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rte News That's Fit to Print The Weather Probably fair, with northeast to east winds. NUMBER fM83. PHILADELPHIA, F1HDAY MOttNTNG, SEPTEMBER 20. 11)01. ONE CENT.

representatives of 81 ema, Alpha and Epsllon rri'ternlty. swered. when the emotion of Joy was changed to one of grave apprehension. Alternating between hope and tear, the weary hours passed on. Then came the tidings of PH LADELPHIA AYS odore Voces command Hixrh division, Th Manchester saying a prayer while the relatives gathered around, and Mrs.

McKlnley listened from the half-open door of her adjoining room. The double file of body-bear Ins Cleveland Chamber of Commerce aereuteii sciences, ol the failure or love Aincilcus Club, Pittsburg: Union League and nruver to ho Its obtect to the earth lull, iilcngo: Mneoln Club, Imago: Hani ers now stepped into the room and raising seemed to near tne faintly muttereu llton Club Lincoln Club, of New their flag-wrapped coffin to their shoulders words. ''Good-bye all, good-bye. 'God's will. JHllEUtoll, I'll.

LOVINGTRIBUTETO His will be and then. 'Nearer, My Seventh division Officials and citizens of God, to So, nestling nearer to his various Ohio cities. THE LAST RIDE. lion, lie passed out Into unconsciousness, skirted the dark shores of the sea of death for a time and theu passed on to be at MIL EDITIOS BODY OF PRESIDENT IS BORNE TO GRAVE If ITO SOLEMN POMP rest. His great heart had ceased to beat DEAD PRESIDENT The cause of this universal mourning is to be found In flie man him The march began at 3 o'clock.

After the services the first to appear was the guard of military and naval honor, the generals and admirals forming In double line leading self. The Inspired penman's picture of Jonathan, likening him unto the beauty of could not be more appro from the entrance (o the wnltiug hearse, priately employed than In chanting the lament over our fallen chieftain, it docs no Again the flag-draped! coffin, with Its wealth of flowers, appeared and was committed to violence to liumaii speech. norls it fulsome bore It through the open entrance. A solemn hush fell upon the multitude as the bearers advanced with measured tread. Not a bugle blast went up; not a strain of the hymns the dead ruler had loved so well.

The scene was majestic In Its silence. As the coffin was borne along above the line of heads could be seen eufoldlng Stars and Stripes, and on top great masses of white roses and delicate lavender orchids. Tenderly the coffin was committed to the hearse, and the silence was broken as the order of march passed from officer to officer. The procession now took up Its mournful journey, passing under the sweep of giant arches robed In black, between two living tides of humanity massed along the streets, covering housetops and filling the windows. The church bells still were tolling, mingling their dismal tones the ca eulogy to speak thus of him, for who that has seen his stately benrliur.

bis srriice and the hearse. The Prt sldent and members of Distinguished Orators Address Magnificent Meeting in the Academy of Music. lng at the Hurter residence. He did not go out to the crowded street where thousands were gathered hoping to entch a glimpse of his face, but took a walk in the spacious grounds of the residence. While at breakfast Judge Day joined him for half an hour, and later Secretary Root and Secretary Hitchcock came in to see him.

Many unofficial visitors left cards of respect, but the President saw very few people, preferring to remain In retirement. Among those who called were a half score of his command of the Hough Riders, several of them In their broad-brimmed sombreros. The Tresldeut saw them only for a moment. The face of the dead President was seen for the hist time when It lay In state yesterday In the Court House. The coffin was not opened after It was removed to the Me-Klnley residence and the members of the family had no opportunity to look again upon the silent features.

The coffin was sealed before it was borne away from the Court House. It had been the hope of many of the old friends of the family here that the face would be exposed while the services in the church were being held this afternoon, but this suggestion could not be agreed to. When Mrs. McKlnley came Into the death chamber last night for her last moments beside her dead husband she wished to have a final look at the upturned face. But this whs Impossible, and the sealed cof the Cabinet follow ed, ftrm-In-arm, and K23KILXJ manliness of demeanor his kindliness of aspect, but.

gives assent to this description of him? Was it characteristic of our beloved President that men met hlni only stepped Into the waiting carriages. The relatives entered carriages next. Then the squadron of tro(pers broke from their to love 111 The people confided In mm, believed in him. It was said of Lincoln battalion front and, wheeling Into platoons, that probably no man since the days of Washington was ever so deeply Imbedded SILENT THRONGS IN STREET took up the march to the grave. Last Rites Performed Amid Scenes of Sadness and Mourning.

the Knights Templnr wheeled into the cemetery the quartette that had been delayed In reaching the place for the previous ceremonies took up a position to the south of the vault and sang "Farewell, My Brother." This hymn was followed by others, Including "Rock of Ages," "The Christian's Good Night" and "The Wayside Cross. The darkness was gathering fast as the Knights sang on, and many In the multitude around the coffin were moved to tears. FLOWERS COVERED THE EARTH. Never before on this continent has such a floral display been seen at any public occasion as that In Westlawn Cemetery this afternoon. The vnnlt was lined with the rarest and costliest flowers, a multitude of floral pieces was spread on the ground before the door of the vault, and for 100 feet to the right and left of the doorway, and for half ns many feet to the rear of a line passing through the front wall, it was impossible to tread, so thickly did the tributes He.

