Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-11
GREAT men, COMRADES, VETERANS
OF OTHER WARS, WOMEN and
CHILDREN HONOR DEAD SOLDIER
Vast Chamber Seemed All too Small to House Gigantic
Mass Of Flowers Heaped About
Casket of Warrior

Washington, D. c., Nov. 10.-By the
Associated Press.)-A river of human
tty, American men, women and chill
dren, Americans by heritage, Ameri-
cans by election, flowed all day today
fand far into the night past the bier OF
the dead soldier under the great dome
of the capitol. 1t flowed as the lifeblood
of the nation-a slow but overwhelin-
ing torrent of human documents gath
cred to attest the yaloro I Americas
dead in France.
The great stream surScd up the east
ern front of the rotunda four abreast.
up the granite stairway, in thru tne
huge doorway to pass solemnly, rev
erently by the casket and its five
guards, motionless as the statues OF
Lincoln and Grant at the far door
way which looked down on the moving
spectacle.
Out thru that doorway the stream
passed, thru the stately corridor and
its marble stairway and down over
the wide terraces OF the western front
to the homes In the city. Each hour
saw thousands make the slow journey
of honor. Each hour saw new thou
ga nds pouring up tho wide driveways
that circle the great building. That
was the overwhelming element In the
cycle of honors heaped on this name
less soldier, this son of the people come
homo TO claim the great reward his
valiant heart had earned. And 1t wac
his own people of every nook of the
nation that silently gave this reward.
carven token that governments of the
world will place tomorrow above tho
still breast of the sleeper.
To one side of the throng second
un- ending ceremonial of honors for
In dead went on. There great men came
roses at the bier. There came conf
| rades. limping from wounds that
brought them down in France. There
|came gray-hafred veterans OF old wars
to do honor to the young. stricken COM
rade OF the last great struggle: there
| came the ambassadors and the min
listers and tho special cnVoys Of gov
ernments around the world. There
were formal services here always with
the shuffling footsteps of the human
river beyond merging with the pray
ers and tho chants OF the spoken trib-
utes to the dead. There were somo like
those wounded boys from France who
stood awed and abashed at the solemn
majcsty that had come to this coc.-
rade. They placed their wreaths in
eyes OF the great endless river beyond
making them awkward, their crutches
and canes tapping on the cold stones
as they shuffled back into the obscur-
| ity they craved.
! Came, too, black gowned women.
many bowed and gray with ago and
sorrow and all wearing the gold star
that tells of a son who died over there.
They brought always with their flow-
ers, the great stars that bring to this
unknown son of liberty r. message
from those comrades whose names
stand above all others in the roll OF the
nations servants. tho great scroll of
those who. like him, died for the flag
| AS the hours passed. the vast reaches
of the chamber seemed all too small to
house the growing mass of flowers. As
each cluster was set in place. roses
that blossomed in France or England,
that bloomed in Canada or South Al
rica; poppies that thrust up their slcn-
der stems thru blood -drenched Flan-
Il ders fields; and flowers of every color
and hue that blossom under American