Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1921, Page 33

- Climax of All Tributes Comes as Unknown Goes to Last Resting Place in Historic A IDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 19?2 THE EVENING . STAR, 1. 33 , WASHINGTON, D. -C, r_lington REVERENCE MARKS ENTIRE JOURNEY OF <“UNKNOWN” From Choosing of Casket at Chalores-sur- Marne to Arrival at Washington, Greatest Honors Paid. No mighty potentate or victorious Feneral ever received greater or more Stacere homage than has marked avery step in the home-coming and the burial in the sacred soil of Ar- lington of the unknown American soldier killed at the battle front and siven temporary rest under the pop- vies of France. in half-hour watches, while the crowds filed by, gazed at the growing heap of flowers on the casket, and filed out again into the sunlight under a big overhead banner which read, “Glory to all the heroes un- gnown.” Placed in City Hall. Later the casket of the American warrior was placed in the rotunda of the city hall which was decorated The 1nited States 1 about two | with American flowers and flags. The ,millio soldicrs in Europe when hos- | cesket was draped in an American tiliti-s ceased with the signing of | (48. the only flowers on it belng the little bouquet which was used by the drmistice *nree vears ago today. | Sergt. Younger in making the selec- 1’p to that date the total deaths num- | tion of the body. hered 123,547 and the total wounded | , Mal. Gen. Allen and several other A It the denths, 50406 oce. | \merican officers ‘accompanied - the 281 Of the deaths, 60 ©oc- Ibody from _Chalons-sur-Marne to curred on the field of battle and of | Yavre, via Satignolles, near Parls, that number 2,079 soldiers were so L‘"“l ?“:!“'"- tlfld;ntr"lh fifi“"}r! and ily ate 5 zarlands wet with the tears of wom- vadly mutilated that they could mot [T i NTaren of Havre. the body ve identified. In addition, 483 sol- (of the unknown hero was placed ilers disappeared completely and are ‘:J';nnrd_ Aa:m!l:'al DS";G{."’ flsgsl\ll;‘ v O s J v g3 ympia af avre ctober 25, and deorded /a8 ssing.” They may | that vessel lifted anchor homéward save been killed in action and their | hound the same atfernoon, disnlaying bodies lost, or they may have been | ;_,‘m flnrst orf ‘m.- United States and < i . | France at half-mast. aken prisoners and died in enemy | S Al BULASE o orench de- territory. strovers, making a path toward the horizon, whence echoed back the inter- mittent salvo of a naval salute which was returned by the Olympia. The long march throneh the main boulevard of Havre, with the band | p'aying martial hymns and the citi- Known Only as Private. All that is known of the body in- terred at Arlington today, in memory of all who made the supreme sacri- sice in the war, is t*at he was a N f zers following in an immense and srivate soldier of the American Army | golemn cortege, was the most Im- who died for his country on the field pressive of ail the ceremonies. Women on the sides of the streets wept, raised their_handkerchiefs' to their eyes and made the sign of the cross. of battle: He may have come from “faine or Texas or from any other state, and he may have belonged to uny unit, company, regiment, bri- ade, division, corps or army that sught so valiantly on the Somme, in Pelleau woods, at St. Mibiel, or in “he Argonpe advance. He was selected by chance from among the 2,079 unidentified soldiers hurled on the battiefields where they szallantly fought their last fight and the selection was made go that his sdentity and even the battlefield on ‘wwhich he was buried are questions that can never be answered. No mat- ser who he was nor where he was killed, he is mow the nation’s most; honored hero. 42°433 Brought Back. At the request of near relatives the government already has transferred to American soil the bodies of 42,453 soldiers, sailors and, marines buried in European cemeterics. but all those to take thee back to thine own coun- ere known, and were buried in cem- ' try, these many French families will cteries near their homes or in na-|always keep holy thy memory, and “ional cemeteries chosen bv their rel- | we shall ever remember piously that utives “The unknown warrior” buried |it Was this land of France to which oday, however. was chosén by the)was consecrated thy last dream. siation as its own. Congress provided | Gen. Allen expressed appreciation pecifically for his reinterment on|for the touching manner in whith American oil. and