The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-25
FRISCO SKIES WEEP ASFUNSTON'S BODY
 IS LAID 10 REST
Funeral of Officer is Held Amid Driving Rain, But Great Throng Was
 Present

San Francisco, February 24.-The body of Major General Funston was inferred in the National cemetery at the Presidio here today. The services were read in a driving rain, but the sun flashed out for moment from rift in the clouds as the great Presidio guns boomed out IS times last saluate.
 Although the generals rank called for military escort of 22,0OO men, full division, military exigencies reduced this number to a mixed brigade of coast ar tillery and blueiackets One major gen. eral, three brigadier generals, and rear admiral stood bareheaded beside the grave with the immediate family, when the Rev. William Kirk Guthrie read the brief commitment service of the Presby- terian church.
 Flags and banners, many semi military crepe bound, were massed in the near background circled by the bluejackets and artillerymen, Three volleys of rifle fire over the grave preceded taps; there was an instants pause and the troops plOdded through the mud and rain to the sound of the major generals salute of IS guns.
 Tie roar of artillery was a signal for the cessation of all possible activities in the city for a period of two minutes.
 STREETS WERE THRONGED
 From early day when the balconies of the city halls white rotunda were packed with citizens, gazing at the guarded casket until past midday, the ceremonies ran. drenching rain slanted across the ranks of the military escorts. The streets, seemingly deserted, became alive with civilians as the casket was borne from the city hall on an artillery cais- son to the First Presbyterian church and thence to the cemetery. The route lay along Van Ness avenue, lined one side with old-time mansions which escaped destruction in the fire of 1906. General Funston's engineers dynamited the build ings the opposite side of the street and checked the flames. The route lay through portions of the city which owed their immunity from destruction largely to the efforts of "Funston's men," and his hillside grave overlooks the camping grounds where slept thousands of refu- gees whom he fed sheltered and clothed. Hundreds of them were present at the cemetery today and consistently sought momentoes of the last rites. Women braved the sentries to pick from the grass the empty shells fired on the last salute.
 SERVICES AT CHURCH
 The casket was taken from the city hall rotunda at 10 o'clock. A cordon of mount cd police preceded a guard riding along with a major-generaPs flag, two white stars on red field. Gen. J. Franklin Bell and his aide, the Third Coast artil- lery bard two regiments of artillerymen and the sailors and their band preceded the casket Directly after came the gen. erals horse, shrouded in black. A pair of black riding boots with dangling spurs, were reversed in the stirrups, mourners in automobiles followed, and companies from various military and patriotic or ganizations brought up the rear.
 In the First Presbyterian church single lamp burned high in the chancel, Coast artillerymen, guarded the en- mother, son, Frederick, and a brother Altho, and immediate relatives awaited the casket, borne by eight enlisted men The honorary pallbearers followed. They were Rear Admiral William F. F'ullam, the Pacific reserve fleet; Brigadier Generals William l.. Sibert, R. K. Evans and Oscar F. Long; Colonels John T. Knight, Guy L. Edy and Captain Lee, General Funstons personal aide
 Services at the church were brief Two of the generals favorite hymns were sung, Lead Kindly Light" and Just For Today"
 He was a man of deeds not words, and to say more of him would be dis pleasing to his soul,'' said Rev. Mir. Guthrie at the close of the eulogy.