Nearly every country on both hemispheres was represented hy an offering. The number of those from the United States Is almost past counting. They came from every State In the Union and there Is scarcely a man In public life whose tribute of respect for the virtues of William McKlnley did not lie beside his coffined body this afternoon. The Inside of the vault was literally a mass of roses and orchids when the coffin was carried Into It, and the outside walls were hidden beneath the profusion of flowers hung upon them. Above the doorway hung an enormous wreath of dark green gallx leaves; over the right corner of the vault was a similar wreath, the leaves being a deep red; hi a corresponding position on the other side was hung a wreath of Ivy.

The great wreath In the centre was the anil enshrined In the tietrts of the people, but it Is true of McKinley In larger sense. Industrial and social conditions are such Out Tuscarawas street the procession moved. Funeral arches spanned the street, some of them, It Is understood, having been dence of the funeral dirge. DEEP FILES OF SOLDIERS. flint lie was even iimre'thM bis predecessors the friend of the whole people.

It Is a glorious thing to be able to say In this presence, with our illustrious dea'd before ns, that he never betrayed the confidence of bis countrymen. Not for personal gain or erected by school children. MARCH WAS NOT LONG. Business Virtually Suspended While Thousands Mourn Their Late Ruler, At either side of the hearse marched the guard of military and naval honor. The line of the funeral mnrch from the church to the cemetery was about one and a half miles In length.

For hours even came the long line of carriages for the relatives and friends, and after them the Innumerable military and civic organizations hat had assembled to pay this last honor to before the time set for the beginning of FUNERAL WAS IMPOSING Ihe Cortege Passed Over Street Strewn With Myriads of Flowers, the funeral exercises at the McKlnley home. CITY CHURCHES CROWDED fin, with its flowers aud flags, was all (hat the streets along th entire length of the the fallen chief. she line of march were crfiwded with spectators. All day long the streets were kept clear by It was 1.50 o'clock when the procession passed the Court House and turned Into Tuscarawas street to the stately stone edifice FLORAL OFFERINGS BEAUTIFUL, The collection of flowers was probably the the military and not a vehicle of any description save those belonging to the fune where the funeral services were to be held most beautiful ever seen in the United The hearse halted while President Roosevelt Absolute Cessation of Traffic for Five Minutes While the Body Was laid to Rest States. The conservatories of the country and members of the Cabinet alighted bad been denuded to supply them.

Then the flower-covered coffin was brought SERVICES WERE SIMPLE By direction of the monarchs of Europe, ral cortege, was permitted to enter upon them. At the cemetery gates, where the crowd was densely nacked and where the people had remained for hours pressing against the Iron fence women fainted during the from the hearse, and as It passed within the the South American rulers, the Governors black draped entrance the President and his Cabinet followed. The mourners, loo, passed Inside of the edifice, but the stricken exercises at the vault. With quiet dignity and with a great reT erence Philadelphia yesterday honored Ita martyr President. There were four tributes pre-eminence woum ne mar tne neauty or his soul.

He kept It clean nd white before God and man, and his hands were unsullied by bribes. "Not only was our President brave, heroic and honest; he was as gallant a knight as ever rode the lists for his ladv love in the days when knighthood Was In flower. It Is but a few weeks since nation looked on as It saw with whnt tender conjugal devotion he sat at the bedside of his beloved wife, when all feared that a fatal Illness was upon her. No public clamor that he might show himself to the populace, no demand of social function was sufficient to draw the lover from the bedside of his wife. He watched and waited while we all prayed and she lived.

This sweet and tender story all the world knows. It was a strong arm that she leaned upon, and It never failed her. Her smile was more to him that the plaudits of the multitude, and for her greeting his acknowledgments of them must wait. After receiving the fatal wound his first thought was that the terrible news might be broken gently to her. May God In this deep hour of sorrow comfort her.

May His grace be greater than her anguish. May the widow's God be her God. "Another beauty In the character of our President that was as a chaplet of grace about his neck, was that he was a Christian. In the broadest, noblest sense of the word, that was true. "It was perfectly consistent wltb Ms lifelong convictions and his personal experiences that he should any at the first critical moment after the assassination, 'Thv king-rlom come.

