The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-19
AT THE CANTON HOME Body of President Mckinley Now Resting Within the Walls of the Family
 Residence. TAKEN THERE AT NIGHYFALL
CANTON MAKES NO EFFORT TO
 CONCEAL ITS EMOTION

Thousands in Tears at the Bier-A
 Double Line of Broke en- Hearted People
 File by as the Body Lies in state in the
 Court HOuse-NIany Had to be Turn ed
 Away-Mrs. McK nIey Wished to be
 Alone With the Dead and Would Not
 Extend the Time.
 Canton, O., Sept 1S-Tenderly and
 reverently those who had known Will
 fam Mckinley best, received his mar
 tyred body to-day. They mourned not
 so much the illustrious statesman as
 the loss of a great personal friend.
 They hardly noticed the president of
 the United States or his cabinet, the
 generals or admirals, for the casket
 containing the body of their friend and
 fellow townsman who left them two
 weeks ago this very day in the full tide
 of glorious manhood was the center
 and the limit of their interest.
 The entire population of the little city
 and thousands from all over Ohio, the
 full strength of the national guard of
 the state, eight regiments, three bat
 teries of artillery, one battalion of en-
 gineers 5000 pen in all, the governor,
 lieutenant governor and justice of
 the supreme court, representing the
 three branches of the state government,
 were at the station to receive the body
 The whole town was in deep black.
 The only house in all this sorrow strick-
 en city, strange as it may seem, without
 a touch of mourning drapery, was the
 Mckinley cottage on North Market
 street. The blinds were drawn but
 there was no other evidence of mourn
 ing. There was not even a bow of crepe upon the door when Mrs. McKin-
 ley was carried by Abner Mckinley and Dr. Rixey into the darkened home. I Only the hitching post at the curb in front of the residence had been swath- ed in black by citizens in order that it might conform to the general scheme of mourning decoration.
 Sad as was the procession which had borne the body to the court house, where it lay In state this afternoon, it would not compare with the infinite sadness of that double line of broken hearted people who streamed steadily through the corridors of the building from the time the coffin was opened l until 1t was taken home to the sorrow ing widow at nightfall. They stepped | softly and tears came without restraint | or effort at concealment. Perhaps 1t l was the great change that had come upon the countenance which moved the passing throngs more than the sight of the familiar features The signs of discoloration which appeared upon the brow and cheeks yesterday at the state ceremonial in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington had deepened. The lips had become livid. All but two of the lights of the chandelier above head were extinguished in order that the change might appear less noticeable, but every one who viewed the remains to-day re- marked the darkened features and the ghastly lips. When the body was talk en away thousands were still in line, and the committee in charge of the ar was appealed to to allow a further opportunity to view the re- mains tomorrow morning before they are taken to the church. But this had to be reluctantly denied to them, and the casket may never be opened again.
 The funeral services will take place to morrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the First M. E. church, of which the president was communcant and trustee They will be brief by the expressed wish of the family. Rev O. i. B. Milligan, pastor of the First Presby- terian church, in which President and Mrs Mckinley were married thirty years ago, will deliver the opening :, orayer Rev. Dr. John Hall, of the Trinity Lutheran church, will read the lrst extract from the Scripture and c Rev. Dr. F. P. Herbruck, of the Trin- c ty Reform church, the second. Rev, 0 or. c. S. Manchester. pastor of the late d presidents church, will deliver the only | ,ddress A quartette will sing Beau r iful Isle of Somewhere" and another | Iuartette will render Cardinal Neu- nans hymn, Lead, Kindly Light" An procession, consisting of many if the G. A. R. posts in the state, the H National Guard of Ohio, details of reg liars from all branches of the service, raternal, social and civic organizations o nd representa- tives of commercial bod =, .s from all over the country, the gov 4, rnors of several states with their staffs, T, he house and senate of the United h tates the cabinet and the president, v, Jill follow the body to Westlawn cem- |, tery, where it will be placed in re- T, eivfng vault waiting to be laid in the [, rave beside the two children who were t- uried years ago. ci Railroad facilities seem inadequate to -, ring the people who are coming to- ", ,orrow The number and beauty of -, le floral tributes arriving surpass be- eff. Flowers are literally coming by le ton. The hothouses of the country ,em to have been emptied to supply lem. at The facilities of the little city of Can fo m are entirely inadequate to care for al le thousands who are here, much less de le other thousands who are on the CT ay Although the local committee is fo ping all in its power to provide for all der and shelter, many of the officials di