President Harding France bade farewell to the unidenti- ersonally charged the Secretaries of ;fled hero.. Turning to the casket, he “War and the Navy with the execution |said: of the law. France and her people| “The great republic which fs ren- ined with the United States in pay-hflerlnc you homage is likewise pay- ing the highest honors to the body. ling tribute to your comrade in blue 5 ¥ who fell with you, and who. lives in Choxen From Four. the hearts of his countrymen you At the request of the American au-|live enshrined in the loving memary thorities the ceremonies in France, Of yours. Whoever you may be, your while solemn ard reverential. were | 8allant deeds are indelibly inscribed devold of pomp and osientation. Ar- in the pages of history to the glory rangements for the selection of the |0f your nation.’ body and is delivery to the naval Schoolgirls Weep. rufser Olympia at Havre were made, The casket then was carried to v Mal. Gen. Harry L. Rogers. quar- |ship's deck, whera It reposed in o rermaster general, anc¢ Col. Harry F.ighelter of flags. A cortege formed to ‘tethers, Quartermaster Corps, head view the coffin and many motables of the graves registration service m[pnssed before it, but the most touch- “rance. in) val The actual selection was made Oc- pfin: :n; cl::l:-fs ovah;?h:gvlgc’lfl;ywt'g tober 24 last on the first ficor of the ceremonies, w. ty hall of Chalons-sur-Marne by Howers they R carried so far P "8 ergt. Edward F. Younger of Chicago,| All the arrangements for the tran vho served as a private of infantry portation of the hero’s body across 11 through the war, was twice'the Atlantic were In the hands of the vounded and was in four major en-|Navy Department and were conducted agements. Four carth-stained coffins ' under the Immediate supervision of Jay in a flag-decorated apartment. Rear Admiral L. H. Chandler, son of They contain-d the bodies of four un- | former Secretary W. H. Chandler. ag- tdentified soldiers who had been bu-lsisted by Capt. Henry L. Wyman, vied, respectively, ih the American'commanding the U. . cruiser Olympia. ~emeteries at Beileau. Bony, Thiau-| .Ithough a stanch and gallant veseel, court and Romagne, but were with-!Dewey’s flagship belongs to ah earlier Chimes Peal Forth. Passing the cathedral, chimes pealed forth into the air, mingling with the low music of a band far ahead, bring- zation tbat the departure of the American dead had a deeper meaning than ‘the mere glory of the victory they helped achieve. The long column wound slowly out to the broad pler alongside the old flagship of Manila bay. There, after the coffin had been lifted from the gun carriage, Gen. Allen and Minister of Pensions Maginot standing on the dais over the body, made brief ad- dresses .in French. M. Maginot pinned the cross of the Legion of Ho‘gor on the flag over the coffin and sal “We do not know thy name; we do not know the name of thy comrade who lies in Parls under the arch of f | g i to thee as it does to him. @omrade from America, though they are about out mark or symbol of any kind toera and lacks the high speed powers ' ahow whence they came or whose of Thors Yare ki of modern warships. Therefore she Although the_town of Chalons-sur- | voyage from Havre to thi e Marne was bedecked right and left|cordingly she sailed trom!ufeluére::h and high overhead with fluttering . port October 25 and, proceeding leis. volors ‘of the allies, there was noiurely with her preclous burden, ar. :’z’;‘axassee{n-makxx"gd Fre‘m;‘h of& rived at the Washington navy yard, s and troops stood watch and; guard about the city hall, the Amer- e L o W ednesky aster: can flag rippling at half-mast over | There were the gilded dome and a French mili- : incidents wn‘.‘.‘zci‘::“‘:,';&."f?.""é?;:f tary band, unseen by the crowd, play- pia's trip across the Atlantic. She ed on muffled trumpets the music of was escorted out to sea from th. « Chopin, while Sergt. Younger walked French harbor by two French de slowly past the honored row, a bunch stroyers and was welcomed to these of white roses in his right hand. shores by a small fleet of American Through a door floated the strains warsh ps and escorted into Cli of a dirge played by the band of the peake bay. After a short sto§ in 106th French Infantry. Past the four those waters she steamed Into’ th fins Scrgt. Younger walked and Potomac river and, escorfed by & nac iurned and passed them again. TWwice va] destroyer, completed her solemn hne made the turn and en gently