Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-20

Cleveland. Ohio, Feb. 19.-CIcycI;,pd
WAS AGAIN a city Of deep mourning. to-
DAY. business was practically Sis
pendnd and a very large proportion of
inc people paid homage to the memory
"i th'lr distinguished fellow citizen.
senator Marcus a. Hanna. Just -four
weeks ago, today. Senator Hanna left
,, ms nome city for the capital. happy
, in the thought of his triumphant re-
election to the highest legislative BODY
III the Land. His one ambition then. rs
he himself stated. WAS to give to his
country u season OF uninterrupted SER
wee TO few friends before his
leave-taking the senator expressed a
sentiment that seems to have foreshad-
owed an event of the future. 81 am
tircd ana think have earned q rest.
If can so to Washington and simpIv
attend t" my duties as senator, L shall
be happy he said.
just as dawn began to break over the
city, today. the doors of the Chamber
ot commerce auditorium where tie
b"hy lay, were opened to a vast
thr"ng of people who desired to view
m" face of the dead senator The Ions.
lines of people stretched until they cx-
tended in length the five blocks rcarh-
cr during Yesterday afternoon.
Tho early hour of opening tho doors
to the chamber brought thousands of
mon with their dinner pals on their
way to their daily toll. Early morn
ing trains brought many excursion
lists from surrounding towns and this
too helped to swell the long line
- nd h,, 4
one opportunity to pass by the bier
OF the dead senator, abandoned the
ioea when they saw how hopeless was
| their chance Of gaining admission. and
thousands We're disappointed, when
| the doors to the chamber were closed
at Il o'clock, SO that preparations could
| be made for the removal of the body
to the church.
AT 10 O'Clock, the members of the
state Legislature drove from their
motel to the Chamber of Commerce in
| body and looked for n last time upon
the face OF the dead statesman.
During the night many distinguished
men of the country arrived in Cleve-
| iand. to attend the funeral service The
Washington delegation arrived at 10. 80
ctio'h, lHiS inofill1S. ana was at once
| driven to the Hollanden Hotel. In the
party were Secretary Taft of the war
department.; Secretary Wilson of tho
/ agricultural department: Secretary
cortelycu of the department of COM
merce and labor; Commissioner Gar
field, chief of the bureau of corpora
tons in the department of commerce
and labor. Senators Foraker. Perkins.
Warren, Fairbanks, Kean. Scott, Eev
e-idEe. kittredge. Cockrell. Bacon.
Martin and McEnery. They were ac-
companied by the secretary of the
Senate Charles G. Bennett, s. w. Law
ton. door-keerer; E. l.. Cornelis, sec
rotary to the serseant-at-arms and
several Senate attendants.
The House delegation consisted Of
Grosvenor. chairman: VanVoorhis. Bur
ton, Southland Morgan. Beidler. Casing.
ham. Hildebrant. Kyle Snork Nevin
lWarneck, CARRIER, GOebel Jackson, Ken.
nedy. Lohgworth. Weeks Bartlett. Luck
ing. Wiley of Alabama Dalzell Watson
Burke. Crrrier. Sherman, Rodenberg, Nc
lCleary. Hemenway and Calderhead.
Other distinguished personages were
Gov. Durbin of Indiana. and staff: ]
Pierpont Morgan and party from New