New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21
Great Multitude Wit
nesseS the Funeral
of Admiral
BUSINESS HALTS
DURING SERVICE
President, Army, Navy
and Congress Honor
Sailor
Bv ROBERT II. ROHDE

Mia Bay lies al rest tonight in the
Arlington National Cemetery, sur
,o,p5ed BY the rank and file Of his
eountry's sleeping honor legion.
At the foot OF the dominant Nir-
einia Hill which his temporary msuso-
Ieur surmoJnts, the Potomac runs to
meet .be sea he loved. Directly across
tbe river rises the shaft which the ma
tiob has erected to the memory OF that
earlier Dewey, John Paul Jones, and
beyond looms the dome OF the Capitol.
Inland, stretching west and north
and south. up Hill and down into seem
jng infuity, mass in orderly array the
graves OF 10000 other men VINO did
their bit bfore they died. Porter is
there and Farragut-Fsrragut, who
vas the venerated cold Man" in Civil
War days. when Admiral Dewey was
young Dewey
Such is the country and such the
conpsny which George Dewey has
found at the end Of glory's path. As he
passed into it this afternoon he was
followed by a farewell whose like
Washington has given in the past only
10 msrtyred Presidents.
Multitude Honors Admiral
There were few men or women or
Children able 10 be about who were not
in the great crowds which turned out
to honor the dead admiral as his body
was borne from residence TO Capitol
and thence on to the silent white city
on the Virginia hills. Business had
been suspended during the hours the
body vas I'm transit, and the holiday
proclaimed By President Wilson had
ADDED the tens of thousands Of the
governments Offices and workshops to
the throng.
II was not enough for Washington
that It should see the procession on its
way through and out of the city. As
many mourners as the car lines could
carry journeyed on ahead to the river
after the cortege had passed them and
we're waiting barehsaded beside the
msusoleum when the csisson carrying
ths bisr-ths same which had served at
The funerals Of Lincoln, Garfield and
Mckinley -rumbled through the Fort
Nyer reservation into the GENE -ory.
The frst of series OF services was
held at 10 o'clock in the morning IN
the admirsl's home, at 1901 X Street,
Northwest Present were none but the
family, a few intimate friends. Presl-
cent Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, the Sec
rstsry Of State and Mrs. Lansing, the
Secretary Of War and Mrs. Baker, the
Secretary OF the Navy and Mrs. Dan
iels. members of the General Board Of
The Navy, Of which Admiral Dewey was
president, and members of the dip!o-
matte corps. The Rev. Dr. Roland
Cotton Smith, rector of st. Johns Epis-
eopsl Church. in which the admiral had
been a communicsnt, oficiated.
1000 'NIiddies" in Line
While the private services were IN
progress the / 200 midshipmen Of the
Annapolis Academy regiment we're
forming in the street outside. They
we're there through choice, for Admiral
Dewey had been most anxious that they
should not be ordered TO his funeral
asa duty. For blocks around this mill
tsry formation sidewalks and such
streets as were not roped of were
ehoked with civilians
1t took DR.. Smith quarter hour TO
read the funeral service of his church.
When he had finished the bier was
iransferreC on the shoulders of twelve
tlueisckets from the Presidential yacht
Aayhower and the gunboat Dolphin
used by Mr.. Daniels as a yacht TO the
waiting csisson.
Led by mounted police and the mid
hpmen, with muffied drums rolling,
ne eortege proceeded to the Capitol.
N the Capitol plaza the rest of the
Escort, six companies of marines and
detachment OF the I'd United States
SaValry, we're drawn up. They were at
present" as the bier was lifted again
oy the sailor bearers and set down in
ne middle of the rotunda.
In the very centre Of the building in
which the Federal government is cen
slallzed the second services were held
lhsir simplicity was in curious con-
!!faet with the splendor of those who
listened. Representatives of the diplo-
matic corps and naval officers in gilt
"rng uniforms were sprinkled lib
orally among the eight hundred mourn
ers. for whom seats had been provided.
Olympia Chaplain Reads Service
=, The President, Mrs. Wilson, Miss
Helen Woodrow Bones and the Presi-
cents military and naval aids were
grouped near the head of the coffin. To
tosir left we're the diplomats, and be-
yono members Of the Senate and Of the
Supreme Court. Members Of the
mouse, Of the General Board Of the
navy and officers Of the army, navy and
'nrine corps filled the north side OF
ne rotunda.
here II was the simple, undenomina-
sonal funeral service prescribed by
ioe navy regulations which was read
sss the AdmiraPs old chaplain OF
ne olympia who did the reading Dr..
b Frazier. who was making his first
sIuse, when Dewey threaded his little
sgqadron through the Spanish mine
nslos and destroyed the enemy fleet
"anout losing a man.
Looking This Way" the hymn that
'sq been the Admirsl's fayorite, and
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