Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-12

New York, Nov. 11.-(By the A. P.)- New York's throl5ing heart Of trade was stilled today in reverent tribute to that heroic heart. forever stilled. that was laid to rest with the highest honors the world could pay, in Arlington National Gene tery.
 A vast crowd in and around Madison Square Garden, obeying the same irum- pet call that summoned the throng at Arlington to attention at noon. stood with bowed heads. motionless. for two minutes, offering prayers for the dead at for perpetuation of the peace nc died to win.
 At the same momement. the city's wheels of industry droned into silence idled in the harlbor: telephone service was suspended; telegraph instruments ceased their chatter. Citizens everywhere in their homes. in their offices, in the great railroad terminals, even on the | street-stood with barred heads bowed in homage 10 the symbolic unknown who had died that they might live. Observance of the sacred moment cen tered at Madison Square Garden, where telephonic amplifying devices had been set ID to unite Arlington and New York
 The great hall was packed far beyond its seating capacity of 15.000. and the crowd outside filed every available inch ] of Madison Square park long before the | first voice came over the wires from Ar l lington. announcing that the body Of the 1 Unknown was being placed on the cata- ! falque and that President and Mrs. Hard ! ing were entering the am1hitheatre.
 From that moment until the last trem- ulous strain of taps died away. the au- dience was in spirit, with the vast con- l course at Arlington. Every word that was spoken every hymn that was sung {: ] descriptions of the casket with the mili- tary medals of eight nations and with the wreaths of two nations war mothers all came over the wires to the mourncrs in and around the Garden.
 So securely was the throng held in the spirit of the services that when President | Harding, closing his oration, began the recitation of the Lords Prayer. its myri- ad voices blended, in a thunderous nlur- mur of Our Father Who Art in Heaven with the vibrant lead of the chief execu- tive.
 Then the bestowing of the decorations ''won in mortality: worn in eterniiy-the measured tones of the president as he placed the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross over the heart of the Unknown. Then the alien tongues of Foch, Diaz, Jacques and all the other Old World figures who had come. to lay their nations honors above the remains Of America's Unknown hero
 (And when the amplifyers broke of in si.
 fence as the procession at last started i toward the sarconhagus, an announces
 at Arlington took up the story, picturinl
 the solemn procession as it wended iu
 way to t.e spot where the Unknown vii
 sleep the long sleep.
 Then the burial service; the final plac
 ing cf wreaths on the tomb and after moments pause. the crashing boom of ar tiiIery speaking the nations last farewell
 Taps The audience surged to its fee
 as one man, as the mellow sound of th
 busle thrilled through the hal. and sioo
 5reathless until the last echo had die , | away.
 Scarcely had the crowd worked it's wa
 out of the hall after the services. whe
 the martial tread of thousands was rum | bling across MasSon Square Park fro, ' Fifth avenue-an Americanizatio ton ps - rade, led by veterans of this and othe y.- wars.
 The crowd that followed the Arilnr
 ton ceremonies was numbered in n
 tens of thousands. But the crowd ths | saw me paIdue Was even eitateA' A v {, Washington Square, where the process!o z, started. to e0th street, where it disbant = ed. Fifth avenue was iammed with hl ~ manity.
 ,s Other features of the Arm!s,ice Ia '' celebration included the decoration . soldiers graves in many cemeteries, se .. vices and prayers for disarmament ,r scores Of churches. and disarmanei If parade of 50 motor cars carrying womc VI representatives of nearly every organ
 zation of women in the city.
 The J. Rankin Drew Post of the Ame ts lean Legion. made up chiefly of acto ,s who saw service. held memorial eTercis If in LonEacre square. the center Of the th ,- atrical district. These exercises wol .. witnessed by a crowd of nearly 10000