Show l A SlRIKING EP ± SODE t i1 Perhaps of all the marks of reverence I and regret which signalized the observance observ-ance of the day the most impressive 1 was the general cessation of activity of every kind at the hour fixed for lay I Ing the dead statesmans remains In I the vaulc at West Lawn cemetery At I that hour the street cars and elevated trains stopped wherever they happened I to be the wheels of vessels I on the rivers I and lakes ceased to revolve and even The telegraph ceased to send its mos t sages over a million and quarter miles I i of wire for thc space or live minutes twhile the bared heads and hushed I voices of the people in the streetsbore jj tribute to their respect and sorrow I 1 Twas as the general pulse of life sfooll still and nature made a pause At times In the past conveyances and armioff have paused for such a purpose but thin occasion appears to have been 9 the first on which the telegraph itself 1 i ceased to lash its messages from point to point Taken altogether the obserx ances on Thursday were absolutely without parallel in history Brad streets I |