Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-26
Funeral of CZarOWitch.

New York, July 26.-The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Herald, describing
the funeral Of the czarowitch, says:
The dowager empress. accompanied by
the grand dukes and grand duchesses.
and attended by Mile. Ozeroff. her maid
OF honor, Count Benjendorf and Amelia
Toman arrived on the 10th inst. at Novo
Rosieysk and embarked on the ironclad
Tar. They We're followed by convoy
On the arrival of the vessels at Batoum
the Tar at once entered the harbor, the
other vessels remaining outside. The en-
tire Black Sea fleet had assembled to pay
the last honors to the defunct hereditary
grand duke. The vessels were drawn up
In double line that extended all the way
from Batoum to Novo Rosieysk, and the
ST. George, with her august passengers
and the body of the prince, passed down
the center. The shroud was of cloth of
gold, lined with bordered ermine. The
military service around the coffin at the
train and at sea was performed by Cen
erals Bibicoff and Micolaiff-the latter
colonel of the regiment of the Chevalier
Kurds, and by officers and non-commis-
stoned officers from the regiment of which
the hereditary grand duke was chief, and
by sailors belonging to the grand duke,
Constantine Nicolievitch's marine corps,
who accompanied him to st. Petersburg.
st. Petersburg at o'clock on Monday
evening the emperor and grand dukes in
person carried the coffin to a catafalque
of cloth of gold, drawn by eight horses
that awaited it. Four generals laid over
it a shroud Of cloth of gold covered with
ermine. The entire court and admins
tration took part in the procession, which
also included detachments of marine
guards and representatives Of all insti-
fntinnS of which the Ia grand 6nkp was
member. In front Of the catafalque
was carried on a cushion Of cloth Of gold
the numerous decorations Of the deceased
prince. His flag officer from the imperial
stables led his favorite horse, clad with
black cloth trappings. A large body Of
clergy. among them the grand dukes
almoner, preceded by the choir of the i'm
perial chapel bearing lighted tapers.
walked Immediately in front of the cata-
faloue, the cords of which We're held by
the highest state functionaries.
Immediately behind the catafalque
came the emperor, followed by Baron
Frederick, the court marshal, and Cen
eral Hesse, the head of the emperors
military household. The grand duke Mi
chael Alexandrovitch came next. walking
alone. Then came the Grand duke Alexis
Sergius, Paul Michael Nicol and his sons,
the Grand Dukes Alexander George and
Sergius: the Grand Dukes Nicholas and
Peter Nicolavich, the Grand Duchess
Constantine and Dimitri Constantine
witch, the Dukes Eugene and George Of
Leuchtenberg, Princes Alexander and Pc
ter of Oldenburg and the prince of Alien
burg. These We're followed by the suites
of the emperor. the grand dukes and
princes After the mourners on foot there
came in an open carriage, draped in black
cloth. attired in deep mourning and at
tended by two cossacks of the chamber,
the emperor's mother, with her two
daughters, the Grand Duchesses Xenia
and Olga. Next came a carriage contain
ing the Grand Duchess Militia Nicalevna
and the Grand Duchess Valdemarmirov
ma. In the next carriage We're the Prin-
cess Anistacia Nicolana RomanOfsky, the
duchess of Leuchtenberg, Princess Eu-
gene of Oldenborg and Princess Helene
of Altenberg. Then came long line Of
carriages containing grand ladies of the
court and maids of honor Of the en-
press and grand duchesses.
Lastly on foot. two by two, We're the
members of the guard. who accompanied
the funeral procession to the fortress.
Here the metropolitan alterne of st. Pc
tersburg and Ladioga celebrated a SOL
emn funeral mass in the presence of the
imperial family and court. The emperor
and grand dukes carried the coffin into
the church and deposited it beneath an
immense dias, which was covered with
cloth of gold. Four generals, aides de
camp, removed the lid of the coffin and
laid it on a table covered with cloth Of
silver, specially prepared. They then COW
cred the lower part of the body of the
grand duke with cloth of gold lined with
ermine. A guard of honor consisting Of
a general aide de camp. an aide de camp
to the emperor, two chamberlains and
two gentlemen of the bed chamber, four
officers and four on-commisSioned Offic-
ers of the guard will watch the coffin day
and night while the body lies in state
during three days. All the theaters and
places Of amusement will be closed and
all music forbidden.