Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-20
ROYALTY ATTENDS
REID MEMORIAL
IN WESTMINSTER
Honor of Services in
Abbey Is Seldom
Given Foreigners.
PRINCE ARTHUR ATTENDS,
REPRESENTING THE KING
Impressive Ceremonial Wit
messed by Thousands Mourn
ing Dead Ambassador.

LONDON, Dec. 20.-The memorial
service for the late Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid, celebrated today in
Westminster Abbey. was an impress
sive ceremony The honor of such
service in Great Britains most his
toric cathedral has on only few occa-
sions been accorded to any but Brit
ish subjects of great distinction.
In the congregation of $500, which
assembled this morning. nearly half
were American residents in England,
including the staff of the American
embassy and consulate-general.
Royalty, the government and every
class of public life, together with the
artistic and literary worlds, were rep
resented.
The day was raw and gloomy one,
typical of London winter. All the
congregation were dressed in the
deepest black. The robes of the
clergy and the choir and the flames
from the clusters OF candles before
the altar were the only spots Of color
against the dark stone wall. lined
with tablets and busts of hundreds OF
noted dead.
Royalty There.
Funeral marches were played While
the great congregation assembled.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, as
representative of King George and
Queen Mary; Lord Howe, represent
ing Queen Mother Alexandra; the
representative of other royal person.
ages, the Duke of Argyll, Prince
Louis of Battenberg, the Grand Duke
Michael of Russia, the vice. -chancel-
lors of oxford and Cambridge uni
versities, Premier Asquith. Foreign
Secretary Sir Edward Grey, Home
Secretary Reginald McKenna, Colo
NAL Secretary Lewis Harcourt, Lord
President of Council Viscount Nor.
ley. Indian Secretary the Marquis of
Crewe and President of the Board Of
Trade Sydney Buxton were seated in
the front pews of the chancel.
Americans Present.
Others present included Attorney
General Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Ouch
ess of Marlborough, the Duchess of
Wellington, Princess Hatzfeldt, Lady
Pauncefote, Lady Strathcona and
Mount Royal, the American Cavalry
Commission, headed by Brigadier-
General Edward j. McClernand and
Craig w. Wadsworth, American Sec
retary of legation at Teheran.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid,
the son and daughter-in-law of the
late ambassador, arrived at Ply
mouth this morning, but the Crown
Princess Cecelie docked too late to
permit of them reaching London for
the service
Shortly. after noon a professional
was played on the great organ, and
the archbishops of Canterbury and
York in their robes of scarlet and
Edward 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.
Impressive Musical Service.
The nineteenth Psalm was sung to
PurcelPs music. The lesson was from
the fifteenth 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 music was sung by the Abbey
choir, reinforced by the choir of the
Chapel Royal, and the great organ
was played by Sir Frederick Bridge,
who had a band of drums and trum-
pets to assist. The sonorous roll of
the drums and the bursts of the
ltrumpets in the Dead March" in
SAUL" and in Chopin's "Marche
Funebre," and their accompaniment
OF the many Toys voices in Wesley's
hymn, "Let Saints on Earth in Con-
cert Sing" were unsurpassable in
solmenity and beauty.
Wreaths from President Taft and
Secretary of State Knox were dis
played in the Abbey.
The mourners were John Hubert
Ward, son-in-law of the late ambas-
sador; the Earl and Countess of
Granard, Miss Breckenridge, of San
Francisco, and the STATS of the
United States embassy and consulate
general.
Many of the members of the diplo-
matte corps. with their families, at
tended the service.