Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR “COUNTLESS THOUSANDS JOIN IN TRIBUTE TODAY “wnutfied piveetiny 3 had been TO (Continued from Page One.) 1 rotunda. They walked side by side,| Dr. A. Freeman Anderson, pastor of | Mrs. Harding’s church here, and Dr James Shera Montgomery, chaplain | representatives. Then | and naval asides | r to the president | at all the dramatic moments of his brief, full service as the first leader of his people. | In Penrsylvania Avenue the long silence that hitherto has been dis-| turbed only by the champing of the| restless mounts ne troopers was broken by the strains of Chopin's funeral march, played by an army band. There was on'y a brief delay then until tt st journey of Warren Harding alor e fare had crowds of aisle of grief f the executive mansic capitol a mile away A bugler came to the White House | portico and sounded shrilly the single note of the soldiers’ call to attention to the avenue ith ‘@heir The cavalr: osite came to a shary salute blades flashing in the sunlig there was a flourish of the drums just as the guns of Fort My the si Potomac ech with @ salute to the departed comrade. | Mrs. Harding came down the steps | ‘&® moment later, heavily velled, her| frail figure making a pitiful picture amid the splendor and pomp of the great honors to which, by full mea- sure of devotion, she had helped and} inspired her husband to achieve. On one sids of her walked secretary Christian and on the other Brigader General Charles EB. 5S: r, her ite | long friend in Marion and the pres! dent's physician. Just before, within the east room, she had stood with| these same friends and with the new president, the cabinet and niembers of the supreme court at a brief prayer service beside the bier. At the end and just before the casket was taken to its martial funeral car outside, they repeated the Lord’s prayer. MES, HARDING LAST TO TAKE HER PLACE Before the little woman, fighting to remain calm in the ahadow of her grief, had entered her car, all the other members of the funeral party had taken their pla She was handed up into the big automobile by Mr. Christian and it started to roll, Behind the caisson the cars beseing President Coolidge, chief Justice Taft and former President followered in turn. military escort, which had been placed in the line of march ahead of the funerat caimon, pre viously had taken station on the ave- nue, winding around as far as the south entrance of the treasury. It moved off at the word of Command, an army band ahead, with ita crepe~ drums, playing “Onward Christian Soldiers.” General Pershing’s erect figure on his splendid mount commanded # reception in sorrowful contrast to the last time he had ridden up the broad avenue. On that day {tt was the victorious commander leading the victorious legion and recetving the plaudits that only the victor in war Teoeives. Today he was engaged in one of the sad pursuits of peace. The cheers were missing; the grim solemn countenance of the general bespoke the mourning of the thousands who saw him pass. ‘ Almost before the four black horses that drew the black wheeled caisson ‘with its precioug cargo had been given their word of command at the ‘White House, the head of the es cort hed reached the capitol whero the plaza had been cleared of all but troops. General Pershing dropped out of line to take charge of the final dis position of the troops. Meantime the many civic and fraternal orders that & places in he re were just form into line beside the White House. As Mrs. Harding’s car passed along Pennsylvania Avenue, only Dr, Saw yer could be seen within, for the curtains were closely drawn. Be tween her and the casket, with its single great wreath, rode the pall bearers, members of the cabinet representatives: of the judictary, and nenators. | ‘Wilson The en PRESIDENT NEXT IN LONG CORTEGE | 5 Next Coolidge, sud the mantle ch had his chief's sb rs. He had appear @d on that avenue before in the sub- ordinate th the country as to its vice presidents. Tod he traveled the same route a pre fent, w a burden ahead and a genuine perso sorrow beside bh none the @ fealization of h he was followed them an- Another son of h had’ spared in the > permit him to take up Justice of the His inscru co : Howard Teft, loved by all who knew him, was in his place in the solemn cor. ner who knew what sed through of the na through the the presidency jared himaelf sp uses | he grief and respect which was per-| tonally his as well as the great anch of the government which he ‘epresented. WILSON'S GRIEF DIMS MANY EYES Then t reminder, tay. Wood from the s¢ home whero came a | wit | tie oe oe Li: 4 Where body of late president lay today while thousands filed past bier. Warren beside him, tn the full bloom of vigorous life, about to | take up the burden he was laying down. Harding's consideration for the kk man beside him touched every heart and dimmed many eyes that day—tt touched Woodrow Wilson's heart as few things had, and today he came to pay {t back and put his heart upon his sleeve. Little did any body dream that Woodrow Wilson would te helping Iay Warren Hard- ing under the sod, but death had gty- en @ respite to the one and abruptly summoned the other If there