Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
IN MEMORIAM.
Services in Memory Of the
Late WhiteIaW Reid.
Impressive Ceremony in West
minister Abbey $500 Attend.
England Pays Tribute TO ate Ameri-
can amhassador..paris Memorials

London, Dec 20.-The memorial ser
vice for the late Ambassador White
law Reid, celebrated, today in West
minister Abbey, was an impressive
ceremony The honor of such service
in Great Britain's most historic ca
thedrai has on only few occasions
been accorded to any but British sub
jeets OF great distinction.
II the congregation of $500 which as
semblvd This morning, nearly half
were American residents in England,
including the staff of the American
embassy and consulate general. Roy
atty, the government and every class
of public life, together with the arts
tic and literary worlds We're repre-
scented.
The day was a gray and gloomy
one, typical of London winter. All the
congro cation was dressed ia the deep
est black. The robes of the clergy and
the choir and the flames from the
clusters OF candles before the altar
wore the only spots Of color against
the dark stone wall lined with tablets
and bust&
Funeral marches We're played while
the great congregation assembled.
Prince Arthur of Connaught. as rep
resentatiYe Of King George and Queen
Mary; Lord Howe, representing Queen
Mother Alexandra; the representatives,
of other royal personages, the Duke
Of Argyll, Prince Louis of Battenburg,
the Grand Duke Michael of Russia,
the wee chancellor of oxford and
Cambridge universities, Premier AS
quith, Foreign Secretary Sir Edward
Gray, Sir Reginald McKenny, Colo
nial Secretary Lewis Harcourt, Lord
President OF Council Niseount Morley,
Indian Secretary the Marquis of Crewe
and President Of the Board of Trade
Sydney Buxton. were seated III the
front paws OF the chancel.
others present included Attorney
General Sir Rufus Isaaes, the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburgh the Duchess
of Marlborough, the Duchess of Well
ingtun. Princess HatZfeldt, Lady
Pauncefote. Lady Strathcona and
Mount Royal the American Cavalry
Commission. headed by Brlgadier Cen
erai Ward MeClearnand and Craig
WadsWorth. american secretary of le
CATION at Teheran.
III. ana Mrs. ogden Mills Reid, the
son and daughter-in-laW of the late
ambassador, arrived at Plymouth, this
morning, but the Grown Princess Cecil
lie locked too late to permit them to
be brought TO London by special train
for the service rs mad been arranged
shortly after noon Il professional
was played on the great organ and the
Arch bishops of Canterbury and York,
in their robes of scarlet and white,
with the Right Rev. Herbert E. Ryle,
dean of Westminster Abbey, in black
and gold, went to their places, while
the choir softly chanted the opening
sentences of the burial service. Psalms
XC was sung to Purceli's music. The
lesson was from the 10Th Chapter of
the First Book of the Corinthians.
Afterward Wesley's anthem, He
VIII Swallow up Death in Victory
was sung and then Dean Ryle read
part of the burial service.
The magnificent music was sung by
the Abbey Choir, reinforced by the
choir OF the Royal chapel, while the
great organ was played by Sir Fred
erick Bridge, who had a band of drums
and the bursts of the trumpets in the
Dead March in Saul and in Cho-
pins "Marche Funebre" and their ac-
compartment of the many boys voices
in Wesley's hymn, Let Saints on
Earth in Concert Sing" We're unsur-
pass6ble in solemnity and beauty.
Mreaths from President Taft and
Secretary CT State Knox We're display
Cd iii the Abbey.
Tine mourners were John Hubert
Ward, son-in-law of the late ambassa-
dor The Earl and Countess of Gran
ard. Miss Breckenridge Of San Fran
cisco and the staffs of the United
States embassy and consulate general.
Many of the members of the diplo-
matte corps with their families attend
cd the service.