The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-30
SELMA MAKES
 PREPARATIONS Committees Named For
 PettuS Funeral. MANY FLORAL TRIBUTES
Citizens Meet and Adopt Suitable
 Resolutions on Death.
Every Effort Being Made to Have Ln.t Services Over Grand old Alaban- fan as Simple as
 Possible.

Selma. July 29.-(special.) 1.-The re-
 mains of United States Senator Ed
 mund Winston Pettus will reach Selma
 tomorrow morning at 4:25 o'clock in a
 special sleeper over the Southern Rail- | way.
 The remains will be met in Birmiur-
 nam tonight on the arrival of the train
 at that city by Congressman w. B.
 Craig and Hon. H. H. Stewart of this
 city. who will escort them back to Selma.
 At Bakers Switch just beyond the city limits. other Selmians will meet
 the remains and escort them here.
 After the arrival of the train at the union passenger station tomorrow | morning, the remains of Senator Pet. tus will continue to rest in the sleeper until o'clock. At that hour a dele gation of citizens and the soldiery of I the End regiment will escort them to the family residence. where they will
 remain until the hour of the funeral, 12:30 o'clock.
 ! The funeral services will be quiet l and simple, as 1t is the wish of the family of Senator Pettus that they should be. From the residence the re- mains will be taken to Live Oak Cem- l etery, where they will be laid to rest by thp side of the wife of the de- ceased.
 | After the services over the remains at the residence the funeral cortege will be formed and the march to the | cemetery will start. The procession | will be led by a squad of mounted po- ] lice. Then, in carriages. there will come the ministers. active and honor l ary pa1l-bearers.
 Then there will follow the hearse I with the flower covered casket con taining the remains. On each side of | the hearse there will march the mem bers of Camp Jones. United Confeder- ate Veterans, who will act as an escort 1 of honor.
 Following the hearse will come the End regiment band. Behind the band will follow the escort of a brigadier- general. This will be composed of the companies of the 2nd regiment. infan- try, Alabama National Guard, and Troop c and Battery c of this city After the military, the family the Governor and his staff. Supreme Court and United States Court. State officials, members of the Legislature, visiting delegations city and county officials private carriages and a delegation of negro citizens will follow. From the residence the funeral pro- cession will move down Alabama Street to Union. then north to Selma and uOWH SelH0d DtTccI to lLlN6 Odk Cem6- tery. When the cemetery is reached the remains will be carried to the Pet tus plat near the monument erected to the memory of Confederate soldiers, and after the simple burial service will be consigned to mother earth.
 During this morning the committee which was appointed at the citizens meeting Sunday afternoon held long session. They appointed a number of init fnllnwS
 Committee to meet the remains at union passenger station tomorrow morning at 7:30 o'clock: H. H. Stew art, chairman; H. s. D. Mallory. P. H. Pitts, J. G. Converse. J. H. Lump kin. R. H. Agee. Ernest Lamar, B. J. Schuster. M. J. Meyer. A. G. Parrish. Isaac Schwarz, B. s. Bibb and w. B. Craig.
 Committee to Meet Governor and staff. L. Clay, W. P. Welch, R. H. Mangum, W. M. Vaughan. Eugene Robbins. Sr., J, F. Wilkins. J. c. Ad- Ter and I. Bloch.
 Committee to Meet Legislature-H F Reese. R. R. Kornegay, A. D. Pitts, J. B. Evans. Herman Ullman and J. F. Hooper.
 Committee to Meet Supreme Court A. l.. Mcleod Chambliss Keith. Dr. A. w Cawthon and Herman Elias burg.
 Committee to Meet United States Court and other Court Off1cers-R. H. Mabry. J. c. Compton. W. K. Camp bell, c. G. Tissier and c. c. Grayson
 Committee to Meet Strangers-R. D. Berry Kent Coe. F. NJ. Cothran and Thomas Bender.
 Mir. J. B. Ellis will be marshal of ,he parade and will have as assistants George Craig. Jr. Chambliss Keith. V. B. Atkins R. D. Walker and McD. Campbell.
 At the request of the family and relatives. the hour for the holding of the funeral services over the remains of the distinguished dead was changed from o'clock tomrorow afternoon to I2:3O o'clock. This change was made so that the members of the End regi ment who have been in camp here dur ing the past week. could leave during the afternoon for their homes.
 The funeral services which will be simple and without eulogies. will be conducted by Rev. F. G. Railey. Dr. RaiIey is filling the pulpit of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church during the absence of the pastor. Dr. A. A. Little. He will be assisted by the other min isters of the city and a selected choir will render a few hymns
 It is expected that large delegations of prominent citizens from all parts of the State will reach here tonigh; and tomorrow morning to attend the obsequies. A number of floral cm- blems were received from different parts of the State tonight and 1t is expected that many more will arrive tomorrow
 At the citizens meeting Sunday af- terpoon Mir Isaac Schwartz made a most eloquent address and then moved that a committee of five be appointed to draft a suitable set of resolutions upon the death of Senator Pettus. The ramarks made by MT Schwaz and The