CAPTAIN WEBB'S GRAVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 273, 22 October 1883, Page 2

CAPTAIN WEBB'S GRAVE.

•- ■" ■ ■ ■ ■ -m • ' ■■'-' > The Buffalo . Express j sajs •.—Halfway between Niagara Falls and Suppension Bridge, wejkbacj^inr the cemetery well named; Oak wood,* arid'in a heart-shaped plot- ot ground known as rStrangersV-Rea^' the remains of th'e great swimmer repose.'' No one waa present to do. his memory honour. There were no sned by loving friends, no regrets? by friendly neighbours, as the .remains were lowered into their restingrplace. a It was a mere performance: of, duty byybhe sexton and undertaker, under orders from the Board of Health. It was a sad picture, doubly pathetic when the life and deeds; and daring of this champion are considered—a man for whom haltof England and more than^that of the United States is mourning. There was •no shroud, no clothing to hide his bloated form. In the same rough pine box from whioh the body was shipped from Lewistoh to the Falls it was buried. Imaginative correspondents have written of a < neat suit of ( black,' of < clothing appropriate and well-looking,' and of a ' stained coffin/ : But the tact is that the body of the greatest Swimmer ofthe world was buriecTio the same condition as that it was found floating ml the quieV waters Of the Nigara ybj^owi Lewieton, except that the eoarletbreechclout with which he entered the treacherous waters had been torn away. Looked at as* the people, at .the Falls looked at this inter ment,-it was pathetic andpitiful!" ■!.',-.