New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-21
Arthur Of Connaught Attends
for British Monarch, Earl
Howe for Queen Alex p
andra-Grand Duke
Michael Present.
PRESIDENT TAFTs WREATH
While Body Reposes at Dorchester
House Memorable Assemblage OF
Men from Ali Nations Pays
Last Tribute Of Friendship
to Departed Statesman.
tBy Gable to The Tribune. J

fBy Gable 10 The Illbunc.l
London. Dec. 21.-Beneath the mag
nificent cloisters of Westminster Ab-
hey Great Britain yesterday paid her
tribute to the memory of Ambassador
Reid, and in memorable assemblasc
of representatives of every nation In
the world joined to do homage 20 the
esteemed statesman
No more striking evidence Of the re-
gard with which the Ambassador was
universally held could have been forth
coming. Men and women prominent in
the worlds of science, art, literature
music, politics, diplomacy, commerce.
law. society, church and state gathered
together with common assent. Fully
an hour before noon people Of all ma
tionalities began to take their allotted
places. silently vending their way past
the tombs of kings, as the bell in the
tower slowly toled. Side by side with
men learned i'm arts and sciences sat
members of the royal family. noDies
and commoners, and by noon three
thousand persons were seated in the
famous editice.
The usual gray and sombre dimness
of the old Abbey was relieved here ana
there by a brilliant glare from the
electric candelabra, but the hazy morn
ing light which broke through the
stained glass of the large windows fel
upon seats crowded with black appar-
elled figures, who with heads bowed lis
tened to the sonorous strains of Beeth-
ovens Funeral March, played by SIR
Frederick Bridge, and Purcells anthem,
Thou KnoWest. Lord, the Secrets or
our Hearts" composed for the funeral
of Queen Mary in 1894, these being
followed by a sad wailing melody, re-
lieved here and there by the blasts OF
trumpeters and the rolling of drums.
Floral EmbIems of Friendship.
And the while the body Of the de-
rarted statesman reposed at Dorches-
tor House. surrounded by the magnili-
cent floral emble.ns OF friendship sent
by noble and commoner
Outside the Al r an ever-increasinS
crowd watched the constant new ar
rivals. Hundreds who were not ticket
holders sought admission, but were
turned away. disappointed at their fall
ure TO be numbered among the con-
course.
Inside the Abbey were the silent par
ticipants in a service that could not
have been more imposing had ii been
an actual funeral ceremony. AS the
bells of Big Ben, the great clock on the
House OF Commons, near by, pealed the
hour of noon, the full Abbey choir
strengthened by choristers from the
Chapel Royal, sang the opening SEN
fences of the burial service in process
sion to DR. Croft's music. 1t was then
that the full solemnity of the occasion
was realized and intensified. When the
Abbey bell tolled its mournful knell and
as the choir paused between sentences
women were visibly moved. The
clergy. headed by the bearer OF the
Golden Cross. slowly moved toward the
altar rail, whereon were hung four
beautiful wreaths, one Of orchids and
with deepest SYM
pathy from the President another OF
violets and lilies from the Secretary Of
state, and those fr 4 the King and
Queen and Queen Alexandra. These
alone of all the hundreds of floral trib-
utes sent from all parts Of the world
were taken to the Abbey, but told elo-
ouently in their isolation of the affec-
tion of the two great nations with
which the Ambassador had been as
sociated.
ST. Paurs Words Quoted.
When the priests, among whom were
the Archbishop OF Canterbury and the
Very Rev. II. E. Ryle, dean OF West
minister. had taken their places tho
choir sang the Nineteenth Psalm, TO
Purcell's setting. Dean Ryle then read
tho chapter from the First Epistle oe
81 Paul to the Corinthians in which
occur the words, 20 death. where is thy
sting? O grave, where is thy victory?'
With the mourners standing Wes-
ley's anthem, He Will Swallow Up
Death in Victory, and the Lord God
Will Wipe Tears from Off All Faces
was sung. Following the Lords Prayer
and versicles came the prayers for the
dead and three prayers from the
Church of England burial service, The
hymn Let Saints on Earth in Concert
Sing with Those Whose Work Is Done.
for All the Servants OF our King in
Heaven and Earth Are one" was then