Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-04-09

Entering zeal the base of the back
skull, it had been checked by the bone
and lodged in the head. The wound
bled ~profusely, and the bleeding was
not helped by the presidents removal
In crude f~ashion-the arms of two men
to Il house across the street from the
theater. The president lapsed into in
sensibility when shot and so remained.
Lincoln Dead In Nine Hours.
During the small hours the bedside
of the dying president was surrounded
by members of the cabinet and other
officials, a few close personal friends
and his family. Mrs. Lincoln was
overcome with emotion. Secretary
Stanton lowered over the presidents
pillow. and the venerable Secretary
Welles of the navy and Senator Sum
ner of Massachusetts stood on opposite
sides of the couch, with an army
group, including the son., Captain Rob
ert Lincoln. disposed about the room.
No hope was held out by the sur
geons, and their reports throughout the
night led the public to believe that
death must ensue. Other alarms dis
tracted attention-the secretary OF
state had been attacked in his bed,
and 1t was rumored that Grant had
been killed. All in all the Washington
dispatches that appeared in the morn.
ing papers of the country on the 10Th
indicated a conspiracy of which the
president was the chief victim. That
the evil would stop there few could
believe.
Toward midday the people of cities
with telegraph connections knew that
Lincoln had expired about 7:20 in the
morning. Having alternated for hours
between the baseless hope that the
president would live and the natural
fear that the assassination was part of
war, the public mind, to a large de-
gree, bordered on hysteria.
Just as the more susceptible of the
excited ones at Ford's theater when
they realized the foulness of the deed
before them had rushed toward the
stage where the assassin was last
seen, crying, xiii him!' Hang him!'
SO thousands throughout the land
clinched their hands and grated their
teeth in uncomfortable rage when the
worst was known. But for these thou
sands there were tens and hundreds of
thousands who accepted the calamity
as one more sacrifice on the altar OF
the nations good, one to be felt deeply
and borne heroically.
Extended Funeral 0bsequies.
These last were they who for three
weeks with somber bearing awaited
along the route chosen for the memo
rial journey the hour when all that re-
NAMED of the mortal Lincoln-the
martyred Lincoln-would pass and be
gone forever. The funeral was held
in Washington on Wednesday, the
10Th, and that day throughout the
whole land, in camp and metropolis, in
city and town and village, millions ant;
millions participated in solemn rites.
Then followed the great professions
in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland and all
along the route to Springfield, where
the burial took place ON May 4. On
the train the coffin was borne in a
magnificent funeral car and in the cit
les moved in the professions on a
stately ~catafalque. In every city the
remains lay in state a few hours, and
night and day the people gathered to
pay n more tribute to the dead, often
facing pouring rain in the street to
view the catafalque, or Willie waiting
for access to the crowded hall where
the coffin lay. And the stations and
bridges and buildings, public and pri-
vate. made one continuous pail. Arch
es were erected and wreathed in Grape
and ev~ergreens and flags. Meanwhile
the wretched assassin, John Wilkes
Booth, a crippled fugitive. was hunted
down and shot to death in a wayside
Virginia stable.
Lincoln In History.
The burial was at Oak Ridge ceme-
terry, Springfield. There the remains
rested without a suitable memorial un-
til the monument designed by Larkin
G. Mead was dedicated, in 1874. It
may be said truly that during the years
between 1865 and 1874 Lincoln was
lost to the public mind. Millions re-
vered his memory; his portrait adorn-
ed the walls Of mansion and cabin;
life stories written by personal friends,
partners and political colleagues were
well thumbed. The masses didn't for