Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-11
THOUSANDSF|LE
PAST THE BIER
Of YANKEE HERO
KILLED ABROAD
River of Humanity Flows
All Day and Far into the
Night Past the Casket of
an Unknown Soldier.
COMRADES WOUNDED IN
FRANCE ARE IN LINE
Great Men Bring WreathS
and RoSeSi Gray Haired
Veterans of Old War
Days Honor the Young,

Washington, Nov. 10, (By
the Associated Press) A
river of humanity, American
men, women and children,
Americans by heritage,
Americans by election,
flowed all day today and
far into the night past the
bier of the dead soldier,
under the great dome of the
capitol. 1t flowed as the
life blood of the nation-a
slow but overwhelming tor
rent of human documents
gathered to attest the valor
of Americas dead in
France.
The great stream surged up the
eastern front of the rotunda, four
abreast, up the granite stairway, in
through the huge doorway to pass
solemnly, reverently by the casket
and its five guards, motionless as
the statues of Lincoln ana Grant at
the far doorway which looked down
on the moving spectacle.
Stream Passes Out.
Out through that doorway the
stream passed, through the stately
corridor and its marble stairway
and down over the wide terraces OF
the eastern front to the homes IN
the city. Each hour saw thousands
make the slow journey of honor.
Each hour saw new thousands
pouring up the wide driveways that
circle the great building.
That was the overwhelming ele-
ment in the cycle of honors heaped
on this nameless soldier. this son
of the people come home to claim
the great reward his valiant heart
had earned. And it was his own
people, of every nook of the nation,
that silently gave this reward, more
precious than any jeweled or caryen
token that governments of the
world will place tomorrow above
the still breast OF the sleeper.
To one side of the throng sec
ond unending ceremonial of honors
lllC utdu Wtlll Ols NNN
men came humbly to place their
Wreaths and roses at the bier. There
came comrades, limping from
wounds that brought them down
in France. There came gray haired
veterans of old wars moved to DO
honor to the young, stricken COM
rades Of the last great struggle.
There came the ambassadors and
the ministers and the special en-
voys of governments around the
world.
Some Awed and Abashcd.
There were formal services here,
always with the shuffling OF foot
steps of the human river beyond
merging with the prayers and the
chants and the spoken tributes 10
the dead. There were some, IKE
those wounded boys from France,
who stood awed and abashed at
the solemn majesty that had come
to this comrade. They placed their
wreaths in wordless praise, their
wounds and the eyes OF that great.
endless river beyond making them
awkward, their crutches and canes
tapping on the cold stones as they
shuffled back into the 'obscurlty
they craved.
Came, too, black gowned women,
MANY bowed and gray with age and
sorrow and all wearing the gold star
that tells of a son who died over
there. They brought always with
their flowers the great stars tnat
bring to this unknown son OF ilo-
erty q message from those CON-
rades whose names stand ABOVE al
others in the roll of the nations
servants; the great scroll of those
who, like him, died for the Rag.
Growing Mass of Flowers.
AS the hour passed, the vast
reaches of the chamber seemed all
foo small to house the growing
mass of flowers. AS each cluster
was set in place, roses that bios
somed in France or England, that
,loomed in Canada or South AFRICA,
noppies that thrust up their slender
;tems through blood ran
1ers fields: and flowers OF every
9olor and hue that blossomed un-
ler American skies-the air grew
neayy with the fragrance. Soldler
yuards stepped out to move eacn
Iribute as it had been set ana
'he long, rounded sweep of granite
wal, was banked with wreaths ana
yreens over its whole length ana
syery vantage point over the stone
,loor held its weight of beauty, its
,bare of honor for the brave dead.
Tribute From Russia.
Even Russia was represented III
The tributes to the unknown dead
, delegation from the old Russian
embassy placing gifts of flowers
,t the bier. The delegation was