The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-07
THE .LARf0N OBSEQUIES
The Exercises to Be Marked by the
Greatest Simplicity.
The Officers in Attendance VIII
Wear Their undress UDiforms-Tbc
Remains Scheduled TO Arrive To-
morrow Morning - The Route of
the Funeral Procession Arranged.

The arrangements for the funertl OF
General Lawton at the Church of the Cove
nant Friday are about completed. Major
| General Merritt will issue an order today
assigning the various bodies OF troops TO
their positions in the line of the procession
and giving the hours for the assembling OF
the officers and the points of meeting.
On account of the possibility of incie-
ment weather the obsequies will be more
/ simple than usual in such cases II has
been decided that General Merritt, his
staff. and the other officers will be in un-
dress uniform, with overcoats. The abb
sence of the full dress uniform will q re
sombre coloring to the body Of moving
troops.
The funeral train bearing the remaiIs of
General Lawtol is scheduled TO arrive at
the Pennsylvania station tomorrow morn
ing at $3.50 O'Clock. A troop of cavalry
from Fort Myer will be waiting for the
train, and will escort the body 10 the
church, where it will lie in state until
Friday afternoon at 2 O'Clock. a guard OF
honor will be placed over the body +. ON the
time of its arrival at the church until the
funeral.
On the funeral train will be Mrs. Law
ton and her four children, two sisters OF
Mrs. Lawton. General Shafter and his aide,
Col. Eugene T. Wilson, and an escort OF
honor composed of Lieut.. Col. c. L. Ed
wards, Forty-sevenTh Volunteers, a1ju.an
general of Lawton's division; Chaplain
Pierce, Capt. E. l.. King, who was with
Lawton when he was killed, and Major II.
L. Haskell, Twelfth Infantry, the officer
who led the charge of the Twelfth Infantry
at Ell Caney, Cuba The bodyguard consists
of Sergt- Joseph Simon, Troop b; Trum-
peter Haberkam, Troop l; Private Charles
oakum, Troop F. all of Lawton's Fourth
Cavalry, and Private John II. Mohrhusen.
Company u, Fourteenth Infantry.
Mrs. Lawton and her children will be
driven TO the Arlington Hotel, where
they will stop while in Washington as the
guests of the hotel. The officers of the
escort will be taken care OF by resident
army officers. General Merritt, who will
be in command of the military escort Of the
funeral. will be accompanied by his per-
sonal aide, Lieut.. T Bentley Moi. and
among the officers who will serve on his
staff are the following: Paymaster Cen
eral Bates. Commissary General Weston,
Brigadier General Wilson, Colonel Carter,
Majors Johnston, Bellinger. Patten. Lusk,
kubus, Simpson, and Carbaugh, and Cap
:ains Treat and Squier. They will meet at
the Shoreham Hotel at l o'clock.
The troops which will form the military
escort Will form on the west side of Con-
necticut Avenue. When the services at
the church are over the procession will
move in the following order: General Mer-
rift and staff; platoon of mounted police;
Third Cavalry Band; squadron of Third
Cavalry; light and siege batteries of Sew
enth Artillery; Fifteenth Infantry Band;
regiment of infantry; Fourth Artillery
Band; regiment OF Fourth Artillery; Ma
rine Band, and battalion of marines. Next |
Will follow the civic part of the procession |
and the caisson bearing the casket. The |
route of procession will be on Connecticut |
Avenue to X Street: on X Street to Penn |
sylvania Avenue; on Pennsylvania Avenue |
to Twenty sixth Street; on Twenty-sixth |
street 10 VI Street; on VI Street to the |
Aqueduct Bridge where the road leading |
to Arlington is reached. The road leads |
through Fort Myer TO the cemetery.
Col. Theodore a. Bingham has charge of |
the arrangements at the church. where |
admission will be by card. He has re- |
served seats for the President. Cabinet. |
members Of the Diplomatic Corps, mem |
bers of the Senate and House of Repre- |
sentatives, prominent army and navy Off |
GERS. heads of departments. and personal |
friends of the dead officer. The church |
will seat only 500 and the Secretary of |
war mas asked tndt All Applications Tor /
seats be in not later than tomorrow noon. |
The services at the church will be con-
Quoted by Rev. H. NJ. Woolsey Stryker,
President of Hamilton College, Clinton.
n. Y. Chaplain c. C. Pierce, of the army,
will have charge of the ceremonies al. the |
grave.
Following are the honorary pallbearers:
Admiral Dewey, Major General Miles. |
Major General Brooke. Major General
Shafter, Brigadier General Breckenridge.
Senator Hawley, Senator Sewell. Repre-
sentatives Hull, Steele. and Robinson,
Brigadier General Wilson. Commander of
the Loyal Legion; Col Creighton Webb
who was on Lawton's staff at Santiago. and
Colonel Urell, who commanded the District
National Guard during the Spanish war
The active pallbearers will be non-com-
missoned officers and men who were with
command in the Philippines and
who accompanied the remains to this coun-
try. Calvin Farnsworth. Commander OF
the District G. A. R., after conference with
officials OF the War Department. has Sc
lected the following as representatives of
the Grand Army to act as honorary pail
bearers: Calvin Farnsworth. George II.
slabaugh b. f. Chase. j. H. Dawes. r s.
Hopkins. s e Faunce, Nathan Bickford.
and John McElroy.