New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-09
FUNERAL OF SENATOR GoEBEL.

EXERCISES HELD IN POURING RAIN =
BURIAL DEFERRED UNTIL BET
TER WEATHER.
Frankfort Ky Feb. S-Rain came down in
sheets to-day while the funeral services were
being held the body of Kentucky's dead
Democratic leader. The morning dawned dark
and threatening, but at o'clock the clouds
cleared away and the sun shone brightly, and
there every promise OF a pleasant day.
The prospect was short lived however, for just
al the hour for the formation Of the funeral
procession the rain began fall. slowly at first
but with ever increasing rapidity, until shortly
after the hour of noon when the parade
on the march. the food began to descend. There
were dry intervals, but after them the water
came again with increased force. and just as the
hearse left the Capitol Hotel a heavy downpour
began which continued all through the after
noon.
The exercises In the cemetery were conducted
before a crowd much smaller than wcuiG have
been the case had the weather been Pleasant,
but they carried out to the letter, and to-
night the body Of William Goebel lies in the
chapel of the Frankfort cemetery after one of
the greatest funeral demonstrations ever seen
in this State.
II I'D been feared trouble might arise be-
tween the soldiers in the Capitol grounds and
Democratic partisans in the line OF march when
the parade passed the Capitol square, but moth
ing Of the kind occurred The soldiers were
kept back on the level with the front of the
Capitol, and a line of sentries was posted in
front Of them to prevent them from going near
the fence the south side of the grounds at
the time the parade was passing the square.
Orders had been issued on the Democratic side
IS well that comments should be made by
the men in the parade they passed the
grounds where Goebel received his death wound
The wisdom Of the commanders of the troops
and that Of the Democratic leaders, added to
the fact that for twenty-four hours all the
saloons had been closed. enabled the day to
pass without any exhibition of feeling being
shown either side
TEN THOUSAND PERSONS PRESENT.
Early in the morning the arrival of persons
TO witness the funeral exercises began, most of
them In the early part of the day coming in
buggies from the surrounding country. By the
time the early trains had arrived the crowd
was enormous. Special trains in from
Georgetown and Lexington and other places
not far from Frankfort but the large crowds
came on the regular trains from Louisville and
Cincinnati. Fully ten thousand persons were
the streets to watch the funeral The body
lay In state in the parlor OF the Capitol Hotel
until Ii o'clock in the morning. and more viewed
IL this morning than yesterday afternoon and
last night The police force of Frankfort is
not large-only six men-and it had its hands
full The crowd remarkably we'll behaved
however, and there was not unpleasant cpl
sode connected with the proceedings from first
TO last. The procession began to form at IL
o'clock on Mapping headed by the city po-
lice force and members of the City Council city
officials Grand Marshal David r. Murray and
his aids. Then came long column Of members
of different societies and citizens on foot Sena-
tor Goebel was not member of any secret or
ganization but his father was a prominent
member Of the Odd Fellows. and the local mem
bers of that body turned out strongly to do him
honor. None Of the societies were in uniform.
The column moved promptly at the appointed
time, which was the hour of noon. and marching
north on Wapping-st turned west on Broadway
when WOULD take II past the Capitol grounds
The rain was falling heavily as the parade ap-
proached the grounds and the were march
Ing rapidly. The front Of the capitol was covered
wilh soldiers who stood watching the parade
but save three sentries at the gate there was
none OF them within five hundred feet of the
street The flag on the staff of the Capitol build
ing was at halfmast
The march to the cemetery FROM the hotel be-
gan at o'clock The band played Nearer NV
Cod TO Thee" as 1t passed the south front of the
hotel, and Immediately after the band came car
riages containing the honorary pallbearers. who
THE PALLBEARERS.
g - D. ID.
w. S. Pryor. J. b. McCreary, Phil E Thompson
James ii. Mulligan, Louis Descognets, Samue
]. Shackelford, J. ID. Rhynock ]. w. Pugh, Zacl
Phelps, w. B. Haldeman, Charles B. Poyntz anC
Morton K. Younts
Beside the hearse walked the active palIbear
ers. who were Jack" Chinn, Charles G. Nc
Cord. Ed" Fennell James NJ Richardson
Henry George "Epk" Lillard, Willard Mitchell
Charles N. Lewis. John L. Grayot, John K
Hendrick, John Fulton, Trey Woodson Joe
Blackburn, jr., Allie w. Young r. B. Frank.
lin and Percy Haley. The procession was fully
one mile in length by the time the cemetery was
reached
The grave in which Senator Goebel's body will
be placed and the point at which the monu-
ment TO his memory is TO be erected were Sc
1ected by his relatives and intimate friends yes
terday. II was decided early this morning when
everything indicated bright. sunshine weather
TO have the burial take place to-day, and the
grave was prepared accordingly, but the pouring
rain Of the afternoon interfered. and the body
Will be allowed TO remain in the chapel until
weather conditions are more favorable The
grave is about half way between the Kentucky
Soldiers Monument and the cemetery chapel
and near immense oak tree II was decided
account of the rain 10 hold the services at
the steps of the chapel, and the little building
was surrounded by closely packed throng.
BLACKBURN AND BECKHAM SPEAK.
The Rev. william Stanley, OF Virginia made
the player The quartet sang Nearer. My