Thy will be un'd that he should declare at the last. 'It is God's will; His will be He lived grandly; it was fitting that he should die grandly And now that the majesty of death has touched and calmed him, we find that In his supreme moment he was still a conqueror. "In the midst of our tv It was exactly 4 minutes after 4 when of the British colonies In Australia and Canada, the Emperor of Japan, from the four quarters of the earth, in fact, came directions to adorn the bier of McKlnley with flowers whose fragrance might be symbolical of the sweetness and purity of the ended life. But these tributes from the funeral car bore the body through the offering of the Italian Government and King of Italy, and was one of the hand somest pieces seen. Upon a great streamer gateway to his last resting place.

Twenty minutes after that time, the brief services nt the vault were ever, the members of the family and the distinguished men of the nation had passed through the gates of black satin which swung from the mass of deep green leaves, was the following Inscription: "Requiem eternam dona el domlne;" beside the black streamer floated foreign countries were burled beneath the floral tributes of McKlnley's countrymen. There were tons and tons of them, and a list of those who sent them would be almost a complete roster of those prominent in the official, commercial and social life of the on their homeward way. A sentry's measured! tread resounded from one of red, white and blue, the colors of the United States, and another of red, white and green, the colors of Italy. To the right of the door In a frame the cement walk before the vault, another kept vigil on the gnlssy slope above, and at the head aud at the foot of the coffin stood armed men. Before the door of the United States.

widow was not among them. She had remained behind in the old home, aione with her grief. WITHIN THE CHURCH. The scene within the thurch was profoundly impressive. A black border, relieved at Intervals by narrow white bands falling to the floor, swept completely around the Interior.

The vestibules leading Into the church were black tunnels, the stained glass windows were framed In black and the bulcony of the Sunday school to the rear was shrouded In the same sombre color. Graceful black streamers festooned along the arches of the nave formed a black canopy above the chancel. From this directly above the low flag-covered catafalque on which the coffin was to rest hung a beautiful silk banner. But It was the floral display at the front of the church which filled the whole edifice with glory. The centre of It all was a A feature of the floral tributes was the formed of red and white roses was a vase large number sent by organizations of va fully six feet high made of white asters.

vault, which was not closed to-night, was rious characters, fraternal, commercial and This was the offering of the manufacturing potters of East Liverpool, Ohio. The em Made as Brief as Possible at the House, the Church and Cemetery, UflHi.tfTiRi CANTON, Ohio, September 19. With majestic solemnity, surrounded by his countrymen and his townspeople, In the presence of the President of the United States, the Cabinet, Justices of the United States Supreme Court, Senators and Representatives in Congress, the heads of the military and naval establishments, the Governors of States and a great concourse of people, who had known and loved him, all that Is mortal of the third President to fall by an assassin's bullet was committed to the grave. It was a spectacle of mournful grandeur. Canton ceased to be a town, and swelled to the proportions of a great city.

From every city and hamlet In Ohio, from the remote corners of the South and from the Kast and West, the human tide flowed Into the town until 100,000 people were wlthlu Its gates, here to pay their last tribute to the fallen chief. The final scenes at the First Methodist Church, where the funeral service was held, and at the beautiful West- which were especially noteworthy. The most striking was the almost absolute cessation from business. The day was really quieter than the noted Philadelphia Sabbath, and despite the great crowds on tha streets all was orderly. The tremendous congregations at tha churches was another feature of the day.

Places of worship were literally crowded to the doors. Overflow meetings were held In Sunday-school rooms, and even then hundreds were unable to enter the church doors. The government services in the city were held at the League Island Navy Yard, on board the receiving ship Richmond. A President's salute of twenty-one guns was fired, at noon. The city's tribute, the memorial seiv vice at the Academy of Music In the even-lug, was remarkable, not only on account of the beauty of the service, but for tha overwhelming desire of Pliiladelphiuns to participate in it.

There were more than persons in the Academy. Outside, unable to get In, were three times that number. Not even in the heat of a national political campaigns has there ever gathered such a crowd as was gathered last night at Broad and Locust streets. ployes of thece manufacturing potters sent pitched the tent of the guard, and there it will remain until the doors are closed tomorrow. Sentries will then guard the vault every hour of the day and night until the body has been borne to Its final rest Inn an elaborate design of a vase done In red and white roses that was fully equal In beauty to that sent by their employers.

On the south side of the doorway was suspended benutful wreath of lilies of the valley, luterwlned with smilax, the whole surmounted with white aud purple orchids. much to console us. He lived to see his nntlon greater than ever before All sectional lines are blotted out. There Is no South, no North, no East, no West. Washington saw the beginning of our national life.

Lincoln passed through the nl-ht of our history nml saw the dawn. McKlnley beheld his country In the splendor of It's noon. Truly he died in the fulness of a fame. With Pan he ennM political. ALL WAS SILENT.

