The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-11

trance to the amphitheater. the escort
moved into line and with rifles at
present, stood as the casket was car
ried by the body bearers in through
the high pillard colonnade to the right
and around to the apse at the front
where President Harding and mem
bers of the cabinet, Bishop Bredt and
many dignitaries awaited it.
The platform had been raised high
and the front was mass of flowers
as the casket bearers, followed by the
officers as honorary pail bearers, NOV
ed slowly around the colonades On
a special stand, well to the front the
narrow box was placed and Secretary
Weeks stepped forward as master OF
ceremonies briefly to introduce Pres
/ ident Harding, after the prayer
Stand in Silence.
As Bishop Brant concluded the invo-
cation which opened the ceremony,
the bells in Washington across the
| river were ringing the noon hour
! The whole company in the ampithe-
! atre rose and stood in silence for two
minutes as the whole nation stood,
I by presidential proclamation, in rev.
| erence for the dead.
! Then came the singing of America
! rising in a mighty chorus. After that
President Harding moved forward to
stand beside the casket .and speak
| for the nation. Far below him, out of
! sight under the stone work, men toiled
with nerves strained to the~breaking
point that no word he said might be
7 lost by the thousands gathered in
! New York. Chicago and San Francis
co, about the electric sound transmit
/ ting devices. From the top of the
ampitheatre also the amplifliers
caught up his words and threw them
out to the multitude.
After his address President Harding
pinned on the casket the two most
valued decorations in America-the
Medal of Honor, bestowed by act OF
congress- and the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross, given by order of the COM
mander in chief, who pinned it in
place. From their places in the mar
BILE boxes about the ampitheatre, the
great foreign leaders rose to pay sim
liar honors, Marshal Foch, General
Diaz, General Jacuez, Admiral Beatty
so that the roll of highest honors tC
: the brave might be complete.
There was more music then, music
1uleQ WITH Iu6 solemn upllll ITOu
which religious men and women have
drawn comfort in all the years, anC
, singers whose voices have made then
known over the world came to ado
their share of the tribute. Then came
the solemn words of the Twenty-Five
Psalm and the scripture lesson; thel
the body bearers stepped forward Il
lift the casket again and carried i
out to the sarcophagus on the am
. phitheater terrace with a vista of rive
and hill and stately city stretchin!
= away below.
Sleeps on French Soil.
A last touch 70 the spirit Of Franc,
awaited the dead here. Over the floo
of the narrow cript in which he vii
sleep forever, soil from France hat
been spread; earth from the countr.
: where his death blood was poured GU
: on a stricken field that it might re
main free soil. 1t was brought witt
| the casket from France and foreve
the nameless one of America who die
for France and for America will NEE
on French soil here in his own hom
earth
A prayer and the burial servic
} marked the last rites as the caske
was placed, then the triple salvo O
: guns burst out and before the echoe