The Connecticut labor news., 1924-12-20
and Mayor Rolph of San Francisco.

After services of sorrow had been
 held by the Washington lodge of E1ks
 and the Masons, the body again
 placed aboard a special train and
 started for New York where it again
 lay in state in the Elks home from
 where the final services were held. It
 arrived in the station in New York
 early Wednesday morning amid
 drenching rain and at time when the
 gTtat railroad station was thr0n6ed
 1nuters. As the bronze casket was borne through the station hush that was intense hung over the crowd, an-
 other tribute such as seldom accorded
 private citizen.
 From the station to the Elks temple it moved through more sorrowing
 throngs. A gun carriage had been sent
 on from the nearby army quarters
 and as the body moved through the
 streets, men paused in their labors or
 their walk and stood bareheaded. in
 the storm to add their testimonial to the departed leader. At Elks hall more than 50,000 people passed by the bier during the hours allotted for that pur- pose and a multitude had assembled long before daybreak Thursday hoping to get within the temple and take part in the funeral services.
 Elks temple was nowhere near large enough to accommodate even a small part of the throng and those in charge of thee arrangements were compelled to limit the attendance to MT. Com pers family, relatives and close friends, labor leaders of which there were thousands on hand and to official dele- gations from other organizations of which MT. Gompers was a member Even then the large auditorium was packed to suffocation but the ordeal was patiently borne by those fortunate enough to gain admission. The town hall across the way had been secured for the overflow and the services sent over there by radio but even this was insufficient thousands still packing the streets outside. Loud speaking ampli- fers were hastily arranged and the outside throng listened in by that means Rabbi Stephen Wise conducted the religious service, Vice President James Duncan, for 30 years a close associate of Mir. Gompers on the A. F. of L. board, delivered the oration on the part of Labor, while special services were held by both Masons and E1ks. That the country might join in the services were broadcasted from three large radio stations in New York, Washington and Providence and relayed from others in the middle west so that it can be truthfully said the funeral services were nationwide
 At the conclusion the body was taken to the cemetery in Tarrytown and again all along the line it passed through silent throngs The hour of II o'clock had been designated as the probable time the funeral cortege would get under way and all over the country union factories and other or ganized places paused for two minutes in silent tribute. As it passed through Westchester county, all business stop ped while it was on the way and this continued until the body was finally placed in a specially built cement vault contributed by Baltimore union and made especially for the purpose. Thousands of Labor leaders surround ed 1t as it was laid to it's final resting place and when 1t was all done, turned sorrowfully away firm in the belief that although Samuel Gompers may have passed on, his spirit will live forever and America and the world be the better for his having lived.
 From President Coolidge who sent a personal letter of condolence to the widow down to the humblest of Amer jeans the sorrow was universal.
 MT. Gompers died poor, his estate not being more than $l5,000 1t is be- lieved and this includes his residence III Ne" oi N' 1heie ls HdIdiy thousand or more dollars in actual cash, according to his closest friends and advisers and while he was un- doubtedly insured sufficiently to pro- vide for his family against need there will be little else. Gompers as every one knows could have been wealthy had he wished But he wasn't born that way, his life being devoted to his cause rather than his own personal benefits The iaarraicrant hou ,arho