The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-29
THiRTY-FouR THOUSAND CROWD INTO OLYMPIA TO ATTEND
 FINAL SERVICES.
SERVICES WERE VERY SIMPLE
Songs, Prayers, Responsive Readings and a Closing With Salvation Army Revival Calls Hundreds
 of Sinners.

London, Aug. 2S.-Funeral services for the founder of the Salvation Army. General William Booth, took place at the Olympia tonight. In ac- cordance with traditions of the organ ization. they were without pomp or symbols Of mourning, but were car. ried out with moving feryor and i'm. pressiyeness.
 Thirty-four thousand persons par ticipated in the function. Nearly half of them wore blue coats and red jer- seys or bonnets with the red ribbon, so familiar on the streets of the cities of the world where the army is estab- lished.
 The body of the late general, in g plain pine coffin. rested high upon a white catafalqne in front of the big platform across the end of the hall, where all the chief officers of the or eanization were seated, and where 10 bands Of music were massed. The crimson flag of the army "of fire and blood" which the general unfuFied on Mount Calvary, was planted above the coffin. A bank of flowers, composed of the tributes sent by members of royalty and many societies. were be- hind it Flags of various nations in which the commander in chief had waged campaigns. and the standards of the older divisions ot the army were arrayed in front of the platform.
 These and more Salvation Army flags in the galleries, each tipped with white ribbons and 20 portraits Of the evangelist, sHrmounted with green laurel wreaehs and with a broad or. ange ribbon connecting them, were the only decorative effects.
 The front rows of chairs before the coffin were filled with representatives of various bodies and also the equerry for the king, several mayors in their robes and chains of officers. dele gation from the stock exchange. min isters and clergymen of all the pro testant churches and Jewish rabbis and many notable personages, were seated throughout the house. But the rank and file of the great gathering was composed of the plain people, for whom the army works, and of whom it is composed.
 The service itself was not only a memorial, hut mammoth meeting of prayer and praise.
 The most solemn moments of the long meeting were when the coffin was borne along the center of the hall to the music of the dead march in Saul A small procession repre- sented many branches of the army activity, carrying the flags of their re- spective countries. preceded it I'm mediately before the body a brigade bore aloft the crimson flag which the general raised at Jerusalem, and un- der which he died at Hadley Wood, ana following him marched officers from foreign countries.
 Then came the new general of the army. Bramwel Booth, with his wite, both wearing uniforms of commission CTS and members of the Booth faml lies. The coffin was covered with a flag and on it rested the general bible and cap As it was borne down the aisle. the immense audience stood and salvation soldiers were at salute.
 Every seat on the floor and in the galleries was taken when the service began and several thousands of per sons were banked around the outskirts of the hall When the bands began with the hymn. "The Better World, the ocean of voices took up the strain and sang three stanzas of it. Then everyone bowed their heads in silent prayer.
 The hanls broke into a dead march at the conclusion of the prayer, and the thousands rose and turned toward the far entrance. where appeared a cluster of white tipped flags Amid silence the white catafaque was wheeled along the aisle to- position in front of the platform, where it's es cort broke to the right and left and mounted the steps Bramwell bootn Immediately after he reached ms chair, fell to his knees and buried ms face in his hands. The assembly then sang Dear Savior. l Can Ne'er Re pay the Debt of Love 1 Owe
 Commissioner Lowley, the late gen erals right-hand man, made brle eNtempOraneOus prayer and this wa followed by the hymn Pass Me No' Living Savior" Commissioner Au elaide Cox offered prayer and, with great murmur of voices, everyone Fe peated the Lords prayer A brlgau' Of Salvation chorusters sang "Nhei tue Roll Is Called and Hosts Shal Muster There after which Commls sloner Higgins led In responsive read Ing from Revelations. Chapters [ U which was followed by the singlns Of another hymn The OOnefegauol Then read silently from books severn extracts ol tho late generals writings