The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-10
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scenes at the Funeral.
" 6iugton, Feb. 9.-Maj. Gen. Henry
u wlon was buried to-day in the ma
,,ooll cemetery at Arlington.
r, was a nations tribute to national
bera aud the sorrow of a whole people
ras expressed when America added the
.bo,,'.r of cypress to the brow that so long
had worn the laurel.
| rbs burial service beneath the leahess
ree- at Arlington was preceded by serv-
,es i'm the Church of the Covenant on
Connecticut avenue, at which every de-
narrment of the government was repre-
sen-,d including the President, Congress,
tbs supreme Court and all the ranking
officers of the army and navy within
reach Of Washington. Lawtons old com
raae- of the line and staff, the diplomatic
corps in all it's brilliancy of uniform and
decoration, and many citizens of all
degrees as were fortunate enough to find
Standing room within the walls were
there.
But the crowd within was insignificant
compared with the thousands who braved
the lowering winters day, for a glimpse OF
the nag-draped caisson with its military
escort as it passed through the streets.
Hundreds more made the toilsome pilgrim
age 10 Arlington to hear the last words
pronounced above the open grave where
President, cabinet and the General com
harding the army stood with bowed heads
ill the last volley had been fired and the
ougle sounded taps.
Ii was the homecoming of a hero. For
seven weeks, every since the fatal news
from san Mateo had been flashed around
the width of the world the country had
waited 10 pay its best tribute to the dead
Lnwton, Soldier and Hero.
LAYTON to the great bulk of Americans,
had been the incarnation of the American
sold err He had made his mark in the
Civil War from the Mississippi to the sed,
and in the interval of potential peace il
was he who had beaten a his own game
Geronimo, the greatest master of desert
craft and mountain fighting that the West
had ever known, and VINO in the new
problems of a tropic war had proved the
most daring and resourceful of all the
generals in the field. 1t was in tribute to
these qualities that the Lawton fund had
in a few weeks been swelled past all the
expectations of its originators, for Amer
lea knew that Lawton, being a soldier,
first and only, had left to those who loved
him no heritage save his sword and a
spOtess name.
For a day and night the body of the
soldier lay in state in the Church of the
Covenant. So il lay this morning when
he doors were opened. troopers from his
Old command, with sabers drawn keep
Ing vigil at the head and feet. Beneath
the soft lights of the altar rose a tropic
Jungle of palms and higher than the flag
draped coffin rose banks of flowers, tri-
butes from every quarter of the land. At
his head hung in dim folds the dlngy bat
tedag from San Mateo still on its bam-
boo staff and supported by one of the
men who was near him when he fell.
From the ceiling hung the red>centered
flag of the Eighth Corps, under which he
had won perpetual fame in two island
wars About him as the shrill pipes of
the organ trembled with the opening an
them, stood grouped his superiors and
his brother officers, with whom and for
whom mis- life work had been done.
President and Cabinet.
Close to the coffin sat President McKin-
ley and on his right the Secretary of
State With them We're the Secretary of
War; the Attorney General, the Secretary
of the Navy, the Postmaster General the
Secretary of the Treasury. the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of Ag-
riculture. Close by were Mrs, Lawton, lit
Tie Marley and the others of the family,
n.
Gen Brooke, Gen. Shafter and their staff
officers. all in uniform and all Dawtons
comrades, who at one time or another had
camped and fought with him.
In The body of the church was scarce
~ less notable gathering, assistant sec
retaries and heads of bureaus, the Mill
tary Committees of the House and Senate,
diplomats, the Orientals in their flowing
robes of somber color and the Europeans
respondent in decorations, prominent
among them the Spanish minister. There
were delegations from the Loyal Legion
the Grand Army and other patriotic so
c!etles.
Chaplain Pierce. of Lawton's old COM
mand read the Presbyterian burial serV-
ice. that Epistle to the Corinthians, whose
words of comfort seem freshly pruned for
each occasion of bereavement Then Pres
ident Stryker of Hamilton College
New York, clad in his divinity robes, rose
to deliver the GRAFTON. Seldom has any
ceremony called forth tribute more schol-
arly and eloquent more simple and direct
and more fitting to the occasion.
DIR. STRIKERS words.
Or Stryker said in part:
"Over the width of the earth a soldier S
household has brought its warrior home.
The dust that the nation gathers to its
guarding is that of no common man. we
are met TO celebrate and to mourn him.
But While we recall the record so com
pact with manliness, and which the white
hiossomiof modesty crowns withal, while
We recite the story of one who PERSONNEL
the best American traditions, first this
day do we regard her sorrow who treads
that solemn aisle of pain the sanctity
of whose shadows are accessible only 10
her God. The stars of the splendid
flag covering now the shape
otits noble warden. shine multiplied upon
the dews of grief. Here was one whom
Raleigh, Gustavus Adophus, William of
Orange, Winklereid, Cambronne, Garibal-
d. would know at sight. He was of that
tlme-enduring breed which has made Ag-
lncourt and Naseby and Quebec ana
Lucknow Of immortal story He was
comrade to the Marylanders who guarded
the retreat at Long Island to the men
MO passed the Delaware, who served the
guns of Pleasanton, who soaked the sod
Of the peach orchard, who ran
singing through the tide at Ma
MIA who held Guantanamo In
some good day. not far away, please God
when those islands, foundlngs no long