Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1923, Page 2

2 * Nation Bids Tender Farewell ‘ Martyr to Office To Harding, (Continued from First Page.) with banks to the dead. Among the bared heads were many touched now with gray that thus honored martyred MeKinley as he was carried over the same way to the ame crowding. honors and dignaities that today awaited his fellow Ohioan But to the younger folk, who have known this wide thoroughfare only in jts days of joy and triumph, th slow-moving parade of sorrow brought a sense of personal loss and depression. They saw the Unknown arried westward through the great street to his matchless tomb, but there was triumph and the high im- pulse of 1 ¥ to the flug in that pageant There was little of human grief. The way of his death glorified the sacrifice It was different a man whose name come to know, s and kindly eyes were cvery one here in W an_hour smiling, as he set out Journey to be greeted with the cheers and_sha fellow Amerfcans. Now was dead and the cheering and the shouting were over, suddenly, terribly over. Full Realization Comex, Not till last night, when, under dimmed lamps ana with kalf-scen troopers riding ahead through the silent street: the casket was carried by to the White House from the funeral train, did full realization come to Washington of the sad day that had struck for the nation. 'ntil then i 1= te h'e, but far aw: With that curious’y silent spectac’e im- pressing deeply the n ds of the thou- sands, who waited so patie throug a day and half night to witnes. today's pomp and panoply of sorrow had new meaning. The duy of honors and of forrow was ushered in beneath a cloudless sky. but with hot haze of midsummer almost obscuring the sun as it mounted in the ezst to look for the last time on Warren Harding among the scenes of his greatest 1bol Now and then, however, as t} crowds of watchers bhegan to gather along the funera! way fitful breezes ru 1 & benediction among the branches of the elms and maples tha e the historfe avenue. Mrx, Harding Braves Strain. Mrs. Harding, who recrossed the threshhold of the White House but a hort time before midnight after her journey homeward with the was up at 7:45 this morning. eshed by several h ' sleep, she lewed to the few close friends and relatives about her in her house row her determination to bear up bravely through all the netal hours—a determination, which had carricd hor three thousand miles through scenes of sorrow which never have been surpassed in the nation's histor of silent, living tribute now. for here was the world had sturdy figure amiliar to nington. Tt 20 he had rid- nodding - gay on his long everywhere g of his Iy the city nratiof vt Mansion after was stirring she awoke and whila itself in prep- for the great events of the widow of the great White who had been so lately the first lady of the land, had her break- lone in her room on the second L ac the hall from the bed- ©om which had belonged to him who foot of the great fust w slept at the irway The morning sun. despite the haze 4 touch of unreality to the 1 ay. raked the great crystal handeliers in the east room with a salvo of light and ave a new glory the majesty amid which the dead P'resident was sleeping his last sleep within the portals which had held for him o 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 w taken up ain by others who desired to puy a meed of praise and Eiatitude o the Kindly leadership of the sleeper. The first wreath to arrive this mornin was from the scouting fleet a great anchor of asters, white on blue. Tt was laid reverently among the offerings of princes and of bare- foot boys, hank about the casket in a great, smoothering profusion of beauty and fragranc Wreath From Alaska, In a y of honor mnear the cas- ket was ome wreath that would have brought a tear of gratitude to the kindly blue eyes of the President could 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 or- chids, yellow roses, lilies of the val- le; and snapdragons, set there to symbolize the appreciation of a far land ‘to whose intcrests the fallen Chieftain had glven his last hours of health nd strength. Two hours before the sad marc from the White House to the Cn:l!o’: was to begin the crowds were gath- ering along the way to pay their reverent homage during the last journey of their leader along the avenue where he had vassed so many times before with the high light of unselfish endeavor in the eyes that now were closed forever. Outside the Capitol the watchers ame earlier than elsewhere, in the ain hope that somehow some of them might find a way into the rotunda to see the simple funeral rites. ‘But the little _inclosure beneath the dome could hold only a handful of the many thousands, and the places of homor there had been reserved for the high- et government and diplomatic offi- clals and the friends who in life had stood closest to Mr. Harding. As he would have desired, the cere- monials chosen to express the nation’s last Joving farewell were of the sim- plest. The pastor of his own church in Washington and the chaplain of the Houge: of Representatives were the officlating ministers. The brief scrip- ture reading selected Included the verse he had kissed on his inaugura- tion day as, with hand uplifted, he took his oath of duty and pressed his lips 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 re- quire of thee, but to do justly, and to Jove mercy, and to walk humbl; thy Goa?” R The thousands who could not be given places in the funeral hall were formed In line at a distance so that after the services they might flle 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. Hours beforehand the long line, four abreast, began to form In the deep shadows of the Capitol grounds. 