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Show FARE WELL GO J Jx MAH&yR DEAD. i Tearful Ceremonies MarK.the Funeral of McKJnlcy. , I William McKlnley has been la.d to; f, rest In the great west, which gave him I to th nation, hark tii Mother Earth. !' whlrh gava him In the world and hit- I M tory. Beneath the great white dome of ; th Capitol Ihr uIDi'lal and rrrcmu- ; j nlou good-byt of hl country and of ; th nation or the world were sai.i Tutday. Then came th people, si- ! lent but for their manifestations of triof, passing In unbroken line before th flag-draped and flower-covered bier, Bobbing their farewell. A train, black ai th night through whlrh II ran. bort the body to th little Ohio ,'. city who resident called the lllua- trloua dead their townaman. Wednea-day Wednea-day they looked on hi in for tha laat time. And then euded all pomp and cere-mony. cere-mony. Tha patient, stricken widow put away th Inanimate clay and her laat aad cry of farewell r-tchoea from tha heart of a stricken nation galh-arcd galh-arcd In memorial meetings wherever ! fllaa tha flag ao loed and au honored by William McKlnli-y. ranaral Services Are aim pi. Aa befitted tha occasion and tb character of tha man whoao remalna war lying cold and rigid In the narrow nar-row embrace of the metallic caaket, tb funeral gervirc la the Capitol Ware simple. They war conducted In accordance with tha rite of the Moth- odlat Episcopal chinch, of which President Pres-ident McKlnley waa a lifelong mem-', mem-', bar. Conalatlng only of two hymns, a aong, a prayer, an add rent, and a ben- 'j edlctlon, they were aolemnly Imprc- 1 aire. Special prominence was given to I tha Dcautlful hymn, "Nearer, My Ood. to Thee." which. In iplte of tha fact that It haa been familiar property for J many long yeara. already haa coma to j ha known aa "Prealdent McKlnley' , i hymn." It waa played aa the caaket ' left th White lloua. and again aa the , , atalwart aoldler and anllora carried their precloua burden up the broad astern atvpa of tha Capitol, tt waa anng by the choir over tho body In the center of the rotundn. while aa the , procession piiaacd Ibo President' i church th chime of the belli rang out th aatne aweet melody. Clreet Mew of CouMry Mourn. Gathered around the bier were representative rep-resentative of every phase of Amerl-1 Amerl-1 can national life, Including the Presl- ( dent and tha only surviving ex-prest- tent of the Unltod States, together with representative at this capital of almost every natlou of tha earth, Oreat llrltaln, France, Oennany, Italy, and Spain, and all the republics to tha sooth art of th United State mingled min-gled their tear with thoe of tb American people. Despite th fact that no attempt bad hewn made to decorate dec-orate th Interior of tb rotunda, beyond be-yond tha arrangement made about the catafalque, th assemblage presented a memorable sight Tho somber black of tha attire of hundred of civilian! present waa eplashed brilliantly with the color and gold of th representative representa-tive of th army and th navy and th court costumes of th diplomatic orps. : at the Whit HiwH i Tb last antry of William McKlnley, I th dsud President, Into th capital of I th nation waa In th evening of a per- ( ' . tact autumn day. On the auket mated I a large aheaf of wheat, aniblematlc of vnnla rallrond ai.il - n It a the Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley trHn and i curled the Preal-dent-elect and hla v., hla aged mother, moth-er, who h.id li.u,;M hlni that religious fortitude with which he fneed dentil; hla brother ami slsteia. hi other relative rela-tive and 1'crMnnil Mi mis. all plait' people from Ohio. Monday night the leal Mi Kluley trnln Hint will ever en- t'T the :uilti,i miii.,1 ,lto me aame station, sta-tion, to be (in i led hy mute and Borrowing Bor-rowing thoiiriiuila. n iireaentatlve of every rank and atutlon In American life There were the olTleera and men of the army and navy, the heada of departments, de-partments, the clerka, und the charwomen, char-women, bualneaa men and working-men, working-men, whltea and nlnrks. wedited In tha atreet behlml the rope to receive the nation a dead. It waa the ripened fruit of the harvest. MrKlnley the beloved, cold In death, had come back to th nation' capital for a Inst pauae within Ita historic preclude before proceeding proceed-ing to th grave by the aide of hla mother and father and his two children chil-dren In the cemetery at Canton. The Onus over the rapltol and the White House were at half-maat, and the flags of the army and navy were ahrouded, while mutlled drums spoke tbe sorrow fur hit death, but above this sorrow roa the spirit of McKlnley triumph aa th Borrowing multitude felt that hi life, at th head of th nation bad effaced old sectional lines and even party llnea In this hour, for among thoae who stood with uncovered bead and tcar-dlmmed eye wer men who had worn the gray, a sincere mourner mourn-er now aa thote who had In the political polit-ical strife followed the star of Mc Klnley Kln-ley aa Prealdent The caaket, which waa borne to the eat room of the White House, was covered hy th stars and stripes and two wreaths, one of white rotes and the other of whits carnations, car-nations, rested on the top. After Prealdent Roosevelt and the cabinet retired from the raat room Mrs. McKlnley, attended by her Bister, descended from her private apart-nieuta, apart-nieuta, and entered the room. She atood for two or three moments at th side of her dead husband, and then waa led away back through the broad corrldur, whsr ahe baa been 'the host-eaa host-eaa at so many state dinners, and finally fin-ally to her apartments. President Koosevelt drove directly from th White House to the residence of hi brother-in-law, Commander W. 8. Cowlea, U. B. N.. No. 1733 N street. N. W. 11 waa accompanied In the carriage car-riage by Secretary of State Hay and Secretary of tbe Treasury Gag. The cabinet minister did not enter th Cowles bouse, but, lesvlng Prealdent Rooaevelt there, they were driven to their reapecllve homes. President Roosevelt found Mr. Koosevelt and Theodore Kooeevelt. Jr., bit eldest ton. awaiting his arrival, they having reached there from New York In tbe afternoon. : OATATALQUB IN THB NATIONAL CAPITOl, USED FOR THE THfRD TIME FOR A STRICKEN PRESIDENT. , th gathered harvast McKlnley, th 1 man and th ttatosman, had patted - through the aame portals of the old railroad tntlon perhapa a thousand time fa th last forty yeara. Hla flrat somlug waa aa a boy soldier, snd then II oam a a legislator and governor, gnd finally aa Presldsnt-slcct of th TJnlted States. Tbtt waa on March I,' l( im. It waa a perfect tprlng dry. with mr budding trees, spring noweri, and I tlnglug bird. It waa early morning when a mag nlllcent train, covered with guttering flag, awept aloug th bla-loric bla-loric Potomac aPd Into th Ptntuyl- i i, |
