The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-03-22
BODY LAID TO REST.
'SOrrOwing ThrOng Witnesses Last
Rites Over Gen, Harrison.
President Mckinley one of the 1Iourners-
Thousand. Follow the Remains or the
Man They Loved from HIS Resi-
denee to the Cemetery.

Indianapolis, Ind, March 1s.-In the
center of a hollow square composed
of fully $1,000 OF his feIIow-eitizens
the remains of Benjamin Harrison
were Sunday afternoon inferred in the
family lot Ia Crown Hill cemetery.
Close by the grave were the members
of his family, President Mckinley and
other visitors Of distinction, and the
more intimate friends Of Gen. Harri-
son. Back a distance of so yards,
behind ropes guarded zealously by
a large force of police, stood, with
uncovered head, the great multitude
who knew the former president not
so well as did they who stood beside
the freshly Upturned earth, but who
hOnOred him and admired him fully
Rs~much.
It is doubtful if any public man,
at least in this generation, was borne
to his last resting place among so
many manifestations of respect. The
tribute of respect was universal. 1t
came from all alike, from those of his
own political faith and from those
who differed with him concerning
what is best for the nations good,
from men who had been his lifelong
friends, and from those who knew
him merely by sight and to whom
he never spoke. 1t came from women
and children, from white and black,
from all conditions and kinds of peo-
pie. There was no exception any
where to the expression that the ma
ton had lost one of its ablest men
and the greatest man of his genera
ton in his own state.
By the grave stood the chief magis-
trate of the nation. and behind the
ropes were all the street arabs of
Gen Harrison's city. Every grade of
human life in America between the
two was represented in the crowd,
and IN them all there was only the
one feeling-that a man had died who
was honest at all times with himself
and with others, and whose ability
and character were such as the nation
could III afford to lose. The services
at the church and grave were simple
in the extreme, all in most excellent
taste.
Remains viewed by 10000 People.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 1s.-Be-
meath a canopy of black, placed under
the rotunda of the capitol building,
in a casket covered with the siIzen
folds of the stars and stripes, sur
rounded by thousands Of blossoms,
while over all swung the great battle
flag that flew from the battleship In
diana during the naval battle at San
fiago, the body of ex-President Harri-
son lay in state for nine hours Sat
urday. During that time fully $4,000
persons passed by the coffin to take
a last look at the distinguished dead,
and when at ten o'clock the capitol
doors were finally closed and the peo-
pie were told that no more could en-
ter, there were several thousands
more waiting patiently in line. The
body lay in state from 1:1O o'clock in
the afternoon until ten o'clock at
night, and not once during the hours
was there a break or halt In the lines
which passed rapidly by on the right
and left of the casket. It was In
diana's day with her dead, and NEST
touchingly were the esteem and honor
in which Gen. Harrison was held by
his fellow citizens revealed.