Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-18

pail bearers bearing the casket. They
were A. L. Mason. James Whitcomb
Riley, Evans Wooden, Harry J. Mill
gan, Clifford Arrick, VIM. c. Bobbs,
Harry S. New, Howard Gate, John T.
Grifiths, Newton B. Harrington, Hilton
U. Brown and Samuel Reid.
While the casket was being placed
in the hearse the honorary pail bear
ers stood to one side with barred heads.
AS the hearse moved from the front OF
the house the carriages came up rap
idly and the family and visitors enter
ed them.
Behind the casket came Mrs. Harri-
SON with her brother Lieut.. Command
er Parker, of the Navy, and little El1z-
abeth Harrison. Then came Secretary
Tibbott and Mrs. Tibbott, then Mr.. and
Mrs. Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell B.
Harrison, then the other relatives OF
the dead ex-President. Directly after
the members of the family came Pres
ident Mckinley and Governor Durbin
and following them the friends of the
family.
There were several thousand people
around the Harrison residence as the
funeral procession moved away, but
the crowd there was Insignificant to
that gathered around the church
Two hours before the time set for
the commencement of the services the
people had begun to gather at this
point and by the time the funeral pro-
cession arrived there was a solid mass
of humanity stretching a block away
on every sidewalk. The streets we've
kept entirely clear by a detachment OF
police and company C, of the Second
infantry, commanded by Captain Por-
ter. Sentries patrolled the street just
outside the curb and nobody without
being able to produce a card emitting
him to admission to the church was
permitted to step Off the walk.
While the carriages were discharg-
ing their inmates at the door of the
church the wild changing of a fire
engine gong was heard and down the
street at top speed came dashing a FIRE
truck. Its way lay through the crowd
beyond where the police lines were
formed and for a brief space it seemed
as though some accidents must GER
tainly follow. The people made wild
rushes in every direction to escape the
threatened danger, and the driver of
the truck handling his horses very
skllfully, all escaped without injury.
President Mckinley was half way be-
tween the sidewalk and the church
when the confusion attracted his atten-
ton, and he stopped short with an ex-
preston of anxiety on his face until
the truck had passed, when he resumed
his walk into the church.
1t was 2:30 o'clock when the process
sion arrived at the church, and one
llOuI dud IWCLIy IuiautCO DClOIS ludL
time the church had been packed to
its utmost capacity.
At 2:20 the florist with his men
came in, bearing many of the large
floral pieces which had been around
the casket yesterday while it lay in the
State House. Most of the flowers had
been renewed and looked brighter and
handsomer than before. President Nc
Kinley's great wreath of Golden Gate
roses had, however, lost much of it's
beauty as compared with the day be-
fore, but for ali that it was one of the
most handsome pieces present. The
florist had scarcely completed his work
when the front doors were opened and
the funeral party appeared.
The honorary and active pall-bearers
came slowly up the north centre aisle,
filing into the seats at the side. The
ushers, forming in column near the
door, came up the south aisle, acting
as an escort to the President, who was
accompanied by Mrs. Durbin. AS the
President reached the pew set apart for
him the ushers turned and faced him.
He bowed his thanks for the honor and
then ushering Mrs. Durbm into the
pew, followed after. Governor Durbin
and Secretary Cortelyou filled UP the
pew.
Immediately in front of the casket
and behind the pall-bearers came .the
Rev. M. l.. Haines and Rev. Samuel j.
Nicoll, of st. Louis. Immediately fol-
lowing the casket was Lieut.. Com
mander Parker and Mrs. Harrison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee and Mrs. Rus
sell B. Harrison occupied the pew d.
rectly in the real of that in which Mrs.
Harrison sat. When all had taken
their seats, Mr.. Haines advanced to
the front of the pulpit platform, and
resting his left hand upon the large
church Bible, opened the service by
saying:
Il am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in Me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live, and he
that liyeth and belieyeth in Me shall