The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-09-25
SERVICES Ar THO onURou.


services began.
SERVICES AT THO onURoH.
Lessons From the Scriptures, Anthems
aud FerVcnt Prayers.
Canton. o., Sept. 19.-The decora-
lions of the First Nj. 70. church, where
the funeral services were held, were
elaborate and impressive. Over 1000
yards of drapery were used. Over the
front interior as the funeral party en-
tered, covering the organ loft, there
was stretched from wall to wall pen
eIed drapery black as midnight. 1t
was of nuns yelling so feet long and
10 feet high. The panels were formed
of white satin ribbons two inches wide.
The choir-loft railing was richly hung
with nuns yelling arranged In fes-
toons, with silk drapery tassels be
tween the festoons. The pulpit ros-
trum was heavily covered with black
cloth, and the pulpn itself was drapcd
with rich silk crepe. An excellent por-
trait OF the late president was fastened
to the front of the pulpit and was
gracefully draped. The chancel rail
aud all of the woodwork about the
front of the church was mass OF
black. Five seats from the front of
T.,
the pew which WAS occupied by Presi-
dent Mckinley when he attended SER
vice. 1t was covered with heavy black
crepe. The side walls of the church
were hung with streamers and the
overhanging arches with black stream
ers and festoons. The pillars and the
church auditorium proper and the
Sunday school rooms were in stately
black garb, relieved every five feet
with narrow bands of white silk. The
balcony front was heavily draped and
hung with festoons tied with white
silk drapery tassels. The points of
vantage on the exterior and tho tower
were also draped in black and white.
The services in the church were sim
pie. They began with the rendition OF
an organ prelude, BeethoVen's funeral
march, played by Miss Florence Douds.
AS the last notes of the prelude were
still the Euterpean quartet of Canton,
composed of four young women, sang
1.-THE Beautiful Isle of Somewhere"
The Rev. o. b. Milligan, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church of Can
| ton, delivered the invocation.
The ninetieth Psalm was read by
DR.. John A. Hall of the Trinity Luz
theran church OF Canton, and that por-
ton of the fifteenth chapter OF First
Corinthians included between the
forty-hrst and fifty-eighth verses was
read by the Rev. e. p. Herbrouck of
the Trinity Reformed church of Can
| ton. The fayorite hymn of President
Mckinley, Lead, Kindly Light" was
then rendered by a mixed quartet.
When this hymn had been finished DR..
c. Il. Manchester, pastor of the First
Methodist church. delivered the funer-
al address.
At the conclusion of DR.. Manches-
ter's discourse Bishop l. w. Joyce of
Minneapolis delivered snort prayer.
Tho hymn, Nearer, My God, to
Thee" was sung by the entire con-
| gregation. The people remained
standing after the close of the hymn
while the benediction was pronounced
by Monseigneur It. p. Thorpe of Cleve-
land The casket was then borne from
| tho church to the funeral car, and tho
procession to the cemetery began.
BORNH TO TIE GRAVE.
Funeral Pageant Which Performed
the Last sad Offices.
Canton. o.. Sept. 19.-After the ser
vices at the church the funeral process
sion proceeded to Westlawn cemetery
In the IOllOWlnB OIuST'
Squad of police. Chief Marshal Doll
| of Canton and aides.
First Division, General Terrence. ma
tional commander Grand Army, COM
manding-Stafr of General Torrencei
Grand Army band: e. F. Taggart. de-
partment commander Grand Army of
Ohio and staff; Canton post, Canton,
o.; Buckley post, Akron, o.; Bell
/ most n
berlain post, East Palestine, o.; Given
| Post, Wooster, o.; Union Veteral Lee
| gion, Canton.
Second Division, Major General
Charles Dick. commanding-Detach
ments of Ohio National Guard; troop
A of Ohio National Guard, guard of
honor; survivors of the Twenty-third
Ohio, President McKinley's regiment;
| President Roosevelt and cabinet; hon
| orary pall-bearers, generals of army
and admirals OF the navy; officiating
clergymen; officers of the army and
navy; THE FUNERAL CAR; family
| and relatives of the late President Nc
Klnley; Loyal Legion; president OF
senate and United States senator's;
speaker of house of representatives
| and members; governors of states,
| with STATS; Louisiana delegation, rep
iesehtih6 S'n'e anu |
ate Veterans; Governor Nash of Ohio
and other state officers; circuit court
| judges of Ohio: Governor McKinley's
former stntf officers; federal officials OF
Cleveland, Chicago, Canton and Mas
sillon, O.; board of directors of Pan
| American exposition; board OF Cook
county commissioners. Chicago.
Third division, Captain H. s. Moses,
commap linS-Gate City Guards, AT.
Ianta, "a; Cleveland 0reys; CleVo
land SCOTS Guards; william McKin
ley command, Spanish-Amerlcan War
| Veterans: Sons of Veterans