The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17
OMACE SHOWN
.ITARY DISPLAY ~ HONOR OF
THE LATE GEN. HARRISON.
Ie Entire Strength of the Indiana
National Guard Modified Here
to Pay Last Tribute.
|HOUSANDS IN THE STREETS
nDY OF THE LATE Ex-PREsIDENT
ESCORTED TO THE CAPITOL.
imposing Pnrnue, composed Oh the
States Military Forces and
Many Civic Organizations.
RRIVAL OF THE TROOPS
ley POURED INTO THE CITY DUR
ING EARLY MORNING HOURS.
pig Crowds fingered i'm the streets
and About the Statehouse Long
After Procession Disbanded.
Imposing Parade, Composed of the
States Military Forces and
Many Civic Organizations.
RRIvAL OF THE TROOPS
ley POURED INTO THE CITY DUR
ING EARLY MORNING HOURS.
lig Crowds fingered i'm the streets
After Procession Disbanded.

The National Guard of Indiana yester-
day paid respect to the memory of dis
| tinguished citizen and soldier. The mill
tary forces of the State to the number
OF about fifteen hundred gathered In In
dianapolis. and with measured tread and
I to the sound of funeral music, escorted
the body of General Benjamin Harrison
from his late home to the State Capitol
With the militia were civic organizations,
who also formed part Of the escort guard.
and among the marchers were members of
the G.. A. r.. almost three hundred strong.
One hundred and two of the survivors
of the SEVENTEEN Indiana Regiment the
regiment with which General Harrison
served, followed the body Of their dead
comrade from his home to the Statehouse
The streets of the city were thronged
with people during the morning. Many
came from the surrounding towns and
helped TO swell the crowds of citizens
that turned out. All morning the sun
smiled through a cloudless sky. People
began coming into the city early. Many
of the trains up to about 1890 o'clock
brought i'm companies of militia. The
last to arrive were the companies from
due to get in over the l.. E. & w. at
1925 o'clock. General Mckee and staff
and General Carnahan and staff were out
early. AS early o'clock people be-
gan TO congregate about the Statehouse
to watch the formation of the soldiers.
Some of the first companies TO appear
iE the morning took up their positions
in the Statehouse yard. afterward shift
ing TO Washington street, opposite the
south entrance to the. Capitol building.
In the ad5utant generals office, for two
hours before the troops started for the
Harrison home there was busy time among
the staff officers. General Mckee was
there delivering instructions to his aids.
THE PROCESSION DELAYED.
The time announced for the National
Guard to move toward the Harrison home
was 1O:3O o'clock but 1t was much later
than this before the troops were in readi-
ness To move. In the meantime, In the
neighborhood of the Harrison home, the
crowds were gathering. Sergt. John Lowe
and a force of patrolmen arrived i'm that
neighborhood early to keep the crowds in
order BY the time the first detachment of
military arrived. the civic organizations.
which took up positions near by and which
constituted the second division, were ready
TO move. For perhaps an hour the funeral
car, heavily draped and black, the top
covered with an American flag, stood in
front Of the Harrison home waiting for the
body.
The troops, in marching from the State
house to the home. passed east on Wash
ington street to Meridian street, north on
Meridian street, around the Circle, to
Eleventh street east on Eleventh to Penn
sylvania, north on Pennsylvania to Thir-
teenth and east Thirteenth to Della
ware. Along this line of march many peo-
pie watched the soldiers pass. IL was near
ly noon before they arrived at the Harri-
son home.
AS the regiments were marched past the
house they were brought TO a halt and
placed in a position where they stood, for
few minutes. facing the house where the
dead ex-President lay The three regiments
OF infantry and the artillery battalion were
accompanied from the Statehouse by the
state officers, in carriages and the commit
tee appointed by the Governor to receive
the body or. behalf of the State This COM
mittee composed of Gen. Lew Wallace
Admiral George Brown. Judge John H.
Baker. OF the United States District Court.
and Judge Alexander Bowling, of the state
the house and remained until the eight
stalwart sergeants selected from the mill
tia to bear the body out to the funeral
car, came in.
CASKET BORNE TO THE CAR.
They wore the regulation uniform and
heavy army overcoats. These sergeants,
preceded by the committee representing the
State. bore the body OF General Harrison
out OF the House and placed it in the flu
neral car. On the top of the coffin rested
an American flag and there were floral
wreaths Within a few minutes the cortege
started on the march 10 the Statehouse
proceeding south on Delaware street Cap
tain Kruger, OF the police department. led
the way in a buggy. warning the crowds to
keep out OF the street. Superintendent
Qulgley also drove ahead. assisting in
clearing tbe streets. Three pIatoons of po-
lice. in command OF Captain Dawson and
sergeants Giblin. Crane and Scheigert.
marched ahead OF the troops. Gen. w j.
Mckee and his stan rode at the head OF the
Third Regiment. ON his staff were Lieut.
Col. +. w. Frank Lieut. Col VIM. Nj.
Wright. Lieut.. Col John T. Barnett. Mai.
Harmon l. HutsOn. Mai VIM. IL. Kersh-
ner. Mai. Charles T. McIntire. Maj Frank
L. Strouse. Capt. Carroll Il. Carr First
Lieut.. Harry X Scott. First Lieut. Charles
Gerard. First Lieut.. w. A. Kreber. Mai
Charles Shaier. OF the United States ar
senal; Col. Charles Noble OF the United
States recruiting service: Capt W. Z. Eng
fish. Adj. Gen. James X. Gore and Q. NJ.
Gen. r. A. Richardson
Col. George NJ Studebaker. OF South
Bend. Is commander OF the Third Regiment,
The Third Regiment was accssssm