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artillery drivers rigid in the saddles.
A motion from Major General Band
holtz. commanding the escort, and a
swing in the khaki column and the
road to Arlington lay ahead. The
commander and his staff rode first,
then the army band swung out, play
ing in quick time for it was long way
to go. Then came the composite regi-
ment of foot troops, the regulars, the
sailors and marines and the national
guard, then the artillery and the cav
airy and then the casket, riding high
on its gun carriage in its last journey
Behind the President and the high
officials and officers the supreme court
members walked abreast and then the
cabinet, five abreast, then the gov
errors of nearby states, then Senator
Cummins and behind the Senate in col
umn, eight abreast, and in similar col
umn, the members of the house, head
ed by Speaker Gillett and Representa-
tives Mondell and Garrett, as major
ity and minority leaders.
Medal of Honor Men.
A roll of muffled drums marked the
next division in which were first the
Medal of Honor men. Then came COM
rades of the American Legion, rank on
rank, then bowed veterans of other
wars and a host of others marching to
paw their hOnors to the dead.
Out into the wide avenue the col
umn moved and on over the road
where the tramping hosts of Grants
victorious legions marked out course
long ago; where presidents have rid
den their way into history or back
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crusaders of the First Division, led by
their chief, wound up their great ad-
venture a few short months before.
Memories of great days of the past
! were awakened as the pageant swung
along. Who knows but that the un-
! known dead in France were there,
/ too?
( Past the Treasury and on the line
swung ahead, to halt only when the
casket had passed the White House
/ There President Harding and the cabi
net and the members of the supreme
court and senate and house turned
aside to go later by automobile to the
! Ampitheater at Arlington. The stoT
was brief as they left the lines, ther
the cortege moved on up the avenue
on through old Georgetown where
J Washington once had his office as q
surveyor and mapped out great under
takings, on to the old bridge tina
spans the Potomac and opens the way
to the Military road leading up to the
post of Fort Meyer and Arlington
National cemetery on the high ridge
above.
Escort Turns Aside.
At the bridge the band turned aside
and some of the older officers of tn,
escort fell out, leaving it TO the hardy
men of today's army to escort thei
dead comrade up the long hill to thu
roll only Of muffled drums
At the top, the line swung oil
across the old parade toward the Ar1
, ington gate. There the artillery AM
cavalry turned aside to stand at atten
ton while the services in the GENE
E terry were in progress. One batter,
Of guns alone moved into the enclos
. uT of the dead, lining up on the ridg
crest for the last salute.
At the gate the marine band wa
waiting for the foot troops and tn
casket and marched in ahead. Tn
march was slackened: the half ste
, and the wall of funeral dirge SOUND
, ed as it moved in narrowed formation
through the trees and clusterin
tombs and monuments and out owe
. the open spaces about the amph
> theater where thousands were gathe
ed.
i Swinging around to the west Ell