Within the chamber all was intensely silent. The curtains were closely drawn, enshrouding the room in gloom, with no ray of gas to light up the melancholy scene. The guards stood motionless at their posts, a soldier at the head of the coffin and a sailor with drawn cutlass at the foot Thus throughout the morning the vast multitude surged without, while the silence within was broken only by the weeping of the stricken widow. The number of prominent public men In the city was augmented as every train arrived, and the city numbered among Its great wreath of American Beauties, framing a black-bordered portrait of President Mc ROSES AND ORCHIDS. To the left of the doorway was a great place.

At 3.30 o'clock the detachment of mounted police, heading the parade, came slowly around the corner of Lincoln street and pnssed np West Thlril street to the cemetery gates. Behind tk'm came the Grand Army band of Cantob. Behind the band came the Grand Army! posts, fully five huu-dred of the veterans jmarchlng by. PATH STREWN BLOSSOMS. Asthey passed along the flower strewn path they stooped to gather the blossoms equal truthfulness, 'I am now ready to be offered.

Klnley. From It, extending outward and upward, was a perfect wealth of gorgeous Our President went forth In the fullness his strength. In his ".5 bunch of red roses aud purple orchids bound together with a wide band of royal purple satin. blossoms. Against the walls on either side were Standing a short distance from the vault was uddeiilv smitten by the hand that brought death with it.

None of us can tell what a day may bring forth. Let us, therefore, remember that 'no man llveth to himself and none of ns dieth blinreir May each dam cli- floral flags and upon the pulpit rested to the south was a small cradle covered an urn In white carnations, broken at the entirely with white and purple astern. On STREETS SILENT AS DEATH. Beginning at 12 o'clock, after the memorial services of the forenoon In the churches were over, people began to flock down town. Which lay at their feet, and carried them base to represent the watr flowing from Its sides were worked In purple lmuaer It.

At either side of this urn were the away ag mementoes. The sweet pea bios-1 telle, tne wor(1 Ttl8 wag Md sonis that were scattered along the road were the offering of the school children of Nashville, and no tribute of love done. "Ul "But our last words must be spoken. Little more than four years ago we bade btna good-bye as he went to assume the responsibilities to which the nation had called him. His last words as he left lis were, 'Nothing could give me greater pleasure than this farewell greetlng-thls cross of the Knights Templar and the crown of the Knights of Pythias, while to the east was the square and compass of Masonry.

Almost directly above the support for the coffin a sunburst of lights lawn Cemetery, where the body was consigned to a vault, were simple and Impressive. The serTlce at the church consisted of a brief oration, prayers by the ministers of three denominations and singing by a quartette. The body was then taken to West-lawn Cemetery and placed In a receiving vault, pending the time when It will be finally laid to rest beside the dead children who were burled years ago. The funeral procession was very Imposing, and included not only the representatives of the army and navy of the United mourning "guests' those who are most prominent in every walk of public life. Among the arrivals this morning were Speaker Henderson and a number of his colleagues of the House of Representatives, Including those who had served In the House with McKlnley; Justice McKenna, of the United States Supreme Court, who was a member of the ways and means committee when the McKlnley bill was drawn; Sereno Payne, present chairman of the ways and means committee; General Grosvenor, of Ohio; Senator Bate, of Tennessee; Governor that was seen during the funeral exercises more amply fulfilled Its mission.

To-night hundreds of the blossoms are In the posses glittered like brilliant stars In a black sky. to be the cradle in which President McKlnley had been rocked during his Infancy In Nlles, Ohio, and special Instructions came with It, that It should be guarded with great care and returned safely to Nlles, where It Is to be presented. From Cuba came an enormous representation of the flag of the new nation. A wreath of red roses and lilies of the valley came from Haytl, a wreath of white roses and purple asters from the President of Uruguay. From the Knights Templar of Min Jour rnemislilp and sympathy, your good-will and, I am sure, the pravers of all the people with whom I have lived so long and whose confidence and esteem are nearer to mo than Under the folds of the starry banner the body-bearers gently lowered the flag-draped sion of the marchers in the parade, and are held by spectators wh came Into the cemetery after the close of the parade to carry them away.

After the veterans ci(me In well set ranks with rifles at "arms port" the men of the and flower-adorned coffin to Its support. The members of the Loyal Legion, Governor Longino, of Mississippi, together with dele-gallons representing States, cities, chambers of commerce and Innumerable civic Nash, Governor McMillan, of Tennessee, Sixth Ohio Infantry of the National Guard and Governor Longlao, of Mississippi, each with his full uniformed staff, had already the Engineer Corps ofj the National Guard from Cleveland, and the comrades of the late President In the tanks of the Twenty third Ohio Volunteers during the civil war. There was no attraction there to draf them. Not a store was open. Cigar stores, even those usually open on Sundays, had signs In the windows "Closed all day." Saloons were closed as well.

