Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-18
ALL GEORGIA
WILL HONOR
SENATOR
Notable Escort to Meet Funeral
Train and March With Body
to Capitol Rotunda.

An Georgia will do honor to the
memory of United States Senator
Augustus o. Bacon o-day. The body
of the statesman will lie in state in
the rotunda of the State Capitol from
noon until 4:30 o'clock, where it will
be viewed by thousands of the people
he served so long and faithfully. In
the building where he began his serv-
ice where he first lifted his voice in
behalf of a greater freedom for the
people, Georgia will pay final homage
to his memory.
The body of Senator Bacon left
Washington late Tuesday afternoon,
after an Impressive service in the
chambers of the United States SEN
ate. when the greatest men of the
country assembled to honor his mem
ory. and will arrive in Atlanta to-day
at 11:40 a. m. over the Southern
Railway The funeral train is oper-
ated as a section of the Birmingham
special, and will consist of Pull
man private car, two standard Pull
man cars, a dining car and day
coach, lin charge of District Passen-
ger Agent F. L. Jenkins, of Wash
ingtcn.
Escorted by Colleagues.
Accompanying the body of Senator
Bacon are the members of his fam
/ lily and escorts from the Senate and
House of Representatives as follows:
i Senator's Smith, of Georgia; Tillman'
Chiffon, Fletcher, Pomerene, Thomas
O'Gorman. Vardaman, Gallinger,
Root Nelson, Brandegee and Page;
Representatives Ferris, Willis, Mann,
Payne, Gardner, Anthony, Dyer and
Prouty, and the entire Georgia Con-
i gressional delegation.
The funeral cortege from the Ter
{ minal Station to the State Capitol
/. promises to be one of the most i'm
posing professions Atlanta has ever
seen
Fort MCPHERSON, the Fifth Regiment
Of the Georgia National Guards, ca
diets from local military colleges,
Confederate veterans, members OF
the City Council and delegations from
various organizations, Governor John
NJ Slaton and his staff and the State
house officials will participate in the
solemn march from the station to the
Capitol
Upon the arrival of the funeral
train at 11:40 o'clock, the casket VIII
be raised on the elevator from the
train shed to the street floor of the
Terminal Station. Cadets of the
Georgia Military Academy and Marist
College will form a double line from
the gates to the street doors, and
through this column the coffin will be
carried to the plaza, where it will be
placed in the waiting hearse.
Veterans to Escort Body.
Confederate veterans. many of
whom were with Senator Bacon dur
ing the Civil War, will receive the
coffin on the plaza. and then will form
hollow square about the hearse
serving as an honorary escort to the
body Of their comrade. The coffin
VIII be carried from the train to the
hearse by soldiers of the Seventeenth
infantry, who will then march in the
rear of the hearse to the Capitol.
The party accompanying the dele
cation will be met by Governor John
NJ. Slaton and his staff and escorted
10 waiting carriages. The military
escort will form on Madison avenue
as the funeral party appears on the
plaza, and as the procession marches
up Mitchell street the soldiers from
me Seventeenth and the Fifth will
form in line.
Inc funeral cortege will be led by
p'atoon of mounted policemen under
me command of Chief of Police Beav-
ers' Then will come the Seventeenth
infantry and the regimental band,
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