The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-03-21
HARRIS0N'S BODY
IS LAID TO REST
Funeral Services Simple
But Impressive.
VAST THRONGS in ATTENDANCE
At Capital Building Remains Lay
In State and Were Viewed
By Many Thousands.

Surrounded by fully $4,000 OF his
fellow citizens, the remains of Benja-
min Harrison were inferred in the fam
lily lot in Crown Hill cemetery atIndia-
napolis Sunday. Close by the grave
were the members of his family. Presi-
dent Mckinley and other visitors OF
distinction and the more intimate
friends of General Harrison. Back
a distance of fifty yards, behind ropes,
guarded zealou>ly by large force of
police, stood with uncovered heads
the great multitude who knew him not
so well as did they WHO stood beside
the freshly upturned earth, but who
honored him and admired him quite
as much.
1t is doubtful if any public man, at
least in this generation, has been
borne to bis last resting place among
so many manifestations OF respect. OF
passionate grief there was little out
side the members of his family, but
the tribute of respect was universal.
1t came from all alike-from those OF
his own political faith and from those
who differed with him concerning what
is best for the nations good; from
men who have been his lifelong
friends and from those who knew him
merely by sight aud to whom he had
never spoken. II came from women
and children, from white and black,
from all conditions and kinds of peo-
pie There was no exception any
where to the expression that the ma
ton had lost one of its most able men
and the greatest man of his generation
in his own state.
BY the grave stood the chief magis-
trate of the nation, and behind the
ropes were the street arabs OF General
Harrison's city; every grade of human
life III America, between the two, was
represented in the crowd, and among
them all there was but the one feel
ing, that a man had died who was
honest at all times with himself and
others, and whose ability and charac-
ter We're such as the nation could i'll
afford to lose.
The weather, like that of Saturday,
was splendid bright sunlight, the
warm breath of spring in every breeze,
and yet in tho air touch of winter
that brought the blood to the cheek
and sparkle to the eye.
The services at the church and grave
were simple in the extreme, all in
most excellent taste, and, like the
proceedings Saturday, there was al
utter absence of friction in everything
that was done. All was we'll ordered
and well performed.
REMAINS LAY IN STATE.
On Saturday beneath a canopy Of
black placed in the rotunda of the
capitol building, the casket covered
with the silken folds of the stars and
stripes surrounded by thousands OF
blossoms, while over all swung the
great battle flag that flew from the
warship Indiana during naval battle
off Santiago, the body Of ex-President
Harrison lay in state for nine hours.
During that time fully $4,000 per-
sons passed by the coffin to take last
look at the distinguished dead, and
when, at 10 o'clock the capitol doors
were finally closed and the people told
that no more could enter, there were
several thousand more waiting patti
entity in line. The body lay in state
from 1:l0 in the afternoon until 10
o'clock Saturday night, and not once
during the hours was there break or
halt in the lines which passed rapidly
by on the right aud left of the cask ct.
It was Indiana's day with her dead,
and most touchingly was the esteem
and honor in which General Harrison
was held by his fellow-citizens reveal
ed. In front of the Harrison home,
along the streets through which the
remains were borne on their way to
and from the statebouse, in the lines
that stretched at times q half mile
from the doors of the capitol building,
men, women and childred stood for
hours waiting their opportunity to pay
tribute of respect to the dead.