Even barber ehops were tightly shut. A few restaurants were kept open, but the great majority of them, even those lunch rooms where signs say "Always open," were closed uutll after 4 o'clock. One could walk from one end of Chestnut or Market street to the other and see hardly one sign of business activity. Thin absolute cessation of commercial llfo was the most Impressive and inspiring feature of the day. Though there were many people on tha streets, they lacked altogether the purpose-fullness of the holiday throng.

They wero dressed more soberly, too. Many men aud women were in black. The women, however, who were dressed In their brighter-colored wore either mourning band on their left sie ves or carried on their waists a small mourning button. CHESTNUT STREET TfTRONGED. Even early in the day the crowd had begun a slow, steady marching up and down, the streets, which marked Its progress for WALKED TOWARD VAULT, honors.

To all of ux the future Is us a sealed book; but If I can, bv official act or administration or utterance, In anv degree add to the prosperity and unllv of our beloved country and the advancement and well-being of our splendid citizenship, I win the best and most unselfish efforts of my life to that end. With this thought uppermost in my mind I reluctantly take enve of my friends and nelghliors, cherishing In my heart the sweetest memories and thoughts of my old home my home now and, I trust, my home hereafter, so long ns I "We hoped, with hlni, that when his work was done, freed from the burdens of his great office, crowned with the affections of a happy people, he might lie permitted to close his earthly life in the home he had loved. "He has. Indeed, returned to us, but how? Borne to the strains of 'Nearer. My God to und placed where he first began life struggle, that the people might look aHv.w'''P Md a bmne coming.

But It was a triumphal march. How vast the nrocesslon. The niiinn m.n entered the church from the west entrance and tilled up the most westerly of the sections of pews. The members of the Senate and the House of Representatives had preceded the eofliu through the door at the side of the chancel. Senators Allison, of Iowa, and Bate, of Tennessee, headed the Senatorial representation, of which there were about forty, and Speaker Henderson and Representative Dal-sell that of the House, of which more than half of the members must have been nesota came a great field Ave feet long and three feet wide, formed entirely of white asters.

In the centre was the red cross of the Knights Templar. A round buttou, two feet In diameter, with the red cross In the centre, came from the Knights of Tennessee. An elaborate offering of roses and orchids came from Melville E. Stone, of New York. There were wreaths from Savannah, from San Francisco, from Duluth, New-Orleans and from dozens of other cities.

Many of the designs were unmarked and It was Impossible to tell from whom they had come. The flowers will be allowed to remain around the vault until they have fallen to pieces. THE FIRST SENTRY. From the first carriage that stopped at the foot of the walk loding up to the vault President Roosevelt and Commander Cowles, of the navy, alighted and walked slowly toward the vault aud took a position on the south side of the walk close to the door. Secretary Root assumed a similar position on the north side, and the other States, but the entire military strength of the State of Ohio and hundreds of civic, fraternal and other organizations.

It was two miles long. WIDOW WAS ABSENT. One of the most pathetic features of the day was the absence of Mrs. McKlnley from the funeral services at the church and from the cemetery when the body of her husband was laid to rest. Since the first 6hock of the shooting, then of death, and through the ordeal of state cereniouies, she had borne up bravely.

But there was a limit to human endurance, and when to-day came it found her too weak to ra6s through the trials of the final ceremonies. i Through the open door of her room she heard the prayer of the minister as the body was borne out of the house. After that fir. Itlxey remained close by her side, and although the full force of the calamity hud come upon her It was believed by those about her that there was a providential mercy in her tears, as they gave some relief to the anguish of the heart within. organizations.

During the morning General Ell Torrance, commauder-ln-chlef of the G. A. sent the following message to Mrs. McKlnley by Judge Day: "In behalf of the Grand Army of the Republic, I wish to comfort you with the assurance that you have the tender sympathy and unfailing love of every surviving soldier of the Union, and our prayer is that the Gracious Father will sustain you. "Ell Torrance, "Commander-in-Chief G.

A. PREPARING FOR FUNERAL. As the time approached for bearing the body of the dead President from the Me-Kluley home to the church the little cottage on North Market street was the centre of vast concourse of people. Just at 1 o'clock the black chargers of the Cleveland Troop swept down the street. Their coming was the signal for the approach of President Roosevelt and the members of the Cabinet.

The Presidential members the Cabinet ranged themselves by the side of the President and Secretary of War. With bared tieada, the President present. ROOSEVELT IN MOURNING. The Congressional party filled up the en stood with uncovered head. The people of the land are chief mourners.

The nations of the earth weep with them. But, oh, whnt a victory! What and members- of the Cabinet, who were fol lowed by the officers ofj the army and navy tire east section of pews and the rear half of the two central sections. The local cler tills that we look upon to-dav? We gave him to the nation but a little more than stood on each side ofj the walk, the lines reaching Juttt to the edge of the roadway umi- yen ago. ue went out with the light of the morning upon his brow, but with bis task set and the purpose to complete. We take hlin back a mighty conqueror." Within a minute after the formation of the Hues the funeral ear up to the walk, The cofiiu was gently lifted from the hearse CHURCH SERVICES END.

