The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-30
ARMY FOLLOWS
GREAT LEADER
To THE GRAVE
Tens of Thousands Pay Final
Earthly Honors to General
William Booth, the Much
Loved Commander.

T ONDON, Aug. 2o.-The body of
the founder Of the Salvation
Army, General William Booth,
was buried beside that Of his
wife today in the old cemetery Of Alb
ney park, in the heart of the east end
of London, where the great evangelist
began the work that spread over the
entire world, No such gathering of the
populace on q funeral occasion has been
witnessed except upon the deaths of
Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.
Several Thousand Salvationists, keep
ing step to we'll known Salvationist
tunes played by forty bands, marched
over tho FIVE miles from the army head
quarters to the burial ground.
1t was more in the nature of tri-
umphal progress than an occasion Of
mourning.
In the same streets only few years
ago, not few Of those who had
marched today had been mobbed and
Jeered. No one could estimate the num-
bers who assembled everywhere to
watch the passage Of the funeral Of
the commander-in~chief.
House-Tops damned.
All the streets and the windows along
the line of march were crowded and
even house-tops were jammed with ST.
lent throngs. Flags along the route
dropped, rain. soaked, at half-mast, and
many business houses were closed.
The multitude in and about the cem-
etery numbered not less than $4,000.
The new commander. Bramwell Booth,
himself pronounced "a long eulogy and
read the commital service when his fa-
ther's body was lowered into the grave.
The mayor Of Stoke -Newington and
the mayor OF Hackney in their robes of
office were seated on the platform with
the Booth family. Mrs. Catherine Booth
Chbborn, the late generals eldest
daughter, who for years had been es
tranged from the army with her hus-
band and their twelve children. sat
among the mourners
Eva Booth Breaks Down.
Miss Eva Booth, commander Of the
army in the United States, who arrived
In London just in time to walk behind
her fathers coffin, broke down with
grief and fatigue. Mrs. Booth He'll
berg begged the audience to excuse her
sister from speaking, but the army was
anxious to hear the American leader
and she came forward, Bramwell Booth
and Mrs. Hellberg supporting her.
Worn out by the march, many Saliva.
tionists were ready to drop when they
reached the cemetery. While the cere.
monies were going on, fainting soldiers
fell on all sides. White uniformed
nurses Of the army ambulance corps
treated more than hundred cases,
Some of the sufferers were in seri.
Gus condition, and one was removed
from among the crowd on the funeral
car.
Though one-third Of the programme
was omitted, the service lasted two
hours. Then it was discovered that a
special permit was necessary for a con
tinuance of the ceremony, as burisls
after O'Clock are prohibited. The
piooouce o. Lue mayor Oh SIohs--NeW-
ington, who granted the permit, solved
the difficulty.
Will of the General.
A summary of the will left by the
late General Booth was made public
today. All the properties held by him
as a general Of the Salvation Army
and all like public trusts, both real and
personal, including copyrights, are
vested in his successor as general for
the time being for the Salvation Army,
to be held by him ''upon trusts affect.
ing same
BY a codicil, his small private prop
erty, having a net value of G4S7 19s
approximately s2440), he gives to the
Salvation Army, with the exception OF
certain private papers and memoran-
dunn, which are given to his eldest son,