The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-20
THE CITY PAYS
A LAST TRIBUTE
Special Memorial Exercises
at the A. & M. College.
tULOGIES OF THE DEAD
Nation. State, County and City Unite
in Mute Memorial.
MOURNING EMBLEMS ON EVERY SIDE
From Eleven Till Three All Business Was Sus-
panded in Respect to the Burial Day
Of the Late President
Mckinley.
tULOGIES Of THE DEAD
MOURNING EMBLEMS ON EVERY SIDE

In recognition VI INC pioSio"'Ao -
President Roosevelt, and because they
felt deep sense of grief in the death OF
the late President, William Mckinley
whose remains were laid to rest yester-
day in Canton, Ohio, the people OF Raj
eigh paid their public tribute to the dead
Chief Executive yesterday.
There was no thought of approving or
disappearing of governmental policies
Yesterday, 1t was the President who
was being mourned for. 1t was the clean
life of the patriotic American which
was being honored 1t required no sacri-
flee of ones convictions to join in mourn
ing for the illustrious dead for whom
nation grieved
The capitol, swathed in mourning STOOD
with closed doors and with curtalned
windows. In the various State depart
ments all work had ceased and the offl-
cial life of the State was giving It's
need of respect to the dead. The United
States department, the internal revenue
office and the postoffice were likewise
paying their respects by cessation from
labor, while the same was the case at
the Wake county court house and at the
CITY Hall. where all duties had been
laid aside The number of public build
ings and business houses of the city
with mourning drapery displayed had in
creased. BY eleven o'clock almost every
place of business was closed, and re-
manned so till three o'clock in the after
noon, the banks being closed all day
Between these hours the streets had a
somewhat Sunday appearance for traffic
had ceased and minds and hearts were
feeling the echoes of the grief which was
being expressed in Canton as the last
solemn rites for the dead were being
celebrated.
There were no church services as these
had been previously held on Sunday
morning and Sunday night in the
churches of the city. There were, how
ever. memorial services at the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College and SYM
pathetic addresses were made at the
opening exercises at St. Mary's.
Raleigh has paid it's tribute to the de-
parted and has paid it even as if Mr.
Mckinley had been North Carolinian
From the highest to the lowest there
have come expressions of grief because
L
most sympathy has been expressed for
the widow upon whom most terribly has
fallen the blow which took from her
the companion of her life, whose devo-
ton to her has been bright coronal
thrown about the home life, the basic
stone of American institutions.
AT THE A. AND NJ. COLLEGE.
al of
interesting character were held yesterday
at II o'clock in the dining room at the A.
and M. College, Devotional exercises
were conducted by Rev. DR.. A. A. Mar
shall, pastor of the First Baptist church,
and addresses were made by State Super
intendent Toon, Agricultural Commission
or Patterson, Mr. w. S. Primrose, Capt.
Phelps and President Winston.
The devotional exercises consisted of
an earnest and appropriate prayer on the
assembling of the students in the chapel
and benediction at the close of the ad-
dresses.
Superintendent Toon told of the tuner
al in Washington, which he attended in
company with the Governor.
Mr.. Primrose spoke of Mr.. Mckinley as
man and a Christian. paying high
tribute to his moral and social excel
lencies.
Capt. Pelps spoke of him as soldier
and told how he went into the 23rd Ohio
regiment as a private and came out as
a major. having been several times pro-
NOTED. Out of this regiment have per-
haps come he said, nero distinguished
men than out of any other in the Federal
army. He named President Hayes, Presi-
Chief Justice Matthews and several 9TH
ers. Capt. Phelps knew Mr. Mckinley in
timately and his remarks concerning him
were most interesting.
Commissioner Patterson's remarks were
concerning the crime of the President s
assassination ard the need of law for
the suppression of anarchists. He said
all lawlessness was a species of anar-
chy, and that lynching always led to other
| lawlessness.
President Winston gave reason fcl
the great grief of the world over the
! Presidents death. It was not, he said
merely because it was the President WHO
| was dead; but because Mr.. Mckinley rep
| hesented the highest typo of American
| manhood and the head of the American
| government. The assassins thrust. he
| said. was not at man, but at the whole
| of society and at organized government
These short addresses were listened t,
| with closest attention by the students
| at was" said DR.. Marshall on his re
| turn from the cnll"eeg zone of the mos
| impressive services have ever seen The
| large hall was filled with fine STURDY
| young fellows. representing the brain AM
| the Drawn of the State. They Listened
| with closest attention and were evidcntl,
| much impressed by the lesson of the occa
| sion and the words in regard to it,