Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-03
THOUSANDS PAY
F FINAL TRIBUTE:
To YANKEE DEAD
Body of Private Graves
SymboIizes for a time the
Bodies of 1,065 Soldiers
Home From France.

new YORK. April 2.-ArrlVaI ol
the last of Americas 10000 war
dead was commemorated in Brook
Ign today
One body that of Private Charles
w. Graves of Rome. Ca symbol
lied for the time. the bodies of
the 1866 soldiers which were re-
turned from France last week on
the United States transport ship
Cambria.
Amid the hushed vastness of an
army pier, his -.064 silent COM
rades, in long. unbroken ranks of
flag-draped caskets. maintained
the bivuoac of the dead. while sor-
rowing thousands of high and low
degree paid the last respects of a
grateful nation.
His body, enthroned on gun
caisson and drawn by six horses,
had been borne through the ranks
of silent multitudes. Stern generals
had saluted the flag which wrap
ped him. Hundreds of his COM
rades had marched beside him.
Guns had doomed In his honor,
statesmen had eulogized his deeds,
mothers had wept over him and
TAPS" the soldiers farewell. had
given him God speed.
The body of Private Graves had
been chosen to receive the honors
of the day because he. of the 1,065
aboard the troop ship. was the last
to be taken from the hold and
placed on his native soil.
Private Graves body, in steel
casket, was mounted upon horse
drawn caisson at the army base.
Before the caisson rode a detach-
ment of mounted police.
Gordon of Honor.
A squad of privates OF the
Thirty fourth infantry formed
Gordon of honor. Behind them
marched the honorary pail bearers:
Commodore Robert P. Forshew
Brigadier Generals Charles |. Deb
evoise. Franklin w. Ward. Palmer
f. Pierce, James w. Lester, Dewitt
Weld, William Weigel and Capt
James J. Vogelsan.
Hundreds of flag bearers follow
ed, holding aloft the many colored
emblems OF $50 organizations that
had seen service at the front. With
rnem, In platoon formation
marched regiment after regiment
of soldiers. sailors and marines,
each with its regimental band or.
drum corps. And swelling the pro-
cession. were other thousands OF
the American Legion, Veterans or
Foreign Wars, the civil war, the
Spanish American war and women
veterans of the Red Cross and other
welfare services.
Planes Drop Flowers.
As the funeral cortege neared
Fort Hamilton parkway. army and
navy bombing planes swooped dow
over the caisson. releasing cargoes
of flowers over the bier of Private
! Graves and almost obscuring the
huge wreath of roses which Pres1-
dent Harding had presented in be-
half of the nation.
With the flowers the president
sent this message to Col. II. A.
simmons, the master OF cere-
monies:
"You and your associates are go
ing to voice the last testimony or
love and affection from living COM
rades for their dead. You may be
very sure that the whole nation
will echo your sentiments. and feel
with you the thrill of common
nride and a common sorrow-pride
in the glorious service and historic
achievement of these, our brothers
who freely gave all eXacted OF
them.
"They have sacrificed for all of
us the perfect example of service
and sacrifice. and it is well that
their associates, as they, through
this tribute remind the nation OF
it's eternal obligation to prove wor-
thy of the devotion its sons have
shown for it.
already. in the light of the
morning of hope after the storm
we see very real justification of
trust that a sadder and a wlse'
world will find means to save the
future from repetition of the trag-
edy wherein they played so noble
a part. Let us unite in faith ana
work for such a contamination
That would be the sincerest testi-
mony that we fully appreciate
their sufferings and sacrifices"
Funeral services over the body
were held in the gray-walled en-
closure of the army base. where
chairs had been placed for 5000
gold star mothers and their es-
corts.
Notables Of the army, the navy
and the marine corps. with COVER
nors, senator's. congressman and
bishops occupied the speakers
stand. These included Assistant
Secretary of War J. Mayhem Vain
wright; Vice Admiral Hilary p.
Jones, commander Of the Atlantic
fleet, and Maj. Gen. John A. Le-
jeune, representing the marine
corps; Governor Harry L. Davis.
of Ohio: Governor Everett J. Lake,
Of Connecticut; Governor Edward
I. Edwards. of New Jersey. Sena-
tors Calder of New York, Fernald
OF Maine. Harris of Georgia,
Spencer of Missouri and /Brou-
sard of Louisiana: several United
States representatives Archbishop
Hayes: Bishop p. s. Gaylor and
the Rev. DR.. Joseph Silverman.
Only the occasional sobs OF be.
reaved mothers. widows and faith
ers, broke the stiffness which en-
folded the throng while the pro-
gram was In progress. And when
at the close of his address, Assist
ant Secretary of War wainwright
bowed toward the flower decked
caisson and said:
Heroic dead, we salute you
Sweet be your deathless sleep. You
live with the immortals. Hail and
farewell" score of women faint
ed and were carried from the
scene by soldiers. At the conclu-
sion Of the ceremonies the body !
OF Private Graves was returned to
the shed where waited those OF his
1904 comrades
Tomorrow will begin the con-
Segment of the bodies overland |
to the twenty states from whence
the men whose names the caskets
hear. enlisted.
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