Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-08-08
ISHELD
|. IN WASHINGTON
President Harding's Body
TenderIy Carried From
White House I
CASKET WAS OPENED
So That Relatives and Friends
Could See Him for Last
Time

WASHINGTON. Aug. s: (By The
associated Press DAY came 10
CITY nlled with the hushed STIR ~
armed hosts moving to place before
the White House that Warren Harf5-
ing might have fitting escort as he
Went to the high honors that awaited
him. ----'''
Rank on rank. the troops wheeled
into place, facing eastward now Ia
mhere the great, gray pile of the
Capltol loomed against the morning
sky. = '.-,s7
Soldiers in khaki. sailors in white.
marines IN blue, the long column
.enl a coiorful gleam to a picture
otherwlse somber save for the f7ara
dropping at half staff from the roeTz
above. 80
And all through the massed for
nation of the sister services OF which s
this dead civilian was Comnnanassi IS
Chief, were the mourning bands 81
arm or saber hilt, the black streaf1-
ers falling from the starry flags they
bore.
! A simple, kindly gentleman lav
dead: yet military honors we're h3H
right such as no general or admiral
shall know. Tor hs-4pekel g-zv+++zzl
the voice of the whole people. co4nzs
manding the peoples army. ffe'
I peoples navy. And they moved eIas5-|
I ly TO obey that voice
IL was few minutes past ten o.
clock when the great procession ot
sorrow swung out from the White
House gates 10 begin its pilgrinare
up the historic avenue where 81
many other long caravans Of GRIEF
and of rejoicing, of regret and or
triumph, had preceded 1t in years
gone by.
Tenderly the President had been
carried for the last time from the
portals OF the White House and pIac-
ed again on the artillery caisson thar
had borne him last night from the
funeral train to the East Room, to
lie for few hours amid the flowers
that had been placed there in trib-
ute by the potentates of the earth
and by the plain people the fallen
lChieftain loved so we'll
As the funeral hour approached.
the casket was opened so that near
relatives and friends might have
their last look there in the East
Room at the features of their he
loved dead, who lay with a peaceful
smile in the repose of Eternity.
Former President Wilson, himself
broken by the cares of the cfsfSS
maglStry, came to the great Dor
tico just before the hour of des
parture to take his place in the cor2
tege at the invitation of President
Coolidge. Chief Justice Taft. the
only other living ex-president, also
was waiting when the casket, en- :
shrouded in the stars and stripes
like that of other soldiers who hare
made the supreme sacrifice in tie
service of their country was lifted
from its setting OF flowers to he
borne to its place amid another and
perhaps a grander array of floral
eoloring and fragrance in the ro-
tunda. President Coolidge, who en-
ters thus with heavy heart upon tho
duties Of the highest Office in the
land, arrived to take his place also
Just at the hour set for the de-
parture.
As the eortege was forming un-
derneath the shadows of the great
trees through which many presi-
dents have looked out upon the
world, sometimes in triumph and
many times in sorrow. the bell III
st. Johns Episcopal church, acrnss
Lafayette Square. known as the
Church of the Presidents. begaa
tolling its doleful lament at the
passing of a great heart into thu
galaxy of immortals.
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