Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — THE END OF ALL [ARTICLE]

THE END OF ALL

Funeral of Mayor Harrison at Chicago. With the solemn pomp and imposing ceremonies befitting the interment of the former chief magistate of the World’s Fair city and his pitifully dramatic fate, Carter H. Harrison’s body was escorted to Graceland cemetery, Wednesday, by an immense throng of sorrowing citizens. Tenderly the remains were borne from the black-draped and flower-scented corridor of the City Hall, where they had rested in state, and placed in the funeral car. Through the great crowd that had gathered to see the murdered Mayor’s last leave taking of the scene of his ardent labors in behalf of the city he loved, the black car slowly passed and took its place in the waiting procession. As it drew into line the march was taken up and the thousands who had gathered to do honor to the dead moved slowly through the crowded streets, with banners draped and to the sad music of the funeral march. From the center of the city the great procession marched across the river and to the beautiful Church of the Epiphany, near the late executive's home. All along the line of march the people with sad faces and bared heads, watched the somber columns, At the church a throng as great as that which had been about the City Hall was gathered. A peculiarly pathetic reminder of the dead Mayor came into view immediately following the great black golden hearse—a thoroughbred mare, saddled and bridled, but riderless. In many a labor riot, or fierce election contest, thousands of people had seen the dashing Mayor press forward on that same thoroughbred into positions of danger few public men woula dare to go. To see the noble looking animal led lonesomely behind the hearse of her master was'a sight that not many witnessed unmoved. After the services at the church an immense cortege followed the remains to their last resting place.