journey tothe Federal Capital. Durin, placed the roses on the coffin farthest 0 the right, looking from the door. ?;ht Freach Soil. e voyage, the hero’s body Placed In Metal Casket. loccupied a prominent place on the Then, while only the slow tones of lower deck, safe and secure from all chantlike music were heard above pPoSsible damage by weather, wind or the crowd, eight pallbearers, picked §é& just as it was received from the non-coms” from the ranks, marched Army's representatives . at Havre, in, Hfted the flag-covered coffin, which draped fn the American flag and the sergeant had chosen, and carried bearing on its top, the white flowers it to another chamber. It was im- Placed there by Sergt. Younger at medlately transferred to a metal Chalons-sur-Marne. It was guarded casket covered with black cloth and day and night, without a moment's decked with gleaming silver. During Interruption, by four blue jackets, one that movement the 106th French In- Standing at each cornei. s« ected from fantry presented arms. btose members of the ship’s company The casket was made in the United Who had rendered distingu.shed serv- States and bore on its top the words, ice In the world war. Near the cas- “An unknown soldier who gave his ket was the large box of earth taken lite In the great war.” The threefrom the American cemetery at Sures- other coffins were quietly borne away ' nes, which will be placed around the to be reinterred in Romagne ceme- |casket when it is placed in its final t 'resting place on American soil in the ket was placed at the door of the National Cemetery at Arlington. I Fiying the flag of Rear Admiral bullding in a makeshift chapel with |Chandler at the peak and displaying American flags for walls. Six of thelthe American and French colors at . twenty-four American guards of j half-mast, the Olympla was reverently honor stood at.the left.. Six French |saluted by all the steamships and pollus, with s at salute, stood at|sailing vessels .that cams within the right maintalned the guard'’vision on the 2 N ery. “llllh only the merest formality the ing all’ the population to the reall- | triumph, but our gratitude goes outl was allowed fifteen days to make the| FALLEN HERO TO SLEEP WITH WAR-FAMED DEAD Unknown Soldier Will Repose Among Others Whose Names Emblazon United States History. High on & wood-a ridge beside the May 11 e Arlinglon national cemetery Potomac, America’s nameless hero|Was fir® used, Presidont Lincoln wit- 7 v | nessing the burial thre of tweve will sleep bivouacked with the brave | niot "8 1€ DU TS Cepital on of many wars. | Ariington estate, abandoned by Ge: Everywhere about this simple tomb, | Robert E.l 1.««‘ ' family al‘) mehbell::""“; 2 velll 5 ~lof the civil war and bought by the: over the swelling slopes or in the | P50 Lt o o ent At 4 tax sa shady canyons of Arlington national| ‘or hospital purpises. Later the go cemetery stand monuments and head- i i | v s!| Sodiers’ Home e O e e s | Quasermszer Gen:' 2 th the that also are written imperishably in | GiCotv'(f the President, ordered U the pages of gl-ry that make the na- | o diers buried at Arlington. That was tion's histors. Taere, too, are stonss, | the simple bezinniug of the cometers, o sl whic: has become one of the shrines amid the long rowg, to mark other| orfl foigicr and sailor dead of the unknown dead of other wars, and the | n- i, bulk of the monument ahove the sin- | For many years a small vine-clad v w! v amphitheater gerv or ceremonics gle gravo where rest the unknown of | ZMRhitheater eerved for coremopis the war between the states, gathered | outgress this little place. where (i from many battlefields. | Pr.sident of the United States usual- | 1y_spoke. Speeial Place of Honorn. |, Ninciecn vears ago the Grand Army But for the newcomer from France|f the Republic began the movement among this fellowship of valor a|for the memorial amphitheater. Au special place of honor has heen made, | thorization for He will sleep in a narrow crypt, n=wn | | given by act of Congres | sion wus ar i out of the live stone that forms the| th “_Drnj"_f'l Ihj'h don e T — terrace of the memorial amphitheater | 9f, War. who 1s chaizman of the ol - erected to consecrate the memory of | Navy. the commission was composed = men everywhere who dled for the! of Elliott Woods. row architect of Ibluck of stone, carved with the brief | representing the Unlted Co i T . legend of a nation's tribute to all| Veterans. and Ch 2 { France, The dedication of the amphitheate: will be placed. On it also 7 jutant general, Lieut. