Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-17

Lying in state in the marble ante
chamber of the upper House OF Con-
gress. where for more than p years
he had helped to shape the course Of
national legislation, the body Of the
late Senator Augustus Octavius Ba-
con. OF Georgia, Tuesday was viewed
by host Of his friends in Washing
ton.
From the moment the corridors
were opened at 3 o'clock men. women
and children whom Senator Bacon
had known made their way past his
the Senate generally receive their
callers during session hours, the vet
eran Georgian held his last long, 81
lent reception before his BODY was
borne inside the legislative chamber
for the funeral services.
The black casket stood in the cen
ter of the room. its base and hood
banked with flowers. At H. 80 the
casket was removed TO the floor of
the Senate and the doors to the Sen
ate chamber were closed, while those
who came 10 honor the former legis-
lator's memory filed into the CALLER
les. Admission was by ticket only.
First Senate Funeral Since Hanna's.
, Ten years ago a similar ceremony
was held out OF respect to Senator
Marcus A. Hanna, OF Ohio The
service Tuesday was the only one of
that character to be held in the SEN
ate chamber since that time.
The arrangements for the last trib
ute of respect to the memory of the
great Georgia statesman in his home
State have been completed The
services in Atlanta and at Macon,
Senator Bacon's home city. viii be
the most impressive with which a
member OF Congress ever has been
honored.
Plans for the reception OF Senator
Bacon's body when II arrives in At
/. fanfa Wednesday at noon provide for
one of the most imposing. funeral
corteges Atlanta has ever seen, The
special car on which the body IS to be
brought to the Georgia capital is TO
be part of the Birmingham Special.
and viii reach Atlanta over the
Southern Railway at 11:40 o'clock.
The members of Governor Slaton's
staff, headed by Colonel Frederic j.
PaSon, will meet the train at the
State line and accompany IT to At
lanta and the State Capitol. where
the remains of the dead statesman
viii lie in state for four hours, with
a military guard
Governor to Meet Train Here.
The funeral train is scheduled TO
arrive at the Terminal Station at
40 O'Clock. II will be met by Gov
ernor John NJ. Slaton and his secre-
taries the Judges of the Supreme
Court, Judges of the Court of APP
peais. members of the Railroad Com
mission, Prison Commission. the
Comptroller General and all other
State house officials. all local camps
of Confederate veterans, General Rob-
ert X. Evans. commander of the De-
partment of the Gulf United States
Army, and his staff, the Seventeenth
Infantry and band from Fort Ne
Pherson. the Fifth Regiment and
band, the Atlanta Bar Associa ton, a
delegation from Macon and a delega-
ton from the State University at
Athens, and hundreds Of private citi-
zens. Carriages viii be In waiting
for the members of the Congressional
escort which viii accompany the body
from Washington TO Atlanta.
The procession will form at the
Terminal Station and proceed to the
State Capitol. II will be headed by
the Seventeenth Infantry Band. Then
will come the hearse, surrounded by
a personal escort of Confederate vet
Grams; the Fifth Regiment. the Gov
ernor. and the Congressional commit
Tee in carriages, and the bar assoc
citation and other delegations.
The body will be carried into the
corridors of the State Capitol, where
it will lie in State until 80 O'Clock,
with special detail from the Fifth
Regiment, Georgia National Guard, to
guard the casket.
Last Rites at Macon.
AT $3.50 the body Will be taken TO
the station and placed on the funeral