The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18
HOME AGAIN
Body of Dead President Reaches
Its Final Resting Place.
Has Made the Journey For the
Last Time.
CROWDS POUR In.
People Already Arriving at Cam
ton in Large Numbers
To Attend Final Services Over
Distinguished Dead.
ORGANIZED BODIES.
Knights TempIar, knights Of
Pythias and G. A. r.
People Already Arriving at Cam
ton in Large Numbers
To Attend Final Services Over
Distinguished Dead.
ORGANIZED BODIES.
Knights TempIar, knights Of
Pythias and G. A. r.
To All of Which Orders the
President Belonged.

Canton, O.. Sept. 1S.-Although the
greater portion of the multitude which
is expected to attend the funeral serv-
ices of President Mckinley is not ex-
pected before tomorrow, a large num-
ber arrived this morning, and from
now until night it is expected every
hour will see the arrival of at least one
special On Thursday they Will come
in fourfold numbers compared to those
of today
The trains this morning brought
large organized bodies which are to
participate in the march tomorrow,
and during the morning the streets
were filed with marching bodies of
Knights Templars and Knights of
Pythias, while numbers of grizzled vet
Grams bearing the badge which marked
a member of Major McKinley's old reg
iment, the Twenty-third Ohio, elbowed
their way through the crowds that
packed the sidewalk.
Fully two hours before the time
scheduled for the arrival of the train
they began to gather at the Tenth
street depot of the Pennsylvania road
to await its coming. A large force of
deputy marshals was sworn in last
night to assist the Canton police in
controlling the crowd, and although the
people have no intention of creating
trouble the very size of the crowd made
its control a matter of some difficulty
for the amateur guardians of the place
Time and again the crowd by sheer
weight of numbers pressed forward
beyond the limit set for them by the
police only to be pushed back as often
as they pressed forward. 1t was not
until the militia and troop A of Cleye-
land came upon the scene that the
crowd was held back. and even then it
was restrained entirely by the fact that.
it was physically impossible for a large
detachment of cavalry and a larger
crowd of civilians to crowd into one
space too small for the latter alone
The crowd was finally compelled to
spread backward and line itself along
the route marked out for the march.
It was 10 o'clock when the first of the
carriages provided for the guests by the
executive committee arrived at the de-
pot. Each carriage had been carefully
numbered and set apart for certain
guests and as they arrived individually
at the depot, there was considerable
trouble before they were arranged in
the order originally designed for their
distinguished occupants. All was finally |
settled, however, and by the time the
funeral train arrived all was in readi- |
ness for them.
A number of the executive committee !
had been sent on east to meet the fun
eral train and advise each member of |
the funeral party of the place of resi- !
dence selected for him in Canton and to |
give them their carriage mum bers. This !
plan was adopted in order to save con-
fusion and delay at the depot At $3.50 (
o'clock word was received through an !
Associated Press dispatch from the |
funeral train that it was 30 minutes la
ter in leaving Pittsburg than was ex-
pected.
The usual running time for the fast |
trains on the Pennsylvania between /
Pittsburg and Canton is two hours and |
SIS minutes and as it was not likely that /
the funeral train would exceed this /
schedule because of Mrs McKinley's /
known aversion to fast riding, it was 1
practically certain that the train would /
not arrive in Canton before 11:3O- Not I
withstanding this fact, the members of !
the executive and reception committees, 1
the escort and the funeral car We're all 4
at the depot in readiness at the time \
set. 1t was the intention of i
the committees that there should be no /
lack of attention on their part and no !
allowance whatever was made for the /
known 1atenesS of the train.
When the streets had been finally +
cleared of pedestrians and the depot /
platform left free for the members of
the committee and the pail bearers
there was nothing to do but to wait
The honorary pail bearers, John c.
Dueber, George B. Frease, r. A. Cas-
sidy. William r. Day. Joseph Biechele,
and Thomas F. McCarty. all clad in
ong frock coats of black, wearing SILK
mats. and on the left arm a long
streamer of crepe, occupied the center
IF the platform. while back of them
stood the committeeman and a number
If the more intimate friends of Presi-
lent Mckinley. Standing behind the
1epot platform, drawn by four beau
-iful black horses. not a white hair
1pon one of them stood the hearse It
vas a richly carved and decorat ted fu-
leral car. There were no trappings
10 special adornment. Everything
lbout was simple but handsome. and IN
excellent taste. Large nets from
which were pendant heavy black tas-
iels covered each horse, and a groom
tood at the head of each animal The
lorses had been specially selected for
heir beauty.
he train mounted orderlies rode up and