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh, who had uccompanied the coffin_ from France. <he coin was pluced in a traveling chapel, a car in which the bodies of Edith Cavell and Capt. Fryatt had been brought to London. The funeral procession from Vie- toria_station to Westminster Abbey waus headed by the bands of the four regiments of foot guards, after which jon with which ihe through the streets from the King_ Victor Emmanuel and the reyal family awaited the body at the onument,” crowds lined the route, and it was with some difficulty that the troops stationed along the streets :ld their position As the symbol of the Italy's dead sed, borne upon a gun carriage, While the unknown American sol-) dier is being laid to rest at Arlington {national cemetery, . amid the solemn '(ribu!es of this and other nations, It is interesting to remember that Eng- land and France a year ago paid like tributes to representative unknown soldiers of their own. In Italy oa November 4 of this year an unknown which meansg, “the empty tomb"— and a body of police laid at its hundreds of wreaths from absent mourners. Then the people we.e al- lowed to file past with their trib- utes. As the funeral procession reached the abbey the choir and ciergy came out to meet it, leading the way back o the grave. Guards nen carried th coiin through the north door on th impres: body o % -tcame pipers of the Scots guards, and | shoulders. Four queens were present huge throngs along the Via Na- jlatian soldier was burled In the Wo) then drummers with heir drums [l the ceremony. They were Queen | zionale paid silent Nonaee. The hro tional monument to Victor Emmanuel II| grapned 1n black. Tnere tollowed tn. | Mary, Queen Alesandra the Queen | iecsion procecdcd to Plazza Venezia | Rome. cothin draped in a Union, Jack, on i | »f spam and ta: Queen oi Norway halted before the monum-nt 1" The United States, fn thus honor- | 4un carcage of the royal horse ar.) They were seated on a low purple- | Non-commissioned officers lifted the . ced | tillery drawn by six ho-ses. A stee | covered dais coffin from the gun cartiage and car- ing an unknown soldier who served | o0 "Gt soldier's s.dearms wer. A hundred sandtwgs of French yieq it up the & host 8ights of with the American expeditionary | slaced on top of tne comn. Pali srr»lil were used to "x" tln_Afra\(-nn[ Steps to ‘the burial place; = [ forces, follows the example of alliec | bearers walked on cither eide, twelve | the unknown warrior. ter the Xl dfgliendann “_“ honoring | €N, representing the navy, royallcofin had been 1oy ered into its gravs Hells of Rome Ring. natlons in the world war i Marines und the air force to the | the King sprinkled from a silver shelli ; some of the earth onto the coffin. he coffin was then eet In the al- one unknown soldier as representa tive of all the great list of soldiers right, and the army on the left. A guard of honor congisted of & hun- “lolle'l place. and by a hydraulic con- Two Minutes 3 d.cd_heroes o weders o | ypic i - [who gave their wil for country and 1 'M o n: su»ne.k e o crass tor valore “Afer | trivance the heavy stone door was {were lost. ) e the coffin of the UBKMOWN (. ger,ice, which was of magnifi- shut. Then the bells from ‘the va- Tribute to All Unidentified. warrior was waliting beside thelcent simplicity. the grave was In-lrious churches of Rome began to ring cenotaph in Trafa'gar Square, theclosed, and within the barrier werciout, marking the conclusion of the Since the first tributes to the un- known dead the Ildea has appealed more and more as a reverent and dig- nified way for a nation to pay tribute to those who fell without record, de- spite the efforts that were made by placed four sentries, one cach from the army, air force, marines and navy. The grave was covered with the abbey pall and over it a historic union jack spread. ceremon: IR Artillery from the various stations {in and around Rome fired salutes -in Imemory of the unknown dead, repre- {sentative of all Italy's sons who fell {on the field or battle. Ten widows and ten mothers, chosen king prepared to place the wreath on the cenotaph. A hymn had been sung, and the Arcnbishop of Canterbury re- cited the Lord's prayer. When the first stroke of 11 o'clock s struck | INTERNL" Dereaved Women Honored. | the af ernoon of wa ine 2 by Big Ben, the great clock, tne . ¢s in whi all coumtries to make sure of thel gt p&ss..