The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-31

At REST
BURIED WITH H0N0Rs
DUE HIM TODAY
very Corner of State Has
Mourners at HE
Grave.
(By United Press)

Wy SutSC0 ITCSSJ
OLYMPIA, March 31.-With
barred heads vast concourse of
people representing every county
and city in the state this afternoon
watched the casket containing the
mortal remains of Governor Samuel
G. Cosgrove lowered in their rest
ing place for all time to come.
Then at the word Of command,
the soldiers of the state paid the
military farewell with three volleys
fred over the newly made mounds.
The sad piercing strains Of taps
floated on the afternoon air, the
populace, heads bowed, offer each
his silent prayer; the travel racked
widow sobbed in silence and Gov
ernor Samuel G. Cosgrove was but
a memory.
Not alone from the wide circle Of
his home friends did mourners
come to Olympia with their burden
of grief. but from the faraway coun-
ties, the small towns Of the state,
by rail, boat and many by stage
made the journe yto bid him this
life's last farewell.
And those who saw him but a
few weeks back, tottering but
dountless as he took his oath of Of
fee, came again to see him in the
panoply of death. Sadly they re-
called the moments when he stood
on the speakers dias in the house
of representatives an d in brave
voice told of his descent and return
from the valley of the shadow of
death.
Again he was before them, the
same kind face on which there still
fingered the wan wisp of smile
that was his in life. a smile that
death could not wholly chill nor the
cold prospect of the tomb wither.
Once more he had descended to the
dark valley, but not to return.
The floral tributes were the
height of the florists art and their
numbers were lost in the profusion.
1t was utterly impossible to bank
them near the casket and they were
piled in heaps in the rooms of the
board of control. They came from
the secret orders to which Governor
Gosgrove belonged, from friends,
from commercial and political or
CARNATIONS until their disposition
became a serious problem in the ar.
rangements.
About the capitol building pre-
vailed an air of gloom. The corri-
doris were hung in black, through
which peeped folds of the flag un-
der which Governor Cosgrove, as
patriotic boy, had served through
the civil war. And not the least
conspicuous among the dark cloth
ed mourners was the blue of 61-65.
The gray old veterans with their
decorations on their breasts stood
in silent pathetic groups commun-
ing over another old comrade who
was now marching with that vast
army under the black banner of
death.
In the house chomber which was
packed to the ceiling with mourn
ers, Rev. c. r. Todd of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church of Olympia
delivered the funeral grafton. The
ceremonies ended the procession
formed with the band in the lead,
followed by the military escort. the
clergy, the hearse and pail bearers,
the members of the Cosgrove fam
lily in carriages, the guard, the dele
cations from the various secret or
ders, carriages and those who fol-
lowed the cortege on foot in the
order named.
1t was a cold gray day, in keep
ing with the occasion, but by noon
the sun was shining and this after
noon it's beams rested kindly on