The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
Bishop Leonard Pays Eloquent
Tribute to Dead Statesman
Before Body Is Committed to
Earth With Rites of Church
DISTINGUISHED MEN
GATHER AT THE BIER
Citizens of Cleveland Stand
With Barred Heads as Funeral
Cortege Passes Through the
Streets to Lakeview Cemetery

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 19.-The last
rites over the body of Senator Marcus
A. Hanna were held this afternoon at
st. Paul's Episcopal Church. During
this solemn occasion Cleveland was si-
lent. Nearly all business was suspend
ed. Street railways and steam road
traffic on every line in the city was
stopped for five minutes, from l to LOS
o'clock. People generally in all parts
of the city bowed their heads in rever-
ence for a brief space of time at that
hour.
Thousands who were unable to view
the remains of the dead Senator as
they lay in state in the Chamber of
Commerce auditorium yesterday and
to-day flocked to the church doors to
witness the conveying of the black cas-
ket. bearing the remains of the Sena-
tor, into the church. They stood there
with barred heads and moistened eyes
as the cortege moved into the edifice,
where the last earthly tribute was paid
the dead.
Promptly at noon the funeral cortege
left the Chamber of Commerce build
ing, preceded by a platoon Of police, for
the church.
Following the police came Troop A
as guard of honor. Then came car
riagess the pall-bearers, the
Washington delegation, the Governors
staff, Chamber of Commerce commit
tee, Loyal Legion committee and dele
cations representing various civic soci-
eties.
Prior to the removal of the body
from the Chamber of Commerce to the
church the wealth of floral offerings
which were banked about the audito-
rum were removed to- the church.
There they were placed near the ch n
eel
Admittance to the services at the
| church was by card and limited to 500,
the seating capacity of the auditorium.
| Reservations on the center aisleS were
made for the family, the Governors s
staff, the Washington delegation and
other distinguished guests. The church
was filed long before the hour for the
services to commence and thousands
| lined the streets about the edifice.
MEET BODY AT CHV:CH DOOR.
A few moments before o'clock Mrs
Hanna, accompanied by her son Daniel,
entered the church. She was dressed in
deep black and was heavily yelled. 9th
er members of the family followed.
| After a moments waiting the light
tramp of feet and voices of clergy an
nounced the presence in the building of
the body of the dead. The clergy met
| the body at the entrance, and as they
preceded it UP the aisle recited the
usual sentences. The pallbearers who
| carried the remains We're Governor
Eerrick, Judge W. B. Sanders, Andrew
Squier, ]. B. Scribe. C. A. Grasselli, A.
B. Hough. w. j. McKinie and Samuel
Mather.
When the body had been placed on
the bier and the pallbearers seated the
| choir chanted the thirteenth and nine
teenth psalms. President Pierce of
| Gambler College, an institution of
which Mr.. Hanna was a benefactor,
read the lesson, which was First Corin-
| thians, fifteenth chapter, from the
| twentieth verse to the end of the chap
! ter. The choir, under the direction of
Professor c. E. Clemens, then sang the
hymn Lead, Kindly Light"