'The garden is so big and there were so'many guests, that directions had' to. be "shouted" through speakers which also sounded with mourning musie throughout the day. Sniy mourners were allowed to. to the burying ground, which guests could' visit later after the interment, Which "took place at about noon Although the mourning hall where the "casket was placed Is a" fow hundred yards away: from the bury Ing. ground near the marble tomb of the late Me. Hardoon,. the funeral procession was as elaborate. as those held in the street, The casket was put ili an old-fashioned Chinese hearse covered by red. silk on which dragons were embroidered and. carled by $2. persons, followed mourn fers and professional mourners in the (raditiona! manner.
The whole business was managed by those connected with. the: Har= dons, including their. adopted foreign and Chinese children, their tutors and more than 100 servants alleled in White mourning clothes, One of the tutors said that they Feeclved more mourning gifts than they "had time "to display. "AS a matier of fact, he said, many' witts ad to be returned. He" estimated that since the death, of Mes. Hardoon about $2,000,000 had been spent and Seslerday's expense would amount to A sum running well over six Mqures, Numerous begers were seen milling around' the garden trying to obtain Formosan Girl Wounded}
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