The evening times., 1900-10-22

| day, the Day of the FuneraI-Inter-'
ment to Take Place at MansaeId.
| John Sherman died this morning at
Gas O'Clock, at his residence, 1921 Street
| northwest His end was peaceful, death
being due to exhaustion incident to old
| age.
| The President called special Cabinet
meeting to take action on the death of Mr.
| Sherman. A proclamation announcing Mr..
| Sherman's decease was issued, calling for
| the display Of the flag at half-mast On the
! day of the funeral, which will be next
| Wednesday The President leaves for
i Canton tonight, and will attend the burial
| at Mansfield, Ohio.
| The flags on the White House, the
Treasury Building and the State, War,
| and Navy Building were placed at half
mast during the day.
| Mr. Sherman had been unconscious for
| twentyfour hours preceding death At his
| bedside when the end came were Mrs. Mac
| Callum, his adopted daughter; Mr.. and
Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Of Cleveland, nephew
| and niece; Miss Sherman daughter of Gen.
| eral Sherman; Champion Sherman, son Of
General Sherman; Charles Sherman, OF
Chicago; the Rev Father P. T. Sherman,
son of General Sherman; Mrs. Frank K.
| Wiborg, of Cincinnati; E. j. Babcock, who
had been private secretary to Mr. Sher-
man for the last twenty years, and DR..
| Johnston. Friday morning Mr.. Sherman
called for Mr. Babcock. his private secre-
| tary, and said that he was going on a long
journey. These were the last ineligible
| words Mr. Sherman uttered
The first caller at the Sherman home this
| morning was President Mckinley. who had
| received the news of Mr.. Sherman's death
from Secretary Hay. The President ex-
pressed his sorrow ard coincidence TO those
present, and it is understood that he WI
attend the burial at Mansfield Ohio.
where Mr.. Sherman will be laid to rest
| beside the remains of his wife Through
out the day there was a steady stream of
| people prominent in the city and Gov
ernment calling to extend their sympathy
| to the relatives. There was large num-
ber of carriages before the Sherman house
| nearly the whole of the day.
The funeral services here viii be held
next Wednesday. The Rev Dr. Mackay-
Smith, of st. Johns Episcopal Church,
will ofziciate. OF Mr. Shermans family
but two brothers survive, both living in
| Iowa. They were notified of his death,
but as both are very old it is doubtful
If they will attend the funeral. The hour
and other arrangements have not yet been
determined upon
| The last illness OF Mr. Sherman develop
ed on last Tuesday. when he was obliged
to take to his bed. On Wednesday his
condition was so much worse that the at
tending physician thought that he might
not survive the night. Toward Thursday
morning, he rallied, however, and he ap-
peared to grow somewhat better during
Thursday and Friday. On Saturday he
suffered slight relapse and yesterday
morning began to sink rapidly. He be-
came perceptibly weaker last evening, and
it was evident that he could not survive
many hours.
The proclamation of the President an
nouncing the death of Mr. Sherman and
ordering the flags to be displayed at half
mast on the day of his funeral follows:
BY the President OF the United States
Of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
ITO the People of the United States:
In the fullness of years and honors,
John Sherman, lately Secretary of
| State. has passed away.
! Few OF our citizens have risen TO
greater or more deserged em.nence n
the national councils than he The
| story of his public life and services
is as it were the history Of the coun-
try for half a century. In the Con-
| gress of the United States he ranked
1 h.. T=-l
and later in the Senate. He was
twice a member of the Executive
Cabinet, first Secretary of the
Treasury, and afterward as Secre-
tary of State Whether in debate
during the dark hours of our civil
war. or as the director of the coun-
try's finances during the period Of
rehabilitation, or as a trusted coun-
clIor in framing the nations laws for
over forty years, or as the exponent
of its foreign policy, his course was
ever marked by devotion to the best
| interests of his beloved land and by
| able and conscientious effCrt to up
| hold its dignity and homer. His coun-
trymen will long revere his memory
and see in him a type CT the pat<iot-
ism, the uprightne-s, and the zeal
| that go to molding and strengthening
| a nation.
In fitting expression of the sense
OF bereavement that affliets the Re
| public. direct that on the day of the
funeral the executive offices Cf the
United States display the national flag
at half-mast and that the representa-
tives Of the United States in foreign
countries shall pay in like manner
appropriate tribute to the ilIustrious
dead for a period of ten days
Done at the City of Washington.
i, this 22d day of October. in the year of
our Lord 1900 and of the Independence
of the United States of America the
125th WILLIAM McKTNTEy
by the President:
JOHN HAY,
Secretary of State"
An immense wreath of flowers from the
White House conservatories was sent with
the sympathies of Mr. and Mrs Mckinley
ard flowers are now being prepared in the
conservatOries to accompany the remains
on the funeral car to Mansfield
The President was desirous of learning
the funeral arrangements in order to have
his own plans in harmony with them On
District Democracy to Baltimore and
Return via Pennsylvania RniIroassl.