The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-18
: President at the Funeral.

President Mckinley, accompanied by
Governor Durbin, called at the house
about l O'Clock. At about the same
time came the mem bers of President
HarriSOns cabinet, and others continu-
ally arrived until .the short services
were over The people sat in the par
lors, filled the halls, and a number of
them sat upon the stairs, while Dr.
HaineS read a. short passage from the
scriptures and made a few remarks
touching the life and character of Gen
eral Harrison, as did DR.. Nichols of
ST. Louis, and after a brief prayer by
DR.. HaineS, the services were over A
florists wagon backed UP to the front
of the house, and a number of larger
pieces were loaded into the vehicle pre-
paratory to being taken to the church.
There were a few minutes of hustle,
whispered directions by the undertaken
and his assistants, and a marShal1ng or
the honorary palI-bearerS into columns
of two. The procession was to have
left the house at 100 o'clock. but 1t
was fully thirty minutes later tnan that
when everything was in readiness Ihe
doors were thrown wide open. and the
honorary pail bearers, who were Gen
eraI BENJAMIN f. Tracy of New York,
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, w.
H H Miller of Indianapolis, John w
Noble of St Louis and Charles Foster
of Fostoria, o.; General Lew Wallace
of Indianapolis, Judson Harmon or
CINCINNATI ana w A1lldllA FfOO0S ~
Indianapolis. came slowly down the
walk leading to the street
After them came the active pall-bear-
ers. bearing the casket. They were: A
L. Mason. James WhitcOmb Riley, EV-
ans Wooten, Harry ]. Milligan, Clifford
Arrick. William G Bobbs, Harry s.
New, Howard Gale, John Gr1fhths,
Newton Booth Harrington, Hilton I.
Brown and Samuel Reid
While the casket was being placed In
the hearse, the honorary pail bearers
stood to one side with barred heads
AS soon as the hearse had moved from
the front of the house the carriages
came up rapidly and the family and
visitors entered them The undertaken
and his assistants held a list Of occu-
pants of each carriage as 1t should
go into the procession, and as quickly
as a carriage stopped, the people 10
whom it belonged We're ushered IN and
it moved down the street to take It's
place in the procession
The Funeral Procession.
Behind the casket came Mrs. Harri-
son. with her brother, Lieutenant COM
mander Parker of the navy, ana little
Eliza beth Harrison. Then came Sec
ertary Tibbett and Mrs Tibbett, then
Mr.. and Mrs Mckee, Russell Harrison
and Mrs Russell Harrison, then the
ether relatives of the dead eX-preSl-
dent.
family came President Mckinley and
Governor Durbin. and following them
the friends of the family. The route
of the procession was south on Della
ware street then one block east TO
Pennsylvania street and thence direct
to the church. a. total distance of twelve
squares. Twelve. mounted policemen led
the way and cleared the streets
There were several thousand people
around the Harrison residence as the
funeral procession moved away, but
the crowd there was insignificant to
that which gathered around the church
Two hours before the time set for the
commencement of the services the
people had begun to gather at this
point and by the time the funeral pro
cession arrived there was a solid mass
Of humanity stretching a block away on
every side of the walk Sentries pa
troIled the street just outside the curb
and nobody unable to produce a card
emitting the holder admission to the
church was permitted to step of the
walk.
While the carriages were discharging
their inmates at the door Of the church,
the wild changing of a FIRE engine gong
was heard and down the street at top
speed came a dashing fire truck. It's
way lay through the crowd beyond
where the police line was formed. and
for a brief space it seemed as though
some accidents must certainly result