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 Capltol itself was kept cleared of all except those who had cards of admission. Canket Opened Last Time, Shortly after 9 o'clock the - casket was opened as it lay among the flowers in the east room and the rela- tives and close friends said their tear- ful good-by to the dead. All the White House employes, who had loved him for his kindly thoughfulness and hig strong heart, filed past with the others, dim-eyed and inconsolable. He lay in' his last sleep with an infinite peace in his smile, and with his hands folded over the bod¥ in a deep repose after the full years of his great Jabors. 3 After the relatives had ' passed through, all but Mrs. Harding, the senators and representatives selected as honorary pallbearers filed by, while outside the caisson that was 1o bear the body along the crowd- lined Avenue of mourning had drawn up ready to recelve its pregious, som- ber burden. ‘World Representatives Call On the Avenue, across the velvety expanse of the White House lawn, the cavalry escort already was in line facing toward the place where its dead commander-in-chief was resting Dbefore his departure for the Capitol and for his final rest at Marion. About the broad white portals wer @athering the official diplomatic-rep. of | trying fu-| d | resentatives of princes and notentates many parts of the world. They were to ride in the funeral cortege, but before the departure they, too, !were accorded the honor of passing through the flower-banked east room to loo% into the narrow casket that framed for eternity the, features of the dead Chief Magistrate, Meantime the massive Capitol, 'where Warren Harding had served the state s senator. had become as the sorvice was offered. Its long corri- dors were hushed and in, the crypt heneath the dome soldlers were sta tioned to furnish the Army. Navy and Marine guards, which maintained a silent vigil at the side of the coffin s the peonle poured past to pay their 15t respects Wilson at White House. A little less than a half hour before the procession was to start Woodrow Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Rear Admiral . arrived at the north door of the White House. As his car came to a stop before the sreat pillars, past which he. too, had looked out upon the world many times in high hope and then In disap- pointment, ‘the infantry guard sta- tioned there saluted hine and he re- turned the salutation with a wave of his hand. The car then waited to take up its place in the funeral line, and as it waited another carrying Ambassador Harvey passed by. and stopped a few feet ahead. Mrs, W on apparently recognized the ambas- ador and she turned and spoke a fuw Wwords softly to the former Presi- dent Just then a guard of honor, made up of soldiers. sailors and marines, 0ok up its place hefore the portico. it licked but u quarter of an hour until the time set for the procession o Start on s slow march between b sorrowing men, women chiidren who, by ‘now, had packed the sidewalks from buliding line to cur Walls Banked With Flowers. By now, too, the growing mountain of floral ‘tribute at the rotunda in the Capitol completely banked the walls. " Among them was a_pillow of white blossoms resting against the ue of Grant, and with the figures 30" in red blossoms that signifies for newspapermen the end of the story glowing on the white back- ground. It bore the, name of the { Typographical Union of the District of Columbia. It was a few minutes past 10 o'clock when the great procession of Sorrow swung out of the White House gates to begin its pllgrimage up the historic Avenue long caravans of grief and of re- Joicing. of regret and of triumph, had preceded it In vears gone by. Leavex White House Last Time. Tenderly the President had been !carried for the last time from the portals of the White House !placed again on the artillery caisson | that had bourne him last night from the funeral train to the east room, Ito lie for a few hours amid the flowers that had been placed there in_tribute by the potentates carth nd by the plain people Ifallen chieftain loved so well. | Chief Justice Taft, the only {living ex-President, also was ing when the casket, enshrouded ithe Stars and Stripes, like that other soldiers who have made | =upreme sacrifice in the service 'their country, was lifted from its setting of fiowers to be borne to !its place amid another and perhaps {a grander array of floral coloring and fragrance in the rotunda. President Coolidge. who Ithus with heavy heart upon the {duties of the highest office in the and, arrived to take his place also jjust at the hour set for the de- | parture. Bell Tolls Lament. As the cortege was forming un- derneath the shadows of the great trees through which many Presi- dents have looked out upon the iworld, sometimes In triumph and Imany times in sorrow, the bell in iSt. John's Episcopal Church across iLafayette Square, known as the {Church of the Presidents, began tolling its doleful