Evening star., 1921-11-10
THR0NGS PASS BY BIER
OF UNKNOWN IN CAPITOL
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the night. as 1t would constantly
change all day and tonight.
The party on the Senate stairs were
led UP to enter the rotunda by the
Senate corridor. Then, just at 8
o'clock. the great main doors, huge
bronze barriers embellished with in
tricate figures and designs and long
ago given the American republic,
strangely enough, by France. on whose
soil the soldier died, swung back and
the waiting hundreds stepped upward
four abreast to pass by the casket.
AS the first line stepped within the
hall, from the group beside the bier
where the flowers were being set in
place. male voices rose in blended
harmonies that woke the echoes in the
high Vaulted roof above, now flooded
with sunlight. They sang the last
verse of America:
Long may our land be bright,
With freedoms holy light
They sang with peal of victory and
no hint of sorrow. And the last notes
died away down the long corridors to
right and left as the line that gave
the great public its place in the cere-
monies moved slowly on and out the
western entrance: down over the ter
raced slopes that face out with the
white CLEAN of Washington Monument
straight ahead, and still behind. seem
ingly cut through the center by Tho
great shaft, the square white bulk of
Lincoln Memorial. on the far brim
OF the Potomac. - .-. =
Soldiers AZ Of Bronze.
About the casket on it's low base
those who passed by saw the five SOL
dfers. stiff as though carved from
bronze in their khaki trappings. At
the head. arms rigid at his sides, his
own head bent forward until the tan
brim of his cap hid his eyes, stood
the non commissioned officer, the red
OF his cheyrons coloring his sleeve
At each corner, facing inward toward
the center, stood a soldier, rife butt
grounded on the stone tagging. body
rigidly erect. but also with head bent
forward until cap brim was level with
the point of his cleaning bayonet.
These soldiers moved not a muscle
except at stated intervals when slight
changes of position. made simultape-
'ously, eased the physical strain.
Premier BRAND and the French
ence. carrying q huge bunch of pink
chrysanth erhums tied with. the tri-
color Of France, entered the rotunda
at IL O'Clock. The premier stood
silently for moment and then moved
out with HIS party. ..
Many persons in the public, line
carried floral offerings of their own
nearly every instance these volutary
offerings were carried by child. OF
all those Sling through one door and
out another, old men and old women,
the grandparents of some soldiers
perhaps, were the most visibly af-
fected, tears streaming down their
cheeks as they turned around for a
farewell look at the f1ower-covered
coffin.
China Presents Statue.
A three-foot bronze statue symbol
izing the "Angel of Peace" was placed
on the catafalque as the gift of the
President of the Chinese republic. It
was to be unveiled later in the day
by the Chinese minister.
It was a few minutes Of noon when
the British delegation, led by Earl
Beatty, Sir Arthur Balfour and Am
bassador Geddes, marched into the
rotunda from the north entrance. An
officer of the guard approached the
catafalque, holding aloft a huge
wreath. As the offering from the
British empire was placed at the side
Of the cofin, the earl, the former
premier and the ambassador stepped
back and q Scot, his head held high,
moved forward with the first tribute
from the British possessions. Next
came the wreath from Newfoundland,
carried by q hardy son Of the north,
and then the tribute from Canada.
placed by Sir Robert Borden. former
premier of the Dominion. A son of
India and representatives from every
land over which the Union Jack
waves brought their floral tributes :
Entire, the British tribute COM
pleltely covered one side Of the cof-
I'm, hiding 1t from view.