The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC—NO. 111. FORMER TOWNSMEN OF THE SLAIN PRESIDENT W SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 3 FLOOD OF EMOTION AT BIER. ANTON, Ohio, Sept. 18.—Throughout the afternoon the human tide pressed steadily forward to the bier. Four abreast in double line, without a moment's halt the people hurried by the casket and then, with tear-stained faces, bassed out of the darkened chamber into the bright sunlight. In the line wting all stations in life, all ages, all conditions. At one moment an pld man, bent who had known “Mother” McKinley, tottered up to gase upon the silent features. was followed by a man of middle age, who had gone to school with McKinley. Ouver on one side was the Knight Templar who had marched beside McKinley in parades. All who came had some recol- lection of personal relation with the man lying there cold in death. Fathers brought their children and held them over the bier for a fleeting glance at the upturned face. ~ A slecping baby was aroused by its mother for a sight its little mind could not comprehend. Toilers came from the factories and dinner pails in hand, trooped by the bier of him whom they called their benefactor and their friend. A great were those repres and withered, flood of emotion was welling up in the hearts of these sorrowing people. EEP FOR THE MARTYR | | OVERLOOK LIVING PRESIDENT IN RECEIVING L/ il il AN\ m oF T IATE TRE DETIT ¢ REJSTED Fo= TAR TAST TIMA= TAST IIGHT THE -M'< INLEY BESIDENCE B89 W%—IHESC‘DY IN-SOLEMN SORROW THE BODY OF THE DEAD Canton, the Home of the Late President, Deeply Mourns for the Beloved Friend and Fellow Citizen Who Departed for Buffalo Two Weeks Ago in the Best of Health and Spirits to Become the Victim of a Most Cowardly Assassin. ANTON, Ohio, Sept. 15—Tenderly | pligrimages in the days that are gone, | but two of the lights of the chandelier | dotalls of regulars from all branches of and reverently those who had known | The blinds were drawn, but there was no | above the head were extingulshd in order | the service, fraternal, soclal and clvie Willam McKinley best to-day re- [ outward token of the blow that had | that “the change might appear less no- | organizations and representations of com- ceived his martyred body into their | robbed it of its most precious possession. | ticeable, but every one who viewed the | mercial bodies from all over the country, arms. They had forgotten the {llus- | The flowers bloomed on the lawn as they | remains to-day remarked the darkened | the Governors of several States with their trious career of the statesman in|did two weeks ago, There’was not even | features and the ghastly lips, the loss of a great personal friend | o bow of crane on the door when the | body When the | staffs, the Senate and House of the United was taken away thousands were |States and the Cabinet and President of who had grown dear to them with the | stricken widow was carried by Abner Mc- | still in line, and the committee in charge | the United States, will follow the remains passing of the years. They hardly noticed | Kinley and Dr. Rixey through it into the | of arrangements was appealed to to allow | to West Lawn Cemetery, where they will the President of the United States or his | darkened home, from which the light for | a further opportunity to view the remains | be placed in a recelving vault, awaiting Cabinet or the generals and admirals in | her had flown forever. Only the hitching | to-morrow morning before they are taken | the time when they will be laid in the thelr resplendent uniforms. The flag- | post at the curb in front of the residence | to the church. But this had to be denied | Erave beside the two children who were draped casket which contained the body | had been swathed in black by the citizens | to them, and the casket may never be |buried years ago, ::!1 their thoughts. He had left them two | eral scheme of mourning decorations that weeks ago this very day in the full tic 4 been adopted. £ad as was the proces- of strength of & glorious manhood, and | sfon which bore the bady to the court- they had brought him back dead. Anguish | house, where it lay in state this after. | was in the heart of every man, woman | noon, it could not compare with the in- | and child. The entire population of the | finite sadness of thd't endless double line | Jittle city and thousands from all over | of broken hearted people who streamed | b b Ohlo, the full sirength of the Naticnal | steadily through the dimly lighted corri- | femily. Guard of the three batteries o of ernor, Licu of three branches of were at the station to receive the remains. | it was the great change that had come The whole town was in deep black. The their friend and fellow townsman held | in order that it might conform to-the gen- | opened again. Last Solemn Rites. The funeral seryices will take place to- | bring the people who are coming to-mor- morrow