The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-08
Body NTH Be Inferred at POrf-
 land, Me, Tuesday,.
STEADY STREAM OF CALLERS
No Ceremonies Were Held at Wash- ington at Mrs. Reeds Request and Those at Portland Will
 be of Simple Character.

Washington. December 1.-The remains of Thomas Bracket Reed who died last night. left here this afternoon for Port land, Me. his former home. where the interment will take place on Tuesday. December g.
 They were placed aboard a special tran leaving Washington at 4:50 o'clock and running as the second section of the Federal Express, scheduled to arrive at Portyand tomorrow. Accompanying the body were Mrs. Reed. the widow: Miss Catherine Reed, the former speakers daughter; Amos L. Allen, MT Reeds successor in the house of representa- lives; Asher c. Hindes, MT. Reeds par liamentary clerk while speaker, and Au- gustus c. Payne of New York. a life long friend. At Mrs. Reeds request, there were no ceremonies of any kind here, and at Portland they will be of a simple character.
 During the entire day there was a stream of sympathetic callers at the Ar lington hotel, where the body of Mir. Reed lay awaiting removal to the rail- road station. They included President
 
 cabinet and senate, and the house of representatives and the diplomatic corps.
 Many Left Their Cards.
 Many persons in private life also called. Neither Mrs. Reed nor her daugh- ter saw any of the visitors. who simply left their cards.
 It was not generally known that the body of the deceased would be taken from the city today, and President Roosevelt had invited Mrs. Reed and her daughter to be his guests at the white house. pending the removal, which invitation, under the circumstances, they were compelled to decline The body was enclosed in a casket with heavy oxidized extension handles and on the top was silver plate, on which had been engraved the following simple inscription:
 Thomas Bracket Reed.
 Oct. IS, 1S39-Dec. 7 1902"
 The casl1et remained at the hotel until about o'clock in the afternoon, when 1t was brought down stairs and lifted into the hearse, the undertaker's assistants and the employees of the hotel acting as body-bearers. Then, without ceremony or display of any kind it was removed to the railroad station. On the casket rest ed two floral offerings, one of them from the widow, and the other enclosed in a long pasteboard box from Mrs. Roose- welt.
 Mrs. Reeds Offering.
 Mrs. Reeds offering was a large wreath of violets, American beauty roses and orchids, sprinkled with lilies of the val ley, while in the box which came from the White House were an assortment of white and pink roses with maiden hair ferns loosely thrown together for use on the casket when the interment is made.
 Soon after the body left the hotel Mrs. Reed and her daughter MT. Payne, MT. Allen and MT. Hindes, who accompanied the body to Portland, were driven to the special train in waiting. Among those at the railroad station when the train departed were Senator and Mrs. Lodge, Justice McKenna of the Supreme court. General Draper of Massachusetts and Representatives Hit and Littlefield. Mir. Littlefield expects to go to Portland to attend the funeral and Representative Burleigh. who is there already, is also to be expected. The arrangements for the obseques at Portland have been left in the hands of J. w. Symonds and John c. Small, and old neighbor of MT. Reed. As far as tentatively arranged here the funeral will take place some time Tues day afternoon from the First Parish Uni tartan church. of which the Rev. John Carroll Perkins is pastor. Interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.