Making first, as a private citizen, a call of condolence upon Mrs. McKinley, Roosovelt went to the home of a friend in Buf-tale and was there sworn in as President of the United States, the oath being administered by a Federal Court judge. The scene was a striking one. In the bay into office the youngest President the United States has ever had—the youngest far since Grant, who had held that distinction previously, and was forty-seven Sears of age when introduced into the Presidency The Funeral of President McKinley be said to have extended over five days and to have been celebrated in three places. On Sunday, following the private services at the home of John C. Milburn, where he died, the body lay in state at Buf o's City Hall, and an unending process sion of people passed through the cold rain into the building and by the coffin in dou-blo file. It bad been planned to close the doors at six o'clock, but so great was the concourse of mourners that they were kept open until midnight, and then hundreds were turned away disappointed. The next morning the funeral train, bearing the body and beating, as well, Mrs. McKinley, Pre sident Roosevelt, and the Cabinet meimbers, started for Washington. That night the body rested in the White House, which had been the late President's home for nearly five years. On Tuesday in the rotunda of the Nationa! Capitol. where had rested the bodies of Lincoln and Garfield, the previous victims of assassins, the body lay in state, and great lines of people, four abreast, pose ed by it all day and into the evening. That night began the journey to Canton, Ohio, the President's real home, and there in the McKinley homestead on Wednesday his neighbours and friends and thousands of people from far and near met to do his memory honour, On that day for the last time, the body lay in state in the Canton Court House, and on Thursday with solemn ceremony it was consigned to the receiving vault. There for the next. ninety days armed soldiers of the State militia will be on guard until the final disposition of the remains is fixed upon.
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