The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-13
.N|KAD0s FUNERAL
HELD TODAY D||!I''
proeessIon Started In Even
M and Passed Through the
streets In Almost Com
pste silence.
w1ERD AND IMPRESSIVE
sacred Bulls Drew tho corseously
decorated Funeral Car Pc
fore the Long
Ceremony.

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TOXIC. Sept. 49,. Through packed
ranks of his former subjects the body
y the late Mikado Mutsuhito was
horne tonight Japanese timeJ from
the Imperial palace to the Aoyama
narade ground for the ceremonials
which Immediately precede Its re-
moyal to Kioto for burial.
The funeral procession left the pal
ace at $50 D. m, and the march to
the parade ground occupied little
more than an hour. The line was 80
long that when the head Of 1t had
reached its destination the rear was
Just starting from the palace gate.
On each side of the funeral car
walked group of the highest milf
tary and naval officers in Japan. There
we're SO many that 1t was impossible
to include in the procession. Those
who could not march with lined the
streets, through which the car and Its
escort passed.
The car itself, gorgeous with deco
rations and drawn by the sacred bull
locks always used at such ceremonies,
! weighed 1000 kwamme or 10000
pounds. In view of its weight por-
tons Of the streets through which 1t
was drawn had to be rebuilt.
The procession passed through the
streets in almost complete silence,
except for the steady tramp of the
soldiers feet and the peculiar, hyster.
ical though not loud, sobbing cry OF
the east.
The portion Of the parade ground
chosen for the services was enclosed
BY high bamboo fence, within which
was accommodation for about 10000
people. The scene was weird 1t IL
the Imperial custom to hold the funer
ais OF all Japanese rulers or mem
hers Of their family at night--the time
Of rest, and peace. Under the flick
ering lights the Shinto priests moved
about like ghosts. The air was filled
with the monotonous throb of Jap
anese music and the sound Of the
rurial chants in the ancient languag
Of Nippon the Latin Of Japan.
Like all Japanese ceremonies th,
funeral service is excessively wear
lngly long. TIE formaiities at tn,
parade ground will be concluded som,
time after a. M, after which tn,
funeral party will entrain for Kioto
Magnificent Display.
TOXIC, Japan, Sept. Passin
IN magnificence through the silen
ranks of hundreds of thousands 9
ene subjects who in life honored hir
as god the body of the late Empel
OF Mutsuhito of Japan was borne thi
evening through the deadened street
VI Toxic for his public funeral serv
ees al the Aoyama parade ground. Th
actual burial of the late ruler, will b
ned tomorrow at Momoyama, nea
hoto, where lie the ashes Of Empe
OF kwammu, mikado Of thousan
years ago.
ah 1,ouu,uUU people saw Ln
'as' public honors paid to the Jap,
uese emperor who saw his countr
suerge from semi-barbarism to b
.onle one OF the leading powers Of til
Noiia' Massed by hundreds OF tho
.anas they stood as the splendid co
~ wound through the capital eli
WINE evening foil niooad doors ~
J. ihuows hermetically sealed behir
snem' while over the smart milital
uniiorms Of New Japan and the flo,
lug silks Of an older day flared tho
ss sanus OF torches in the hands of 81
slers who formed a solid avenue
a, na'lie from the palace gates to Il
pace Of ceremony.
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