Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-07
WITH MASONIC RITES
Senator EIkins Buried at His
Mountain Home.
LITTLE TOWN IN MOURNING
Gov. Glasscock and Officials Arrive
by Special Train.
DELEGATION FROM WASHINGTo
Services Held in Davis Memorial
Presbyterian Church-Widow Un-
able to Be Present

ELkINS. W. Va. January 1.-Senaior
stephen b. Elkins today is sleeping his
last long sleep in the graveyard of this
little mountain town. He was laid 70 rest
within a brief time after the funeral
train from Washington had crept into
the station this morning bearing the be
reaved family and relatives and the
mourning friends. both i'm official life and
out. Another special train arrived from
Charleston. the state capital practically
at the same time. 1t brought Gov. Glass
cock, his cabinet. the justices of the su-
preme court and a score and moro or
state officials.
The town to which the late senator had
given his name was crowded with mouYn-
ers who had thronged here from every
! direction. Many who could not come by
rail drove over the mountain roads
through hours of darkness to pay the last
| tribute to the man who had done so much
for the state.
All business was suspended hags nut.
tered at half-mast and windows were
close curtained.
Arrival of Washington Train.
The special train from Washington.
consisting of seven cars. bore a distin-
guished company.
Overcome by the shock, she was in such
a condition that her physician forbade
| her leaving Washington. OF the inn
mediate family there were Miss Katherine
Elkins Mrs. Sallie Elkins Olphant OF
| Trenton, y. j.: Davis Elkins. the eldest
son of the senator; Stephen b. Elhins. jr..
of New York: Mr.. and Mrs Blaine Elkins.
former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis.
father of Mrs; Elkins. and Richard Eikins
tives and several close friends also ac-
companed the body from the capital
The Funeral car was bower of bios
SONS, and the ponderous bronze comm was
buried in flowers. which HAD poured into
| the Elkins home in Washington. To those
were added here a wreath of blooms. the
tribute of old-time friends and neighbors.
The funeral service was conducted in
| the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church
| by the Rev. F. R Barron. The ceremony.
simple in the extreme, was conducted in
the presence of a throng that took up
| every inch OF space within the edihca
| and overfiowed into the street, where
| hundreds stood with barred heads in the
| chill winter wind during the progress OF
the service. The body was laid TO rest I'm
Maplewood cemetery, which Senator Elk
| ins and former Senator Davis. twenty
years ago. had planned and laid out.
| The most elaborate precautions wers
| taken to guard against the possible operas
tions of ghouls. The bronze comm: rhs
plates of which were three inches thick.
| was inclosed in an outer case. of armors
plate steel. This was lowered into tha
| grave, which had been lined with ma
| sonry and which will be hermetically
/ sealed
Masonic Rites at the Grave.
There were brief rites at the grave in
charge of the local lodge Of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons. of which Senator Elkins
was member.
Several thousand persons stood uncov-
cred near the open grave until the inn
| pressive ceremony was ended. A special
| Irain took nunareds from .l.e Town -
the cemetery, and the train on which
| the Washington mourners had come was
I'likewise sidetracked nearby.
| Immediately after the interment ths
| congressional delegation and the other
distinguished members of the party left
| on il for the National Capital.
Miss Elkins and other members OF the
! family were of the returning party, all
| of them being anxious to rejoin the
stricken widow