Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-08-12
Ceremony Held in East Room of
the White House.
BODY ON WAY TO ROME, GA.
Private Services Conducted by Rev..
Sylvester Beach of Princeton, NJ.
J.-Cabinet and Members
of Congress Attend.

OF the president, were held at two
o'clock this afternoon in the White
House, in the historic eas1room where
only few months ago she witnessed
the wedding of her daughter Jessie
and Francis B. Sayre.
The ceremony was quite private,
though in addition to the members of
the family the members of the cab
met, committees from the senate and
mouse and few intimate friends were
present. Rev. Sylvester Beach of
Princeton, n. J., who married both
Mrs. Sayre and Mrs. McAdoo in the
White House, conducted the simple
services, being assisted by Rev. James
H. Taylor pastor of the Central Pres
byterian church of this city.
Many Beautiful Floral Tributes.
Banked high above the casket and
placed In other parts of the room
were great masses of floral tributes,
from all parts of the country and
from all kinds of persons, high and
low, rich and humble, who loved and
admired the first lady OF the land.
Throughout the entire city, as through
out the nation, all flags hung at half
mast, and there was heartfelt mourn
ing everywhere.
Almost Immediately after the fu-
neral services were concluded the cas-
ket was conveyed to the Union sta
ton and placed on a special train
which started at 4:30 o'clock with the
funeral party for Rome, Ca, where
Mrs. Wilson spent most of her girl
hood, and where her father and moth
er are buried. The train is due to
reach Rome at two o'clock tomorrow
afternoon, and soon after that hour
Mrs. Wilson will be laid to rest In
beautiful Myrtle Hill cemetery. The
party will then return to Washington,
arriving some time Wednesday eve
ming.
House AdJourns Session.
The house held no session today ow-
ing to the funeral of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson.
Vice-President Marshall and a COM
mittee representing the senate at
tended the funeral. 1t consisted of the
vice-president as chairman and the
senior senator of each state.
Vice-President Marshall and the fol-
lowing senators: Bankhead, of Ala
bama; Ashurst- of Arizona; Clark, of
Arkansas; Perkins, of California;
Thomas, of Colorado; Brandegree, of
Connecticut; Dupont. of Delaware;
Fletcher, of Florida; Smith, of
Georgia.; Borah, of Idaho; Lewis, Of
Illinois; Shively, of Indiana; Cummins,
OF Iowa; Bristow. of Kansas; James,
Of Kentucky; Thornton, of Louisiana:
Johnson, of Maine; Smith, of Mary
land; Lodge, of Massachusetts; Smith,
OF Michigan; Nelson, OF Minnesota;
Williams, Of Mississippi; Stone, Of
Missouri; Myer, of Montana Hitch
cock, of Nebraska; Newlands, of Ne
vada; Gallinger, of New Hampshire;
MARITIME, of New Jersey; Catron, of
New Mexico, Root, of New York;
Simmons, of North Carolina; McCum-
Der, of North Dakota; Burton, of Ohio;
Gore, of Oklahoma; Chamberlain, Of
Oregon, Penrose, of Pennsylvania;
Lippitt, of Rhode Island; Tillman OF
South Carolina; Crawford, OF South
Dakota; Lea, OF Tennessee; Culber-
bingham, of Vermont; Martin, of Vir-
ginia: Jones of Washington; Chiffon,
OF Virginia: La Toilette. of Wisconsin,
and Clark, of Wyoming.
House Members at Funeral.
Speaker Clark and a house commit
tee attended the funeral of Mrs. Will
son. 1t consisted of the senior mem
bers in point of service from each of
the forty-eight state delegations as fol-
lowe:
Representative Underwood Of Ala
bama; Hayden, Arizona; Floyd, Ar
kansas; Kahn, California; Taylor, Col
orado; Reilly, Connecticut; Brockson,
Delaware; Sparkman, Florida; Adam
son, Georgia; French. Idaho; Mann,
Illinois; Dixon, Indiana; Haugen,
Iowa; Murdoch, Kansas; Stanley, Ken
lucky; Broussard, Louisiana; Guern-
sey, Maine; Talbot, Maryland; Olett,
Massachusetts; Samuel w. Smith,
Michigan; Stevens, Minnesota; Chan
der, Mississippi; Bartholdt, Missouri;
Evens, Montana; Roberts, Nevada;
Kinkaid, Nebraska; Reed, New Hamp-
shire; Baker, New Jersey; Ferguson,
New Mexico; Payne, New York; Small,
North Carolina; Helgeson, North Da-
kota; Sherwood, Ohio; Mcclure, Okla
homa; Hawley, Oregon; Butler, Penn
sylyania; O'Shaughnessy, Rhode
Island; Finley, South Carolina; Burke,
South Dakota; Slime, Tennessee; Ste
phens, Texas; Novel;, Utah; Plumley.
Vermont; Jones, Virginia; Humphrey,
Washington; Hughes, West Virginia;
Cooper, Wisconsin; Mondell, Wyo-
ming.