The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-10
.LAWT0N RESTS
In HISTORIC
ARLINGTON
Impressive Services Over the Re
mains of Brave General
Lawton,
THE HERO OF THREE WARS.
highest Military and Civil Honors
Paid to the Ideal American
Soldier.

erai Henry w. Lawton was buried to-
day in the National Cemetery at. Ar
IMngton The services at the grave were
preceded by those at the Church OF the
Covenant in this city, where President
H. NJ. S.ryker, of Hamilton College,
New YORK, delivered a funeral grafton
that has seldom been equaled in beauty
Of expression, or could It have been in
more perfect accord with the spirit OF
the solemn occasion that called 1t forth.
Never in the history of the capital has
there been a more representative gath
ering Of the nations official life to pay
a last tribute to a nations hopored
dead. No mark Of military pomp and
ceremony that the regulations coVld
provide was wanting to render the &C.
caslon solemn and impressive. Nearly
all the available troops Of the regular
establishment remaining in this coun-
try were called out Three thousand
men, infantry, cavalry and artillery.
followed the fag-draped caIsson to the
grave. But mere official formula were
dwarfed beside the deep popular DEM
onstratlon that the burial of the dead
soldier called forth. Every department
Of the government paid its official trlb-
ute. Flags hung at half mast The
President and his cabinet, Representa-
lives Of the supreme court. OF the house
and senate, and OF the army and navy,
all combined to III the darkened church
to its utmost.
Great Crowds Paid Homage.
But these official representatives Of
the people were lost in the great crowds
that surrounded the church and lined
the streets along which the procession
passed. Lawton was to the people the
ideal American soldier, whose exploits
In three years made his name a house.
hold word and who, being a soldier first
and only, died in the line OF duty, leav-
ing nothIng to his children but the herI-
tage Of an honorable name. 1t was in
tribute to this soldiers ideal that Amer
ican generosity for weeks past had
swelled "thr Lawton fund beyond all
expectations of its orlginators, and in
further tribute to-day that the great
outpouring of citizens filled the streets
long before the hour when the services
at the Church of the Covenant were to
commence over the hero whose remains
had lain in state under military guard
through the, silent watches of the night.
Soft lights burned above the chancel
where flowers were piled railing high,
while the casket was buried beneath
load of roses. lilies and white carna,
tions that overtiowed their narrow rest
ing place and fell in perfumeu ava
lanche to the floor The guard. cavalry
men from Lawton's old command, stood
at each end OF the catafalque. silent
and motionless as uniformed statues.
ana the hush of the church was broken
only by TIE soft tread OF those who
entered with bowed heads to pay their
last. silent tribute to the brave.
officials Paid Honor to Lawton.
President Mckinley was among the
earlier comers, accompanied by the sec
retary Of war. They came to the church
with Adjutunt General Corbin, who. as
sisted by Gel. Bingham, had charge Of
the ofticIal arrangements. The secre-
tary OF the navy the secretary of the
interior and the postmaster general;
the attorney general and the secretary
of agriculture were also there. The su-
preme court was represented by Chief
Justice Fuller and several OF the as
soclate justices. Admiral Dewey is alb
sent from Washington. but was repre-
scented by Capt. A. S. Barker. Ex-Sec-
retary Alger was also present by proxy,
having sent from Michigan Mr.. Victor
Mason. his secretary while In the war
department, who brought great
wreath of overs for the already over
laden casket. The military committees
of both house and senate were present,
as well us all the senators and members
who could gain nccess to the church.
Army and navy officers In uniform filled
most Of the forward pews and press
of citizens stood up at the rear and in
the wide vestibule beyond the doors.
The Presbyterian burial service was
read by the Rev. Tennis HamlIn, pas
tor Of the church, and President stryker
then arose to deliver the oratIon.
President stryker's Grafton.
when, in the name of mankind, and
that peace might bo real, we undertook
in 1898 to cleanse the seas, we affirmed
a principle ana made a precedent that /,
for one, hold to have written the most
honorable leaf in all our history. But
all that has been since was corrolary
to that. No special pleading OF profess
plonal malcontents with whom wisdom
will not die, no a priori distractions
can unsay whnt this dead soldiers zenl
said for America. Rather does such n
death enJoIn upon our purpose and per-
formRnce such ends as shall vlndlcate
us from towardly Indlfferentlsm and
evasion In the face OF whatever duty
and however unexpected or complex
enjoln us to regard nnd to teach lib
erty's authority.
I'm some good day--not fur nway,
please God-when those islands, found
ling no longer. shall have been rem
dered hs 4 majestic dladcm to civil
iEatlon, to regulated freedom, and to
tho God of these, there in falr Luzon,