The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-02-20
GEORGIA HONORS
DEAD STATESMAN
Body Lay in State Beneath Dome
of State Capitol.
AN OFFICIAL TRIBUTE
Funeral Train Started For Macon at
Sunset, Where Funeral Services
Were Held Yesterday.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 1S.-For a few
hours today the body Of Senator Au-
gustus o. Bacon, guarded by citizen
soldiers, lay in State beneath the
dome OF Georgia's Capitol, while
thousands OF those who honored the
venerable statesman in life paid their
last loving tribute to his memory. At
sunset the coffin was taken from its
fower-banked bier and placed on
board the funeral train. A few min
utes later the sorrowful journey to
Macon where burial services will be
held tomorrow, was resumed.
Georgia's official tribute to the
memory of Senator Bacon was solemn
and impressive. From sunrise to sun
set the flags that flew over every
public building in the Capital re-
mained at half mast. When the flu
nearl train arrived just before mid
day those who accompanied the body
from Washington were met at the
station by State officials and escorted
to waiting carriages.
Six soldiers OF the Seventeenth
United States Infantry in full dress
uniform, took the coffin from the
train and carried 1t between double
ranks Of military cadets and National
Guardsmen to the plaza where a spe-
cial escort of Confederate veterans
was grouped around the hearse. their
heads uncovered in homage to their
dead comrade.
Through silent crowded streets the
cortege headed by the military band
from Fort Mcpherson marched slow
ly to the Capital where Gov. John
Marshall Slaton and his staff waited
First in the procession were the Uni
ted States regulars. Next marched the
military cadets in uniforms gray and
gold. Then came the hearse with
II escort OF veterons followed by the
Fifth Georgia Infantry. Members Of
the Atlanta Bar Association. State
and city officials, honorary escorts
and other bodies we're next in line,
while last came the carriages in which
rode members of Senator Bacon's i'm
mediate family and the congressional
party which accompanied the body
trOm Washington.
On arrival at the Capital the coffin
borne by the military pall-be arers.
again was carried between double
ranks and cadets through the somber
dTared corridors of the State house
to- the catafalque prepared for il be-
Offcers of the Georgia National
Guarl then took their station at the
'our corners Of the bier standing
IN -ougb the brief space that was per-
United to the public to look for the
last time upon the face of the dead
Senator.
Silently and with barred heads the
long lines of mourners entered in
single file, look cd for a moment up
on the body and gave place to those
who followed. No services were held
over Senator Bacon's body here. No
hymns WerC sung, no prayers spoken.
Al inset the funeral cortege again
formed. The coffin. draped in black
and once more covered with flowers
was borne TO the waiting hearse, and
the solemn procession returned TO the
railway station. At 6 o'clock the fu-
neral train, with the mourners from
Washington left for Macon. Senator
Bacon's former home and those who
had done their part in giving open
expression to Georgia's grief silently
dispersed
Members of the official congression-
al escort which accompanied Senator
Bacon's body from Washington were:
Senators Chiffon, Fletcher, Pomer-
enc, Thomas. O'Gorman, Vardaman
Gallinger, Root, Nelson, Brandegee
and Page; Representatives Ferris,
Willis, Mann, Payne, Gardner. An
thony, Dyer, Prouty, Edwards, Park
Crisp. Adinson, Howard, Bartlett
Lee, Tribble. Bell, Hardwick, Walker
and Hughes. Joining the party here
were Senators Smith of Georgia, and
Tillman OF South Carolina.
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