lament at the passing ,of a great heart into the galaxy of immortals. ! Only as the procession started did it | { become known that Mrs, Harding had {been with the body in the east room | {for a half hour at-1 o'clock this| { morning. - She was alone at times. and | | at other times attended by one or two | | relatives. But -while officials were | | gathering at the funeral hour to take {up their places in the cortege she re- mained in her room, alone with her grief. Before the casket as it was carried down the steps walked the two min- isters who were selected to officlate later at the funeral in the rotunda. They walk side by side, Dr. A. Free- man Anderson, pastor of Mr. Hard- | ing's church here, and Dr. James !8hera Montgomery. chaplain of the House of Representatives. Then came ! the military and naval aides, who had | been near to the President at al] the dramatic moments of his brief, full service as the first leader of his peo- ple. On Pennsylvania avenue the long silence that hitherto had been dis- turbed only by the champing of the restless mounts of the troopers was broken by the strains of Chopin's “Funeral March,” played by an Army band. There was only a brief delay then until the last journey of Warren | Harding along the ‘historic thorough- | fare had begun between the dense crowds of humanity that made a long alsle of grief from the very gates of the Executive Mansion to the tower- ing Capitol a mile away. At the same time a bugler came to the portico and sounded shrilly the single note of the soldier's call to at- tention. The cavalry opposite on the Avenue came to a sharp salute, with their blades flashing in the sunlight. Then there was a flourish of the drums, just as the guns of Fort Myer, across the silent Potomac, awoke the echoes with a salute to the departed comrade. Mrx. Harding Enters Car. Mrs. Harding came down the steps a moment later, heavily veiled, her frail figure making a pitiful picture amid the splendor and pomp of the great honors to which, by a full meas- ure of devotion, she had helped and inspired her husband to achieve. On one side of her walked Secretary Christian, and on the other Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, her lifelong friend in Marion and the President's physician. Just before, in the east room, she had stood with these same friends and with the new President, the cabi- net and members of the Supreme Couft at a brief prayer service beside the bler, At the end and just before i the casket was taken to its martial | | funeral car outside, they had -re- peated together the Lord's Prayer. Before the little woman, fighting to remain calm in the shadow of her grief, had entered her car, all the other members of the funeral party had taken their places. She was {handed up iInto the blg automobile {by Mr. Christian, and as it started {to roll away behind the caisson the cars bearing President Coolldge, Chief Justice Taft and former Presi: dent Wilson followed in turn, Besides Mrs. Harding, other rela- | tives of the late President who rode in what was Jesignated as the fam- ily group in the procession were Mr. |and Mrs. E. Remsberg of Cali- fornia, the latter a sister of the President, and her two daughters; Miss Abigall Harding of Marion, an- other sister, and Dr: George T. Hard. ing, brother, and his two son Warren and George, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Kling, brother and sis- ter-in-law of Mrs. Harding. Mrs Heber Votaw of this city, another sister of the President, was prevented from being present. The military escort, which had been placed in the line of march ahead of the funeral caisson, previously had taken station on the Avenue, wind- ing around as far as the south en- trance of the Treasury, It moved at the word of command, an Army band ahead, with ‘its crepe-muffled drum: playing “Onward, Christian Soldiers. Gen. Pershing's erect figure on his lendld mount commanded a recep- tion in sorrowful contrast to the last time he had ridden up the broad Ave- nue. On that day it 'was the victori- the other walt- in of the of enters | and | where so many other | and | of the ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1923. ARRIVAL OF BODY AT THE CAPITOL lter upon which the sacrifice to | | | ng the victorio the plaud war receives. in_one of the The cheers ous commander le legion and receiving that only the victor in Today he was aged sad pursuits peace. were missing: th lemn coun- tenance of the g espoke the mourning of the thousands who saw him pass. of » Cleared. Almost before the four black he that drew the black-whaeled with its precious cargo had given their word of command White House, the head of the es had reached the Capitol, whe plaza had been cleared of all troops. Gen. Pershing dr the plaza to take ¢ position of th the many civic fo pped out of line arge of the final d troops. Meantime and fraternal orders that had given places in the {rear were just forming into line be- side the White Hous As Mrs. Harding Pennsyl nia avenue, only Dr. Saw- ver could be en within, for lcurtains were closely. drawn. Be- i twer her and the casket, with its Isi great wreath, rode the pall- |b|- rers, members of the rabinet, presentatives of the judiciary and { scnators. | on ar passed along Coolidge Grief Stricken. Next behind her followed Calvin {Coolidge, suddenly called to take up the mantle ch