The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-25
VIEWED BY MANY PEOPLE
$4,000 LOOK AT THE FACE or THE
DEAD VICE PRESIDENT.
One Woman Creates n scene mt the
Coffin and others Faint on the
P0rch-Funeral To-day.

late Carrot A. Hobart, Vice President OF
the United States. will take place to-mor-
row morning at Paterson, n. j., services
first being held at Carroll Hall. the Hobart
home, and after that at the church. The
services at the house are intended for the
family. the President and his Cabinet. mem
bers of the Senate and House OF Iiepre-
sentatives of the United States AMI init
mate personal friends of the family. The
President and Cabinet will also attend TIE
services at the church, being conveyed IL. re
in carriages, while the thirty-two pail
bearers, of whom eight are personal pail
bearers. will walk in the procession.
AT Carroll Hall this afternoon The .e-
mains of Vice President Hobart lay in state
and the public had an opportunity to view
them. Fully five thousand persons We're in
the streets. Lines were formed by a squad
of police, but the force was entirely TOO
small TO n aintain any semblanc, of s.rder.
Women were largely in TIT majority. They
Included all classes AMI all had the same
opportunity to take a iast look at he face
of Mr.. Hobart.
The first person to see the remains after
they had been removed from the room
where Vice President Hobart died was At
torney General Griggs.
He shook his head as he noticed the
change in the face of the dead, and ss he
stepped aside from the room, very much
affected, he remarked, He has suffered
much-more than any one will know"
While the throngs were filing into the hall
leading to the libarary some women tainted
on the porch, and at one time half a dozen
lay insensible on the lawn. but were re-
vived. AT the coffin there was a ~fainting
scene. A woman, about twenty years old.
after gazing on the face Of the dead Vice
President, stood at the coffin as though
transfixed. Then she screamed and fell for
ward INTO the arms OF a policeman. She
was placed in a chair and revived. 1t was
estimated that fully twelve thousand per-
sons saw the remains in the four hours they
were exposed to view. Thousands more
would have seen them IL the time had per-
mitted.
Among those in the room representing
the family were j. w. Cleveland, Edward
A Walton, General Congdon and Colonel
Bright. IL was remarked by those who had
known the Vice President that the face had
,ost its pleasant roundness and was very
thin, showing that he had suffered much:
His neck had also thinned considerably and
his hair and moustache were gray. He was
sadly changed from the day he was sworn
into office of Vice President Of the United
States, BIZ there was a peaceful expression
as thong had dropped into a sleep.
There be thirty-two pallbearers.
ate, eie presenting the House of Rep
resenta eight personal palibearers, Sc
lected L.. Mr.. Hobart two months before
his death, and eight of the Senate police,
who will act as quarter-bearers. Ii was
originally proposed to form a procession
from Carroll Hall to the Church of the Re
deemer, headed by President Mckinley and
the Cabinet, but Attorney General Griggs
reminded the committee that the President
would be exposed TO danger in a large
crowd. The President and Cabinet will go
to the church in carriages. but the thirty
two pallbearers will walk TO the church.
The personal pallbearers are Attorney
General Joseph w. Congdon, Colonel Will
lam Barber and General +. Baker, all OF
Paterson; Franklin Murphy and j. Franklin
Ford, of Newark. and l.. A. Walton. or
Senate are Senators SewaIl, Kean, McMil-
Ian. Daniel, Frye, Fairbanks. Hanna and
Cockrell. The pallbearers from the House
of Representatives are Henderson OF Iowa,
Gardenr of New Jersey. Parker Of New
Jersey, Joy of Missouri, Hepburn of Iowa.
Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Mcclellan of New
York and Rixey of Virginia.
The services at the house are intended for
the family, the President and his Cabinet,
members Of the Senate and House OF Rep
resentatives and intimate personal friends
Of the family. They will begin at 2 o'clock
and will be conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Magic, pastor of the Church OF the Re
deemer. At 2:3o o'clock services will be
held In the church, when DIR. Magic Will de-
liver a brief address. Rev. DIR. Milburn, The
blind chaplain of the Senate. will be unable
to attend on account of i'll health.
The interment will be private, at the con-
venience of the family, at Cedar Lawn
Cemetery. Paterson.
afternoon TO permit the school children TO
view the remains of the Vice President.
Nearly all the mills and factories In Pater-
son shut down TO afford their employees a
similar opportunity.