Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-20
(Staf Specially

Canton, Sept 20.-Funeral services
at the First NJ. Il. church began at
80, with the solemn strains OF Bee
thoyen's funeral march while the body
Of the martyred President was being
carried into tho church by soldiers and
sailors followed by Gen. Miles, Admiral
Dewey and other Army and Navy
officers and the honorary pail bearers.
The body was placed directly in front
Of the altar, in wilderness of flow
ers and designs sent as tokens of re-
spect. Everything about the church
decorations was simple, yet beautiful.
President McKinley's seat in the
church was draped in black, and no
one was in it during the service.
The church whose seating capacity
is 1900 was filed in the following or
der.
The members of the Loyal Legion,
Governor Nash, Governor McMillen,
of Tennessee and Governor Longino,
of Mississippi, each with his full uni
formed staff, had already entered the
church from the west entrance, and
filed the most westerly of the sections
of pews.
The members of. the Senate and
House preceded the coffin through the
door at the side Of the chancel through
which it entered. They were ushered
in as at all state ceremonies, by the
sergeant-at-arms of each body. Sena-
tors Allison, of Iowa, and Bate of Ten
nessee, headed the Senatorial represen-
tation of which there were about 40,
and Speaker Henderson and Represen-
tative Dalzell that of the House, of
which more than half of the member
ship must have been present.
The Congressional party filed the
entire east section of pews, and the
rear half of the two central sections.
The clergymen attending the M. e.
conference at New Philadelphia, and
who adjourned for the Presidents fu-
neral, occupied the seats below the
organ usually occupied by the choir
All had risen as the coffin was borne
| in. The generals and admirals of the
army and navy, who comprised the
guard of honor, in their resplendent
uniforms, followed the body, and oc
cupied the first pew on either side OF
the center aisle. President Roosevelt
and the cabinet came slowly after. All
were in black, and wore black gloves
The President alone had an overcoat
He took his place Immediately behind
General Miles, next the centre aisle
in the second pew to rhe eastward. Sc
close was he to the coffin that he could
almost have leaned over and touched
it. Secretary Cortelyou, Justice McKen
ma, Of the Supreme Court; John M. Mil
burn and John N. Scatchard, of Buffa
10, and several others took seats i'm
mediately in the rear of the Cabinet
Then followed the mourning relatives
who occupied the tier of pews on the
left Of the center isle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Mckinley lee
the way, followed by the other imme
diate relatives, Senator and Mrs Fair
banks, Senator and Mrs. Hanna, Comp
troller and Mrs. Dawes; Mr.. and Mrs
It. Herrick, Of Cleveland, and few
other close personal friends. The
fourth pew from the front, that al
ways occupied by President Mckinley
was draped in black, and remained va
cant.
After these had been seated the doo
leuuluS iulO tit SdDDiIu SCIlOOl TOUu
was opened, and the seats arranged be
low, as well as those in the balcony
were soon filed with the representa-
tives of various organizations and tn,
fellow townsmen of the martyret
President. Conspicuous among thes
were the survivors of the Twenty
third Ohio, McKinleys old regiment
who brought into the church the tat
tered battle flags the regiment had car
ried throughout the civil war.
Two hundred newspaper men occu
pied the balcony.
The services began with song b,
the Euterpean Ladies' quartet-"Beau
tiful Isle of Somewhere" After tn
song, Rev. o. b. Milligan, pastor o
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