Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-29
34,OOO Attend
 Booth Funeral
SIMPLE SERVICES ATTENDED BY
 MANY NoTARLES.
A PLAIN, PINE COFFIN
Cap and Bible of Dead General Rest Upon It-A Regulation Salvation Army Revival Service Held.

London. Aug. 2S-Funeral services over the founder of the Salvation Ar my, Gen William Booth. were held at the Olympia tonight in accordance with the traditions of that erganiza- ton without pomp or symbols or mourning but with most moving fer ver and impressiveness.
 Thirty-four thousand people paFtic- ipated tn the service. Nearly half of them wore the blue coats and red jer- seys or beunets with red ribbon So familiar en the streets of cities in sev- eral nations
 Body In Plain Pine Coffin.
 The body of the late general in plain pine coffin rested high upon a white catafalQue before the big plat form across the end of the hall where all the chief officers of the organiza- ton were seated and where forty bands were massed. The crimson flag of the army of fire and blood" which the general unfurled on Mount Calvary, planted above the coffin. A bank of flowers composed of the tributes sent by members of royalty and many so- cieties, was behind it. Flags of vari- ous nations in which the commander in chief had waged campaigns and the standards of the older divisions of the army were aErayed before the platform
 Notable Personages Present.
 These and more Salvation Army flags in the galleries, each tipped with white ribbons, and twenty portraits of the evangelist, surmOVnted with green laurel wreaths, with a broad organge ribbon connecting them, was the only decorative effects.
 The front rows of chairs before the coffin were filled with representatives of various bodies. with the equerry for the king, several mayors in their robes and chains of office, a deIega- tiOn from the stock exchange, minis ters and cIergymen of all the Protest ant churches and Jewish rabbis, and many notable personages were seated throughout the house but the rank and file of the great gathering was com posed of the plain people for whom the army works.
 Small Procession of Saivationists. The service itself was not only a material but also a mammoth meet ing of prayer and praise. No other l congregation mparable with it ever | gathered in London if in the world save the funeral of the generals wife ] hsld iH the same hall 22 years age 1 this coming October,
 ] The most solemn moments of tbe l long meeting were when the coffin wa& i borne along the center of the hall tC | the music of the Dead March in Saul l A small procession representing many 1 branches of the armY's activity, in \ cludiHg men and women and a detach. ment of officers from foreign branches l carrying the flags of their respectiE, i countries, preceded it. Immediately | before the body brigadier bore a1of l the crimson flag which the genera 1 raised at Jerusalem and under whicl he died at HadleyWOod. Following i marched the officers from Sweden Germany, America, Switzerland, Can ada, France, Denmark, Norway, India and Australasia
 Coffin Covered with Flag.
 Then came the new general, Bram well Booth. with his wife, each wear ing the uniform of a commissioner Mrs. Booth Hellberg and the grand children of the late Salvationist, Adit Catherine Booth Capt. Mary BootE Capt. Miriam Booth, Cadet Sergt. Der nard Booth and Cadet NJ. Booth Tuck CT.
 The coffin was covered with a fla and on it rested the generals Bible an cap. The slow progress along the cen ter aisle occupied more than ten min utes, during which time the immens audience remained standing.
 All the SalvatiOnists stood at salut
 More than one-haf of the 33 number
 were familiar Salvation Army song
 which the many thousand present san ! 1 mic
 BramweIi Booth Overcome.
 As Bramwen Booth reached for
 chair to take his seat he fell to h.
 knees and buried his face in his hand The service consisted of alternatin hymns and prayers, following whiC there was a regulation Salvation Arm
 revival service. with the usual Call fC
 baclSsliders.
 When the call for backsliders wa
 made, several in Salvation Army un
 forms went forward
 Soldiers Renew Pledge.
 The revival service was conclude
 with the singing of the refrain heal at every meeting which General Boot conducted His Blood Can Make u J Vilest Clean; His Blood Avails f' } Me-
 ' The most impressive feature of ii
 soiemnities fololwed. All the soldie B of the Army rose and recited the co' . enant Of fidelity, pledging themsely "a to bs faithful soldiers of the Lord , Body Removed to Headquarters. . The eatafaiqus was then wheei' ! | slowly deHh the aisle while the gre
 gathering sang When the Roll IS Cal ed Up Wonder I'll Be There" The co \ fin was placed in a. heaFse and eoi D veyed to the Salvation Army heal
 quarters, where it will rest until talk r te Abnsy Park cemetery tomorrow, n As the doors closed behind the cas- :. ct Commissioner McKie prenounc "a the behedietiea,
 d FOR LURlNG GIRL INTO
 LIFE AE WHITE GI AVER