‘ = bum%fl A ity aechs During the four days in which from among the relatives of unidenti- identity of thelr heroes. s i motion wWheh asdowed tee | Whitehall was closed to wheeled jfied fallen soldiers, took part in the - i So the selection of an unknown sol- | LWo great umon jacks draped over | traffic more than a million people |Céremonies. All branches of the serv- will go the long list of honors the,a structure of classic design. held © lce were represented in the proces- sion, each designated by a battle- flag or banner. When the body was placed in the {monument these soldiers took their lDlale at the foot of the great struc- {twre. In the mass of colors were some which the kin, g P ome which g had decoratec nation and the great powers of the world have lavished on the soldlers | who gave their identity as well as. their lives on French batdlefields. | Calm Hills Drop Away. Above the great stone towers the marble-pillared facade of the amphi- theater, crowning the ridge and look ing down over a sweeping vista of quiet hills and peaceful countryside to, the wids watery ef the river. Beyond ' stands Washingtan city in the haze of distance. Over it, dimly visible, looms the great figure of Freedom on the dome of the Capitol; farther down Washington Monument thrusts a slen- der gray finger to challenge attention of the very sky to the deeds of peace - Pr Qe dumcistd Prom: and war it commemorates. Closer medal of honor, the highest award| LONDON, November 10.—All the |yl Jooms the square white bulk of lin the giving of the American peo-|battleflelds In France and Flanders|yncoin Memorial, at the river brim, ! ward on Its way to Westminater Ab. |Ple: 10 the unknown soldier of France {have been systematically searched at|sealing a people's tribute to a mar- bey for the fmal rite. The coffin, | #nd England, and Gen. Pershing per |least six times for bodies of sold'ers | tyreq leader. draped in the union Jack, now bore |Sonally carried the decoration to uw,rolyeélv;:slh:crfir}_\su‘ L. k\\'ur:ningr- Fold on fold, the ¢alm hills drop > X i untries. whers, % 2 , secretary a 2 389 the king'a wreath, besdes the helmit {Fespective countries. where, amid ap-| {0l BYAnS, Secretary of state for war| oy from the terrace where the and side arms. Beside the gun car- |propriate ccremonies, the medalsin the areas where the fighting was | sleeper from France lies, honored but riage walked twelve pallbearers, men | were conferred on the dead. A con-jliottest wthe search lad been made | unkyown At hia feet a sculptured i e cas| fully twenty times. marble ustrade sweeps out on of the highest rank in the four serv- |gressional medal of h(jnor nlslt: l\;as(l e some eauntil. sl deciand: ‘to] GIthor ide; TSkt the wide, grice- ices, navy, army, royal marines and | pinneq upon tae unknown R“ AN\ cease work and withdraw the exhu- |ful curve of the footway that drops the air force: Air Marshal Sir Hugh |Soldier buried November 4 at Rome.'mation troaps, the secretary said. ft|down to the grass-grown slopes Trenchard, Admiral Sir Charles Mad- |, IN¢ manner of selecting the Par-:wgas certain, he added. that bodies|where day by day many a gallant Trenchara, Admiral Sir Chatles Mad- !uicular unknown' soldier o represent|would be found In the course of re- | comrade from France is finding his and Aamirals of the Flee: Sir Henry |¢ach nation was much -alike, the construction and drainage, and this|last resting place. Down there the Jackson, Ear] Beatty and Sir Hed. choice belng made from a number at process might continue for years. new headstones gleam In countless Wirth Meux. The army leaders ware | [2ndom by placing a bouquet of e b S variety. There Is hardly an hour of Gens. Lord Byng and Lord Horne, and | lOWers upon the cofin. In_detail any day when sorrowing relatives y the ceremonles in_«he several nations are not moving slowly among the Eii Sranais B Henry” Wiiaon, | the ceremontes in e sovers), nation: |ANNIVERSARY UNNOTICED. |5, *5ravie giung toving sate to Methuen. ' Behind the gun carr.age |fitted so solemn a tribute to the flowers on the low mounds. On the walked the king as chief mourner, |thousands through the one. Third Year Since German Revolu- | heudstones are cut the names, the tion Passes by Quietly. BERLIN. November 9.