San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-10
From Coast to Coast
Wheels Of Industry
?. Stand Still.
MILLIONS IN PRAYER
Railroad Traffic to Come
to Halt; All Markets
Closed.
BY the Associated Press.

Washington. ID. C., Aug. 1O.-The
apation will pay the tribute of silence
10 Warren G. Harding as his body is
entombed today at Marion.
From coast to coast and from bor-
der to border every wheel of the fed
eral government and practically every
one of industry and commerce will
stand still. Theaters and other
amusement places will be closed; base
ball games postponed and other events
of sport deferred.
As recommended by President Cool
idge in his proclamation officially an.
nouncing the death OF the late Presi-
dent Harding. the day will he one of
mourning and of prayer. Thousands
upon thousands will gather in their
places of worship for services as my.
Rad church bells toll their mournful
message of beloved chieftain laid to
his last rest.
These services will not be confined
to land or to America. At sea on great
passenger liners flying the, American
and other flags prayers will be said
and memorial ceremoniais. will be held
in number of foreign lands--in his
toric Westminster Abbey, in France
in Switzerland, in South America and
elsewhere.
State Holidays Proclaimed.
President Coolidge did not proclaim
this burial day a national holiday, as
it was not his purpose to recommend
stoppage of industry, preferring. rather
to leave to each individual concern the
choice Of the method by which it would
pay a last tribute to the dead.
In many states, however, the state
holiday has been proclaimed and in
these all banks, national and state,
will be closed. In those states where
national banks may not be closed un-
der the law the transaction of only ur-
gent business will be encouraged.
In many sections mines, factories,
shipyards and places of business gen.
orally will be closed throughout the
day. In others there will b. a cessa.
tion of work at the burial hour.
Traffic on all the railroads will come
to halt at the hour of entombment,
xeains grinding to a stop wherever they
may be and remaining motionless for
from two to five minutes. Work in
the railroad shops will cease for similar
periods.
TAPS" to Sound Over Wires.
The Postal Telegraph Company will
silence all of its telegraph aud cable
wires for two minutes, while the West
.ern Union will suspend activities for
| three minutes. At 4 o'clock, eastern
standard time. "taps" will be flashed
on all Associated Press wires over the
country and every telegraph instru-
ment in the service will be still for two
minutes while all employees will main
tain absolute silence.
Exchanges in New York, Chicago
and other big market centers will be
closed all day.,
Postoffices everywhere will be
closed for two hours with curtailed de-
liveries of mail during the day. In
Washington, practically all business
will come to a standstill at o'clock.
while buglers at half dozen different
points in the city. will sound taps, the
soldiers farewell.
Memorial services will be held in
practically all of the churches in the
national capital and there will be an
open dir service at the Peace Cross
in the national cathedral close. Rev.
DIR. James +. Freeman. bishop of
Washington, will deliver the memorial
address and vested choir drawn from
the Episcopal churches of the city will
sing hymns, accompanied by the army
hopd