Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-25
Funeral of japan's
 Empress DoWager
A MILLION TORCHES ILLuMINAT.
 ED STREETS OF TOXIC
CROWD FILLED STREETS
certese Almost heiseIess, Roads Hav. ing Been Covered With Thick L.yee of sand-President Wilson Sen. siI- yer Wreath.

yer Wreath.
 torches and lanterps Illuminated To- kio tonight when the body of the Elm press Dowager Haruko was borne through the streets in a beautiful ear drawn by white oxen. There had iDeen no pageant of such solemn grandeur here since the funeral of Emperor mutsuh1to, a year and a half ago.
 Practically the entire American colony viewed the procession from va rious points of vantage. It is a rule that no Japanese subjects may look down upon royal parsonage from elevated points, whether the royalties be dead or alive. In strict obsery- ance of this. every door and window above the first floors along the fu- neral route was closed, and dark.
 The ceremonies tonight were the continuation of a series of services held daily since the official death of the empress Dowager on April Il. Her actual death occurred two days earlier at Nun1adzu. but tradition prescribes that no memLer of the Imperial family can die outside the capital, so fhs body of the Empress was conveyed to Tokio, and driven smartly to the AoA yama palace in a closed private car- riage- At the palace she ~oficiany~ died a few hours' later.
 In the six weeks since then. a spectal temple was created on the Yuyoxi military field, southwest of the city, where the main funeral service wae held. In the morning the service ~ok
 installation of the spirit" was per- formed with great ceremony. The emperor, the empress, princes end princesses of the blood were present to pray before the shrine.
 By noon crowds, a0gunnerfed by thousands from the country, filled tbs streets. The people stood for hot1z
 At dusk when the 1numinafiua eHp the route had been coxnpleked the Hr< peria1 comm was placad in the fnneraa car at OayamA palAce and the prp.eee- sdon formed with . larxs mnnAry forco at it's head Amid 6uu yeklcw and white banners and toxohes, eame the funeral oomnstssfonens. necnm-t pained by their searekAriea end cnwA servants dressed h anctozuk xuhsx M- terspersed were msn hsssing sver-
 The advance of ths oereseS -, .,- most noiseless, tho skreeks haS4nr h6aa covered with thick hyr of sAnA The funeral frrtos were haaEDa = fha funeral car itself appFoAchsd It vaa led by Baron Hstano. minister of the Imperial household, a S<rxking f9ur~ in white, whose way was enaha>asDed by torches.
 Three white oxen fin reserve p1oaasd ahead of the two which were yoaeaA to the funeral CT. The CT waa quiSitely lacQSo1od. pAFtfy tn h1Aek and partly in chestnut Bamboo baanda hung from the square oDenfngz, and brass curtains from tho side. The oxen were eovo1ed W4ih q rare v41es cloth and their hons vess vosnd w4k
 s4I -4 <h ~ people bowed and vert as the m- pearal hearsa advanced.
 Later came hundpeda of pfaaskA aDd bearers Of the-eouRt EonGS and tho tamhosara and of man,- eoloFeA sa1san- CTS and hanne<x The PrAnees of tho of high imperial orde<s. loeds-4n- waiting, menaners of the dtaA end ssE.- eral regiments of military and ho1Aaa of marines swelled the lhsA
 A sacred gAteUay masked the ea> trance to the temple ground n>~. peror and empress had aiready arEsy>- ed and vore seated on tAsonA nsse the principal shrine. while the d4nlos- matic corps. including 0eosgs w. Guthrie, the Amee3oAn ambaseAaoR, had also taken their places in a Es- served section
 Standing watch fires. in fsaitakfea of those used in the mperial eeass yards in ane3eAt days. made up of pine fassots. were ablaze in vAr1p1a parts ef the temple sA iron baskeas ssa ep tripods,
 When the fuAeeai ear had heaa drawn up befese the ehiaf shsine tAs diree was chanted and food effesiaas were given, Other efferines included gold broeade. damasks, sifks and silk all placed in box made ee willow hraRches.
 The emperor paid his homage hS reading an address. He WAS follow ed by others representing the coHns and the empire These, over the cEasl- taiRs were drawn hefore the shr1ne and the Imperial coffin was baSRa to B special train conveying it to Eono-.' yama, near Kioto. to be aid away n 2 plot of land near the aauSoleRR af the EaPeser Mutsukito At the ds- porsnFe, cannon thundered from ahina- gawa bay se<eEa1 HniIAs away and A< vast body of mons1ers bowed thefr last reverencea.
 The ppssident ef the Unted States sent a efNeT wBeath and thsEs were floral tributes fron the heads of many other natians.
 In eaznnaaxaoFatfen an imperial oE- finance was issued oemRutxng tho punishment eS many persens serE3Ax terIRs of imprisonment