—The third the moaument to tan Lo the ground. dollowing the las stroke of the cluck a two minutes’ sJdence prevaile throughout the cily, persuns stanuing at attention. sAt the end of tne pause buglers sounded " The Last Fous.. Tuo king then placed a wreath at the northern eud of the cenotaph. Atuacned to & wreath was a card on wnich the king had written the ‘words; n- proud memeory-of those who dled URKLOWN in the great war. Unknown, and yet well known; as ay. and behold they live. George R November. 11, 1820." Tais wreath had been placed upon arrivas The wreath placed at the ciose of the two-m.nute s.lence bore tue fol- lowing inscr.ption: *In memiory. of tne glorious dead. From George R. L and Mary R. jovemuer 11, 1920." The Prince of Wales then piaced a wreath. Great Generals March. After the ceremony at the cenotaph the funeral procession moved for- d by the cenotaph and 100,000 its ! in floral b, e nf ons of the pre ing thou: generatio: Dedi-nted by D. M. Ifall. “And, in the name of Jes ptas of our saivation we th memorial to the sp'rits of America) soldiers and sa'lors who died that the nation might live.” conclud Damtel M. Hai. commandgr-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. The sun was shin‘ng bright and warm when the call for the presenta- tion of colors came. The color guard marche® silintiy to the altar through lires of silent spe 7 Chisholm. past the United spanith War Veterans, led the guard. The people faced the altar. The Marine Band played “The Star Span- gled thus began ths ded cation o erica’s “temple of patriotism." 1. The program occupied less than an hour, the i1 vocat on being pronounced in-Chief Wiliam W. Gist nd Army of the Republic. o. War Baker made tha turning the cere mander Hall, wh; r of the dier by lot made certain of the fact I that in honoring one thus unknown the nation was paying tribute to all the unknown soldiers, and thus al who attended could feel that th: soldier dead was truly representa- tive of all his comrades who remained unidentified. Official and civilian France, on No- vember 11, 1920, paid horor to the memory of the soris of France who fell during the world war. the cere- monles In connection with the burial of 2n unknown poflu being the cen-| tral feature of the armistice cele- bration. The ceremonies lent a sol- emn atmosphere to the second anni- versary of the armistice with Ger- many. Although Paris was accus- tomed to celebrate its victories with rejolcirig, this day was dedicated tc‘ the memory of all the hundreds 0!, thousands who were sleeping in the cemeteries along the battle lines. Laid Under Are de Triomphe. Called from its grave on the field of Verdun, the body of an unidentified French soldier was carried solemnly through the streets of Paris and re-. Parfs that day Inurned In the Pa.n-| theon the heart of Gambetta, which had been preserved since his death In 1882. It was in remembrance of the fact that fifty years before France owed its very existence to Leon Gam- betta, who took virtual control of af- fairs in Paris, when the country was offerings were placed at A touching feature of the service {was the attendance of a little band of approximately 100 women, select- ed tor the honor because each had lost her husband and all her sons during. the war. These women T :eiyed the MuSt fevcrcht ac.entio perhaps of any people who packed Whitehall or the aboey that day. It was stated at the time that every woman in England so bereft who applied for a place at the serv- ice got it, hut that less than half of tnc other applicants for seats were successful,—owing to the lack of space. Congress Awards Medals. Since that time Congress voted Ity i |BATTLEFIELDS SEARCHED i SIX TIMFS FN] BODIES i British War Secretary Also States Areas of Hottest Fights Have Been Searched 20 Times. monies over instructed call the rol! Commander-in- n. United as at words of described the death of the sailor, which appropriute reply was m. Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief I dore Isaacs replied with another verse o]t Secripture describing death in bat tle. buried under the Arc de Triomphe. President Millerand, cabinet mem- bers and three marshals of France walked behind the flag-draped gun- carriage on which the coffin rested. Marshals Foch, Joffre and Petain, whose genius will live forever in the {annals of France and the world. were the three highest officers in the pro- |cession.. At the Arc de Triomphe sol- emn ceremonies were held, and the highest decorations of the republic placed upon the coffin of the un- known dead soldier. In connectlon with this observance, Wilson Presents Wreath, A wreath from President Wilsen was then placed uvon the altar, ap- plause grecting the