be an American who does not feel a catch in his throat or whose heart does not beat faster when the marine bend plays “Onward Christian Soldiers” he did not stand on Pennsylvania Avenue today as the cortege passed on its sorrowing way. As if in exemplification of the chris- tian kindliness of Warren Harding's heart, the magnificent band fust ahead of him played the majestic strains of the eld hymn all the way to the capitol, interspersed with “How Firm A Foundation Ye Beints of the Lord,” the favorite hymn ef Theodore Roosevelt. TROOPER FORM LINE ACROSS PLAZA. And as the sflver tones mounted up and echoed back in the cenyon of humanity that packed the great thor- oughfare, tears stole down many cheeks and many eyes were dim. But as they entered the sweeping expanse of the plaza the bands fell silent. Amid a hush lke the gulet of the tomb, the infantry of the escort formed {ts line across the entire front, the marines took @p their sta- tion to the north of the stepe of the rotunda, and the blue jackets defiled into a line opposite them to the south, Only the sharp commands cut into the oppressive silence. As the troops came inte posttion General Pershing remained on horee- back in the front of the center of the rotunda, awaiting the coming of the dead to this new scene of tearful, splendid Lodge, parade b of public dents the ro! waiting, waiting solemnly and with bowed head, for the coming of the marshal of the serv alighted ice under many from presi- his car beside friend whose desk had been near his in the senate chamber in the years when Warren Harding was happy in r responsibilities of public before the nation called him urdensome duties that crushed s life. It was a walt of only a few min- utes. The troops in front of the cap! tol presented arms as the caisson reached the east front of the rotunda and Pershing joined in the salute ne long line of automobiles came to stop, and a non-commissioned of- ficer stepped up and loosened the wide black straps that had bound the asket to its funeral car, ‘Then it ed down, and with the band ing “Lead Kindly Light," the ent was carried, tenderly and the loving benediction of a na upon him, up the steps and ss the spot where two and a half years ago he stood to take his oath of duty. Then the plaza was filled with cheering humanity. ‘Today it was once more a picture of reverence and| high respect, but stilled this time by| the hush of tragedy. SENATOR LOD WALKS BESIDE CASKET. Senator Lodge walked up the steps beside the casket and the empty caisson moved away. Tho dignitaries and the ministers followed along, step | by step, for the progress up the steps was very, very slow. Fourteen sol- diers, saflors and marines helped lift the load of aprrow up the steep and long ascent to the chamber where Lincoln and McKinley rested in grandeur and where now Harding was to receive the last pouring out of a great peoples love and gratitude. President Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft and former Vice-President Mar- shall who also had been allotted a place in the procession, reached the rotunda just behind the casket. Mrs, Harding's car had driven to an en- trance below the big steps so that she could be taken to the floor above by elevator. DRAMA OF GRIEF REACHES CLIMAX. Then began a great drama of was placed on new scene in the As the body catafalque first s the coln even a deeper hush to fall upon those within the ue of his many years| da steps and likewise atood| 4, PRESIDENT HARDING de Casper Daily Cribune funeral train, did full realization come to Washifigton of the sad day that had struck for the nation. Until then it was terrible, but far away. ‘With that curiously ajlent spectacle impressing deeply the minds of the thousands who waited so patiently through a day and half a night to Witness it, today's pomp and panoply of sorrow had new meaning. The day of honors and of sorrow was ushered tn beneath a cloudless vi] with his “Amen™ a quartette of the| sky with the hot haze of mid-sum- Calvary Baptist church, Mr. Hard-| mer elmost obscuring the sun as it ing’s piace of worship, took up softly; mounted in the east to look for the the plaintive, beseeching strains of “Lead Kindly Light,” the favorite hymn of McKinley. Over the broken body of the leeder were intbned the solemn words of Assurance of David in the Twenty- third Psalm, a selection from Revela- tions, and the verse to which Mr. Harding had pressed his lps when he kissed the Bible of George Wash- ington on inauguration day two years ago. A simple prayer by Dr. Mont- gomery, the singing of “Nearer My God to Thee” by the quartette, and benediction by Dr. Anderson, and the national government had con- cluded its last rites for its president. From that moment he was to belong to the people and to history; in his majesty on the hallowed bier under the great dome he was to lie in state for his fellow men to pass by and do him reverence in their own way until the shadow of evening should jengthen to announce the hour when he would take up once more his long trail to final rest in his home town of Marion. The benediction at the funeral ser- vice in the rotunda was pronounced precisely at noon. Then with slow steps and in silence the little