Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-08
TO PAY TRIBUTE /
TO THE MEMORY
OF mrs. WILSON
Committees of the Senate
and House to Attend Pri-
waite Services at the White
House.

Washington, Aug S.-The nation
represented by committees from the
senate and house will pay its final
tribute to Mrs. Wilson, wife of the
president, at private services in the
east room of the White House Monday
afternoon.
Immediately afterward special
train conveying Mrs. Wilson's body,
the presidents family, several mem
bers of the cabinet and few friends
and relatives will leave for Rome, Ca,
where interment will take place in
Myrtle Hill cemetery Tuesday after
noon.
With the selection of honorary pail
bearers and the naming of the special
SENATE committee, all arrangements
for the funeral were completed to-
day. The house committee consisted
of the senior member of each state in
the delegation. 1t practically has been
decided that the honorary pallbearers
would include the members of the
presidents cabinet.
Flood of kilograms.
Expressions of sympathy for the
presidents family continued to arrive
at the White House today Floods of
kilograms and letters have already ar
rived.
The king of Sweden was one of
those who sent his sympathy today.
The heads of most of the nations of
Europe have paused in their battle
plans to forward cablegrams.
An extra force of police was sta
toned at the gates of the White House
grounds to keep out the curious. Only
the most intimate friends of the fam
lily We're allowed within the White
House.
The three daughters, Mrs. McAdoo,
Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret VIII
son, CARRIED in deep mourning, walked
in the grounds south of the White
House, early today for a brief time.
The president planned to see nobody
today unless pressing official business
needs his attention.
Services Will be Simple.
Washington, Aug. s.-Final arrange
ments made today for the funeral of
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
president, made 1t certain that the SER
vices both at the White House Mon
day and in Rome. Ca, Tuesday will be
the simplest. Effort win be made to
conduct the funeral as If the presi-
dent were private citizen.
Secretary Tumulty said In addition
to the committees of the senate and
house and members of the cabinet,
only relatives and a few of the closest
personal friends would attend the SER
vices.
Only the family and few intimate
friends will go with the body to Rome
for burial.
Members of the congressional COM
mittees will not go to Georgia because
of the desire of the president that the
work of congress be continued without
interruption. Both the senate and
house however, will adjourn from 1
p. M to p. m. Monday while the fun
eral services are going on.
There will be no honorary pallbearers
at the White House services. Attend
ants at the White House will carry the
body from the East room to the hearse
and then 1t will be taken directly to a
special train.
The Reverend Sylvester Beach of
Princeton, N. j., the pastor of the wiz
son family, and Reverend ]. H. Taylor,
of the Central Presbyterian church,
Washington, will conduct the services
at the White House. The pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at Rome, of which
Mrs. Wilson's father was formerly In
charge, will conduct the services at
Myrtle Hill cemetery.
The funeral train Will leave Wash
ington at p. M Monday and will ar
rive at Rome at about p. M Tues
day. The last services will be conduct
ed Immediately and soon afterward the
funeral party will return to Washing
torla arriving here late Wednesday.