Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-11-30
BODY Of EMPEROR
TO Be PLACED WITH
HAPSbURG DEAD
Last Solemn Services Held
in Capucin Chapel This
Afternoon
KAISER In VIENNA BUT
SENT HOME BY DOCTOR
Frau Schraat Refused Per-
mission to Take Last Look
Z, at Corpse

London, Nov. 30.-Crypt No. 1873 in
the vault Of the age-darkened chapel
OF the Capucn Fathers in Vienna will
tonight hold the mortal remains of the
late Emperor of Austria Hungary.
Dispatches from Vienna today said
preparations for the funeral will be
completed with all the regal show and
pomp of medieval custom that the rigid
etiquette of the most formal court in
the world stipulates.
Franz Josef will take his place among
the Hapsburg dead late today. The fu-
neral procession, which will bear shis
body to the grave where he joins his
ancestors, will start at 4:30 from the
Hofburg palace. The emperor's last rest
ing place is short block distant from
the ancient Hofburg state palace,
through crowded narrow streets, in
some places less than IL feet wide.
Custom decreed that the late emperor
should lay in state in the coldly-formal
Hofburg palace-which abode Franz
Josef in life detested-and that after
&C ain number of hours the body
should be transported, in specified fash
ion, to the dingy little church of the
Capucin Fathers, the monks who for
centuries have been keepers of the
Hapsburg dead. "a
At 4:50 today precisely the deep
throated tones of the giant bell in the
$50 foot steeple of st. Stephans church,
mingling with scores of others, will an
nounce termination of the formal cere-
monial in the Hofburg Augustiner
church OF Blessing the imperial dead" "
and beginning Of the march TO the
grave.
Royalty All There.
In that procession will be representa-.
tives OF. all of Austria. Hungary 5 al.
lies and one Of the greatest gatherings
of royalty since the death of Queen Vic.
toria of England. The one notable alb
sentee will be Kaiser Wilhelm Of Ger.
many, who left Vienna yesterday on
strict orders of his physician. The Ger.
man emperor had bad cold, but not.
withstanding, had come to the Austrian
capital for the funeral. His physician,
however, ordered that he leave the damp
climate at once. There were to be half
q dozen other members of German roy.
atty in Vienna, however, and Gar Ferd.
lhhnu Ol bulSafia, lhe IroWn frlncc
Boris and Prince Cyril of that same
country; the Turkish Crown Prince Wa
hid Eddin; Prince Alfonso De Bourbon
Of Austria; Infanta Dona Maria Delos
Nieves, and the Crown Prince Gustav
Adolf of Sweden. These joined in the
funeral procession with resplendant
guard Of honor.
Custom DEGREES that the most resplen.
dent of all ceremonies Of the burial of
an emperor take place in the plain 400
year old chapel of the Capucins. The
walls of this little church and the altar
will be draped in solid black. In this
Egyptian gloom scores of wax candles
will throw dim, ghostly light over the
gloomy interior. All the rough benches
will have been taken out and all the
notables will be required to stand. The
Hapsburg custom decrees that the mas.
ter of ceremonies, resplendent in black,
red and gold, shall come from the sacr-
isty as soon as the procession moves and
shall act as usher to those seeking ad-
mittancc to the tiny chapel, arranging
them in accordance with birth, rank and
citation In I;fn