The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
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RIFLE VOLLEYS
ECHO OVER THE
HEROES GRAVES
Funeral Of Richter
and Justh.
AN IMPRESSIVE PROCESSION
COMRADES IN ARMS MARCH TO
HONOR THEM.
At the National Cemetery and Also
Upon the Streets Many Thou
sands of Spectators Were
Gathered.
Funeral of Richter
and JuSth.
AN IMPRESSIVE PROCESSION
COMRADES IN ARMS MARCH TO
HONOR THEM.

The remains of two California heroes,
Captain Reinhold Richter and Sergeant
Maurice Justh of the First California
Volunteers, were placed under the sod of
the National Cemetery at the Preside
yesterday afternoon. All that martial
pomp, sweet music, earnest and tender
words and the assurance of the sympathy
OF myriads Of surviving companions at
arms could lend to alleviate the deep sor
rows of the mourners were there at the
grave side. Thousands Of sympathizing
citizens lined the streets through which
the double funeral procession passed.
Many eyes We're wet with tears. The
soldiers of Minnesota joined with the sol
diers OF California to do honor to the dead
heroes. AS the line marched in solemn
mood through Van Ness avenue little
children raised a cry that might have
sounded discordantly in the ears of the
mourners under any other circumstances.
'Hurrah for the soldiers!" cried several.
Cheers for the dead as well as the living!
Why not? Had they not won the plaudits
of their countrymen? Plaudits that shall
be heard when they have been dead many
a year?
1t was about 2 o'clock when the pro-
cession escorted the two caskets enfold-
ing the remains of Captain Richter and
Sergeant Justh out of Mission into Fifth
street. Here the crowd of spectators
numbered thousands. Along Fifth street
to Market they stretched When the line
reached Market street and turned west
ward the curbs on both sides of Market
street for many blocks were lined. Men
stood with uncovered heads while the
caskets passed by. Women looked seri-
Gus and sad. At Golden Gate avenue, out
which the funeral procession moved
from Market street, another crowd had
gathered. No funeral in years has at
Of af+
All along the entire line of march marks
of sympathy and respect were bestowed.
There We're no funeral services at the
undertaking parlors at $40 Mission street.
The mournerS and their friends gathered
there. 1t had been arranged that the final
rites should take place at the cemetery.
Tenderly and with exceeding care, while
the band of the First California Volun-
teers played a dirge, the caskets enfoIding
the remains of the heroes were borne out
through an aisle formed by opposing
masses of spectators, and soldier hands
laid the caskets. draped in American
flags, on the gun caissons of the Third
United States Artillery, which were to
bear them to the Preside. The crowd
stood with heads barred. Then the pro-
cession was formed
AT the head was the band of the First
California Volunteers. Rabbi Moses s.
Levy and Chaplain Charles NJ. Daley OF
the First South Dakota Volunteers, who
were to conduct the services at the grave
side, came next in a carriage. Serious of
rnien and treading slowly the first Of the
Minnesotans, Company l Of the Thir-
teenth Minnesota Volunteers, commanded
by Captain Corriston, followed.
Then the casson wheels rumbled and
the casket containing the remains of Cap
tain Richter started on the journey to the
Presidio. Between the first caisson and
the one that bore the casket containing
the remains of Sergeant Justh marched
the firing squad of the Minnesota Nolun-
teers. The pall-bearers marched by the
sides of the caissons. They were Captains
Miller Eggert. George Fflmer, William
Robertson Thomas ]. Cunningham and }.
". Dumbren and Sergeants Laughrey,
IandeCker, Bartlett, Sollman, Cardln,
Zano, Stolzenwald, Bergman and Lehman
Of the First California Volunteers, the
companions in arms of those whom tney
honored Behind the caissons marched
Colonel DubOce and the majors of the
First California and the officers of Com
panies l and A of that regiment. The
mOurners followed in four carriages, the
carriages moving abreast. The two COM
panies, I and A, marching without arms,
fhe regiment having surrendered It's arms,
were next. Then came a delegation from
Court Palo Alto No. 81, ForesterS of
America Then there was a long array of
carriages in double lines, in which were
friends Of the families and many others
who sought to do honor to the dead. In
the first Of these carriages were repre-
sentatives of the staff of Major General