The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-02-16
HIS EFFORT TO RELIEVE LADYSMITH DOOMED
TO DISMAL FAILURE.
LAYTON BURIED.
With Imposing Ceremonies Body
Is Laid TO Rest In His
tOric Arlington.

A Washington special says; Major
Henry w. Lawton was buried Friday
in the National cemetery ct Arlington
The services at the grave were pre-
coded by those at the Church Of the
Covenent in tho city, where President
II. M. Stryker, Of Hamilton college,
delivered a funeral Grafton that has
seldom been equaled in beauty OF ex-
preston, nor could it have been in
more perfect accord with the spirit Of
the solemn occasion that called il
forth.
Never in the history Of the capital
has there been more representative
gathering Of the nations official life to
pay a last tribute to the nations hon
ored dead. No mark of military pomp
and ceremony that the regulations
could provide was wanting to render
the occasion solemn and impressive.
Nearly all the available troops of the
regular military remaining in this
country we're called out. Three thou
sand men, infantry, cavalry and artil-
lery, followed the Aag-draped caisson
to the grave.
Lawton was to the people the ideal
American soldier whose exploits in
three wars made his name a household
word and who being soldier, first and
only, died in the line Of duty, leaving
nothing to his children but the herit-
age of an honored name.
1t was in tribute to this soldiers
ideal that American generosity for
weeks past had swelled the "Lawton
Fund" beyond all expectations of its
originators, and in further tribute Fri
day that the great ourpouring Of peo-
pie filed the streets long before the
hour when the services at the Church
of the Covenant were to commence.
But mere official formula were
dwarfed besidethe deep popular demon
stration that the burial of the dead SOL
der called forth. Every department
of the government paid its official
tribute. Flags hung at half mast.
The president and his cabinet, rep
resentatives Of the supreme court, Of
the house and senate, and of the army
and navy, all combined to fill the
darkened church to its utmost, 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.
President Mckinley was among the
early corners, accompanied by the
secretary of war. They came to the
church with Adjutant General Corbin,
who, assisted by Colonel John Bing-
ham, had charge of the official arrange
ments. The secretary of the navy,
the secretary of the interior, the at
torney general and secretary of agri-
culture were also there.
The supreme court was represented
by Chief Justice Fuller and several Of
the associate justices. Admiral Dewey
was absent from Washington, but was
represented by Captain A. s. Barker.
Ex-Secretary 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 flowers for the already
overladen casket.
The Presbyterian burial service was
read by Rev. Hamlin, pastor of the
church, and President Strykor then
arose to deliver the grafton.
After the grafton the casket, light
ened of part of its burden of flowers,
was lifted to the shoulders of troopers,
borne down the aisle to the street,
past the great crowd outside and
raised to the caisson waiting at the
door.
The waiting ranks of the cavalry
moved forward and closed about it as
guard of honor and formed into line.
Then with a rumble of wheels and a
clash of trace chains, field and siege
batteries joined the procession, and
the hero of three wars moved on his
last march to his final resting place on
the Virginia hillside beyond the Po-
tomac.