New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-17

students, il passed through avenues
fringed with students standing bare
headed.
Inside the church the coffin was laid
beside the chancel, and on it was placed
a blanket of chrysanthemums, the trib-
ute of the girls industrial school
Other classes brought floral offerings
until the chancel rail was literally
buried in blooms.
A Carload of Flowers.
This was only the beginning of the
arrival of flowers. The climax came
with the arrival of the afternoon train
from Montgomery, with q special car
loaded 20 the roof with set pieces.
Outstanding and demonstrating the
international character Of Washington 8
work was an enormous Union Jack, in
immortelles. the tribute of British
teachers and students.
Beneath these flowers the body OF
Washington lay, a uniformed student
at head and foot. The dead leaders
looked more as he did ten years back,
before the strain of his work had begun
to show upon him. The plate bore
neither name nor date, just "At rest"
At noon the students were allowed
to see the body for the first time.
After them came old friends and for
mer students in endless procession
arrival OF the New York train, the
church was again crowded.
Burial Plot Beside Chapel.
Earlier in the day the plan to bury
DR.. Washington beside his first wife
was changed. and a small plot to the
side of the chapel and within stones
throw of the first Tuskegee building
was selected.
On hilltop. it commands view OF
the vast establishment, and child's
voice would carry 70 the pulpit he so
often filled. Here students to-day bull:
a tomb with brick made in the school
plant. -,
At the services tomorrow there will
be no eulogy, merely the reading OF
the Scriptures oy the Rev. John W.
Whitaker. chaplain of the institute,
and the chanting, not of hymns, but OF
plantation melodies.
The decision to have no eulogy at
this time was agreed to when 1t was
pointed out that the dead leader would
have wished a funeral as simple and
devoid Of ostentation as possible. so
the eulogy was omitted. DR.. Wash
ington will be sent to his last resting
place to the music Of the simple folk
he loved so well.
Handling Funeral Crowd a Problem.
Just how to handle the crowd at the
funeral is a problem. Tonight every
possible bit of room in Tuskegee Is
crowded with visitors, white and black,
from far and near.
In the village of Tuskegee white
friends of the institution-and this
means every white citizen of any stand
ing-have thrown their doors open to
DR.. Washington's friends, so that none
will be Inconvenience by the limlta,,
tions Of the local hotel. At the funeral
the greater part Of the church Will be
given up TO these visitors and the oIder
graduates.
The stude. Is are an unhappy lot to-
night. Until noon they were kept at
their usual tasks to keep their minds
off their loss. but this afternoon the
shops closed, and boys and young
women are scattered over the grounds
in knots. talking in soft tones Of what
will become of Tuskegee now that
Washington is gone.
On all the $500 acres there is not
a gladstone voice or a gladstone face.
Ii is gloom from one end to the other,
relieved only by the declaration that
ways and means will be found for
carrying on the work.
No Plans for Future.
Formally. nothing has yet been de;
cided. Informally it has been arranged
that for the present at least no one
will be elected to the vacant headshtp
of the school. In DR.. Washington's life
time il was in a great many respects
a one man institution. He was die
tator, friendly, and unseliish to be
sure, but still dictator.
For a large part Of the year ruskeges
did not see him. but he was always the
head, and he had so organized the prin-
cipal's staff, of which Emmett j. Scott,
his confidential secretary, is the head.
that the machine ran smoothly whether
he was here or in San Francisco. In
those absences Warren Logan. the
treasurer, was acting principal. Bv
designation of the trustees he will con-
tinue in that position and, so far as any