The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-20
WITH SOLEMN GRANDEUR.
Last Services Held Over the Dead
Body of the Martyred
President
RESTS IN WEST LAWN CEMETERY
Escorted to the Grave by a Funeral
Pageant Two Miles in
Length.
MRS M,KlMl EY REMAINED Al HOME
RESTS IN WEST LAWN CEMETERY
MRS. M'KINLEY REMAINED At HOME

rived before noon. The biggest crowd
in the history of Canton which was
here during the campaign of 1896, esti-
mated at over $4,000, was exceeded to-
day.
The people overfowed the sidewalks
and literally packed the streets from
side to side. The greatest crush, of
course, was 4n East Tuscarawas the
principal thoroughfare, and North Mar
ket street, on which the Mckinley cot
tage and the Harter residence, at which
President Roosevelt was stopping, are
located. The awe-stricken crowds upon
their arrival all moved as if by COM
mon impulse toward the old familiar
Mckinley cottage, where the remains
were lying.
Military guards stationed at the four
corners of the lawn paced their beats,
but there was no other sign of life
about the house of death The window
shades were drawn. A long border of
black, which had been put in place after
the body was removed to the house last
night, fringed the roof of the porch from
which President Mckinley had spoken
TO delegations from every state in the
Union, and where he had met and talk
ed with all the chieftains of his party
No badge Unconventional mourning was
on the door. Instead there was a sim
PAO W. C1Cu VI pains UlSScl6u Oy a D6au-
tiful band of wide purple satin rib
bon
Sorrowfully the crowd turhned away the
people to take up their positions at the
church, the representatives to seek their
places in the imposing procession which
was to follow the remains to the ceme-
terry.
MRS. M'KINLEY. TOOK. NO PART.
Mrs. McKinleys condition is exciting
grave apprehension among those caring
Tor her, and it is feared that the dread
ed collapse may come at any moment.
Since she has returned to the old home
the full realization of the awful calam-
lty mas come upon her. Last evening
after the body had been brought from
the court house and deposited in the
little front room formerly used as the
presidents library, she pleaded to be al
lowed to enter the room and sit beside
uhe caSket Consent was reluctantly
granted, and for half an hour the strick-
en- widow sat in the dim light beside
the fower-draped bier. Then she was led
TO her room and has not left it since.
Through this morning she wept piteously
hour after hour. Owing to her condition
she was able to take no part in any of the
ceremonies today, neither going to the
church nor coming into the chamber of
ueath When the body was borne away for
the last time. From this time on she
VIII De guarded With the most solicitous
care ana quiet, for it is only in this
way that collapse can be averted.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt spent a quiet morn
Ing at the Harter residence. He did
not go out to the crowded street where
| thousands were gathered, hoping to catc,,
glimpse of his face, but took walk
In the spacious grounds of the residence.
Whlle at breakfast, Judge Day Joined
MIN for half an hour. Later Secretary
Root and Secretary Hitchcock came in
TO see him. Many unofficial visitors left
cards of respect, but the president saw
! very lew people, preferring to remain
IN retirement Among those who called
were a half score of his old command
OF the Rough Riders, several of them in
| tnelr oroad-brimmed sombreros The
president saw them only for moment
CASKET IS SEALED.
The face of the dead president was
seen for the last time when 1t Law in
state yesterday in the court house. The
casket was not opened after it was re-
moved to the Mckinley residence and
the members of the family had no oppor-
lulnly 10 look again upon the silent fea-
lures. The casket was sealed before it
was borne away from the court house.
IL mad been the hope of many of the old
face
would be exposed while the services in
the church were being held this after
noon, but this suggestion could not be
agreed to, When Mrs. Mckinley came
into the death chamber last night for
her last moments beside her dead hus
band, she wished to have a final look
at the upturned face. But this was i'm
possible, and the sealed casket with it's
howers and flags were all that she saw
The collection of flowers probably was
the most beautiful seen in the United
states. The Conservatives of the coun-
try had been denuded to supply them.
BY the direction of the monarchs of FIJI
rope. the South American rulers. the
governors of the British colonies in Aus
tral1a and Canada, the emperor of
japan, from the four quarters of the
earth in fact, came the directions to
adorn the bier of Mckinley with flowers
whose fragrance might be symboical of
the sweetness and purity of the ended
life. But these tributes from foreien
countries were buried beneath the me
mortal tributes of McKinley's countrv-
men. There were tons and tons of them
a list of those who sent them would he
almost complete roster of those prom
inent in the official, commercial and So
cial life of the United States.
A feature of the floral tributes wac the
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