had slipped {his chlef's lders. He had peared on nuc_ be in ! subordinat whi countr: assigned to Today | he travele dent, with genuine pers His inserutable showed a grief and the grave moment stunding. There followed then dent—another son of death had spared in th permit him to take up a great duty as Chief Justice of the United States William Howard Taft, loved by who know him. was in his place in the solemn cortege as a mourner who knew what Warren Harding had passed through in the chief magis tracy of the nation. Taft lived through the grueling ordeal of the presidency perhaps because he spared himself more than Harding did. Friends of years and _colleagues in many causes, the Chief Justice sym- bolized the grief and was personally his as great branch of the which he represented, Wilson Dramatic Figure. Then came a figure who was a re- minder. too, of a gayer and happier day, Woodrow Wilson had come from the ‘seclusion and quiet of the home where he bravely and patiently waits for his summons from the Creator, to show his respect and ease a genuine sorrow. Only a little while ago he rode over the same way with Warren Harding beside him in the full bloom of vigor- ous life, about to take up the burden he was laying down. Harding's con- sideration for the sick man beside him touched every heart and dimmed many eyes that day. It touched Woodrow Wilson's heart as few things had, and today he came to pay it back and puf his heart upon his sleeve. Little did anybody dream that Woodrow Wilson would be helping lay Warren Harding under the sod, but death had given a respite to the one and abruptly summoned the other. 1f there be an American who does not feel a catch in his throat or whose heart does not beat faster when the Marine Band plays “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” he did not stand on Penn- sylvania avenue today as the cortege passed on its sorrowing way. As if in_exemplification of the Christian kindliness of Warren Harding's heart, the magnificent band just ahead of him played the majestic strains of the old hymn all the way to the Capitol, interspersed _with “How Firm Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord, the favorite hymn of Theodore Roose- velt. : Tears Flow Unchecked. And as the silver tones mounted up and echoed back in the canyon of hu- manity 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 like the qulet of the tomb the infantry of the escort formed {its line . across the entire front, the marines took up their sta- tion to the north of the steps of the rotunda, and the bluejackets defiled into a line opposite them to the south. Only the sharp commands cut into the oppressive silence. A® the troops came iInto position Gen. Pershing remained on horse- back in the front of the center of the rotunda, awaiting the coming of the dead to this new scene of tearful, splendid glor: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, designated as marshal of the parade, bx virtue of his many years of public service under many Presi- dents, alighted from his car beside the rotunda steps and likewise stood walting, waliting solemnly with bowed head, ,0!' the coming of the friend whose desk had been near his in the Senate chamber in the years when, Warren Harding was happy In the lesser responsibilities of public life and before the nation called him to the more burdensome dutles that crushed out his life, Carried Into Capitol. It was a walt of only a few minutes. The troops in front of the Capitol pre- sented arms ag the caisson reached the east front of the rotunda, and Pershi joined in the salute. The long line of automobiles came to a stop, and a non- eomml.lonsl officer - up’ and role the § v in which he other Presi- Ohio, esidency to well gov s the rnment the | whom | all | respect which | al toosened the wide black straps that Lound the casket to its funeral | Then it was lifted down, and with the tand plaving “Lead, Kindly Light” the President was carried, tenderly and with the loving benediction of a nation upon | him, up the steps and across the spot | where 1wo and a half vears ago he stood | to_take his oath of duty. Then the plaza was filled with cheer- ing humanity. Today it was once more !a picture of revercnce and high respect but stilled this time by the hush of | tragedy i Lodge Neatde Canket. Senator Lodge walked up the bestde the ket, and_the empty on moved away. The dignita- |ries and the ministers followed along. step by step, for the progress up the steps was very, very slow. Four- | teen soldiers. sailors and marines helped 1ift the load of sorrow 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 people's love and gratitude. tude. President Tart steps Coolidg and former Vic 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. Start of Services. Then began a new scene the great drama grief. As the body {was placed on the catafalque first built for Lincoln even a deeper hush seemed upon those within the | sacred precincts, All Seats Filled. The thousand seats that | the wide circle of the rotunda Chief Justice President Mar- | | crowded | were filled, save for those reserved for tho | mourners, who came with the funeral | cortege in the parade of proud sorrow | from the White House, long before | the marching hosts arrived in the! {plaza on which the building fronts Out there just a few months ago, | Warren Harding