The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-08-09
Vast Crowds Stand in Reverential Awe as tn
Body of Dead President is Borne
to the Capitol.
SIMPLE SERVICES MARK PASSING
Un-numbered Thousands Crowd About Capitol AS Ma
ton Pays It's Final Tribute to Greatness
Remains Taken to Marion Tonight.

on the artillery caisson that had born
him last night from the funeral trait
to the east room, to lie for a few
hours amid the flowers that had beet
placed there in tribute by. the poten
tates of the earth and by the plaii
people the fallen chieftain love-
so well.
AS the funeral hour approached, thu
casket was opened so that near rela
tives and friends might have theil
last look there in the east room a
the bier of their beloved dead VIII
.lay with a peaceful smile in thu
repose of eternity.
Former President is Present.
Former President Wilson, himself
broken by the cares of chief magis
tracy, came to the great portico jus
before the hour of departure to taxi
his place in the cortege at the invi
tation Of President Coolidge. Chiei
Justice Taft, the only other living ex
president, also was waiting when thu
casket, enshrouded ain the Stars AMI
Stripes, like that of other soldier
who have made the supreme sacriicl
in the service of their country, wa
lifted from its setting of flowers tt
be borne to lis place amid anothep e~t
haps a Is ai.fler ARIA u fora cob
oring and fragr5nce in the rotunda
President Coolidge, who enters thu
with heavy heart upon the duties o.
the highest Office in the land, arrived
to take his place also just at the houi
set for the departure
AS the cortege was forming under
meath the shadows of the great treet
through which many president have
looked out upon the world, sometimes
in triumph and many times in sorrow
the bell in st. Johns Episcopal church.
across Lafayette square, known as the
church of the presidents, began
tolling its dolefull lament at the
passing of a great heart into the
galaxy of immortals.
Mrs. Harding in Fond Farewell.
Only as the procession started did
it become known that Mrs. Harding
had been with the body in the east
room for a half hour alone at one
o'clock this morning. She was alone
at times at other times attended by
one or two relatives, but while Of
ficials were gathering at the funeral
hour to take up their places in the
cortege she remained In her room
alone with her grief.
Before the cacket as it was carried
down the steps walked the two min
listers selected to oficiate later at the
funeral in the rotunda. They walked
side by side, DR.. A. f. Anderson, pas
tor Of Mr.. Harding's church here, and
DR.. Shames Shera Montgomery, chap
lain of the House of Representatives,
Then came the military and naval
aides who had been near to the
president at all the dramatic moments
of his brief full service as the first
leader Of his people.
In Pennsylvania avenue, the long
silence that hitherto had been dis
turbed only by the champing of the
restless mounts of the troopers, was
broken by the strains of Chopin's
Funeral March, played by an army
band. There was only brief delay
then until the last journey Of Wares
Harding along the historic thoroughs
fare had begun between the denso
crowds Of humanity that made long
aisle of grief from the very gates
of the executive mansion to the tow
ering capital a mile away.
At the same time a bugler came TO
the portico and sounded shrilly the
single note of the soldiers call to at
tention. The cavalry opposite on the
avenue came to a sharp salute with
their blades flashing in the sunlight.
Then there was flourish of the drums,
lust as the guns Of Fort Myer, across
the silent Potomac, awoke the echoes
with salute to the departed comrade.
Mrs. Harding Heavily Yelled.
Mrs. Harding came down the steps
moment later heavily veiled, her
frail figure making a pitiful picture
amid the splendor and pomp of the
great honors to which, by full meas
ure Of devotion, she had helped and in
spired her husband to achieve.
On ore side of her walked Secre-
tarv Christian and on the other
General Charles E. Sawyer, her life
long friend in Marion, and the presi-
dents physician.
/ Just before, within the east room
she had stood with these same friends
/ and with the new president, the
cabinet, and members Of the SUI
prerae court ct brief prayer service
4 beside the bier.
I AT the end and just before the cas-
/ ket was taken to its martial funeral