funeral party separated. Mrs. Herding walked from the rotunda on the arm of Secretary Christian, with Dr. Sawyer walking beside her. Thus she reached the private elevator of the supreme court near the’ north door, and in it was taken to the street level. Immediately the wido wentered her car, and again accompained by her husbands's secretary and physician, both old friends from Marion was taken immediately to the White House, At 12:15 she once more pass- ed inside the tall doors that never) more were to receive the man she loved, consoled, encouraged and nurs ed finally to the very end of his last iMness. A few minutes later President Cool- idge departed from his suite in the ‘Wilard, and Chief Justice Taft and others lingered only a short time about th atone structure within which @ soldier guard was taking its place to watch beside the dead while tens of thomsands of his people walked by with solemn step and bowed heads. Former President Wilson, whose ill- ness prevented hig attendance at the funeral ceremonies in the rotunda had left the cortege at the capitol plaza and had resched his home on 5 street again while the service was in progress, Even after the funeral was over, however, and all of {ts central figures hed departed, the last of the long pro- cession still was passing through the plasa. The end did mot come until 12.20 p m AVENUS BANKED WITH LINE OF MOUBNERS WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (By As- sociated Press)—Day came to a city filled with the hushed stir of armed hoste moving to places before the ‘White House, that Warren Harding might have fitting escort as he went to the high honors that awaited him Rank on rank, the troops wheeled into place, facing eastward. now to where the great, gray pile of the capitol loomed against the morning aky. Soldiers in khaki, eatlors in white, marines in blue, the long column lent a colorful gleam to a picture otherwise sombre st drooping at halt roofs above. And all through the massed forma- on of the sister services of which this dead olvillan was commander ip chief were the mourning bands op arm or sabre hilt, the black stream ers they bore. A simple, kindly gentleman lay yet military honors were his dead; right such as no general or admiral shall know, for he spoke in life with the voice of the whole people, com: manding the people's army, the peo- ple’s navy. And they moved gladly to obey that voice. Long before the troops came marching to thelr places to wait with bayonets fixed until the sharp call! of trumpets set them moving east: ward to lead this fallen comrade to his long rest, the people of Wash- ington and all the cities about had trooped down to thelr humble places inside the steel strands that kept wide Pennsylvania Avenue clear from end to end for the sorrowful spectacle. They came by thousands and tens of thousands to line the way with banks of ailent, loving tribute to the dead. Among the bare heads were many touched now with gray that thus honored martyred McKinley as he was carried over the same way te the same crowding honors and dig- nities that today awaited his fellow Obloan. But to the younger folk. who have known the wide through. fare only in its days of joy and triumphs, this slow moving parade of sorrow brought a sense of per- sonal loss and depression. They saw the unknown soldier carried west- ward through the great street to his matchless tomb, but there was triumph and the high impulse of loy- alty to the flag in that pageant. ‘There was little of human grief. The way of his death glorified the aacri- floes, It was different now, for here waq @ man whose name the world has come to know, whose sturdy figure and kindly eyes were familiar to every one here in Washington. It seemed but an hour ago he had rid- den awuy, amiling, nodding gay fare- wells as he set out on his long jour- ney to be greeted everywhere with the cheers and shouting of his fellow Americans. Now he was dead and the cheering and the shouting was over, suddenly, terribly over. Not till last night when, under dimmed lamps and with half seen troopers riding ahead through the sacred 1 s 40 a. m., Dr og oir a and silent streets, the casket was carried by to the White House from the falling from the etarry flags | | last time on Warren Harding, among the scenes of his greatest labors. Now and then, however, as the crowds of watchers began to gather along the funeral way fitful breezes rustled a benediction among the branches of the elms and maples that line the historic avenue MRS. HARDING STILL BRAVE IN SORROW Mrs. Harding, who recroased the threshold of t! White House only a short time before midnight after her long journey homeward with the ) Was up at 7:45 this morning Refreshed by several hours sleep she renewed to the few close friends and relatives about her in her house of sorrow her determination to bear up bravely through all the trying funer- al houre—a determination which had carried her 3,000 miles through scenes of sorrow which never have been surpassed in the nation’s his- tory. Shortly after she awoke and while the city was stirring itself in preparation for the great events of the day the widow of the great white mansion, who had been so lately the first lady