pledged his honor | and his life to the great task he was, to undertake. Today. just a few! ards from the spot where he then | {8tood to send his oath of loyalty ringing around the world. a solemn moment awaited him while his coun- | trymen testified before all men that! he had Kent that faith to the death. | There was a hushed murmur among | those gathered in the great chamber | as they waited. All around the wall! stood banked masses of flowers in} every beauty of design and color | human ingenuity could devise to do honor to the dead. Then the distant throbbing of muf- fled drums stole in through the tall doorway that looked eastward to the rising sun. From the Senate wing Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the man on whom the great burden laid down by the dead chlef haw fallen, came in alone to take her place In the handful of big chairs around the waiting catafalque. The drums came closer, throb in martial sorrow, timing the steps of the tramping column of the escort. There was no other sound In the! chamber. Then the beat of the drum-| mers died away and soft]y there came | from the clear sunshine outside the| swelling_ notes of a band. ‘“Lead Kindly Light” rang the appeal and trust of the hymn and a faint stir rent through those inside. The casket was being lifted from the caisson to| be carried tenderly up the long, wide, steps. | i 1 bing | | Atdes Came First. First through the doorway came the dead President’s soldier and sail- or aldes, the glitter of their gold trap- pings that marked their post at the side of the commander-in-chief shin- ing from white uniforms. Behind at slow steps came the generals and the admirals of the guard of honor for this plain man of the people, and | then the casket, carried slowly by the soldiers, sailors and marines to whom had fallen this last honor. Standing with heads bent, the men and women who had waited long in the big chamber gave their greeting in silence. The slow march of the dead went forward to the catafalque | and the casket, with a single great| wreath resting on the flag that wrapped it about, was set gently in place while the five sentries, witn grounded muskets and bayonets fixed, took up their watch, a soldier and a marine at the head, a soldier and! a sailor at the foot. Side by side at the head of the' | casket the aides of the President| took ‘their places. Then, from the Senate corridor, Mrs. Harding came in on Secretary Christian's arm and with { Gen. Sawyer close beside her. She took her place and about her were grouped the others of the sorrowing family and the close friends of the dead ~whose official duties did not call them to other posts in the funeral chamber. . There was rome delay as the high officers of the guard of honor found their places, and as the group of hon- orary pallbearers, each a noted figure in the nation’s life, came in, followed ! by the diplomatic corps. The diplo- mats were in the formal ceremonial dress each nation prescribed for the occasions of state. The scarlet or gray or blue of their stats uniforms lent a new touch of color to the scene. Then came President Coolidge with bowed head. He stepped to his place with eyes misty with sadness. Then came Chief Justice Taft in his black robes and leading his comrades of the Supreme Court; then the cabinet officers, senators and representatives and Gen. Pershing with his staff, As the confu tof the | District :Pershing Leads Solemn March From White House to Capitol About 10:25 o'clock archers started down avenue, headed by Maj. van, chief of police, mounted, squad of mounted police Gen. Pershing, ¢ of the United States. and Brig. Stuart Heintzelman and Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson, U. 8. N,, led the mili- tary and naval contingent of the first section of the procession The following organizations up the first contingent the line Pennsylvania Daniel Sulli- and armies made Army Dand in Lead. The Army Band. Second squadron, 3d Cavalry Battalion. th Field Artillery Twelfth Infantry Band. T'welfth Regiment of Infantry. Thirteenth Engineer Band. Battalion, 13th Engineers. Marine Band Rattalion of Navy iampton talfon. Battalion of D. National Guard. The second section of the cortege comprised the guard of honor, in- rluding high Army and Navy officers. the pail-bearcrs and the bearing the casket. with the casket bearers walki its side. Accom- panying the casket also were the newspaper correspondents of th White House, ahout eighteen in num- h who fo'lowed the body of the ief Executive on foot High Officers Homor Guard. The xuard of honor included Gens. Bullard, Shanks, Mut ter, of the Regular Army, Rickards of Pennsylvania and O'Ryan of New York National Guard regiments; Ad- 5th Regiment Marines. nd. Roads Bluejackets Bat- Maj miral Eberle, Rear Admirals Rodman, | Wilson Stitt, n. Lejeune, arine Corps. The honorary Senators Lodge Curtis of Kans: and commandant Potter and ot Ma, the pallbearers were of Massachusetts, Watson of Indiana Overman of North Carolina, Fletcher of Florida and Kendrick of Wyoming: Speaker Gillett and Representatives Burton of Ohio. Butler of Penn vania, Cooper of Wisconsin, Garr. of Tennessee. Garner of Texas and Haugen of Towa. In the second section also was the | family and relatives of the Preside the late President's car having window blinds drawn. Coolldge Heads Section. The third section