Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-02
NATION PAYS TRIBUTE
To JAS. 6. SHERMAN
Late Vice-President Laid Away AT
Utica Today.
HOLIDAY AT NAVAL ACADEMY
A Nineteen Gun Salute Fired At Noon
And Flags, Are Displayed At
Half Mast.
HOLIDAY AT NAVAL ACADEMY

Inc nation To-Day palu uIIfng Ifl'
butte TO the memory Of James School.
craft Sherman, late Vice-President of
the United States, whose funeral
took place at his late home in Utica,
N. Y, this afternoon. Every state
and municipality in the Union, par
ticularly where Government Offices
are located, did its share in honoring
the memory Of the dead statesman.
Locally, fitting tribute was paid at
the Naval Academy and by the state
and municipality as well, by a sus-
pension of business operations as far
as possible. At the Academy, at
noon. a salute of nineteen minute
guns was fred from the shore bat
terry.
The national colors were displayed
at hall mast from the official staff
and other places within the Govern
ment reservation, from the spire OF
the State House dome, the flag staf
in front of the Federal Building, and
other places about the city. In ad-
dition TO calling of all official events
scheduled for today at the Naval
Academy. including the Midshipmen' S
hop scheduled for this evening, all
Government employees whose services
could be spared, were given holiday
for the day. Many of these did not
know of the holiday until they went
to their headquarters this morning to
begin the days toll.
President Taft and other admin
istration officials, besides dignitaries
of other nations, and host of men in
public lite, were in attendance at the
funeral ceremonies at Utica this aft
ernoon. The body of the lace Vice
President, clothed in a cutaway suit
of black, reposed in a state casket of
solid mahogany, covered with black
broadcloth, with handles of antique
silver The face bore look of Sc
renity, but it was overspread with
tinge of purple, the mark left by the
malady that caused death. In the
right arm lay bunch of violets, the
gift of Mr.. Sherman grandchildren,
and in one hand a spray of red flowers
from the Sherman gardens. An Elks'
pin. the insignia of one OF the few
orders to which Mr.. Sherman be-
longed, CLEANED from the lapel of his
coat.
The casket rested upon a flag draped
catafalque, over which was spread a
canopy of flags. A floral piece of
white lilies had been laid upon the
casket, while palms, ferns and flowers
were arranged in profusion on either
side. The exterior of the Court
House, where the body lay in state
yesterday, was in mourning dress,
with festoons of flags on back
grounds of black and purple.
The body laid in state from 8
o'clock this afternoon until O'Clock
at night, and during that period it
was estimated that more than 25, 900
persons passed through the building.
The procession which earlier in the
day escorted the casket from the
Sherman home to the Court House
was imposing. Lining the street as
the body was borne from the house
were hundreds of Mr.. Sherman's
friends, neighbors and busine SIS asso-
ciates.
The private services at the house
for the family were conducted by Rev.
DR.. Louis H. Holden, of the Dutch
Reformed Church. of which Mr.. Sher-
man was for many years the treasurer
and active supporter. The services
at the First Presbyterian Church be-
gan at & clock and were in charge
of Rev. M. w. Stryker, president of
Hamilton College. MIR. Sherman and
DR.. Stryker were classmates at
Hamilton College and members of the
same college fraternities.