The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-10
Throngs Pay Honor
 To. Hero

Washington, Nov. 10.-Great and small folk moved in endless process sion to-day through the rotunda of the capitol to pay tribute to the un- known dead lying in state aa few American presidents have.
 All who could speak for groups in the land or for the powers of the world were free to place their final offerings at his bier.Hour by hour, flowers about the casket grew noun tsins high and spread sPse n,onad 6oad the he France were there and flowers brought in all theil beauty from South Africa
 There was not a minute of the day unclaimed by those who would honor the dead. There was no organization of veterans or of patriotic people over the land unrepresented-
 A wreath from King George was among them bearing the legend
 "As unknown, and yet well known"
 "As dying, and behold, we live"
 There was a wreath from Canada ats inscription: -.But that which put the glory of -.Au that he did was that he did it
 of pure
 r.Love to his country
 That from Premier Lloyd George said:
 Nameless. vet hS na'iiio
 rnore-
 And that from Ipdia, said: r'They never die who die to make life
 life worth living.
 There were wreaths from Australia land New Zealand.
 From the grand army of Unfted Veterans of Canada came a wreath placed by Sergeant Richardson. old ' @F bn E,ross, There were flowers from New fFoundland, and from the Army. and Navy War Veterans of Canada came "a memorial woven of peoples that
 Dawn found a brilliant November tsun bursting it's way through the fclouds of yesterdays storm and lts golden fingers come through the W1n- the dim silent chamber. AS through the night, five armed men stood mo tionless about the catafalQue In che center of the great granite circle or afhe rotunda.- watching with the dead comrade as they will watch undl he is carried away to sleep out time In Jhe quiet Virvinia hills.
 The flowers laid on the caSket laSt might had been set to each side of the bier. Again it lay in the simple story of the great flag that Is eol- diers winding sheet. Again the cIus- ker of French blossoms. withered and yellow, was the only token on the blended coforing of the banner of freedom save for the slash of white laid in place by Mrs Harding, and the shield of the nation for which he died laid reverently above the still heart by the Preside ent.
 Last touches were put to the rope lined' aisles through which thousands were to pass to pay honor to the dead. thouBands whose one claim to flame Is that they. too. are simple
 IL h rrTt, ,such state as enperors and kings may not know. Straight to the eastward Iran the narrow. roped way, marines in olive green of their field uniforms and with fixed bayonets lining each side. On each mans shoulder swung the looped cords of the fourragere showing that they were of a marine regiment decorated by France for Valor on French soil,
 Gradually the roped aisle leading on up the great steps to. the closed doors of the rotunda filled with folk come to pass by the bier with bowed heads From the left side a double squad of soldiers from the engineer barracks, overcoated against long vigil in the cold of the great chamber beside the dead, with fixed bayonets and rifles at the trail moved up the main steps and into the hall to change guard about the casket-
 The party on the Senate stairs were led up to enter the rotunda by the Senate corridor. Then just at o'clock the great main doors, huge bronze barriers, embellished with intricate figures and designs and long ago given uhe 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 piace 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 Amer ica"
 Long may our land be bright,>s
 With freedoms holy light
 They sang with a peal of victory and no hint of sorrow. And the last notes died away down the long corri- dors as the line that gave the great public its place in the ceremonies moved slowly out and out the western entrance, down over the terraced slope that faces out to the white eleam of Washington monument straight ahead, and still beyond. seem ly cut through the center by the great shaft the square white bulk of Lin- coin memorial on the far briTa of the Potomac
 FOUND PROBABLE CAUSE.