Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-01
ARMY FL|ERS. BURIED
Impressive Rites for College
Park Accident Victims.
INTERMENT AT ARLINGTON
Corp. SCOTS Body Escorted by
Cavalry Troop and Band.
FELLOW-AVIATORS BEAR BODY
Services for Lieut.. Rockwell Held
at st. Johns Church-Martyrs
to Science Now Number $50.
FELLow.Av1AT0Rs BEAR BODY

I Military burial with honors beyond
those officially prescribed for their rank
today was given the bodies of Lieut.
L. c. Rockwell and Corp. Frank s. Scott,
late of the army aviation squad. These
dent at College Park, Md, last Saturday
afternoon. The funerals had been delayed
to await the arrival and ascertain the
wishes of relatives who had come to
Washington. Both were buried at Airing
ton, the fourth victim of the new army
science to rest there.
The first officer and the first man to be
) killed in an aeroplane accident anywhere
in the world. Lieut.. Thomas Selfridge
was buried at the national cemetery in
September, 1905. Since then the art has
made wonderful progress and feats have
been done that would have been ranked
as impossible four years ago. But the
death list has grown immensely and the
two men buried today brought the total
fatalities to more than $50.
Corp. Scott's Funeral First.
The first of the aviation funerals today
was that of Corp. Scott. Inc body had
been at an undertaker's in Washington
since Monday. NJ. b. Shaffer, a brother
in-law. from Ridgeway, Pa, was present,
as was Mrs. J. ]. Hull Of Scranton, Pa,
SCOTS sister. Mrs. Shaffer, the other
sister, was detained at home by illness,
following the announcement of her
brothers death.
The body was removed to Arlington at
1880 o'clock this morning. and instead OF
the usual escort, was accompanied to the
grave by a troop of the 18th Cavalry,
stationed al Fort Myer and the 18th Cav
airy Band. All of the aviation officers
attending the College Park school We're
present, including Capt. Charles de Forest
Col. George P. Scriven, acting chief signal
officer of the army. Col. Scriven had
gone to College Park for the flights Sat
urday and reached the flying field just as
the accident happened
The funeral services for Corp. Scott
We're read by Chaplain r. P. Brander of
Fort Myer and the customary volleys were
fired across the open grave as the coffin
was lowered
1t was later in the afternoon when the
second funeral procession reached the
cemetery. The services for Lieut. Rock
we'll were held at st. Johns Episcopal
Church. 10th and II streets northwest.
Ihe services were read by Rev. Roland
Cotton Smith. rector of the church. The
coffin was buried beneath flowers, the
government officials, who had been inter-
ested in Lieut.. Rockwelrs career
Fellow-Aviators as Pa1lbearers.
The pallbearers were selected from
the fellow-aviators Of Lieut. Rockwell.
They were Lieut.. r. c. Kirkland, Lieut.
H. HI. Arnold, Lieut.. Thomas Milling,
Lieut.. w. C. Sherman, Lieut.. Harold
Caioar nj ri do
dler and Capt. F. B. Hennesy. The body
bearers were from among the enlisted
men on the aviation detail at College
Park.
Mrs. Cecilia Little, mother Of Lieut.
Rockwell, and Miss Elizabeth Little,
his half sister, had come to Washing
ton for the funeral Maj. Samuel Reber
of the Signal Corps, also a relative, and
Lieut.. Henry la Garde of the 10th In
fantry, a close personal friend, also
had come.
The body was carried from the church
to Arlington and was buried with the
simple military formalities that had
marked the burial of Corp. Scott.