Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-21
Simple Ceremonies Mark Funeral Services at San
 Antonio Yesterday.
LIES IN STATE IN
 THE HISTORIC ALAMO
Thousands Filed Past Bier Gf Late Commander and Many More Unable to Gain Entrance Before Time for
 Departure of Special Train.

San Antonio. Texas. Feb. 2O.-Aftef lying in state in the Alamo for more than two hours. the body of Mai
 Gen. Frederick Funston was placed aboard special train shortly after 8 o'clock tonight, and an hour later the train left on it's journey to San Francisco, where the dead army leader will be buried in the military cemetery at the Presidio.
 Capt. F7itzhugh Lee, who was Gen eral Funston's aide: sergeant. and
 nine enlisted men of the army, ac~
 companied the body to San Francisco A continuous procession of soldiers and civilians filed past the casket while it rested in the Alamo. but so
 great a throng sought admission that many had been unable to enter when the body was taken to the railroad station by an honor guard from Com pany of the Thirty vcnth infantry. Military simplicity marked the
 funeral services which preceded the
 removal late today of the body from
 the official residence at Fort Sam Houston to the Alamo. The regular
 army burial service was read by
 Chaplain Barton w. Perry, of tho
 Third Field Artillery. The only Light" played by the Nineteenth In fantry band.
 Troops of the regular cavalry and
 a detachment of Alabama cavalry | former the escort which accompanied ] General Funston's body. borne on q caisson and followed by his rider less horse, from the fort to tho Alamo. The cortege reached the Ala mo shortly before o'clock. and for l more than two hours thereafter men
 and women passed through the " shaped guard formation of the Nine- teenth infantry.
 First Time Alamo So Used. Arrangements for placing Gen, Funston's body in state in the Alamo, the first time the historic building has ever been used for such purpose, were completed at conference uf | city and county officials and officers
 of the southern department, because of General Funston's personal popu larity with the citizens of San An tonic. Floral offerings which almost filled the structure and which ranged from the simplest to the most costly flowers, evidenced his great popu- larity.
 l The route of the funeral train fo'
 more than 1000 miles will skirt the international border over which the late commander kept a watchful eye for eleven months past. Some time late tomorrow, the train will pass the
 edge of the Big Bend country, late. reaching IIl PasO, and then proceed along the route taken by the first | troops sent to Columbus following the , raid there.
 The funeral held here this after noon will long be remembered by regulars and national guardSmen, for the entire lack of military splendor all the more emphasizing in Its | solemnity. Not an officer was in full
 dress. Like the enlisted men, all
 wore their khaki service uniforms 1 The only distinction was the pres
 ence of the stars and bars, and the
 fact that the officers wore their side
 arms. This decision was reached ny the regulars out of the consideration for the officers of the national guard
 many of whom had only their service 1 uniforms here.
 Touching Scene at Funeral. The only touch distinguishing the
 funeral from that of any army officer
 came just after the chaplain had fin ! ished reading the burial service
 Thirteen cannon boomed out, in the
 major generals salute, and then the
 band of the Nineteentn infantry be-
 gan Lead, Kindly Light"
 At the Alamo, perhaps the only
 touching incident occurred wher
 Brig. Gen. Harry A. Greene, com.
 handing the Twelfth Provisional di
 vision at Camp Wilson, stepped from
 a group of officers with whom he hat
 been standing and approached tho
 casket. He gazed intently at the face
 few minutes, then bent over and
 patted the dead commanders head l gently, turned and walked out of tho
 building.