The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-21
Rare Tribute Paid to
 His Memory. STATE. NATION AND CITY
 UNITE IN GREAT TRIBUTE Funeral Services at Beautiful
 Suburban Home.
Sorrow of City, County And state Found Expression in Civic, aiii- tary And FraternaI orders
 That Followed Body.

works of the worlds greatest legisla- tive body paying their tribute or honor and love, with the friends of almost d half century of active life in Mont Eomery paying fearful homage to ms memory. and with the entir county sorrowing for their friend and servant, who had died in the midst of his use fuiness, Ariosto Appling Wiley. repre- sentative of the Second Congressional District In the National House or Representatives, good American, patri- otic Alabamian, and true Montgomerian was laid to rest yesterday afternoon in beautiful Oakwood Cemetery, after years of constant work and service for his city, his State, his nation and his friends.
 Montgomery has had many citizens with friends who numbered legion, and whose death was bemoaned by thous- ands of high and low degree, but few have been the occasions when mans body found its final rest in the confines of Alabama's historic capital, when there was more general expression of sorrow a more universal regret that a useful man had passed into the Great Beyond, a more fearful farewell to good and cherished friend.
 Not only Montgomery, the Second District, and Alabama moaned Its favor ed son, but the nation that the deceased had given the last and best eight years of his life to, sorrowed. In Cincin- natl. the man upon whom one of the great political factions of the United States had just given It's highest honor, had his cup of joy bittered by the recol- lection that in Montgomery, Alabama a true Democrat, but a ataunch American was being returned to mother earth and ;in his sorrow practically every man from Montgomery to the Guit F <a. Nr f d their faithful servitor had been called to higher duties.
 A Remarkable pemensfFattOns
 Yk was truly a remarkable demon stration of feeling that Montgomery yesterday gave its Congressman. For days the bulletins from the bedside of Col. Wiley at Hot Springs, Va. had informed the people that never again would they see the robust, whole-soul- ed, bIg-brained man. that had been their leader, their counsellor their friend, and servant But not until the West ern of Alabama train arrived at the Union Station at 10:55 o'clock, did Montgomery seem to realize that the life loving Wiley had ceased to breathe.
 The pitiful story was told eloquently by the group of distinguished men that lined the platform. men highest in af- fairs of State, the vast throng of the 5eople who knew Col. Wiley best, the people who had honored him as few rnen have been honored and whose seneschal he was. When the sombre black easl<et with it's load of seasons flowers was tenderly lifted to the awaiting hearse. when the heart broken wife and son descended from the car, Montgomery recognized that Ariosto Appling Wiley was indeed dead and Montgomery sorrowed.
 Scores of people awaited the advent of the train. There were noticeable in the throng Senators Jno H. Bankhead G. ". Taylor, J. Tom lief lin. Henry D. Clayton. Oscar Underwood and William B. Craig. of- ficers of the State and county, and the municipality. representative men Of the business and social life of Mont gomery, the members of the secret or ders with which Colonel Wiley was prominently identified, the militia to which he gave years of service, officials of the Atlantic Coast Line, whose coun- sel he was, and scores of citizens of every class. who knew Colonel Wiley and loved him.
 In addition to the immediate family and Capt. O. c. Wiley of Troy, a brother to the deceased, the party on the car which brought the remains back home consisted of Assistant Sergeant at Arms Webber, of the House of Rep resentatives. who was in immediate charge of the funeral, and J. J. Speight, Colonel Wiley's private secretary.
 With the assistance of the active pail bearers the body was placed in the waiting -hearse, while the guard of honor. the members of Troop A 1st Alabama Cavalry, which organization Colonel Wiley at one time. commanded, stood at a salute. The cortege pro- ceeded up Commerce Street to Blob Street thence out to the beautiful country home of the late Congressman on the Upper Wetumpka Road.
 HOnors the Dead.
 Throughout the day friends of the deceased visited the nome and for the last time viewed the so familiar fea- lures.
 In Montgomery the death of Colonel Wiley and the misfortune to the dis trict were on the lips of all. Judge A. D. Sayre and Judge William H. Thomas adjourned court out of respect to the man whose brilliant practice had been e feature of the sessions of their courts for years, while Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States Court for the Middle District of Ala bama made a similar order.
 Although the funeral hour was fixed at 3:3O o'clock. there was an exodus from Montgomery as early as ? o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 At the Wiley home on the crest of the hill overlooking the beautiful spot of ground where Col. Wiley was to take his final place among the great Ala banaIans who had gone before, nature payed its tribute to the sunny hearted man for whom hundreds sorrowed. The grass was never greener. the sun was never brighter, the breeze was never more gracious than yesterday after- noon on the Upper Wetumpka Road.
 The great drawing room of the Wiley residence was absolutely banked in flowers. Handsome designs were in evidence from Troop "A" the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows. the State of Alabama, the City Council Of Mont s-onerv Central Lodge, Knights of Pvthias. the Congress of the United states. and the Bar Association of Montgomery County. In addition 70 ~. Sf.4Fn s,tfaha al men in the list ot