arrival of the tribute from the chief cxecutive. Wil- liam Jones. comu: inder-in-chief of the United Spanisa ‘Var Veterans, de livered an addr-s3 asking Amerizans to live up to the deeds of those who had gone before. Gen. Peyton C. March, chiel of staff of the United Statex Arm. tehalf of the Army. were concluded with a benediction by Rev. George A. Slaybaugh, past sen- or ‘vice commander Wit o the G. A. R, after which a Marin2 bands- nan sounded taps. The exercises at Arlington were pre- ceded by a parade through the streets of the city by the orsanizations in charge of the dedication, being re- viewed at long range by Presideut. Wilson, Arlington nationa! ccmetory is open ince dates of birth and death of the dead, Bohind the king oame ihe Prinoe of Italy’s Fine Ceremonies. and names of French villages where h 1 Exactly under the allegorical figure 4 by man, thelr record is written for Sl SRS 2L A0 of Rome, Laly's nknown soldier vas| anniverary of the revolution which |l {6 Kiowand oncr, of other leading siatesmen, cabinet | burled In the Victor Emmanuel mon- | resulted in the formation of the re- Lies Alone in Death. min:sters. dominion representatives But for the nameless one, asleep on xing and the royal family as the a off i were mourners from the fight.ng ! Hohenzollerns passed off yesterday|ives, He lies alone in the mystery services, marching six abreast. and |chief mourners. Large numbers of yithout celebration. The plans to|of death. Laden with honors beyond after them 2 body Of ex-service men. | widows. orphans, mothers and blind cease work througheout the entire any of his fellows below, there is People Pass With Tributes. and mutilated men were in attend- 4ay were abandonec in favor of a|none to tell of the way of his life Tho body was transported from the' iechmening. Aud. pacddon Ane tho | ear et e W o e’ ol The . A speechmaking and parades. an he ! France, at the nation's call. The its way to Westminster an inclosure | Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli ed'torial comment on the annlversary,,\men‘;.n people are his next of Kin. was erected around the cenotaph— |in formal procession, following the was confined to colorless articles. He alone may sleep there within the great monument to all the nation's honored dead. Walea; Disks of York Prince Hency they made their great sacrifice. Man ument at Rome last Friday, with the ¢ and Indian princes. Behind these | ipudlic and the abdication of thel, B 07 c'above, there are no rela- . ten-minute pause in all activities. | and his death, of whence he came or | While this procession was wending | 21.¢e beseiged by Germany, and later suc Everywhere about the amphitheater | ; 3 % i aily from sunrise to sunset IL is nug : € from the Lincoln Memorial, with echoes of the thunder of guns from old, far off battle scenes. There lies ! Sheridan; there lies Porter and Crook {and Doubleday, and yonder lies Dewey. Over the peaceful slope, row on row, march the headstones of hun- dreds of humble servers in the ranks !like the sleeper up there on the ter- i r: ce. or again. dimly seen through the trees, goes another long column of so.d.er_headstones, graying with time. ; | But officers and men, generals, ad-| mirals, private or the last bluejacket }to join the ship before the battle, | they are all sleeping here in honored } graves. Gathered they are from Mex- ico from all the far plains where emi- grant trains fought their way west- ward, from storled fields of the civil war, from Cuba and the Philippines, from Haitl and from France. Last Muster of Maine. Just beyond the amphitheater rises ! the slender mast of the old Maine, brought from Havana to mark the resting place of her dead soldiers and sailors and marines. It I8 their last ! muster, and for them all has been raised the great marble pile wherein the unknown sleeper from France keeps his vigil. The pure white outline of the struc- ture, as yet unstained by time and the shifting winds that sweep un- ‘uhecked through its stately colon- nade or Its vast roofless gathering place, rises amid a setting that n ture paints with new beauty as the sea- sons cdme and go. It stands atop the ridge. footed among the ever- i greens and the native Virg'nia woods |:n-t sct it off in changing shades L 4l lin summer, deck it out with the i | myriad tints of autumn ae the year ; wanes and wrap it about with the delicate ‘racery of snow-laden, leaf- i less branches in winter. Seats About 5,000, The amphithecater overlooks