Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — LAIS IN THE TOMB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LAIS IN THE TOMB.

Remains of Chicago's Murdered Mayor at Rest. PARADE OF THE DEAD. A MOST IMPOSING FUNERAL CORTEGE. Military and Civic Organizations and Thrones of Citizens—Crowds So Dense as to Block the Passage of the Procession for Hours—Services Conducted in the Church of the Epiphany—Mo it I mpressive Ceremonies Ever Accorded a Civilian— Beantifnl Music and Flowers—Burial at Graceland. With all the manifestations of sorrow and regret that could be thown by a great city to its murdered executive, the remains of Carter H. Harrison were borne on Wednesday to the beautiful city of the dead on the northern outskirts of Chicago. By general consent, although there was no one in authority to issue the necessary proclamation, business throughout city was generally suspended. The city and county offices were closed throughout the day, and the public buildings, as well as scores of business houses and private residences along the route traversed by

the cortege on the way to Graceland Cemetery, were draped with emblems of woe.- The procession itself was long and imposing. Besides the city officials, the members of the City Council, the Board of Education and other municipal bodies, the thousands of personal friends of the dead Mayor and many civic, fraternal and semi-military bodies appeared in line. Nothing was lacking to give pomp, ceremony and impressiveness to the obsequies of the man for whom not only Chicago, hut tens of thousands scattered far and wide, were in mourning. Tuesday morning at ten o'clock the casket containing the remains was conveyed under escort frem the family residence on Ashland boulevard to the City Hall. The casket was met at the La Salle street entrance of the public building by the members of the City Council. These, walking two and two, preceded it through the corridors to the center of the rotunda on the main floor, where it was placed on a magnificent catafalque. Here, beneath a

canopy of black, surrounded by fragrant flowers; above, a many-tapered chandelier, the light filtering down on the peaceful face through garlands of smilax and roses, lay the mortal remains of Carter H. Harrison, and past his bier filed for hours two lines of his mourning fellow-citizens, at the rate of 5,000 per hour. « Miles of Monrners. At 10 o’clock Wednesday morning

the doors were closed against the throng that still filed through the building and the casket under the escort of the same committee selected for service the day before was returned to the house on Ashland avenue. Here, for the brief space of half an hour, the members of the bereaved family were left alone with their honored dead. In the meantime the funeral procession formed on the boulevard fronting the residence, and at the hour of noon the casket was borne for the last time down the graveled walk so often traversed by the dead man in the score or more of years that the mansion has been his home. Then the cortege, several miles in length, began to move to the Church of the Epiphany, at Ashland avenue and Adams street. At its heftd, mounted on coal black chargers, rode Superintendent of Police Brennan, tho marshal of the day; ex-Chief of Police Doyle, as assistant marshal, and Police Inspectors. Hunt, Schaaok, Roes and Lewis. Next in line came five carriages, occupied by the gentlemen who had been requested by tho family to act as honorary pail bearers. This is the list: Thomas W. Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, Major General Nelson A. Miles, ex-Gov-ernor Richard J. Oglesby, Ford W. Peck, Judge Lyman Trumbull, Fred H. Win: t )n, Gen. Charles Fitz-Simons, H. J. Jones, C. C. Billings, Adolph Kraus, Philip D.. Armour, Frank Wenter, ex-Mayor John A. Rocho, oxMayor Joseph Medill, ex-Mayor Hempstead. Washburno, Judges Francis Adams, B. D. Magruder, S. P. McConnell and R. A. Waller A carriage containing the officiating clergyman preceded the hearse. Eight active pallbearers, police captains and fire marshals, marched on each side of the funeral carriage, and the Chicago Hussars, under Captain Brand, rode In double column on the outside of the pallbearers. Following the hearse were carriages containing the immediate relatives, the City Council and officials, county, State and national

officials in order of precedence, the rear being brought up by civic and military organizations and citizens on foot. Three Chicago regiments of the the National Guard and a detachment of United States troops participated in the procession. Slowly the cortege proceeded down the boulevard to the church. When the arched entrance was reached the casket was borne up the aisle to the sanctuary railing by the pallbearers. The funeral service was conducted after the regular form of the Episcopal Church, Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., being the officiating clergyman. He also delivered a brief address. After the benediction had been pronounced the procession reformed, and headed by the lowa State Band, took up the march of the dead to Graceland cemetery. The crowd along the road to Graceland was as great as in the central ptortion of the city. No such outpouringof the public has been seen in Chicago.

CARTES H. HARRISON. [From His Favorite Photograph.]

THE PROCESSION AT THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY.