The Washington times., 1923-08-07
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since alarums sounded the Harding
death through the midnight.
At / o'clock the hosts OF Govern.
ment workers issued from their
hundreds of offices to return nc
more until the period of mourning
Is ended. The marts of trade and
haunts of commerce will be locked
tomorrow.
There is movement everywhere
but it Is of deliberate, thoughtful
kind, in response to solemn weight
ness Of the approaching hours
Thousands Of men and women re
call the rites for William McKin.
ley-many those Of Garfield few
the black hours that rolled back
over the glory of a victorious wal
with the striking down of Abraham
Lincoln. And practically all know
the silence and reverence of No.
vember II, 1921, when the Unknown
Dead was borne to Arlington.
But one and all, they must grow
accustomed to the suppression that
will obtain tomorrow, and the
strange psychology Of q mighty
pageant Of silence is spreading over
them.
Outside Crowds Arriving.
Every train coming into Union
Station bears a throng come to
participate in the last national rites
for the dead, and to see how the
National City conducts those rites.
There can be no estimate placed
upon the total Of this funeral con-
gregation, but 1t will easily exceed
100000.
A contrast, one Of those contrasts
that make up this seemingly fate
guided life, is between the attitudes
of the incoming throngs for the
presidential rites and the myriads
to whom the Capital surrendered
one hot week in June. It was a
mental and material color scheme
OF gold and red and green then:
1t is gray and black now.
Only the mumbled, hushed orders
Of commanders Of the military escort
Of honor for the late President, the
soft, low tramping OF troops, the
Gathering of hoofs, the painful rattle
or artillery Saissons-these only will
be audible in the gloom which en-
CULTS the city tonight.
Vehicular and trolley traffic in
downtown sections will cease as time
approaches for the arrival of the
funeral troin, bearing the body of
the late President, and the brave
little widow who, because of her
courage in face of the greatest
tragedy of her life, has endeared
herself to ALL
From Union Station. where cav
airy, artillery and infantry, with
colors draped, form a guard of
honor to the Capitol, with it's mas
the heavens; down PENNSYLVANIA
avenue to the White House, where
triumphant professions and Grief
stricken funeral corteges alike have
passed since Washington became
the Nations Capital; to the White
House, lonely in its setting on a
spacious green lawn the cortege will
move.
Ready To Receive Him,
On the official delegation, in ad-
dition to President Coolidge, are
members Of the Cabinet, Chief
Justice Taft, a former President,
and Senator Cummins of Iowa,
president pro TEN. Of the Senate
Speaker of the House Gillett, on
the funeral train, has been desig.
mated to act as representative of
the lower branch of Congress.
Long before the sorrow-laden
train ends its transcontinental trip
that started in San Francisco last
Friday night, the famous Marine
Band will be formed in the con.
course OF the station, playing dirges.
Repeatedly the strains of the late
Presidents favorite hymn, LEAD,
Kindly Light" will float over the
hushed crowd
From the station an escor+ Of
honor, the official party headed by
Mr.. Coolidge, squadron of cavalry
and a battery of field artillery, will
be ready to convey on a caisson
the casket containing the remains.
Twelve service men, noncommis-
stoned officers in the marine CORPS.
the army and the navy, are waiting
TO carry the flagdraped casket from
the private car to the caisson for
the slow, sorrowing procession to
the East Room Of the Mansion.
where the body will rest until to.
morrow at 10 o'clock.
While the body is in the East
Room, where also the remains of
the martyred presidents Lincoln
and Mckinley had rested, only Mrs.
Harding, President and Mrs. Cool.
idge and a few personal friends
Will be permitted in the White
House. There, one wreath will be
placed on the bier by the ,Iidow,
one by the new President and the
First Lady, one for the Supreme
Court by Taft, one for Congress by
Cummins and Gillett, and from
heads Of foreign and state govern
ments only. Flowers sent to Mrs.
Harding by intimate acquaintainces
also wiz be received at the mansion.
State Funeral Tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning, at state
funeral in the Capitol, the national
Government officially will pay final
tributes to the late President. The
body will be conveyed to the Cap
itol by an impressive funeral pro
cession in which former President
and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will
participate, in addition to all active
leaders in the Government.
After services in the rotunda
which will be attended only by init
mates Of the late President, high of
ficials in the Government and repre-
sentatives Of foreign nations, tn,
doors Of the Capitol will be thrown
open for few hours so that the
public may be admitted.
Then. at 6 O'Clock, the body, agar