ent. The flags of all vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service
will be carried at half-mast until otherwise ordered.

MR. GAGE ANNOUNCES DEATH.

HEAD OF TREASURY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.

Secretary Gage issued the following announcement of the death of
President McKinley:

It has been thought proper to make sad but official announcement in this
issue of Treasury Decisions of the tragic death of William McKinley,
twenty-fifth President of the United States, and to give some expression
of that tribute which his character and deeds compel.

It needed not the shadows of death to make the figure of the late
President loom large in the estimate of mankind.

The republic he loved he lived to broaden and unify as no previous
President had done. Under his prudent and far-seeing statesmanship it
took exalted place in the community of nations.

From his place as private citizen, on through many and increasing
honors to his final post as ruler of his people, he remained true to
the highest ideals.

By the people of the nation at large and by the world he was known and
will live in grateful annals as a gentleman of noble heart, an
affectionate husband, a sturdy friend, and a faithful and illustrious
President.

In a long public life, ever open to his fellows, nothing was ever found,
even by intemperate partisan zeal, that would cast a shade upon his
character.

The kindly and unselfish attributes which his colleagues knew and loved,
the public felt, and now men of every faith and following join in
reverent acknowledgment of those distinctive virtues and abilities that
lift him among the truly great of all ages.

The passing of Presidents and Kings usually evokes tributes of praise,
but in William McKinley's life there was an element that made him more
than ruler, and which, in the hour of his death, is above the tribute
of speech and tears.

The ordinary tributes paid to the memory of the great when they pass
from earth utterly fail to satisfy the mind in an attempted application
of them to our dead President.

L.J. GAGE,
_Secretary._

CERTIFICATE OF THE CORONER.

FORMAL RECORD OF MCKINLEY'S DEATH FOR BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS.

The coroner of Erie County issued the following certificate of death of
the late President:

CITY OF BUFFALO,
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS,
COUNTY OF ERIE, STATE OF NEW YORK.