Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-12

glory come,
Through dust of conflict and
through battle fame;
Tranquil you lie, your knightly viz
tue proved,
Your memory halloWed in the land
you loved"
The voices chanted, and those 9th
err valiant hearts asleep all about
on the slopes of Arlington must
have heard and felt it was for them
also that America made this day her
own and theirs.
Major Fenton, of the general stall,
then stepped forward and handed
Secretary Weeks the velvet lined
boxes containing the nations nigh
est tokens of valor for the dead hero.
Secretary Weeks took the congress
sional medal of honor and the dis
tinguished service cross from their
cases and handed them to President
Harding. The president leaned over
the casket and, side by side, at the
head. pinned both in place.
Then Lieutenant General Baron
Jacuues, of Belgium, stepped for
ward. He paused beside the casket'
then clutching the Belgian cro1x de
| Guerre on his own breast, tore II
from the cloth of his tunic to PIN
it on the fag-draped casket. the
J Belgian chief stepped back and MS
| hand shot to his cap brim in salute
The Victoria Cross Bestowed
The Victoria cross, BrltalnS most
nrized war decoration, never beIofe
n1aced on the breast Of man not a
| british subject, was next bestowed
Earl Beatty, admiral of the fleet, set
II on the flag and saluted as he
stepped back.
Then General the Earl of Cavan'
renresenting the king Of England IN
nerson. spoke briefly Of the services
This humble soldier had rendered not
on1v America hit the world there In
France
| Marshal Foch, of France, stepped
forward and with every show OF
feeling, placed above the quiet
hreats the medaille militaire and the
croix de guerre. He cited this dead
soldier for valor, speaking in French,
saluted and turned away to let Cen
eral Diaz bring forward and pin IN
place Italy's gold medal for bravery.
In order, the Rumanian virtuetae
militaria was added to the cleaning
row on the casket, by Prince BIZ
besco, Rumanian minister; the
Czecho- Slovak war cross by DR..
| Stepanek, minister here, and the Vlr'
tuti Militari by Prince Lubomirskl,
Polish minister
| At the conclusion of that part of
the ceremony the quartet sang "Oh,
God, Our Help in Ages Past" and
Chaplain Lazaron read a Psalm.
There was a soprano solo, II Know
That My Redeemer Liveth," and
Chaplain Frazier read the Scripture
lesson.
| Then, accompanied by the band
and led by the quarter, the great au-
dience lifted it's voice in Nearer,
My God, to Thee" the death bed hymn
of the martyred Mckinley. That
completed the ceremonies for that
part and the coffin was next borne
from the apse and out to the sar-
cophagus, preceded by the clergy
and followed by the pallbearers, the
president and Mrs. Harding,> Vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge, the SEN
ior foreign delegates to the armament
| conference, Secretary Hughes, Sec
rotary Weeks, Secretary DENLY, the
| foreign officers who had left decora-
tons, General Pershing and the 9TH
ers who had been seated in the apse
| in the amphitheater. Meanwhile,
the band played in measured tones,
| Our Honored Dead" The ceremony
of committing the unknown hero to
the stone crypt with earth from the
soil of France then followed, con-
Quoted by Bishop Brent, formerly
senior chaplain of the American ex.
peditionary forces in France.
| praSi5ppt HARDING iOino1 a
singing with every show Of strong
emotion and beside him Mrs. Har-
ding wept as she sang. Often she
had to wipe away her tears.
AS the slow, wonderfully solemn
tones of the last hymn ceased, the
body bearers had lifted the casket,
freighted now with such precious
Weight of worlds highest honors to
the brave as no other man has ever
known and tenderly lifted the honor
ed burden through the doorway.
Burial Services Read
AS the body was committed to the
crypt the last moment Of the solemn
ceremony was at hand. At slow half
step to the dirge-like music of the
band, the casket was carried out to
the moulded stone work that sur
AOuIluS Tie resting place.
The band played Lead, Kindly
Light" as the pallbearers" laid the
casket on the silver railing over the
crypt. Generals and admirals of
the unknown soldiers guard stood
oareheaded. Out over the rolling
slope below thousands more also
stood in reverence.
Bishop Brent stepped to the casket
to read the burial service and the
wreaths and flowers were brought
forward.
AS the casket was placed, the body
bearers gave place to the high Off.
GERS headed by Major General Har.
bord and Admiral Rodman, who low.
cred it tenderly into the crypt.
The last wreaths were placed by
war mothers. Mrs. r. Emmett Dig
ney laid in place the token of Amer
lean mothers whose sons died in
the war; for British mothers, Mrs.
Julia McCudden placed the treasur-
ed English flowers she brought all
the way to lay at the bier. Repre-
sentative Hamilton Fish, of New
York, placed a floral offering.
Then the Indian chief, Plenty
Coos, in the splendor of his tribal
costume, laid down his coup stick
and the war bonnet from his head,
on the tomb.
A crashing salute Of artillery roar
ed out. Three rolling, laundering
blasts sounded while the long lines
of troops stood at present arms.
Then, taps, the soldiers requiem,
sounded to be followed by a quick
roar of twenty-one guns, the nation
al salute.
Americas unknown hero was at
rest forever in his majestic shrine
among the quiet hills. He lies I'M
known, but not unhonored, nor I'M