Evening star., 1921-11-12
|PRES|DENT'SVO|CE
HEARD 5000 NILES
Hearts in New York and San
Francisco Alike Stirred
by Tribute.
THRONGS JOIN IN PRAYER
Every Note of Band and Throb Of
Drum Waited Clearly Across
Continent.
THRONGS JOIN IN PRAYER
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November l2.-New
York's throbbing heart of trade was
stilled yesterday in reyerent tribute to
that heroic heart forever stilIed thai
was laid to. rest with the highest
honors the world could pay in Arl-
ington national cemetery
vast crowd in and around Madi
son Square Garden. obeying the same
trumpet call that summoned the
throng at Arlington to attention at
noon. stood with bowed heads, mo-
tionless. for two minutes, offering
prayers for the dead and for per-
petuation of the peace he died to win.
AT the same moment the city's
wheels of industry droned into
silence, transportation ceased. tugs
and ferries idled in the harbor, teie
o..one service was suspended, tele
graph instruments ceased their clat-
ter, citizens everywhere--in the:~
homes. in their Offices, in the great
railroad terminals even on the streets
STOOD with ba-ed heads bowed il
homage to the symbolic unknown wh"
had died that they might live.
Visiting Ships Pay Tribute.
Flags at half mast few throughout
the city. Public buildings, military
posts, visiting ships in the harbor-
ships that hear thH flags of nearly al!
the nations Of tn" void. not except
ing the eIman-dIsplayed their col
ors mourning.
Observance Of the sacred moment
centered at Madison Square Garden.
where telephone ampiifying devices
had been set up TO ute Arlington
and New York.
The great hall. fes;ooned with the
flags of America and the allies. was
packed far beyond its seating capac-
ity of 1900. and the crowd outside
filled every available inch of Madi-
son Square Park long before the first
voice came owe: the wires from Ar
lington announcing that the body of
the unknown was being placed on the
ca catafalque and that President and
Mrs. Harding were entering the am
phitheater.
In Spirit With Arlington.
From that moment until the last
tremulous strain of taps died away
the audience was in spirit with th-
vast ccncourse AT Arlington. Every
word that was spoken, every hymn
; that was sung. de:icriptions of tn
casket with uie IN Etary medals OF
Of two nations war mothers-aII
| came over the wires to the mourners
n and around the garden.
! So securely was the throng held in
the spirit of the services that when
President Harding. closing his ora
zion. began the recitation of the
Lords prayer its myriad voices
blended in thunderous murmur OF
Our Father who art in heaven with
the vibrant lead of the chief eXecu-
tive.
Clearly Heard In San Fr0ncisco.
SAN FRANCISCO. November L.
The voice of the President of th.
United States. coming through q
bank of foliage at the back of tn"
Civic Auditorium stage SO clearly and
distinctly that 10000 spectators held
/, their breath in unconscious expecfa-
ton that President Harding himself
would step forward. brushed away
5000 miles of distance for san Fran
cisco yesterday.
We meet today "a pay the inper-
Sonal tribute. the n me of him who's.
body lies before US took fight with
his imperishablc SOUL said the in
visible speaker and every other noise
in the great hall died away, just as il
( did at Arlington among the thousand
maSSed around the unknown soldiers
body. We know not whence he
[ came. but only that his death marks
him with the imperishaDle glory o;
| an American dying for his country
Imagination Completes Picture.
! Although the gIintinG teIephon.
wires could not carry President Ha<-
dings face and figure ;.cross the con
! tinent imagination completed the pie
ture for the mothers whose sons never
| came home, for the halting veterans
| who recalled the nameless soldie'
/ perhaps as missing comrade. ALA
/ for others who worked. gave an
waited while the struggle went o..
| across the sea.
| Every note of The band. every throh
\ of the drum, every call of the bugler
| sank into the ears of the auditors as
| if no telephone receivers. no copper
| wires. no great amplifiers. but instead
| merely a dozen yards of open air al
! Arlington stood between them and
! the PRESIDENT.
! At 8 o'clock-noon in Arlington
the city stood still for two minutes
! Boats on the bay stopped their en-
gines and drifted, trains stood dead
| on their tracks and all the clash anu
| clatter of life suspended while the
unknown soldier was given into III.
| embrace of the tomb.
| A program at Victory monument in
! the civic center followed the eXer-
cises in the auditorium.