The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-26
casket will be closed before it is taken

casket will be closed before 1t is taken
to the reception room.
The library with its southern ex-
posure where Princeton's distinguish
ed citizen spent many happy hours in
retirement, is about 80 feet long by 20
feet wide. Together with the books
stacked from ceiling to floor and
furniture which can not be moved,
there is comparatively little space left
in the room for others than members
of the family. Mrs. Cleveland and
her two children, Esther and Richard,
who came from Tamworth, the Cleve-
land summer home, last night; Miss
Rose Cleveland a sister of the former
president; Miss Mary Hastings,
niece; Cleveland F. Bacon, a nephew,
and other immediate relatives will
surround the bier in the library.
Although 800 chairs were taken to
Westland, not more than 200 were to-
day placed about the house as it is
expected that only about $50 persons
will attend the services.
DIR. Van Dyke to Read Service.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke will begin the
and the Presbyterian book of common
worship. The other pastors will assist
in turn at the house or at the ceme-
terry. At the house they probably will
stand in the main hall at the library
door so that those in the eastern part
of the house and others in adjoining
rooms will be able to hear what is
said.
After the service, which will consist
only of the reading of scripture, the
recital of the creed and prayer. the
coffin will be borne from the
library to the hearse for the journey
to the cemetery. More than-a score of
carriages Will be in procession which
will move slowly through the Cleve-
land grounds to Bayard Lane. street
on which formerly stood historic
dwellings of revolutionary times. The
procession will move to the junction
of Stockton and Nassau streets where
a monument in conmemoration of the
battle of Princeton is soon to be
erected. Practically every foot of the
ground to be traversed by the funeral
cortege is historic.
Here General Washington passed in
state with other officials of the new
government to Nassau hall, of which
congress sat and which for a time was
the nations capital. Here President
James Madison passed his days as a
student of Princeton university; and
down Nassau street to Vandeventer av-
enue to the historic Princeton ceme-
terry were borne the bodies of Vice
President Aaron Burr, President John
Witherspoon, John c. Mcclellan, Jona-
than Edwards and other chief execu-
tives of Princeton university, The
streets from Westland to the cemetery
will be guarded by mounted troopers
and members of the New Jersey state
militia. Intersecting streets will be
roped off and no pedestrians or vehicles
will be allowed within the curb line
from the time the procession starts un-
til after it has passed into the ceme-
terry. The guardsmen are here merely
to assist in policing the city and their
| presence was consented to by Mrs.
| Cleveland only on the ground that it
was proper to have suitable guard
| for the president Mrs. Cleveland had
| hoped to avoid anything of a military
| elemtnt in connection with the funeral.
Among those who spent the night at
| the Cleveland house were President
! City of New York; Mrs. Finley, Miss
Rose Cleveland. Miss Mary Hastings
and Cleveland F. Bacon. 1t was mid
| night before the lights in the house
| were extinguished after the arrange
ments for the day had been compile
| ted.
Many beautiful floral tributes are be-
| ing received at Westland and messages
and letters of sympathy are still COM
| ing in large numbers.
Twentv-six Carriares Only.
Twenty-six carriages will convey the
funeral party to the cemetery: The
| pail bearers will walk with the hearse,
six on either side. The officiating
clergyman will occupy the first car
riage and that behind will contain Mrs.
Cleveland. her son Richard. DR.. Jos.
d. Bryant of New York, the family
physician. The third will be occu-
pied by Miss Rose Cleveland and Miss
Esther Cleveland. Cleveland F. Bacon.
Miss Mary Hastings and Prof. and
| Mrs. Wood will ride in the fourth and
| the fifth and sixth will convey Mr.. and
Mrs. Huddleston of Princeton, Mrs.
! John H. Finley of New York, Mrs.
Richard Watson Glider, George Ship
ley, Miss Annie Heckler, the Cleveland
nurse; Louis Youmans of Chicago and
| Charles Rogers of Brooklyn.
| Following the family and intimate
friends come President Roosevelt and
Secretary Loeb in the seventh carriage
and this followed by another contain
| ing four secret service men.
| riages are: Ninth, Chief Justice Full
Ter, Governor Fort of New Jersey;
! Governor Hughes of New York and
| Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou;
tenth, John G. Carlisle. former secre-
tary of the treasury; William F. Villas
of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Daniel S. La
mont; eleventh, Richard Olney, for
mer secretary of state; Charles s.
Fairchild, former secretary of the
| treasury; David r. Francis, former
Harmon of Cincinnati, former United
| States attorney general: twelfth, Hill
| iary A. Herbert, former secretary of
the navy; Governor Hoke Smith of
Georgia; United States Senator'S Kean
and Briggs of New Jersey; thirteenth,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hastings, New
York; Mrs. Joseph D. Bryant and Miss
Florence Bryant; fourteenth, Mrs.
Wilson S. Bissell, Mrs. Daniel Man.
ming, Mr.. and Mrs. st. George Tucker;
fifteenth, Andrew s. Gibson, Prince
ton; DIR. ]. M. Carnochen, Princeton
DIR. George r. Lockmoor, New York;
sixteenth Charles w. Goodyear Gen
eraI Anson McCook, ST. Clair Nickel
way and Mr.. Friquar; seventeenth,
Dean H. B. Fine and trustees of
Princeton university; eighteenth
Bishop McFall, Trenton: Father
Leahy, Princeton: nineteenth, repre-
senatives of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society; twentieth Mr.. and Mrs.
| John Hays Hammond. Boston; Mr..
| and Mrs Charles 6 Hanlin Boston