of the land, had her break- fast alone in her room on the second floor, across the hall from the bed. room which had belonged to him who now slept at the foot of the great stairway. The morning sun despite the haze that gave @ touch of unreality to the funeral day, raked the great crystal chandeliers in the egat room with a salvo of light and gave a new glory to the majesty amid which the dead president was sleeping his last sleep within the portals which had held for him so much of hope and promise. ‘With the dawn the tale of tribute told by the floral offerings that al- ready hid the walls of the great room was taken up again by others who desired to pay'a meed of praise and gratitude to the kindly leader- ship of the sleeper. The first wreath to arrive this morning was from the scouting fleet—a great anchor of as- tera, white on blue. It was laid re verne among the offerings of princes and of barefoot boys banked about the casket in a great smothering pro fusion of beauty and fragrance. In a place of honor near the cas- ket one wreath that would have brought a tear of gratitude to the kindly blue eyes of the president coulé they have been opened once again to behold the grandeur of his last rest amid the flowers. It was from the government of Alaska, a woven mass of purple and white orchids, yellow roses, lilies of the valley and snap dragons, set there to wmbolize the appreciation of a far ‘and to whose interests the fallen chieftain had given his last hours of health and strength. | AY, AUGUST 8, 1923, CHICAGO — Conditions among | Waterloo, Iowa, merchant declare; farmers are better than they have | at the interstate merchant's coun. been for three years, Paul Davis | cil. from the White House to the capitol] the cavalry escort already was in was to begin, the crowds were gath-| line, facing toward the place where ering along the way to pay thelr|{!ts dead commander in chief was reverent homage during the lasi| resting before his departure from the Journey of their leader along the|capitol and for his final-rest at avenue where he had passed so many| Marion. About the broad white por times before with the high light of|tals were gathered the official diplo- unselfish endeavor in the eyes that|matlo representatives of princes and now were closed forever. potentates in many parts of the Outside the capitol the watchers| world. They were to ride in the funer- came earlier than elsewhere in the|a!l cortege, but before the departure $ain hope that, some how, some of|they, too, were accorded the honcr them might find a way into the ro-|of passing through the flower tunda to see the simple funeral rites.) banked east room to look into the But the little enclosure beneath the| narrow casket that framed for etern- dome could hold only a handful of|!ty the features of the dead chief the many thousands, and the places| magistrate. of honor there had been reserved for the highest government and diplo- Plane Tu bles > Two Are Hurt SQUARE DANCING WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS At NORTH WASHINGTON Music by Spies Howling Wolves matic officials and the friends who in life had stood closest to Mr. Hard- ing. As he would have desired, the ceremonials chosen to express the| BENTON, IL, Aug. 7—Frank Shu- nation’s last loving farewell were of|man, 23 of Kitchner, Ontario, and the simplest. The pastor of his own|Ole Hagen, 23 of Osage, I church in Washington and the chap-| injured near here when their airplane lain of the House of Representatives] fell approximately 300 feet. were the officiating ministers. The brief scripture reading selected in- cluded the verse he hed kissed on his inauguraton day as, with hand up Ufted, he took his oath of duty and pressed his Ups against the bible that had been Washington's. It was the eighth verse of the sixth chapter of Micah; “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good;;and what doth the Lord require of Thee but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. ‘The thousands who could not be given places in the funeral hall were formed tn line at a distance so that after the service they might file past the casket to pay their last reverence. as other thousands before them had paid similar tribute in the same chamber to.Lincoln and McKinley and more recently to the unknown dead. Houre before hand the long line, four abreast, began to form in the deep shadows of the capitol ground: Profiting by the sad lesson of the last state funeral to a president, when many were injured in the crush of eagerness to pass in tribute past the coffin of McKinley, a wide space in front of the capitol itself} was cleared bf all except these who had cards of admission. Shortly after 9 o'clock the casket was opened as it. Iay among the fiowers in the east room and the re latives and close friends said their tearful good bye to the dead. All the White House employes who had toved him for his kindly thoughtful- ness and his strong heart, filed past with the others, dim eyed and in- consolabie. He lay in his last sleep with an infinite peace in his smi] and with his hands folded over thi body in @ deep repose after the full yeure of his great labors. 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