at 1:30 p. m. at the First M. B. | row. The number and beauty of the floral Church, of which the martyred President | tributes which are arriving surpass be- They will | llef. Flowers are coming literally by the be brief, by the expressed wish of the|ton. The hothouses of the country seem Rev. O. B. Milligan, pastor of | to have been emptied to supply them. Tho the First Presbyterian Church, in which | facilities of the Ifttle city of Canton are e—eight regiments, | dors of the building from the time the ¥y, one battalion | coffin was opened until it was taken home in all—the Gov- | to the sorrowing widow at nightfall. They ernor and & Justice | stepped softly lest their footfalls wake representing the | their friend from his last long sleep. Tears ate government, | came unbidden to wet the bier. Perhaps engineers, 5000 me nt ¢ the Supreme Cc upon the countenance which moved them more than the sight of the familiar fea- Canton in Deep Mourning. was a member and a trustee. President and Mrs. McKinley were mar- | ried thirty years ago, will make the open- | sands who are here, much less the other ing prayer. Dr. John Hall of the Trinity | thousands who are on the way. Although | Lutheran Church will make the first scrip- | the local committee is doing everything tural reading, and Dr. E. P. Herbuck of | in Its power to provide food and shelter, the Trinity Reform Church the second. | many of the officlals from Washington Dr. C. E. Manchester, pastor of the late | are obliged to sleep in the cars they came President’s church, will deliver the only |in, and to-night hundreds are walking address. A quartet will sing “Beautiful | the streets, seeking food and places to All Going to Funeral. Rallroad facllities seem inadequate to entirely inadequate to care for the thou- only house in all this sortow stricken | tures. The signs of discoloration which | 1gle o; Somewhere,” and another quartet | sleep, city without & touch of mourning drapery | appeared upon the brow and cheeks yes- | wij| render “Lead, Kindly Light.” 4 ttage on North | terday at the state ceremontal in the ro- | fmposing procession, consisting of many | but it is expected that over 100,000 people many distin- | tunda of the Capital at Washington had | of the Grand Army of the Republic posts | will be here to-morrow. ¥ have mude | decpened. The lips had become livid. All |in the State, the National Guard of Ohlo, | Fortunately the members of the Senate was the cld McKinley ‘nrk-r street, to wh slished men in the co An | The population of Canton is about 31,000, PROGRAMME FOR CANTON CEREMONIES T. Canton to-day the funeral services will oocour at 1:30 p. m. at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of which MoKinley was a member and trustee. An imposing procession in which Grand Army posts, the National Guard of Ohio, details of regulars and fraternal, so- cial and - civic organiza- tions, Governors and many noted statesmen will take part, will follow the re- mains to the cemetery. A quartet from Pitts- burg Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, will sing at the vault, and there will also be prayer service and scriptural reading. < STV G R and House will not arrive until to-mor- row. President Roosevelt, his naval aid, Commander Cowles, Becretary Root and Assistant Secretary Hill are at the rest- Continued on Page Two. THE FTIRJ/T M E CHRORCH OF LANTON WHERE THE RELIGLOUS JRRVICES TSI, R MELD TODAY. . Mo e s e HOME OF THE LATE PRESIDENT McKINLEY AT CANTON AND THE HOLY EDIFICE WHERE IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL SERVICES OVER THE REMAINS OF THE MARTYRED STATESMAN WILL BE HELD. J e THOUSANDS VIEW BODY AT CANTON COURTHOUSE 0ld and Young Join the Vast Throng That Passes Before Beloved Dead to View the Face for the Last Time. ——— ALNTON, Ohlo, Sept. 18.—The sight | feet with difficulty restrained the solid was profoundly impressive as the | wall of people. Canton had suddenly be- funeral train drew near to the little | come a city of 100,000 and a gvod por- station at Canton at exactly noon | ., ,¢ tne people were in the streets. The to-day. All about the station and | yi04i0n jtselt was cleared, a company of banked deep in the surrounding | .giers of the Eighth Ohio from Worces- | streets were the friends and nelghbors of | yo;. geeping the platform vacant. Oppo- the martyred President, while drawn up | gte over the. heads of acres of people, on back of the station were long lines of | ihe wall of a manufacturing establish- militlamen at present arms. Immediately | ment, was an enormous shield thirty feet In the rear of the station at the mouth | high with McKinley's black-bordered ple- of Tenth street was Troop A of Cleve- | tyre in the center. The local committes, land. mounted on their black chargers. | headed by ex-Secretary of State Willlam keeping the entrance of the line of march clear: - Up the street soldlers at infarvals of ten Continued on Page Two.