At the conclusion of the Rev. Dr. Man gymen occupied the seats below the organ usually occupied by the choir. All had risen as the coffin was borne In. The generals and admirals of the army and navy followed and occupied the first pew on either side of the centre aisle.

President Roosevelt and the Cabinet came after. All were In black and wore black gloves. The President only had on an overcoat. He took his place Immediately behind Lieutenant General Miles, and borne to the door of the vault, where It rested upon the catafalque. chester's discourse Bishop I.

W. Joyce, of The last of the procession passed the bier at 5.4."i, and then orders were given by Captain Biddle that the cemetery should be cleared. The order was qulejjly carried out and the President was left In the care of his guard of honor. The first sentry to be posted In a tour of guard duty before the doorway was Private Otto White, of Company Fourteenth Infantry, whose home Is In Oenoa, Ohio. The guard Is Company of the Fourteenth United States Infantry.

It Is commanded by Captain W. S. Biddle, First Llentenant II. S. Avery and Second Lieutenant William Ash bridge.

PREPARING THE WHITE HOUSE party moved up the walk to the entrance of the house and formed In a group to the left. The President's face looked very grave, and he stood there silently, with uncovered head, awaiting the body of the dead Abner McKlnley. and Mrs. Barber alighted many hours. There wna something mo notonous In It.

meaningless until later. Shortly before 11 o'clock the first spectacle of the day for the in the street occurred. It was not miii li of a specracla In Itself, merely the march of the First Reg-Iment to Holy Trinity Church, but It waa an outward sign of homage to the illustrious dead, arid for a few moments the people near Broad street massed while the soldiers swept by. At 12 o'clock the tide flowed toward Independence Hill, and there gathered la Chestnut street and In the shaded walks of the square a silent army of people stood, while every half minute until 1 o'clock th bell In the tower tolled with that mournful from their carriage and stood at the foot of the line of officers. They remained here for a few seconds, and then passed up to chieftain.

Beside him stood Secretary the foot of the coffin, where they remained ijiiiincapoii8, delivered a prayer. The hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," was sung by the congregation. The people remained standing after the close of the hymn while the benediction was pronounced by Father Voltitan, chaplain of the Twenty-ninth United States Infantry. The coffin was then borne from the church to the funeral oar and the procession to the cemetery began. The formation Bf the line was as follows: -Squad of police, Chief Marshal Doll, of Canton, and aides.

during the brief services, There was a moment's pause as Colonel Bingham looked to see that all was In readiness. He then looked toward Bishop Joyce, First division General Ell Torrance, National Commander G. A. commRndlTur of Minneapolis, who reijd the burial service of the Methodist church. As hlj words ended there was a brljf pause, for It had been understood that 4 quartette of the Knights Templar was to be present to ren President Roosevelt's Secretary Engaged on a Mass of Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, September Loeh, President Roosevelt's private secretary, was at the White House to day, busily engaged staff; Grand Army baud: E. F. Tneirort. At 7 o'clock to-night President Roosevelt and the members of the Cabinet started back to Washington. TOWN ASTIR EARLI.

The streets this morning were filled with waving plumes, prancing horses and densely packed bodies of moving men assembling here for the procession which is to escort the body of the late President from the church to Westlawn Cemetery. All night long civic, military, fraternal, social and commercial organizations from the four quarters of the compass had been pouring In and Into the seething mass of humanity already here the early morning trains deposited other thousands. So fast the trains arrived, following on each other's heels, that there appeared to be cne continuous string of ears unloading their human freight through the station Into the congested streets beyond. Thirty special trains, Id addition to the regular trains, had arrived before noon. The people overflowed the sidewalks m.d literally packed the streets from side to tide.

The greatest crush, of course, was In East Tuscarawas, the principal thoroughfare, and North Market street, on which The McKlnley cottage and the Harler residence, at which President Roosevelt win are located. The awe-stricken crowds upon tlnlr next the centre aisle In the second pew to the eastward. So close was he to the coffin he could almost have leaned over and touched It. Secretary Cortelyou, Justice McKenna, of the Supreme Court; John G. Mllburn and John N.

Scatchard, of Buffalo, and several others took seats Immediately In the rear of the Cabinet. Then followed the mourning relatives, who occupied the tier of pews to the left of the centre aisle. Mr. and Mrs. Abner McKlnley led the way, followed by the other Immediate relatives.

Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks, Comp-troller and Mrs. Dawes, Colonel and Mrs. Myron T. Herrlck, of Cleveland, and few other close personal friends.

