The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-31

nctals, legislative attaches and gov- ernmental employees. The Governor and members of the Legislature were met at the depot by . special committee of the citizens of Selma and escorted to the Central City Club. where they were entertained by tho people of Selma until the hour of the funeral
 The special train left for its return trip at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
 As an additional mark of respect to the memory of Senator Pettus, the 2nd Infantry. which has been in camp at Selma for the past week. was held for the funeral exercises. Col. Charles R. Bricken, commanding the Second. after receiving oders from the Governor through Adjutant General Bibb Graves, held each ohicer and man in camp for the funeral exercises.
 In the long procession which hled through the three bordered streets of Selma. the 2nd Infantry. tho largest and perhaps the best appointed regi- ment of the state troops, formed the most conspicuous feature.
 Line of March.
 The splendid procession which escort ed the hearse to the cemetery was in this way made up:
 l. Chief of police in command of platoon of officers.
 ?. Ministers carriages. 3. Active pall-bearers.
 4. Honorary pail bearers. the commit tee from the Senate and House. 5. The Learse. Confederate veterans' detail on either side.
 6. Memoli's band and military escort under Colonel Bricken.
 2. Family.
 8. Governor and staff.
 3. Supreme Court of Alabama and other courts.
 10. State officers.
 II. Legislature.
 12. Visiting delegations.
 13. City council and county officials
 14 Civic societies and public gener- ally.
 Is. Colored citizens' federation.
 The whole was in charge of James B. Ellis. who served as Grand Marshal Of the procession. The arrangements were admirably made. There was no hitch. no accident. nothing to cause regret. So careful were the precautions taken that no horses except those at tached to the carriages containing the funeral party were permitted to enter the cemetery. for fear that during the firing of the honorary salute by the Selma artillery some horse might be- crowd.
 The crowd was perhaps the largest that ever gathered in Selma and this In spite of the weather. It was lsr1sr. perhape theu tho great gatherinr which attended the funeral sf Senator Nor gan few weks ago becauss of the presence ot the Legislature and the members of the End Infantry. -+..4-s Was Close to Selma
 In this signal way did AIabama's . people honor the man whose life had been a credit to them and to Alabama. Selma especially honored the dead, for he was close to Selma. His life mad seemed so much a part of the life of his people. It had been lived out among his people. He spent his best time with them. in these latter years of that wonderfully long life. In car them and his interests had been their interests.
 In the latter years, when his greater honors had come to him, his life was no less simple nor was 1t any less close to the people of the beautiful city on the Alabama to which he with John T. Morgan, had given a peculiar fame.
 The gathering which assembled re- fected not only the special love of the people of Selma for Pettus. but 1t re- fected as we'll the special love of Alabama and particularly of West Ala bama and that part of Alabama known as the Blck Belt.
 Black Belts Tribute
 Had not the Legislature come, had not the End infantry remained, the streets of Selma. would have been every train. From Perry, from Lowndes. from Wilcox. from Marengo ' Counties. there came those who wished to share in the privilege of paying honor to the distinguished dead. There came those who felt. with the people of Alabama. that there was something in the plain strength. the perfect sim plicity. and the unassailable integ- rity of Edmund w. Pettus. which brought him close to the hearts of his people and won for him their frankest and truest affection.
 The funeral train reached Selma at o'clock this morning, having oeeh delayed two hours on the way. It came by way of Birmingham and was in charge of F. L. Cornelius. Assistant Sergeant at Arms of the United States ern Railway. MT. Cornelius left Wash ington on the first train out after the arrival of the train notifying the Ser geant-at-Arms of the Senate of the death of Senator Petrus Even with this he arrived in North Carolina only in time to catch the funeral train as it was leaving.
 Members or Family.
 The members of the family who were aboard the train were Mrs. Lucy Rob erts. daughter of the Senator; Miss Lucy Roberts. Pettus Roberts and Ed mund w. Pettus, Jr A special com mittee of Selma citizens, headed by Congressman w. B. Craig, met the train at Birmingham. The party was also joined there by Congressman Os- car Underwood.
 Notwithstanding the early hour at which the train arrived at Selma, a large number of citizens were there to meet the train. In Camp Morgan at Elkdale Park, the members of the 2nd infantry had been astir since day. light. Bugles had been blowing. or ders had been given and the men mad had an early breakfast
 The soldiers marched into town and took up a position near the depot Un- der the excellent system of handling the large crowd and in attending to the details of the great occasion, a spe- cial committee had been named to meet the train at the depot and arrange for the transfer of the casket to the house On that committee there had been named H. H. Stewart. chairman: II. S. D. Mallory. P. H. Pits, J. G. Con- verse, J. H. Lumpkin, R. H. Ayee, Ernest Lamar. B. J. schuster. M. J. Meyer, A. G. Parrish. Isaac Schwartz and B. S. Bibb.
 The casket was lifted from the train and at 8 o'clock the procession headed by a mounted detachment from the po- lice department of Selma took up its J;n1 of ,,,a rcb nm Rraad Street Tp,n..