included Presi- dent Coolidge and his party: Former President Wilgon, the cabinet, mem- bers of the diplomatic corps, Justices of the Supreme Court. senators, rep- resentatives, state governors, tha Commissioners, the _federal Judiciary and ofiicials of government departments. The civic procession section four of the parade. Seven medal of honor men led this last contingent. After them marched approximately 400 officers of the Army. vy and Marine Corps, headed by the assistant secretaries of the War and Navy departments, Dwight W. and Theodore Roosevelt, respectively. n line following these were officers of the coast guard and public health service, officers of the United States coast and geodetic survey and repre- sentatives of the following organiza- tions: its A, R, Is Represented. Grand Army of the Republic, Loyal Legion, United Confederate Veterans, Indian War Veterans societies, Veter- ans of the Spanish American War, Military Order of Foreign Wars, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, Old Guard of New York, Military Order of the World War, Disabled American Vet- ended and the last sorape of chair on the stone floor broka the silence | Dr. A. Freeman Anderson, assistant pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Whero President Harding worshiped, stepped forward with raised hands to open the religlous service. His words were audible in the interwining echoes of the buge cham- ber hardly a dozen feet away. Only the slow tones of his voice reached the ears of the hundreds grouped about until he began the Lord's Prayer. Lip by lip it was taken up nd a reverent murmur rose to the vaulted roof. Favorite Hymn. Over against tho side wall ‘to- ward the Senate the little group of singers stood beneath the heroic head of Lincoln, sculptured from his death mask. Their voices rose soft- ly in the hymn Mr. Harding, like the martyred McKinley, most loved, “Lead, Kindly Light, Amid Encir- cling ' Gloom,” they sang, and the blending of male voices rose and fell under the high arched roof like the tones of an organ, played softly. They sang without accompanying instruments. There was a stified cough here and there as a sob was choked back. As they sang, a broad, golden shaft of light swept in from the open east doors to bathe the casket and the mourners about . in soft, reflected ht. It lighted up the tanned, solemn young faces of the motionless sentries and brought out the glowing colors of the flag that covered the casket, now almost hidden beneath & mass of blooms. of the seating . Dr. Anderson olosed the service, the las calsson | Brews- | comprised | Davis | | | i ! 1 1 i i | the Y i War, American ar Veterans, and ision Veterans' Associat erans of cizion, b { the . A. R. representa- | fves and the delegation from the | taryland division of the Sons of Vei- | United States Army Knights Templar from the six local | commanderies, about 400 strong and 1l in uniform, marched next as rep. rosentatives of Masonry. The Knights of Pythias, in uniform, followe President Harding was a member of *h of these organizations, Aladdin of which the | member. had a ple of Marion, Oh! | President also was a delegation in automobiles as the rep- entatives of the Shrine. he following groups,” with more than ten marchers in any them, formed the last contingent the parade: Other Bodles in Line. American Bar Association. American Red Cross Sons of the Revolution. 1 » not of of s of the Amerfcan Revolution. rder of Cincinnati. ns of Colonial Wars. Children of the American Revolu- on Sons of Veterans Auxiliary. Daughters of I'nion Veterans. Salvation Army ¥ M. CA, Knights of Columbus Jewish Welfare Board American Library Association. Overseas Service League Red Cross Overseas Service League National Disabled Soldiers’ League. Overxeax Women March. Women's Overseas Service League. American Women's Leaguc. American Defense Society Allied Patriotic Societie Army and Navy Club, Military Training Camp n. Army and Navy Union, and Armies of America National War Mothers. Civie, fraternal and public organi- zation committee of 100 of Washing- ton 1 lo Associa- R i | Department | orgetown University Cadets, oK Washington High School Cadets. i Boy Scouts. Woman's Relief of Potomac, G. A. F Americanization School Association. ior Order United American Me- of Anacostia. Spanish Veterans in Line. Spanish War Veterans. Women's Republican Club, Women's Department, { Civic Federation. | Delegation from Calvary Baptist { Church. National Sojourners’ Club. Women's Christian Temperance | Unfon. United States Chamber of Commerce. American Merchant Marine Library | Association. i District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution, Kiwanis Club. Americanization School. | National Federation of Federal Em- | | ployes. National York. Tall Cedars of Lebanon. Rotary International. Retired federal employes National Alliance, Daughters { Veterans. | Order of Red Men. | Grand Lodge of Elks. District of Columbia Chapter, Daughters of American Colonfes. | Local Lodge, Colored Elks. The foregoing organizations were | not in the procession in the order! | mentioned here, but all were in this, group. | Corps, National | Republican Club of New | i of | 1 | audience standing, with the benedic- tion, and the simple religious cere- | mony that befits the death of a kindly, | simple, upright gentleman, was