The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-10
BUGLES To TELL
SILENT CITY
Of BURIAL
"Taps"l Will Be Waited Over
Capital, As All Activities
Cease, at a P. M.
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the Naval Hospital. the District
Building, Sixteenth street. and CO.
lumbia road and Mount Alto Hos
pital. The silvery cadence known
as taps. which. with a triple volley,
completes the military ceremony
over a grave, will watt from the
instruments over the silent city.
At this hour. too. the local branch
Of the American Legion will hold
services in B. F. Keith's Theater.
Street cars will halt for five
minutes, as will buses and the
interurban coaches of the Washing,
ton and Virginia Railway Company.
Telephone operators will sit mute at
their switchboards from to 4:02,
Telegraph tickePs will cease their
stridulencies from to 4:03, and
cable transmission from 4 to 400.
Nearly all amusement places are
closed today, in common with COM
mercial and industrial establish.
ments. The game between the
Washington and Chicago American
League clubs at the Georgia avenue
grounds has been postponed. as
have all amateur contests. Con-
cessions in Potomac Park have been
closed.
Thus Washington will briefly take
on the air Of that enchanted city of
the old fairy tale. And not until
commence, when President Coolidge
starts actively on his labors Of nd
ministration.
were enabled to survey the whole
United States simultaneously this
afternoon.
Imposing Group Departs.
In great city and hamlet, along
rivers and seaboards, the same
voluntary inertia would be visible,
While Washingtonians will halt at
4 o'clock, the people Of the Central
West will cease activities at 2
o'clock, and those on the Pacific
slope at o'clock, according to
the differences In standard time
meridians. Trains, vessels and
trans all will yield to the spell Of a
nations last act in the drama Of
mourning.
An imposing official group left
Union Station at 10 o'clock last
Of Warren Harding, his widow and
encourage had preceded them by
twenty-eight hours.
President Coolidge left the
temporary executive offices Of the
White House In the Willard Hotel
at $40 o'clock, with Mrs. Coolidge,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stearns, Ed
ward T. Clark, the Presidents sec.
rotary, and Mrs. Clark.
With them went the eveP.present
Gordon OF Secret Service men who
will serve to remind Calvin Coolidge
hereafter for at least two years, on
every exit from the White House.
Of the weight Of official response.
bility and the hazard resting upon
him.
Bid Silent Au RevOir.
The party was met at the ter.
minal by General Pershing, the gen.
erals and admirals who acted as
honorary pallbearers in the funeral
procession Wednesday, a group of
Senators and Congressman. three
governors and newSpapermen. Eight
members Of the Cabinet had gone
before.
Arrived in the Presidential suite
at the station, Mr.. and Mrs. Cool.
idge proceeded at once to their wait.
ing train. Hundreds thronged the
concourse, held in line by a police
detail. The farewell was as silent as
that other two days gone.
j. A. Nixon, of Brunswick, Md.
Baltimore and Ohio engineer, had
the honor of handling the throttle
of the engine drawing the Presi-
Dental express. It was he that
brought the Harding special to
Washington through mourning mil
lions. His fireman was H. A. Grit
fin, also of Brunswick