The fourth pew from the that always occupied by President McKlnley, was draped In black and remained vacant. Department Commander G. A. of Ohio, and staff: Canton Post, Canton, Ohio; Buckley Post, Akron. Ohio: Rell-Hnrmnn der a hymn.

Through A mlsnuderstnndlng, Post, Warren. Ohio; C. G. Chamberlain Post. East Palestine.

Ohio: Given IW however, It had not arrived, and Colonel Woostcr. Ohio: Union Veteran T.eirlnn cadence which Is Its peculiar property. From that time on the number of persons In the streets Increased until at half-past 2 o'clock the principal thoroughfares were crowded to such su etcnt thru rapid walking was Impossible. The weather was perfect. The sun shone from a cloudless sky, ef blue and the air was cod and brjeing.

CROWDS WALK SLOWLY. There was no sign of reason why this crowd was down town. In their slow walk: up and down the st reels they stopped to gaze at those windows while signs of n-nnrnint were displayed: stopped to com- Gage, Secretary Root, Secretary Wilson and Secretary Hitchcock, and Just across Attorney General Knox, Postmaster General Smith, Assistant Secretary of State Hill, representing Secretary Hay and Secretary Cortelyou, THE GUARD OF HONOR. Extending further down the walk was the guard of honor, the ranking generals of the army on the right and the chief figures of the navy on the left. Lieutenant General Miles, In the full uniform of his high rnnk, with sword at side and band of erepe about his arm, stood alongside the members of the Cabinet, and with him were Major General Brooke, Major General Otis, Major General MacArthur and Brigadier General Gillespie.

Across from them was ranged Rear Admiral Farquhar, representing Admiral Dewey, ranking head of the navy; Rear Admiral Crnwnlnshleld, Rear Admiral O'Nell, Rear Admrral Kenney and Brigadier General Heywood, the latter commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps. Just Inside the Bingham waved his hand to eight buglers Canton. Second division Malor Gem-rnl I'tmrirM. A the Canton Band, who had taken station with a great m.iss of correspondence. It Is expected that the President upon his return will make his home for a short time with Captain Cowles, his brother-in-law.

coming to the White House during the day time and occupying the official portion of the niansl in. Dick, commanding: detachment of the Ohio National Guard: Troon A. of oh In Vntlnnni upon the side of the mound jbove ami to the south of the vault Guard, guard of honor; survivors of Twen- ty tnird niilo. I'resldent McKln iv's retrl. Instantly from the eight bugles rang out The personal belongings of Mrs.

McKln the notes of the soldier's last call "Taps." When the last notes bad floated away, ley will be packed in a few days and sent ment; President Roosevelt and Cabinet: honorary bearer generals of army and admirals of navy; officiating clergymen: officers of the army and navv. Funeral Car. Family aud relatives of President McKlnley; Loyal Legion; I'resldent of the Senate and United States Sonatnrs? Snenkni- io anion. Aireany ine upnoisterers are piu.e lmi0w with thai, picture of McKlnley with another, bin these same pr- Secretary Wilson was In tears. Secretary Hitchcock was also weeping, and the President was gazing grimly nt the walls.

It was all ended at last and Captain Illddle, which were removed from the smaller residential portion of the house, and It Is expected that this will be ready for occu of the House of Representatives; Governors of States, with stuffs; Louisiana delegation, of Company of the Fourteenth Infantry, rnpreseimiig Kiaie aim I linen Confederate elernns; liovernor of Ohio, and pancy upon the return to Washington of Mrs. Roosevelt on next Wednesday. She will then Indicate what she desires In the way of new furnishings to put the house who will command the guard which Is to be placed around the vault, stepped up to other State officers; Circuit Court Judges, State of Ohio: Governor McKlnley's former staff officers; Federal officials of Cleveland, Chicago, Canton and Musslllon, Ohio; Board REV. DR. MILLIGAN'S TRAYER.

The services In the church were simple. They began with the rendition of an organ prelude, Beethoven's Funeral March, played by Miss Florence Douds. As the last notes of the prelude were stilled the Eutcrpean Women's Quartette of Canton Rang "The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." Rev. 0. B.

Mllllgau, pastor of, the First rreshyterlan Church of Clinton, delivered the Invocation. The ninetieth Psalm was read by Rev. Dr. John A. Hall, of the Trinity Lutheran Church, of Canton, aud that portion of the fifteenth diaper of First Corinthians Included between the forty-first aud fifty-eighth verses was read by Rev.

