[From official records, Interior Department.]
Order.
Department of the Interior,
_Washington, September 20, 1881._
As a token of respect to the memory of the late President, James A.
Garfield, the Department of the Interior and the several bureaus and
offices thereof will be closed to public business until Saturday, the
24th instant.
A. BELL, _Acting Secretary_.
[From official records, Interior Department.]
Order.
Department of the Interior,
_Washington, September 24, 1881._
In pursuance of the proclamation of the President of the United
States[A] appointing Monday, the 26th instant, as a day of humiliation
and mourning for the death of the late President, this Department and
the several bureaus and offices thereof will be closed to business on
that day.
A. BELL, _Acting Secretary_.
[Footnote A: See p. 34.]
Funeral Announcement to the Public.
[From the New-York Times, September 21, 1881.]
[ELBERON, N.J., _September 20, 1881._]
The remains of the late President of the United States will be removed
to Washington by special train on Wednesday, September 21, leaving
Elberon at 10 a.m. and reaching Washington at 4 p.m. Detachments from
the United States Army and from the marines of the Navy will be in
attendance on arrival at Washington to perform escort duty. The remains
will lie in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol on Thursday and Friday,
and will be guarded by deputations from the Executive Departments and by
officers of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Religious ceremonies will be observed in the Rotunda at 3 o'clock on
Friday afternoon. At 5 o'clock the remains will be transferred to the
funeral car and be removed to Cleveland, Ohio, _via_ the Pennsylvania
Railroad, arriving there Saturday at 2 p.m. In Cleveland the remains
will lie in state until Monday at 2 p.m., and be then interred in
Lakeview Cemetery. No ceremonies are expected in the cities and towns
along the route of the funeral train beyond the tolling of bells.
Detailed arrangements for final sepulture are committed to the municipal
authorities of Cleveland, under the direction of the executive of the
State of Ohio.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
_Secretary of State._