The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-10

European respleDdent IN DECORATIONS.
prominerf among them the Spanish Min
lister. There were delegations from the
LOYAL Legion. the Grand Army and 9th
or patriotic societies.
Chaplain Pierce, Of LaTtons old com
mand. read the Presbyterian burial ser
vice. that epiStle to the Corinthians
whose words of comfort seem freshly
nruued for each occasion of bereavement.
Then President Stryker, of Hamilton
College. y. V clad in his divinity robes.
rose to deliver the Grafton. Seldom has
any ceremony called forth a tribute more
scholarly and eloquent. more simple ana
direct and more appropriate and fitting
to the occasion.
DIR. STRIKERS TRIBUTE.
DIR. Stryker said in part:
''Over the width of the earth a sol
der's household has brought its warrior
home. The dust that the nation gathers
to it's guarding is that Of no common
man. We are met to celebrate and TO
mourn him. But while we recall the
record SO compact with manliness and
which the white BLOSSOM of m0deN.y
crowns Withal, while we recite the story
of one who personified the best Aneri-
gard her SORROW who treads that solemn
aisle of PAIN the sanctity of whose
shadows are accessible only to her God.
The stars of the splendid flag covering
now the shape of its noble warden, shine
multiplied upon the dews of grief. Here
was one whom Raleigh. Gustavus Adolf
plus. William of Orange Wnklereid
Cambronne. GaIibaldi would know at
sight. He was of that time-clpt.ul
breed which has made Agincourt ana
Naseby and Quebec, and Lucknow of
immortal story. He was c0nlrade to the
Marylanders who guarded the retreat at
Long Island. to the men who passed the
Delaware, who served the guns of Pleas
anton, who soaked the sod Of the Peach
Orchard
THE MARCH TO ARLINGTON.
The escort to Arlington consisted Of
a squadron of the Third cavalry, Light
Battery M of the Seventh artillery. Siege
Battery @ of the Seventh, Il brigade of
dismounted artillery. two battalions of
the Fifteenth infantry and ONE of the
second. three battalions from the Fourth
and Fifth artillery and battalion of
United States marines. The whole was
under command of General Wesley Mer-
rift Major John A. Johnston. chief of
staff, with the following mounted Off
GERS:
Special aides. Brigadier General Al
fred f. Bates. Colonel John +. Weston.
Colonel Theodore A. Bingham. Lieu enant
Colonel Henry G. Sharpe, Captain Joseph
f. Kuhn. Lieutenant T. Bentley Mott.
Aids, Lieutenant Colonel William II.
Garter, Lieutenant Colonel Culver G..
Sniffen Major William A. Simpson, Ma
jor Charles L. McCawley, Major Har-
vey c. Carbaugh. Captain Charles G..
Treat. Captain George o. Squire.
Orders flung from rank to rank down
the broad avenue Wrought troop and
platoon wheeling into line. With crepe
shrcnuded colors lowered they filed past.
scarlet creped artillerymen, cavalry with
their orange plumes and facings and the
rank of hlue-clad infantry. moving with
machine-lil1e cadence. AT the rear with
rumble of heavy wheels and clash of
trace chains came the guns, field batteries
and siege train. Ahead of the scores Of
carriages was the flag-draped flower
laden caisson, the ideal soldiers bier. and
behind it was led the officers charger i'll
a shroud Of black with the boots reversed
in the stilrups.'a picturesque remnant of
s1perstition in this materialiStic day of
machine guns and snlOkeless powder. II
was a dreary wait on the cold. wind
swept slopes of Arlington fer the hun
(lrcds who mad made the pilgrimage early
in the day. But close on sunset the
boom of the Sylph's guns ON the Potomac
was answered by the crash of inmate
ours from Fort Myer, and then the sol
emn notes OF the dirge was borne down
the wind as the procession moved through
the winding avenues of the great city of
the dead.
THE BUGI.E1 SIGHS GOOD NIGHT.
The grave was in the open space just
south of the amphitheatre and IN sight OF
the Mansion House. General Merritt
and his mounted staff deployed ON the
south road, while solid ranks of dismounf-
ed troopers held back the crowd on ev-
cry side. Nimble cavalrymen Swarmed
over the caisson, casting loose the lash
ings. and bore the coffin to the oDen
grave while the President and the Cabinet
with the gray-haired generals stood silent
and bare headed as the chaplain pro
nounced the words of commlital that com
signed forever the honored dust TO the
dust whence it came.
Then in answer to low command
the firing SQUAD wheeled into line The
Swapping volleys of the carbines scarcely
echoed among the bare trees. but the wall
of the bugle as it sounded taps. fingered
long and sadly in the gray of the winter
twilight and echoed family from the dis
/ tant hills. AS il died away the coffin
sank from view General Lawton's home
coming was accomplished.
sTunENTS INVITE BRYAN.