over. | Mrs. Harding Leaves First. i Mrs. Harding was first to leave the chamber, the audience still standing in pitying sympathy as she passed out through the Senate corridor with her dead husband’s aides leading the way and her hand again' on Secretary Christian's arm. Thus she passed to the elevator reserved for the mem- bers of the Supreme Court and to the car that carried her back to the lonely White House to rest until her departure tonight to take the great ! dead home to the kindly neighbors at Marion. After Mrs. Harding and the mourn- ing family, the diplomats ‘and judges, secretaries, senators and representa- tives made their way out, and there was stir and confusion in the chamber they left to be made ready for the public's hours with the dead. The soldiers and marines of the guard of honor came in to lift the casket gent- ly to a new position with the head westward toward the lowering sun. The flag_that covered it was drawn back_and the calm face of the dead bared to the eves of the thousands who stood waiting for long hours for this _brief, last glimpse of Warren Harding. Chairs were cleared from the cham- ber, flowers In bewildering beauty were added to the banked rows al- ready in place, the lines and sentries Jrere, set and the doors t i tic | the land nav {for the proces {fantry, field artillery, cavalry, marines opened at the walting mumm(-. l Mist : President’s Raise Passing by Play y-Eyed Thousands Sing Favorite H ymins Grief-Stricken Voices as Bands “Nearer, My God To Thee,” and Other Tune As the flag-draped caisson carrying the body of the dead President neared the District building children from the District’s playgrounds, about 3,000 in number, strewed flow- along the curbing and into the street, making a veritable floral car- pet. The children were present at the appeal of Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of the playgrounds. At the same time the children's ices blended in the singing of “Nearer, My God to Thee,” a favorit hymn of Mr. Harding, led by Robert Lawrence. Long before the time for the pro- cession to appear in the vicinity of 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue, great crowds collected. They were quiet and orderly. Crowd Surges in Track. Sergt. George Moran and J. D. Harrington of the first precinct were busily engaged in keeping the throng off the car tracks on 14th street There were no ropes and the crowd surged in from time to time as the throng quickly gathered. It was neces- 8ary to keep this line open in case of emergency Many persons took exception to the le of Harding memorial pins and Photographs. The sale was not large as the crowd had come to pay hom age, not to buy souvenirs. One el- derly man remarked: “It is certainly a disgrace; the police department ought to be censored severely. The idea of being allowed to commer- cialize a sad affair of this nature!” Uncle” Joe Cannon was in the pro- ion and it was noticed that be- wiping his forehead often from se heat he frequently passed ers v his dom non handke has fors 1ooked Stand in Sweltering San. The — vast gathering of stricken, patriotic citize along Pennsylvania ; vicinity of the Post Offi and packed the sidewalk curbing to the building tered into the spirit of with a solemnity that grief at th passing « deep sympathy the rowded positions n not ef over h er Representativ sorrow ful. from th the reverence dur minutes that the funeral proc noint z the as re orty-five quired fo pass that A I spirit in of people whic when Hand taken up by a party of unison, and i 1d passed Nearer, My i concourse, with heavan: face up the p hingt in saluting they pass. of the men on today for in every instance whe of the colors approached came to attention and ag, while civilians. wit tion, snapped their heels baring their heads. p on their left shoulde ide In Mourning Behind Cais Official Washington, comprising the men high in the councils of the na- who were the close associates of the dead President and who followed his leadership in the business gov- ernment, today paid tribute to him Cabinet o ers, members of the Sen: d House, bureau heads, f independent government es- tablishments and directors of all ROV ernment agencies Joined heart of the nation today in i ng tribute to fallen leader—their will they fol hea with ¥ the leader—whose wed and { whom they looked upon as more than a President friend Scores of government officials, many of them appointed the dead Presi- dent, today followed his b east to Capitol on the last sad proces- sional. Joined with them were the official representatives of foreign na- tions They regarded him as a Known By AlL Practically all of the men who fol- lowed the body of President Harding from the White House down the mile long * ue of sorrow” to the Capitol had met him. Many of them are in high places In the councils of the nation, and a few, some of whom were with' him when he died. guided the affairs of state and the nation in council with him. His friend associates the Senate and his o cabinet rode in auto- mobiles a few yards behind the body Every government establishment was represented Secretary of State Hughes, the rank ing cabinet officer, headed the off delegation. Only’ two associates the cabinet were ngt present—se tary Mellon and SWeretary of Labor Davis, both of whom are in Europe on official business. Secretary Work of the_ Interior, etary