The San Francisco call., 1905-03-24

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March
23.-The arrangements for the funeral
of Mrs. Stanford tomorrow have been
completed. The body is now lying in
the drawing room of the Palo Alto
mansion ready for interment. To-mor-
row morning it will be removed from
the home and taken to the great Me-
mortal Church, built three years
ago by the well-loved woman, in
memory OF her husband. Only
The triends and relatives VIII
be present to form this little funeral
procession to the church, Tor the SER
vices VIII be as simple as possible and
the general public VIII take part only
in the long procession after the funeral
services there. 1he closed coffin Will
not be brought into the churcn until
after the immense cogregatIon has been
seated. Then the finaI services Will be-
gin.
Preparations for great crowd have
been made at Stanford University.
Many thousands OF people from all over
the state Will be present TO pay their
last sad tribute to the wonderful wo-
man that they loved SO dearly. The
grounds of the university Will be pa
trolled by special officers SO as to avoid
any confusion. There will be no car
riages allowed on the estate during the
funeral services, but the long process
sion will be entirely on foot.
The most beautiful as we'll as the
most touching feature of the funeral
Will be the floral display. Tons of
flowers have been received from all
over the United States. 1t was the
wish of Mrs. Stanford that there be
few flowers within the Memorial
Church, and, save two small pieces on
the bier, all the flowers will be dis
posed around the mausoleum. The en-
ployes of the stock farm will place
their floral offering just outside of the
door of the church. Each class and
each fraternity of the university, as
we'll as the many other organizations,
will spread their flowers in front of the
mausoleum. The senior class will give
white roses, the juniors white lilies of
the valley and the other two classes
will give Easter lilies. The women of
the university will prepare a special
floral piece. They had intended to dec
crate the room in the house where lay
the body of Mrs. Stanford. but this was
changed because of the plans of the
immediate family.
STUDENTS TO BE PAIIIBEARERS
The bier will be carried by eight stu
dents. Those who have been chosen to
act as pallbearers are w. e. Crawford
1905, O. E. Hyde 1905, r. A. Thompson
1905, NJ. J.. Weller 1905. E. p. Stott 1906
l.. P. Bansbach 1905, w. K. Sprott 1906,
A. j. Chalmers 1905,
Promptly at 1870 O'Clock the great
organ in Memorial Church will begin
the melodious tones of Chopin's funeral
march and at the same moment the
bronze doors at the main entrance will
swing open to admit the little cortege
of paIlbearers and relatives escortins
the coffin. Eight of Stanford's most
stalwart athletes will bear the body
down the central aisle of the church
through the very midst of the thronged
congregation to the magnificent semi
circular chancel before it Is placed in
front of the altar. The members of the
escorting party will take seats in a
section reserved for them. and the
funeral service will proceed.
No wealth of flowers will adorn the
chancel or altar. Only a few modest
clusters of white lilies and roses will
be used in the church. all the magnif-
cent floral tributes from friends being
reserved for the memorial decorations
at the mausoleum.
Following the funeral march the
splendid choral song ITO Thee. o Lord