The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-06
State Pays Deference to
 Remains.
GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE
 ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES
Civil. Executive, Legislative and
 Judicial Bodies Represented.
Hundreds Pass Through Capitol to Take Last Lock Upon Face of Leader-Casket Covered With
 Profusion of Flowers.

In Montgomery's silent City of the Dead a narrow home has been prepar ed and its tenant, William Logan Martin, has been, laid to rest in that splendid company which sleeps in Oak wood.
 When the narrow home came to re- coiye its tenant, distinguished son of the State was laid to rest among Ala bama's great of other days and of other years. new home was pre- pared, and William Logan Martin sleeps with the great of every decade who have helped in making Alabama history.
 He rests in oakwood with the nor tai clay of others who have rendered service and helped in making peo- ple's history-with William Lowndes Yancey. with Thomas H. Watts, with Benjamin Fitzpatrick, with Henry w. HiIiiard. with the Lomaxes, father and son, with others whose lives are part of Alabama history and part of Ala bama's pride.
 great company are at rest under the trees of oakwood, a company whose clay has consecrated the beautiful spot, and set 1t apart for the synipa- thetic generations of the people of the State. In years to come. Alabama's people will gather to look upon the graves of the noble and oIden dead. and by them cali to mind the splendid service of those choice spirits when they walked among men, but who are now gone forever from earthly scenes.
 State Pays All Honor.
 The servant of the people who died in the discharge of his duty, the sol- dier of the State who fell with his harness on,p the statesman whose nerveless hand relaxed as 1t put the finishing touch to his work, the leader who sank to rise no more as he and his forces touched the threshold of the goal, was laid away for the eternal rest, as the earth was waking and blossoming in the warmth and beauty of returned spring.
 He was laid away with every honor the State of Alabama could pay de- parted servant. The civil power of Alabama, the executive, the legislative and the judicial. united to pay tribute and honor to the officer of the State, and the servant of the people who died when his sun was in the meridian, and when the promise of the future was even greater than the accom- plishment of the past
 distinguished gathering listened to the simple and beautiful service at the First Presbyterian Church, q gathering which held most of the leading Ala bamians whose names are household words, and who are now in the fore front of the governmental and legisla- tive endeavors of the day With them were the friends and associates of the dead leader, his neighbors In his daily walk, the men who had called him from his modest retirement to again take a place in the forefront of the political affairs of Alabama.
 The memory of but few men have been so honored as was the memory of William l.. Martin, called from his la bor in its most useful hour. Rarely has so large cortege followed the mortal remains of man through the streets of Montgomery, rarely have the men who had place in that eortege been of such
 
 ernor, members of the Supreme Court of Alabama, two ex-Governors of Ala bama, officials of the State, the House and Senate of the Legislature of Ala bama, life time friends and associates, followed the bier that held the clay of the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives.
 ,Hundreds Pass by Casket.
 It was state funeral It moved from Alabama's Capitol, The Supreme Court of Alabama was again made the resting plce Of a distinguished son. Through the morning and early after noon, the dark casket with background of rare and beautiful flowers. was the object of interest of the people of Montgomery and of the State. The great doors of the court room had been thrown open, and hundreds or visitors passed by the casket to gaze on the paIe features of the dead, and to feel death in the midst of his accomplish ments and his labors.
 They stopped to pay the tribute of a glance at perhaps the most beautiful array of floral offerings that has been laid at the bier of any of Montgomery's dead in recent years.
 AL three o'clock in the afternoon, the members of the House of RepTesen- tatives, the men who had been pleased to confer upon Mir. Martin his last honor, lined up on either side of the broad walk that leads toAthe Capitol steps. Joining them, was the member ship of the Knights of Pythias lodges of Montgomery, forming one of the largest companies of fraternal mourn ers ever seen in this city. They were under the direction of Chancellor Com mander B. A. Taylor.
 GO- ,rnOr Leads PallbeareFs.
 Al the same hour. the Senate of Alabama met in informal session in the Senate chamber and immediately form I'd a line for the march down the capitol steps to the carriages on Dexter avenue The Senate was headed by Lieutenant Governor Henry D, Gray and President pro tenn Thomas.
 In the meanwhile, the honorary pail bearers led by Governor B. B. Conner.