of Com- merce Hoover and Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace, members of the of- ficial party which went into Alaska and who were in San Francisco when i re n Mourning. ments the War Bureau, United Civil Service judiciary other sem lish ts body t em ates Ju President behind membe of the and officers mour horizon blue of t of members Great B eral were at familics They came back last respects. dipl President e ites T their died to pa the Columbia dows the Avenue, while from the Willard the President £ the Ds in Washingion 1 in silenc wn ot Avenue sword hilts draped w blac in memory of their commander-in-chie Hotel America’s Fightin g Men March To Roll of Muf Nearly every arm of the military 1 service, their service uni- forms marked with the official badges of mourning, and led the general of the armies of the United State John J. Pershing. escorted the flag- draped body of their late Command- er-in-chief from the White House to the Capitol today The street In front the White House and for squares in either direc- tion were lined long before the time sfon to start with in- by and bluejackets, many of whom had been brought for miles by land and water. Assigned to Places, Only the maneuvering orders of the escort commanders broke the silence of the occasion as the great body took their assigned stations prepara- tory to the march to the Capitol. The Army Rand, having the right of the line, as the Army leads on all opera- tions ashore, massed at 14th street and Pennsylvania venue, and behind it were the cavalry, fleld artillery, in- fantry marines and bluefackets Not even the rattle of musketry broke the silence. As the casket came into view through the main doors of the White House the call of a trumpeter brought the entire command for seven squares to at- Ladt_lie Boy Seek.; His Master Amid Funeral Blooms By the Associated Press. Laddle Boy said his last good-bye to his master in the cast room of the White House this morning, and there may be some hard hearts who will say that a dog couldn't Know, but it seemed to those about him as it he did. Mrs. Harding, who loves Laddie Boy no less than her husband did, told the attendant whose special charge the pup has been to take him into the east room for a mo- ment because he seemed to want to_go. ‘Afertly, he sniffed the heavy air, freighted with the fragrance of the funeral blooms, walked sol emnly around the bier lying under the. great crystal chandclier and oked his nose into the flowers, as f looking for the master he knew was there but couldn't see, and then turned his brown eyes on the White House attaches with an in- quiring look, which was too much for them to endure without thelr own eyes turning misty. , Laddie Boy knew his master was back in the house, but he seemed to sense that for some reason he couldn't find him, and, like a good dog, concluded there was nothing to do but go back to his favorite spot and wait, faithful to the end. l flec present 1 Dru ms anc tention the troops t The Marine Ba As 1 as ped to the caiss headed in forn rode down the ¢ tion with staff, whic ing for hi 14th street sylva and the comman was wait nar for a deceased was started Roll of Drums. The Army Band the solemn roil 1 r crossing 14th street, playing “Onward, Christian ‘The regulations provi ng of march music during a funera procession. and all of the bands c ried this ont. The slow played while the troops and roved. started of muffied for the hymns wer were at at tention being Directly was the followed Feld Shot.” tates Infa while the casket was h ehind Army United ates Cavalr the 6th United State “America’s First and I4th United regiments nex with their mule-drawn machine fun detachments, followed by the 13th United States Regiment of Engin with its band The Sth Regiment the eust coast Quantico heade gent, which was followed Ly a regi bluejackets from the United® tates naval tra g station, naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Vi This detachment w followed by the battalion of e neers of the tional Guard of the District of lumbia. The detachment ates ship Mayfl tial yacht, was of honor. Dir tillery caisson b the marine guard from dent’s ship and.a detachn jackets. High ranking Army and Navy, ers, flanked the Banc of Marines xpeditionary the naval from force at contin from er. the the pry 1S the United 1 | | | i | gua pallbear caiss which was followed by the medal of honor men of all fighting services. Following the carriages of the mourners, came nearly a battalion of Army and Nav officers on_duty in Washington and officers and men of the United States naval reserves in this city. TENNESSEE PAYS TRIBUTE. NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 8.—In s proclamation caliing upon ti® ipeople of Tennessee to suspend their concerns Friday and assemble to ynite in paying tribute to the life and achievements of President Hard- ing, Gov. Peay sald: “No part of the union more keenly regrets his death than does the south and our own Tennessee.” BELGIUM TO SHOW SORROW. By the Associnted Pross, BRUSSELS. August 8.—The govern ment ha decided to half-staff the flags on all public buildings the day of President Harding's funeral, this being the first time such a measure has been taken by Belgium on the death of a foreign chief of states Memorial sorvices will be held In the Amorican Methodist Mission Chap on Friday.