Pike Street Presents an Unusually Quiet Appearance During the Hours When Many Funeral Services Held
There was a general compliance by merchants and business men with the request made in the proclamation issued by Burgess W. H. Dunlap for a general cessation of business in Canonsburg between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday, between which hours many of the funerals of the Opera House victims were held.
Promptly at 10 O'CLOCK there was a general closing of stores along Pike street as well as other streets in the business section. Both banks closed at 11 o'clock and remained closed until 3 p.m. They will be open from 3 to 5 this afternoon.
All stores in the East End commercial district, as well as those up town, were closed between 10 and 1 o'clock. Everywhere people showed a desire to do anything in their power to console the mourning friends and to show respect for the solemnities of the day.
The quietness of the principal streets was marked. there were hearses and cabs moving about, but there was a general absence of wagons and such vehicles.
Not for a long, long time has there been such a general closing of business places as there was Tuesday.
The people of town highly commended the action of the burgess, merchants and others.
Strangers passing through town by train or street car peered out of the windows when Canonsburg was called; they wished to obtain even a superficial view of the town where one of Pennsylvania's most tragic affairs of recent years occurred.