The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
IMMENSE HOST AT FUNERAL OF GENERAL BOOTH Lord Mayor, Soldiery and Myri- ads of Citizens Parti-
 Cipate MEMORIAL SERVICES
 THROUGHOUT AMERICA Largest Auditorium in London Utterly Inadequate For SOr- ' rowing ThrOng at
 Services Last
 Evening

London Aug. 29-Twenty thousand Salvationists massed- in 51 brigades with 40 bands and accompanied by 100000 sympathizers, marched, today, through packed ranks of spectators to Abney Park Cemetery to lay the body of their late commander, General William Booth, to rest beside his wife who preceded him across the river by more than twenty yeare.
 The procession formed at Victoria Elm nkment at 11:S0 a. m: On It's march of five miles to the cemetery II passed Salvation Army headquarters in Queen Victoria street, where the waiting hearse joined the line.
 Draping the coffin was the SalVa- tion Army's blood-and-fire' flag and on 1t lay General Booths uniform cap and his Bible.
 Directly preceding the hearse march ed Commissioner Adelaide Cox, carry ing the banner which General Booth planted on Mt. Calvary with his own hands when in the Holy Land. Fol- lowing 1t came General BramWell Booth. the late Generals son and the army's new commander, and the oth- CT members of the dead evangelist family. on foot. At the head ot the
 
 standards of many nations in Whicn the army is represented
 Detachmenta of English soldiers and sailors joined the procession as It pro ,ceeded toward the cemetery. All business houses on the line of marcn were closed and most of them were heavily draped in black.
 The Lord Mayor of London, in his robes and chain of office, stood at salute in. front of his official resi- .dence. theN Mansion House, as the mourners passed.
 The services at the graveside be- gan with the singing of the hy1nna, n 70 Death Where Is Thy Sting! . Grave, Where Is Thy Victory ?'' by chorus of&thousands of voices.
 Lieutenant Col. Damund of the army offered a prayer and then MISS BoGfh -Helberg sang a special hymn, % Bound1eSs SafvatfC1f a'---- a-~e 'rs.--
 Bramwell, Catherine and Eva Booth and several others were present. As the coffin was lowered into the grave. the throng sang, 70 Servant of God, Well Done"
 Bramwell Booth recited the com mitment:
 whereas, it has pleased Almighty God to promote our beloved General, William Booth, from his place and position in the Salvation Army to the mansion prepared for him above, we now commit his body to the grave, earth to earth, ashes to ashes and dust to dust in the sure and certain hope of seeing him again on the morning of resurrection. ">
 4- Though the auditorium at Olympia is the largest in London, it was 1n- adequate to hold a tithe of the thou sands who Hooked to the memorial service held there, last night.
 The hearse reached the cemetery an hour and a half late owing to the enormous crush Of spectators in the streets through which it passed. Hun dreds tainted and many were injured.
 The throng was especially dense in the vicinity of the Salvation Army headquarters Of the marchers, hum dreds fell out of line exhausted be- fore the cemetery was reached. Large numbers of them were so prostrated that it was necessary to remove them in ambuiances.
 New York, Aug. 29-Beginning at noon today the vast machinery of the Salvation Army throughout the Unit ed States, with it's ramifications in practically every city, town and ham, let, was at a standstill Solemn pray CT services continued until o'clock this afternoon. Within that four hours, London time, the body of Gen eral William Booth, founder and head of the Salvation Army, was inferred in Abney Park cemetery.