. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . mbers of the civicand fraternal organizations from all over thecountry. The head of the cortege arrived at thecemetery at 3:30 o clock in the afternoon. Theroadway from the gate to the receiving vault wasstrewn with flowers. From the hill-tops the Pres-idents salute of twenty-one guns, fired at inter-vals of a minute, boomed his last official recogni-tion. As the casket was lifted from the hearsethe gathered throngs stood with bared heads;and when the door of the vault was reached, eightbuglers, brought fro
. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth president of the United States. A typical American . mbers of the civicand fraternal organizations from all over thecountry. The head of the cortege arrived at thecemetery at 3:30 o clock in the afternoon. Theroadway from the gate to the receiving vault wasstrewn with flowers. From the hill-tops the Pres-idents salute of twenty-one guns, fired at inter-vals of a minute, boomed his last official recogni-tion. As the casket was lifted from the hearsethe gathered throngs stood with bared heads;and when the door of the vault was reached, eightbuglers, brought from the regular army, joinedin sounding taps—the soldiers McKinley, who had been in delicate healthfor years, was unable to accompany the body ofher husband to its last resting-place, and re-mained in the Canton home which his industryhad provided, and his love had glorified to herusing. The funeral was made the more impressiveby an unprecedented action taken throughout thecountry. While the coffin was being transferredfrom hearse to vault, and while the last prayers. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT THE MARTYRED PRESIDENTS CASKET MO kinleys assassikation. 367 were being said, industry of all kinds, in everycity of tlie Eepublic, was absolutely all the tributes paid to the dead President,none approached in majesty and impressivenessthat utter abandonment of all occupation. Fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific not a wheel turned inany mill, nor on any railroad, for the five min-utes of that final ceremony. Engineers, firemen,conductors, crews, paused for a period in theiroccupation, turned devoutly toward the littletown where the last sad rites were being per-formed, and sent their thoughts to join in thehushed farewell. That stopping of America, thatpause of the United States, that wait of everycitizen while the body of one dead was laid away,is impressive past all power of description. Ofit a famous author has said: Five minutestaken out of life! Five minutes sna
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