-
press of Austria a floral wreath which
his Majesty had brought from Ger
many. The Emperor dined at the Ger
man Embassy after the funeral and
started for Berlin this evening.
The aspect of this city to-day was
more somber than upon any day of the
week of mourning. Hardly a house
was without black draperies, and the
entire populace seemed to have poured
out into the streets. Every train
brought hundreds of people from the
country, and all, even the persons be-
longing to the lower classes, were in
mourning. The street lamps were all
J.
of crepe.
Great torches threw glazing flames
over the royal chapel, in which the re-
mains of the late Empress have lain in
state since yesterday morning. The
doors of the chapel were closed at noon,
thus barring out thousands of people
who were anxious to see the casket.
At o'clock the tolling of bells an
nounced the starting of the procession.
The route from the Hofburg to the in
significant church of the Capuchins,
whose vaults entomb the Hapsburgs,
is so short that only small proper
ton of the population was able to
crowd into the adjoining streets.
While the procession was being
formed the church was filled with the
foreign Princes, who arrived without
ostentation in closed carriages and
were conducted to the front pews. Out
guished generals and staff officers was
aligned. detachment of cavalry led
the procession, followed by a single
horseman, a court officer, attired in a
Spanish costume. Then came carriages
drawn by six horses covered with fu-
neral trappings, escorted by footmen.
They contained the court dignitaries
and ladies in waiting.
A train of servants followed, walking
two abreast, and then came the most
imposing feature of the procession.
Several companies of the foot guards,
and a squadron of the horse guards,
followed by a detachment of yeomen,
all gloriously uniformed, preceding the
colossal funeral car. On each side were
four footmen and four pages with light
ed tapers, but the immediate escort of
the car was composed of six stalwart
gentlemen of the Archers' Guard, eight
yeomen six Hungarian life guards and
eight mounted life guards. Following
the car were several bodies of infantry
and cavalry.
A large number of priests in full
canonicals met the procession at the