Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-09-27

the street. some OF them having been
erected by school children.
The line of the funeral march from
the church to the cemetery was
about one and one-half miles in
length. The route was north on
Tuscarawas street from the church
to Lincoln street, west on Lincoln
street to West Third street, and
north one square to the gates of the
cemetery.
For hours before the time set for
the commencement of the funeral
exercises at the Mckinley home, the
streets along the entire length of
the line of march were crowded with
spectators. From the gates of the
cemetery to the doors of the church
there was on each side of the street
an almost unbroken line of soldiers,
and on all the intersecting streets
detachments of militia We're posted
| about 100 feet from the thoroughfare
on which the cortege was to go, and
nobody was permitted to pass in
either direction.
There was not window that COM
manded view of the line of march
| that was not filled with faces, the pu-
merous stands were crowded to their
utmost capacity, and on the roofs
were hundreds of people. From
o'clock in the morning until 8 in the
afternoon, by which time the last of
the parade had passed the church on
its way to the cemetery, this condi-
tion prevailed.
All day long the streets were kept
closed by the militia and not ve-
hicle of any description save those
belonging to the funeral cortege was
permitted to enter upon them.
No greater reverence has ever been
shown to any man, living or dead,
than that expressed yesterday to-
wards the eX-president. AS the fu-
neral car passed through the streets
men and women sobbed convulsively,
and at the cemetery gates, where the
crowd was densely packed and where
the people had remained for hours
pressing against the iron fence.
1t was 4:o4 o'clock when the fune-
raj car bore the remains of the dead
president through the gateway of his
last resting place. Twenty minutes
after that time the brief services at
the vault were over and the members
of the family and the distinguished
men of the nation who had come so
far to do him honor had passed
through on their homeward way.
For nearly an hour before the
head of the funeral procession ar
rived at the gate of the cemetery,
the strains of the dirges played by
the bands came over the hill to the
watchers by the vault, telling them
that the procession was on its way.
Finally at $3.50 o'clock the mounted
police heading the parade came TO
the cemetery gates. Behind them
came the Grand Army band of Can
ton, the solemn notes of Nearer,
My God to Thee" yelling out as it
came up the driveway. A moment
after entering the cemetery, the mu-
sic was changed to Chopn's Funeral
Interlude, and it was to the time of
this that the band passed out and on
to the south side of the enclosure.
Behind the band came the Grand
Army posts, fully 500 of the veterans
marching by. As they passed along
the fower-strewn path many of them
were weeping bitterly and they
stopped by dozens to gather the
blossoms which lay at their feet, and
carried them away as mementoes.
After the veterans came the men
of the Sixth Ohio infantry of the ma
tional guard, the engineer corps of
the national guard from Cleveland
and the comrades of the late presi-
dent in the Twenty-third Ohio volun-
teers during the civil war.
Then came long line of carriages
bearing the members of the family
and the distinguished visitors. From
the first carriage that stopped at the
foot of the walk leading up to the
vault President Roosevelt aIight-
ed. Without waiting for those
in the second carriage, which con-
tained Secretaries Root and Gage,
and Attorney General Knox, the
president walked toward the vault
and took n position on the south side
of the walk close to the door. As
Secretary Root came up the walk, he
assumed similar position on the
north side of the walk and the other
themselves by the side of the presi-
, don't and secretary of war.
With barred heads the president
and members of the cabinet, who
were followed by the officers of the
, army and navy, stood on either side
, of the walk, the lines reaching just
to the edge of the roadway. Within
; a minute after the formation of the
lines the funeral car came up to the
walk. The coffin was lifted from the
hearse and borne to the door of the
: vault, where it was rested upon the
catafalque. 1t was carried by the
same men of the army and navy who
have carried it ever since it left Buf-
!. falo.
: Bishop Joyce read the burial serv'
= ice of the Methodist church. AS his
. words ended there was a brief pause
for it had been understood that q
!. quartette of the Knights TemplaI
= . was to be present to render a hymn
They misunderstood the time anG
S had not arrived, and alter satisfying
himself of this fact, Col. Bingham
waved his hand to eight buglers oi
{ the Canton band, who had taken
n their station upon the side of the
+ mound above, and to the south oi
u the vault. Instantly from the eight