The university has for several years been in successful operation and is destined to become one of the foremost seats of learning in the world. In munificence of endowment it is unrivaled in the history of the world. In addition to its endowment fund it has a legacy of wise counsels from its founder. He enjoyed the uncommon privilege of living to witness the realization of the cherished idea of his old age and of seeing the university, the monument of the affection which he bore his son, take a place among the leading universities of the world. He saw it fully organized and equipped, its halls thronged with students, its reputation firmly established, its usefulness and its influences extending year by year. Who can measure the results of such a gift?

The Leland Stanford Junior University opened its doors in October, 1891, with over 500 students. There are in attendance the current year over 700.

From the inception of the idea of founding the university, through every stage of its development, and through every period of its operation, Mrs. Stanford has been the earnest, the enthusiastic, the helpful friend, and to her is committed the task, left in part uncompleted by her husband, of still further widening its influence and increasing its usefulness.

In 1885 Mr. STANFORD was elected a member of the Senate. He took his seat March 4, 1885, and was reelected for the term ending March 3, 1897. Mr. STANFORD was not very conspicuous in the debates in the Senate, though he took an active interest in the work of the body and was an influential member of a number of leading committees. His name will forever be associated with the Land-Loan bill, which he originated and presented to the Senate. His addresses on this measure have been quoted in works on political economy in every language of civilization. The bill proposed, in brief,

that money should be issued upon land to half the amount of its value, and for such loan the Government was to receive an annual interest of 2 per centum. Mr. STANFORD frequently stated that if the measure were adopted it would, in time, raise revenue enough to pay the entire expenses of the Government, and would thus take the tariff question out of politics entirely. It had no connection, however, with what is known as the SubTreasury plan, which proposed the issue of money to be loaned on perishable products.

The high estimates formed of the value of Mr. STANFORD'S services as a Senator are set forth in the appreciative addresses of his associates in Congress which are contained in this vol

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FUNERAL CEREMONIES AT PALO ALTO.

The funeral of LELAND STANFORD took place Saturday, June 25, 1893, at Palo Alto, Cal. The body lay in the room in which he died- a room in the second story of his late home— until a short time before the commencement of the ceremonies. Only a few of the most intimate friends of the family were admitted to the house.

The body had been placed in a black-covered casket and removed to the library of the dwelling, where it remained until half past 1 o'clock, when the funeral procession was formed. The pall-bearers and intimate friends of the deceased assembled at the house. The body was borne to the place of funeral by the eight engineers oldest in point of service in the Southern Pacific Company. Ranged along the pathway were the two hundred employés of the Palo Alto stock farm.

The funeral ceremonies were held in the open air in the quadrangle of the Leland Stanford Junior University buildings. At one end of the Spanish court was a platform upon which the casket rested during the services. Chairs and benches, part of the furniture of the university, were placed upon the asphaltum pavement in front of the platform for the accommodation of visitors.

Clinging to the sandstone walls and reaching to the tiles that roof the arcade were growing ivy and passion vines. The

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collection of flowers was one such as probably has never been equaled on such an occasion. A van draped in white and laden with magnificent specimens of the floral wealth of California was taken to the quadrangle and ranged in front of the platform which served as a chancel. These offerings were from various societies and organizations with which Mr. STANFORD had been associated, and showed that sorrow for his death pervaded the whole community. There were offerings from the Loyal Legion, the Union League Club, and the Stan ford Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, from the employés of the Southern Pacific Company at San Francisco, from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and from the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. "To Labor's Friend," "Our Friend," were the inscriptions on the gifts from these organizations. A floral horse was the offering of the employés of the Palo Alto stock farm. It was a likeness of a favorite mare of the dead Senator. Most wonderful and unique of all was the gift of the railroad employés. It was a locomotive and tender in flowers, fashioned to represent one of the first locomotives used on the Central Pacific Railway. Formed of roses and lilies and sweet peas and yellow pansies was the locomotive, and the tender of peas of darker hues, while yellow pansies represented the brasswork on the engine.

At the corners of the platform stood Norfolk Island pines, and in appropriate arrangement were white Easter lilies and sweet-pea blossoms and anemones and roses, red and white.

Amid such surroundings, in the open air, in the shadow of the university which he had so munificently endowed, the funeral services of LELAND STANFORD were held. The audience numbered thousands. Men known throughout the State were noticeable in the company assembled, men known by their prominence and success in politics, men who directed