New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-22
Guns Boom as British Armored
Cruiser Begins Her Voyage
from Portsmouth to
New York.
FINAL H0N0RS IN LONDON
Scots Guards, Chosen Because
of Dead Ambassadors Ances-
try, Accompany Coffin from
Dorchester House to
Victoria Station.
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London, Dec. 21.--With impressive
and beautiful ceremonies the body OF
Ambassador Reid was taken to-day
from Dorchester House and placed on
board the armored cruiser Natal to be
conveyed to New York.
"The Pail Mall Gazette in its de-
scription SAYS: Ambassador, states
man. kinsman, more than friend,
Whitelaw Reid had won the nation
heart, and the silent multitude that
lined the streets to-day when the BODY
was carried from Dorchester House to
Victoria Station showed how deep was
the love and veneration he inspired.
Continuing, 1.-The Pail Mall Gazette
says: "On Dorchester House the Stars
and Stripes dropped in the stiffness OF
n gray morning when the household
cavalry and guards who were to form
the procession took their positions. The
gun carriage and the bearing party
stood apart. Then the police stopped
the traffic and there was that strange
brooding silence which thrills-the ST.
lence Of multitude waiting.
AT 10 o'clock the doors Of Dorches-
ter House opened and slowly the coffin,
shrouded in the United states flag, was
borne to the gun carriage Still no
sound was heard to break the silence.
Then came the word Of command, and
the foremost Of the red-cloaked cav
airy moved off with n Gathering OF
steel. Another moment and the first
low mourning notes Of the Scots Guard
band were heard. but above all the
first Of the distant guns in st. James's
Park doomed in splendid monotone as
the procession passed on its way.
THE scene at Stanhope Gate was
profoundly moving and impressive. All
through the park TO Hyde Park Corner
the crowd stood many deep. silent and
uncovered under the damp and drip
ping trees. A haze hung over all and
dimme6 the distances, and the long.
slow moving line OF gray-coated guards
all seemed wonderfully eloquent OF
grief. At Hyde Park Corner again the
crowd was dense. while all the way 10
Victoria Station the gun carriage rum
bled on It's way through an avenue OF
mourners."
General Munroe in Command.
The funeral procession from Dor
chester House was under the command
Of Major General G. Munroe. With
him were Colonel Glanville Smith and
Assistant Adjutant General r. ]. Ken
tish. A half battalion of Scots Guards.
chosen because Of the Scotch ancestry
of Mr.. Reid, escorted the body, while
ahead Of them was troop OF house
hold cavalry, the scarlet cloaks of which
formed the only note of color In the
procession Behind the cavalry came
the band Of the Scots Guards and the
mines and drums OF the second bat
TALON of Guards.
The coffin was borne in gun car
riage belonging to the Royal Artillery.
while five guardsmen marched on each
side. Major George o. Squier, military
attache to the American Embassy, in
uniform, marched behind the coffin, and
Immediately following him was Cor
poral Donovan, a white-hooded veteran
Sfron, (holSga Hos
pital.
The company of Scots Guards. with
their black BUSHES, wearing great coats
and with their arms reversed, brought
I'D the rear. The route of the process
sion was by Stanhope Gate through
HYDE Park to Hyde Park Corner, and
thence through Grosvenor Gardens to
Victoria Station.
AS the coffin was carried from Dor
chester House the signal was given
by a man from the Scots Guards sta
toned on the roof, and the battery In
st. James's Park began a salute or
nineteen minute guns. The Scots Guard
band played Handers Dead March as
the procession moved away from Dor
chester House. but the band ceased as
II entered Hyde Park, and the pipers
struck up a mournful wall.
At Victoria Station.
A guard Of honor Of one hundred OF
the Scots Guards was posted at VIC
toria Station under the command Of
Major General Sir A. Z. Codrington,
commanding the London district. The
nrocession entered the station by the
buckingham Palace gates, which open
almost Immediately OH platform No. Z,
from which the special train departed.
4 large crowd gathered outside the
Station and within 1t also men and
women pressed closely on the platform
barrier. The pipes were playing THE
Land of the Leal" and to those strains
the oun carriage was drawn along the
length of the platform. to where the
train was waiting.
ON the platform were Ogden Mills
poid the Earl OF Granard, Captain
walsh Irwin b. Laughlin, and the Sec
ond and third secretaries OF the en-
hsoy Commander Symington. naval
attache: F. c. Van Duser. representing
the American Society. and Consul Gen
eral Griffiths, all Of whom, except the
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