Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-15
FRIENDLY TRIBUTES
Messages Of Sympathy Pour in on
Mrs. Harrison.
One ROOM FULL OF FLOWERS
Arrangements for the Funeral Being
Completed Today.
D e A TIL NJ ASK TAX E n

| INDIANAPOLIS, March 15-An atmos-
| phere of quiet pervaded the Harrison home
| today. Arrangements for the funeral of
| the late ex-President progressed rapidly.
| There were numerous arrivals of relatives
| and friends, but for all this there was lit
| tie unusual stir or commotion
| Mrs. Harrison saw all the messages and
| letters of sympathy which arrived during
the early hours of the day, and was con-
suited and expressed her wishes in regard
| to the arrangements for the funeral and
| for the entertainment of the relatives who
| will be here for the occasion. She saw no
| callers, however except one or two of her
| most intimate friends. With her con-
stantly is her friend Mrs. Caroline B.
| Stroud of New York. Mrs Betty H. Ea-
ten, of Cincinnati, the generals sister, is
staying at the Harrison home, and she
with Mrs. w. H. H. Miller. Samuel d. Mil
| Ter and Mr.. Tibbott, received the callers
| today.
| Chaplin C. Foster and s. D. Miller
| watched last night over the body of the
| general. This afternoon John II. Mahoney
| the sculptor. took a plaster cast of the fea-
lures and head of the dead general. The
| undertakers then took charge and pre-
| pared the body for the coffin.
| This afternoon the coffin will be removed
| down stairs into the front parlOr, where it
| Will lie until it is taken to the capitol to-
| morrow at noon to lie in state.
| Many Flowers Received
| So many flowers have been received at
| the Harrison home that single room will
not hold half Of them. These beautiful
| tributes continue to come in great auanti-
ties, and the air throughout the house is
] heavy with their odor
President Mckinley, who will arrive Sun
l viii hn hn
! Crnor and Mrs Durbin.
! Arrangements for the military display
| tomorrow have been completed, and be-
| fore daylight the troops of the Indiana Ma
| t1onal Guard will begin to arrive. All
| will be here at 10 o'clock, and at II a M
| Will escort the body from the Harrison
| home to the state house.
| Senator Fairbanks is here and Senator.
| Beveridge will arrive tonight
| business houses We're today draped in
| mourning. and from noon until o'clock
tomorrow business will be discontinued.
| John w. Foster. who was Secretary of
| State in Gen. Harrison's cabinet tele-
| graphed Mrs. Harrison today from Cali
| fornia that it will be impossible for him to
reach this city in time for the funeral.
| Senator S. b. Elkins, Secretary of War
| under the Harrison administration also
| telegraphed that on account of Mrs Elkins'
| illness he may not be able to come.
| All the family relatives who will attend the
funeral have now arrived, with the excep-
| ton of Lieut.. Commander John F. Parker
| and Mrs. Parker, who are en- route from
California and will reach this city some
| time tomorrow afternoon or evening Mrs
| Parker is sister of Mrs. Harrison
| The Pallbearers.
1 The list of honorary and active pail
| bearers for the funeral of General Harri-
son has not been completed as vet and
| until an accurate and complete list can
| be made Secretary Tibbott will not make
any announcements in regard to the mat
ter. 1t is expected, however, that all the
members of General Harrison's cabinet
| who can attend the funeral will be asked
| to offlciate as honorary pallbearers, and all
| who can be here will accept the honor.
| General Benjamin +. Tracy of New York
| eX-Secretary of the Navy: Charles Foster
| maker of Philadelphia, eX-Postmaster Cen
| eral, and General John w. Noble of St.
| Louis, eX-Secretary of the Interior, have
| sent word that they will be here and they
| with eX-Attorney General w. H. H. Miller
| of this city, will constitute part of the hon
orary pallbearers.
| Judge Judson Harmon of Cincinnati At
torney General under Cleveland, will at
| tend the funeral, but it is not known if he
| will be of the palFbearers.
| Indianapolis men who were intimate
| friends of the general will be the active
| pallbearers
In the public schools today the first quar-
ter of an hour was devoted to suitable talks
by the teachers on the life and public sery-
| ices of General Harrison. In many of the
| schools the address that General Harrison
| made to the school children of Terre
| Haute when they visited the state house,
| February 3, was read.
| Flags the schools as we'll as on all
the other public buildings will be at half
mast until after the funeral.
Levi p. Morton's Tribute.
ROME, March 15.-Former Vice Presi-
| dent Levi p. Morton, in the course of an
interview with a representative of the AS
sociated Press. referring to the death of
| ex-President Harrison, said:
| THE country has, in my judgment, sus-
| tanned great loss in the death of General
| Harrison. With his intellectual and physi-
| cal forces unimpaired there still remained
many avenues in which he might have con-
| tfnued to render valuable service to the
| country which he served so WELL
My official and personal relations with
| General Harrison during his term as Pres
| ldent were naturally of an intimate char
| acter. l believed then, as 1 do now, that
he was the peer intellectually of any one
| who has held the office of President of
| the United States"
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 15-Governor
| Nash and party will leave for INDIANAPOLIS
at am tomorrow, to attend the funeral
of General Harrison.
PiTTSBuRG, Pa, March 15-Presid ant
Mckinley passed through Pittsburg this
| morning en- route to Indianapolis, to attend
the funeral of ex-President Harrison He
| Travelled in the private car of Fourth Vice
! President l.. F. Lorce of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg. He will make a
| short stop at Canton going west, and one
| of longer duration on his return.
The President was accompanied by Mrs.
Mckinley, Secretary Cortelyou. Dr. Rixey
| and N. P. Webster. Mrs. Mckinley, who
| is in poor health, will leave the party at
Canton, and remain there until the Presi-
| dent returns from the funeral.
LANSING, Mich, March 15.-The Mich
igan senate will be officially represented at
the funeral of ex-President Benjamin Har-
rison by Senators McMullen, Sovereign and
Loeser. who We're appointed as such a
committee today.
To Improve New York Canals
ALBANY, N. Y, March 15.-In mes
sage to the legislature today Governor
OdeIl recommends a continuation of the