the Po- tomac river and the city of Washington. It contains & chapel and seats about 5,000 persons. It was dedicated at im- pressive exercises he'd May 15, 1920. It covers an area about 24,000 square lonument in Arlington cemetery, erected In homor of u wh soldiers ywho lost thelr lives In the eivil war. | feet. - amphitheater is which it is propos. d to connect It, al- though at z distance, by a memorial bridge. The cemet. has four gates. ihe Fort Myer gate, und_threc memiorial gates, one for McClellan, one for Sheridan and others, and the third for Weitzel and Ord. The mansic house is a place of great Interast to sightseers. Names Spelled In Flowers. From sunrise to sunset the flag flies from a tall staff in front of the mansion. mple of Fame, bearing the names ashington, Lincoln and Farragut. Thomas, Meade, McPherson, Sedgwick, Reynolds, Humphreys, Garfi-ld and Mansfield, Is locatcd to the south i Names of commanders are spelled in flower beds. / The monument {o the unknown dead. of peculiar_interet in relation to the burial of the unknown soldier of the world war, is near the temple, having been erected in 1366 in honor of mora than 2,000 unknown soldiers burled there. | The inscription on the granite reads: | ‘“Beneath this s‘one renoses the bones {of 2,111 upknown soldiers gathered Tafter the war from the fields of Bull .Run and the route of the Rappahan- i nock. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths iare recorded in the archives of their country, and Its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest In peace. September, A.D. 1866. 25000 Buried in Arlington. The graves in Arlington number in' the neighborhood of 25,000, the stones being set in rows, and being of a stand. ard patterns used in all the national cemeteries. There are special monu- ments to various heroes. In the ceme- tery arg buried many women, wives and daughtérs-of soldiers, as was provided for by Congress. Bronze tablets are situated through- out the cemetery, bearing verses from *“The Bivouac of the Dead."” The graves stretch away from the Fort Myer gate. Graves of officers are situated on the slo) ast of the mansion house. There is another ses- Teuton invaders. British Rites Simple. It was on Armistice day last year that Great Britain honored her war ! heroes by according a field marshal's funeral to an unknown British war- \rior, who was buried in Westminster | Abbey, and unvelling a permanent cenotaph in Whitehall to “the glor- |laus dead.” The body of England’s unknown | warrfor was brought to Boulogne from the Ypres front in an army am- | ; bulance on November 9, 1920, and was | guarded that night bx French !ol-l idlers. The pine coffin was placed in- || jside an oak one, with a crusader's |sword fastened to the lid. The next !day it was carr'ed out by eight Brit- ish “non-coms” and placed on a French army wagon drawn by six yhorses. The coffin, with the officer: *marching_ besidq_'it, and Marshal Foch and Gen. ‘Macdonogh behind, was then taken In procession through the city to the Qual Gambetta, Where |1t was placed aboard H. M. S. Ver- ! dun, with wreaths from the French ! government, army and navy and corps | of Interpreters. The coffin was draped In the Unfon ack which had covered those of . Nurse Cavell and Capt. Fryatt. At .each corner of the coffin a British ibluejacket stood with bowed head and ;arms reversed, during the voyage |'across ‘the channel. The vessel left Boulogne shortly after noom' on No- vember 10, and arrived off Dover soon after 1 o'cluck. About 3 o'clock she entered the harbor, and the coffin was borne ashore by warrant officers, who had all fought in the war. Six senior officers acted as pallbearers. A field marshal's saluté of nineteen guns was fired from Dover Castle. Irish Guard of Hemor. Irish fusiliers provided a ard of onor, as the :o;n was wfl:: to the | Thie inscription on the monumet an follows: “Beneath this\stone repnse the bomes of 2111 mnkmown soldiers, The history of the agr. sathered after the war from-the fields of Bull Run and the route to thé Rappahannock.: Thelr remalps could mot | ‘nteresting and, of course, intimately statlon. {o entrain for Victoria. Be-|ge idemtified, but their names and ‘deaths are recorded in the grehives of their country; and W ‘citizeng | connected_with the history of the cem- hind-the-pallbearers walked the ad-' hemew-them 'as-of their doble army ‘of martyrs. May-they rest.in peace. September, A. D, | e e cw, letery itself. meen years ago last