The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-22
FUNERAL OF BARON HERSCHEl.
Impressive Services We're Held at West
minister Abbey.

Impressive Services We're Held at West
minister Abbey.
London, March 21-Funeral services
over the remains of the late Baron
Herschel, who died at Washington
March l. took place to-day in West
minister abbey.
The procession of carriages formed at
the residence of the deceased, Gros-
venor Gardens, to which the body was
conveyed yesterday on it's arrival here
from Portsmouth
AT the residence the casket was
placed in glass paneled hearse and
the procession proceeded to Westmin-
ster abbey. There the body was met
by the dean, the clergy and choir. The
pail bearers We're the United States
ambassador. Joseph Fl. Choate, the
government leader in the house of COM
mons, Mr. Balfour the speaker of the
house of commons. the Right Hon.
William Court Gulley, the high COM
missioner of Canada. Baron Strathcona,
and Mountroyal, the liberal leader in
the house of lords, the earl of Kimber-
ly, the vice chancellor of the University
of London. Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
the lord high chancellor. the earl of
Halsbury and the chancellor of the
duchy of Lancaster, Baron James of
Hereford.
Lord Churchill. the lord in waiting
to the queen, represented her majesty,
and there were also present represen-
tatives of the Prince of Wales and duke
Of York. The chief mourner was the
son of the deceased, Baron Richard
Farrar Herschel, who followed the cof-
fin with the members of the family.
AS the procession proceeded up the
nave, the burial office and the 10th
psalm were sung.
Lord Churchill bore the queens S
wreath, which was of bays, with an
autograph card inscribed: "A mark
of sincere regard from Victoria, r. l.
The large congregation included the at
torney general, Sir Richard Webster,
Q. c., the solicitor general, Sir r. B.
Findlay, Q. c., the bishop of London,
the Right Rev. Mandell Cheighton, the
members of the United States embassy.
the duke Of Westminster, the duke of
Abercorn. the earl of Morley, the earl
of Aberdeen, Herbert Gladstone the
secretary of state for the colonies.
Joseph Chamberlain. the Right Hon.
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannermann, the
leading judges and Secretary Cart
wright of the Anglo American COM
mission.
The pal1-covered coffin was borne
through the west cloister. The late
Baron Herschers official robes were
placed on the head of the casSet and
his ribbons of orders We're placed at
the foot. The remains were accom-
panied by the clergy and choir up the
nave to a space beneath the lantern,
where they We're deposited with i'm
pressive service. A quartette played
Beethoven's "Equalo.' At the conclu-
sion of the services, Sir Frederick
Bridges, who is the organist of West
minister abbey since 1875. played the
Dead March" in Saul
The remains We're afterwards re-
moved to Waterloo railroad station to
he conveyed to Cliffe, Dorsetshire,
where they will be inferred
A splendid shield. sent by the Ameri-
can society of London, occupied the
place of honor at the head of the casket
containing the remains, and in the rail-
road car scores of wreaths We're placed
about the casket. But the emblems of
the queen and the Prince of Wales were
the only ones placed on the lid Of the
caSket