E. I'. Her-bruek, of the Trinity Reformed Church of In order for the winter. ROOSEVELT REFUSED SALUTE Wanted No Military Honors Before a line of live soldiers which he had posted Just north of the doorway, and who, throughout the ceremony, had stod at present arms as rigid as though carved out of Iron. One of thein passed into the vault, taking station at the head of the coffin, another placed himself at the foot, and three men stood In the doorway, two on the lower step and the third on the floor of the vault directly behind them, Ttiere they remamed gate the civilian honorary court In double line, Including Governor Nash, of Ohio; Judge Williams, of the Ohio Supreme Court; Henry MncFarland, president of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Mayor Diehl, of Buffalo; Judge Day, the life long friend of the President; Mr.

Mllburn, at whose house he died, and others In civil life near and dear to the dead chief. As the Presidential parly came up the black chargers of Troop A swung Into battalion front facing the house and the long line of flashing sabres advanced to salute. BRIEF PRIVATE SERVICE. the Funeral. CANTON, Ohio, September the sons In many cases had seen those sam signs of mourning many since last Saturday, ami were thoroughly familiar with them.

Once again, nt half-past two, there was turning of footsteps toward Broad street, when the Third Regiment passed up-town on Its way to the Grace Baptist That over, once more the nervous walklug began. After ,1 o'cliiek an electric something got Into the air. It could he felt by everyone. The crowd, always urdeily, lucitnie more sedate and quiet. A new feeling of expectancy arose.

At 3.W P. M. the walkers had become almost st.iMonary. Hen- ami there little knots of persons gathered. Tlic air of anticipation overshadowed every tl lug else.

THE MOMENT OF BURIAL. At 3..10 o'clock a bell tolled the half hour. Then quiet fell. People stood motionless. Trolley cars, slowly and without noise, stopped.

A bush fell over everybody. A man took his hat off. others followed his example. A womau suddenly drew out her handker- hearts of those who loved htm. William Canton.

McKlnley Is still President of the United arrival all moved, as by a toniuun Impuise, toward the old familiar McKlnley cottage where the body was lying. Military guards paced their beats, but there was no other sign of life about the house of den.h. The window shades were down. No badge of mourning was on the door, Insteid there was a simple wreath of palms, bisected by band of wide purple ribbon. Sorrowfully the throngs turned away.

Unpeople to take up their positions at the 'church, the representatives lo seek their places In the Imposing procession which was to follow the remains to the cemetery. PRESIDENT WAS SECLUDED. The two sections of the train bearing the Senate and House of Representatives and other governmental offlolnlH from Washington arrived during the morning. President Roosevelt spent a uiet morn- oi nirectors or ran-Aincrlcan Exposition; Board of Cook County Chi-catro. Third dlvlslon-Cjiptnln H.

S. Moses commanding; Gate City Guard. Atlanta, Cleveland Grays; Cleveland Scotts Guards; William McKlnley Command, Spanish-American war veterans; Sons of Veterans. Fourth division. A.

B. Foster, Grnnd Commander of Ohio, commanding Knights Templar eommnuilorles from thefollowlngcltles: Louisville, 'unton, Massiilon. Toledo, Znnes-vllle. Stenbcnvllle, Cleveland, l'alnesvllle, Limn. Cincinnati, Youngstown.

Mansfield, Ponvroy, Akron, Cecllvllle, Marlon, Warren, Hamilton, Salem, Wooster, Marietta, I'hrlchsvllle and East Liverpool; Grund Lodge. State of Ohio. Fifth division, Brigadier Genera Thomas W. Mlncbiile commanding Eighth Infantry of State Militia; Fifth Infantrv; Ohio CIlV Company, Martins Ferry, Ohio; Second lri- The favorite hymn of President McKlnley, "Lead, Kindly Light," was then rendered until after the passage Of the funeral pro by a quartette of two male and two female States Until he Is laid to rest 1 wish none of the President Inl honors to be paid to ine." So spoke I'resldent Roosevelt to the officer of the guard who had brought his detail to a present arms as the new I'res). cession voices.

When this hyinu had been finished THE PROCESSION RETURNS. the Rev. Dr. E. Manchester, pastor of the First Methodist Church, delivered his dent approached.

His voice choked with emotion as he talk ed and his Hps trembled. It would be hard address, which read In part as follows: REV. C. E. MANCHESTER'S ADDRESS, "Our President Is dead.

"We can hardly believe It. We hart honpri Now the deep-toned notes of the church bells began and every steeple In Canton gave forth its dolorous plaint. It was 1.15 o'clock and the time had come for taking up the body. A brief private service had been held within the darkened chamber, Dr. for the President to move ten feet without stumbling upon at least one soldier, and he The President, the members of the Cabinet and the officers of the army and navy t)en entered their carrliges and followed by the members of the family passed out of the cemetery aud returned to the city.

As the head of the clvlslon containing has not moved a foot on this trip that a lanirv, i.iniii; looges or the Knights of Pythias; Odd Fellows; Junior Older United aud prayed, and It seemed that our hopes secret service otllcer has not been at his heels. I were to ue realized ana our prayers an-1 American Mechanics; Knights of St. John:.