Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-09
WITH FITTING P|)hP
Lawton's Remain Buried at Ar.
lington With Military Honors
and Impressive Ceremony.
Eloquent and Affecting Tribute by
Rev. DR.. Stryker, Of Hamil.
ton College.
President Mckinley and Many Other
Distinguished Officials Present
The Funeral Procession.

Distinguished U11lclalS Present
The Funeral Procession.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--The mortal part
of Gen. LaWton was buried today in the
national cemetery at Arlington. The
services at the grave We're preceded by
those at the Church of the Covcnanat,
where President II. NJ. stryker, of Ham
ilJon College. New York, delivered
funeral Grafton seldom eScelled in beau
~ Of expression or in more perfect ac-
cord with the spirit OF the solemn occas-
ion that called it forth. Never in the
history Of the capital has there been
more representative gathering Of the
tnations official life to pay a last tribute
to the nations honored dead. Nearly
III the available regular troops in the
country We're called out. Three thou
sand men. infantrymen. cavalry and arr
tillerN. followed the hag-draped casson
4 % the grave. Every department of the
government paid official tribute. The
{ president and cabinet, representatives
sef the supreme court, congress, army
faad navy all combined to fill the dark
3sned church 10 the utmost. But these
t9foial representatives OF the people
were lost n the great crowds that sur
EeunisG the chureh-lined streets along
which the procession passed Soft lights
burned aboye the chancel, Where flowers
ssere piled railing high, While the cas-
ket was buried beneath a load OF roses,
Hits and white carnations that over
4 flowed the marrow resting place and fell
in q piGfuSed avalanche. The guard.
cavalry lllen from Lawton's own COM
lisan,l stood a each end Of the cata-
falque Fsnt and motonless as uni
fmlnfsl statues and the hush of the sill
eil church was broken only by the soft
tead 81 Jhcse who entered with bowed
heads 70 pay a list silent tribute to the
bsreavel. The Presbyterian burial SER
riee Was read BY Rev Tennis Halnlin.
pastoref the church. President stryker
thsn delivered the Grafton. He said in
part:
over the width of earth a soldier s
? Household has brought its warrior home.
. rlle dust that the nation gathers tosits
guarding is that of no common man.
We are not 70 celebrate and mourn him.
pact With .nanliness end which the
whiis the blossom nodsstly crowns
Rithal lvhils we recite the story of ona
sw!lo personified Tie best American ira
iltiois first this day de we regard her
eorrow Who traads that Solemn 1isle of
pain, the s.inctity OF waose shadows are.
aees ssifle only II her God. FIi1her we
liaSs eGa4e. the peoples chosen head,
sild all authorities else from their big
s5a stations to pay our poor but ten
der i ms Of love TO ,inbemished mem
oiy ,o 5hark Him. who is our dwelling
4 place ii all generations, that the stout
lfea Of liberty sti yielGs such manner
of ffnltagesarld . pledge ourselves, con-
sitierine the issue OF the lives of our re-
nowned dead. Ia initiate their unblench-
ing obliged faith
station Is secondary, humanity the
PRIMARY and. Whatever else any is, to-
siy gSa are all orly men and women,
BfStfleis and sisters. lifting as children
out vet faces toward the. consolation of
God The stars of the spangled banner.
e8vsring nov this shape of its noble
warden shire multiplied upon the dews
6t grief Kur. With solemn joy, it be-
scans yau his comrades of the army. to
: give thanks for life whose end must
: CATER this parenthesis of difficult
f5fewells, be viewed not as calain-
!, its- but AZ i conquest
I3r sJriker then delivered most
glowing euipey of he dead, using such
eonlparisonS As this later Plantagenet,
this latest Bayard: this modern Philip;
sidney ene whom Raleigh, Gustavus
Adolphus Wlliam Of orange, Garbal-
Gli would know at sight
He clased by conjuring up a figure OF
a bronze statue ef the dead warrior
erected on the spot where he fell by
Filipinas come to recognize him as a
.iieizd
4, he conclusion Of the services the
easkei Mas lightened Of a part Of ita
burden Of flowers, lifted TO the shoul-
: Geis ST troops ard borne to the street
dlitsidt ia the caisson. The waiting
= ranks ef cavalry moved forward and
closed about ii as guard of honor.
! orders Hung from rank to rank down
!. ,lle crowded avenue brought troop
! after troop and platoon after platoon
whetlirg into lire. Then with the rum
ble of wheels and clash of trace chains
field siege batteries Joined the process
Z, sion. ard the hero of three wars moved
q, on his last march to the final resting
- place on the Virginia hillside beyond
the Potomac.
fe The Clark Case Today.