The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-20

my home hereafter. so long ss 1 live
work WAS done. freed ed from the burdens
of his great ofice. crowned with the al
fections Of happy people, he might be
permitted 10 close his earthly life. in the
home he had loved.
He has. indeed. returned TO US. but
how? Borne TO the strains of Nearer.
Ny God. TO Thee. and placed where he
first began lie struggle, that the peo-
pie might look and weep over so sad a
But il was a triumphal march How
vast the procession. The nation rose and
stood with uncovered head The people
nations weep with them. But, oh. what
a victory 1 do not ask you IN the heat
OF public address, but in the calm mo-
ments of mature reflection, what other
man ever had such high hOnors bestowed
upon him. and by so many peop-e2 What
pageant has equaled this. that We look
upon2 We gave him TO the nation but
a little more than four years ago. He
went out with the light OF the morning
upon his brow, but with his task set.
and the purpose TO complete II. We take
him back a mighty conqueror.
The churchyard where his children rest;
The quiet spot that suits him best
There shall his grave be made.
And there his bones be laid
And there his countrymen shall come,
With memory proud. with pity dumb;
And strangers Tar and near,
For many and many a year,
For many a year and many an age,
While History on on her ample page
The virtues shall enroll
OF that Daternal soul
SERVICES CONCLUDED.
Bishop 1. w Joyce of Minneapolis
followed with a brief prayer. and the
services We're concluded with the sing
ing of the hymn which President Nc
Kinley repeated on his deathbed.
Nearer. NY God, to Thee" The en-
tire. congregation arose and Joined in
the last stanza. Father Valtman OF
Chicago. chaplain of the Twenty-third
regiment. pronounced the benediction-
Then the notes of the organ again
borne from the church. The relatives
and those in official life went out il.
the order they had entered.
It was after O'Clock when the silent
and anxious throngs outside the church
saw the solemn pageant reappear
the guard of military and naval honor.
the generals and admirals forming in
double line leading from the entrance
to the waiting hearse. Again the flag
draped casket, with it's wealth of flow
ers, appeared and was committed to
the hearse- The president and mem
bers Of the cabinet followed, arm in
arm. and stepped into the waiting car
riages.
The relatives entered carriages next.
Then the separate line of troopers
broke from their battalion front and,
wheeling into platoons. took up the
march to the grave. In the long line
of carriages were United States Sena-
tors and members of the house Of rep
resentatives from every section of the
country, Justices. of the United States
supreme court, the ranking heads of
the army and navy. governors of states
and mayors of cities. and the dead
presidents fellow townsmen.
Out Tuscarawas street the long pro-
cessiop moved, through the section of
the city where the sound of the dirge
had not before been heard. But Il pre-
scented the same sorrow-strfcken as
pect that had been observed in the
heart Of the city. Funeral arches
spanned the street, some of them, it
is understood having been erected by
school children The houses were hung
with black, and even the stately elms
along the way had their trunks en-
shrouded in black and white drapery.