The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-16
CITY DRAFTED IN MOURNING
BUSINESS HOUSES AND CITY HALL
 IN SOLEMN BLACK.

Flags at Half-mast and Mourning
 Badges Meet the Eye Everywhere
 Action Taken nt Special Meeting of tn,
 Court of Common Council.
 The entire city and especially the cen
 tral part is draped in mourning ir
 token of the great calamity which has
 befallen the country in the death Presi-
 dent Mckinley. Nearly every business block in the city is draped in black and hundreds of half-masted flags are dis played bearing knots of crepe. Among the first to put out mourning Saturday were the large dry goods houses of the city.
 The fronts of the big stores of Howe & Stetson, the Edward Malley com- pany, the Gamble Desmond company, and the Charles Monson company are draped with great masses of black ar- ranged in appropriate design The front of the city hall is also draped, great bands of black and white cover- ing nearly the entire front of the build- ing, while the state flag is flying at half-mast bearing mourning badge.
 A special meeting of the court of common council, called by Mayor Stud ley, was held Saturday evening to take action on the presidents death. The two boards met in joint session and by vote of the boards Mayor Studley was called upon to preside.
 The mayor delivered the following short speech: Gentlemen of the Court of Common Council:
 It becomes my painful duty to an- nounce the death to-day of the presi- dent of the United States.
 His death is the result of crime against the nation and against human tty so dastardly and so horrible as to make one fear that the hands upon the dial of progress and of civilization have been turned backward to the centuries when men were brutal and barbarous, and when there was security for none.
 Wise, ndble, good and brave, the lus- ire of his character made him shin ing mark for the bullet of the foolish, brutal being who killed him.
 When the president felt the shadow of death upon him, he said: Good bye all goid-bye. It is Gods way His will be done" When that shadow had passed the nation knewt-the world knew--that hero had died.
 The citizens of New Haven are in mourning, and it is fitting that you as their representatives should take such action by vote and resolution as is be- coming and proper.
 Mayor Studley added:
 Tn the emergency of this case took the liberty of calling together com mittee on resolution for you and now the city clerk will read what they have |  City Clerk Norris read the following; Court of Common Council City of New
 Haven, Conn.,, Sept IA, 1901.
 Whereas, President Mckinley at the zenith of his career in the enjoyment of | the full fruition of his arduous labors for the national peace and prosperity and with future full of promise for their continuance, trusting to the se- curity of the love and good wil of his fellow citizens, has fallen the victim of the wanton assault of treacherous as- 5assin.
 Therefore, Be it resolved, that the people of the city of New Haven Con- necticut through the mayor and court of common council, hereby express their grief at the great individual loss md national calamity occasioned by 1is death, which deprives the country ,f one who was held in loyal affection ,y the whole community.
 Resolved, That they extend to his owing and devoted wife their most sin ,ere sympathy in her hour of deep an- yuish and bereavement
 Resolved That as mark of respect o his memory the flags be displayed tt half-mast on all public buildings md school houses for period of thirty lays,
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