The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
Most Impressive Ceremony This
State Has known.
Men Prominent in Kansas At
fairs Took Part Here.
MEMORIAL SERVICE IN HOUSE
Speeches Were Made by Charles
Scott and C. s. Gleed.
Salute of Thirteen Guns Fired
for Hour by Battery.

Kansas paid tribute to the memory |
of the late Major General Frederick
Funston today in one of the most re
markedly simple and deeply impress
sive memorial ceremonies the state
has known. Both branches OF the
state legislature suspended business
during the ceremonies in the house,
which were witnessed by state off,
Gals, army officers and many men
and women prominent in state af-
fairs.
Charles S. Gleed of Topeka, and
Charles F. Scott of lola, Major Gen
eral Funston's home town, were the
principal speakers. Probably no two
other men in Kansas knew the re-
nowned army officer more intimately
and well. During the sixty-minute
recital of General Funstons life work,
many eyes were danpened by tears
as Gleed and Scott recounted the
deeds of the departed Kansan, laid
to rest today in San Francisco.
Governor Capper presided during
the ceremonies. The memorial serv-
ice, held under a joint resolution of
the two legislative bodies, was large
Nv attended. Both galleries were filled
crowded. Extra seats on the first
floor were provided for members of
the senate, state and army officials
and prominent visitors. Draped pic
lures of the departed Kansas army
hero were hung over the speakers
stand and over the main entrance to
Representative hall Hundreds of
| flowers, flags and an electric flower
fnIlr tai Y a
Rev. Stephen S. Estey pronounced
the invocation and benediction. Two
solos were sung by Mrs. George w.
Parkhurst-
Glecd Was Bosom Friend.
Charles S. Gleed was a regent of
the state university when General
Funston was a student. From General
Funston's college days until his death
| he was bosom friend of the prominent
| Topeka attorney and corporation head.
: Only a few hours before General Fun
/ ston's death Gleed had received a let
| ter from San Antonio, Texas, in which
! General Funston asked him to come
to San Antonio ito cuss and discuss
anything and everything that needed
attention.
In his brief, simple review of Gen
eral Funstons life work. Gleed fol-
lowed the prominent Kansan thru
every important event from his college
days to his sudden death. 1t was
largely thru Gleed's suggestion that
! General Funston took up newspaper
work in Kansas City and later went
TO Fort Smith: Ark, where he reported
the famous federal court proceedings
of criminal cases from the Indian
Territory Later as Funston en-
tered the service of the Santa Fe, the
government service in Dakota, the
botanical survey in Death Valley, en-
tered the gold fields of Alaska, pro-
NOTED his coffee company, and re-
turned to the Santa F'e, the two men
were close friends and companions.
GIeed Gave Him Money.
1t was Gleed who gave the army Of
ficer the money with which he went
to Cuba to enter the insurrection
And it was Gleed who two years later
helped to carry Funston from a shiI
in New. York harbor to an ambu-
ly escaped from the island after en-
counters in % battles. suffered g
siege of the fever and received three
wounds in active battle. The later
deeds of Gen Funston in the Philip
pines, during the San Francisco
earthquake and fire. at Vera Cru:
and on the Mexican border, We're re
icounted wildly and impressively by
the Topekan.
| His was the life of bravery, cour.
. age. daring patriotism. and loyalty t.
!, conviction" said Gleed in closing hi,
: remarks. And it is well he SHOULD
! sleep beside the city which he de
Tended in its hour of trial. 1t is wei
, II he should beside Golden Gate through
. which he passed unknown and re
+ turned a recognized world hero
, Loved Military Leader
: Charles F. Scott referred to Gen
Y eral Funston as the greatest anC
? best loved military leader the United
States has produced since the civi
war" SCOTS speech was filled will
= personal element and touch witt
: many references to the mans cour
age, modesty and sense of hume
which carried him through hundred
: of trying circumstance
ut was this rare combination of ;
sense of humer along with his innat